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Spring Festival custom in Beijing

There are many Spring Festival customs in Beijing.

From the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, every household has to soak Laba vinegar (garlic), and it has begun to have a "year flavor". The folk song says, "Don't be sad, old lady. After Laba, it is the New Year. Laba porridge, how many days? Li Li's twelfth lunar month is also called "off-year". There is a ballad that says, "Melons offer sacrifices to the stove. In the New Year, girls want flowers and boys want guns. " . From this day on, Beijingers are busier, offering sacrifices to stoves, sweeping the floor, steaming steamed buns, buying new year's goods, putting up the word "Fu", putting up New Year pictures, cutting out window grilles and putting up couplets. Sticking to the door and sticking to the money, I have been busy until the New Year's Eve and started the New Year.