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Information about the Spring Festival

On the first day of the first month, every household gets up at five o'clock, burns incense and sets off paper cannons. On this day, I visited each other, regardless of rank, and ran for several days, calling him. Foods to eat, such as Pepsi-Cola boxes, are made of persimmons, lychees, longan, chestnuts and ripe dates.

On the first day of offering sacrifices to the gods and ancestors, paper-cutting continued to the height of offering sacrifices to ancestors, which was called stretching and burning.

On the tenth day of the first month, I visited the door during the New Year, clamoring for posting, throwing a business card and leaving in a hurry. Most of them don't need to talk to their master.

From the first day of the first month to the fifth day of the first month, the common name broke five. According to the old custom, it is necessary to cover jiaozi for five days, which is called boiled cake in the north. Now some families only eat it for three or two days, and some eat it every other day. However, there is no one who does not eat. This is true from the royal residence to the small houses in the streets, even for entertaining guests.

The lanterns in the first month have always been concentrated in the six lanterns at the front door, which are called six lanterns, and the lanterns of the Ministry of Industry are the most praised. Ice lanterns, birds and animals, and all kinds of things in the world are made very skillfully.

The lantern market used to focus on the East and West archways, but later it moved to the gallery headlines.

From New Year's Day to 16 in Xinzheng, there are many department stores in Liulichang, with bright lights, glass screens, tents for 10,000 people, jade toothpicks, thousands of contacts, books all over the building, and treasure to play the town street. There are also Qin Lou Chu Guan's partial songs, BMW cars and women. It is also a scene of the Old Beijing New Year Festival.

Spring Festival in Shandong Province

Spring Festival in Shaanxi Province

All clans in Fuping County are portraits of their ancestors. On the first day, children and grandchildren get together to worship, and after the sacrifice, a golden banquet is held, which is called a sacrificial sitting. The next day, relatives and friends give each other pasta and pork, which is called worship. On the first day of New Year's Day in Gaoling County, yellow paper is hung on bamboo poles at dawn to worship the sky, which is called welcoming the gods. It is said that charcoal can be hung on the door, and it can kill the plague. Shiquan county takes yellow paper as money and hangs it on the door on New Year's Day, named Bao Gai Qian. Lintong county regards the fifth day as a poverty alleviation festival. After each paper-cut, take it to the door and throw it away. Everyone must eat enough on that day, which is called filling the five poor.

Spring Festival in Sichuan Province

Spring Festival in Anhui Province

In Anhui Province, New Year's greetings began at noon 12 on New Year's Eve and ended at noon 12 on the first day of junior high school. And compete with each other who puts the thickest firecracker paper, which means who has the grandest New Year. Young people play the game of hitting the old nest. After New Year's greetings, he dug a hole in the ground and put in copper coins. Everyone threw out his own copper coins, and the money outside the hole belonged to him. Shouchun welcomes the god of wealth on the fourth day of the fourth month. Merchants must provide offerings such as fish heads, mushrooms and taro, which is a good sign of making a fortune.

Spring Festival in Guangdong Province

Spring Festival in Fujian Province

Before going out on New Year's Day, Xiamen people should worship the Jade Emperor in the sky, which is called offering sacrifices to the gods. Sacrifice flowers and fruits to God in the morning, and sacrifice and a bowl of spring rice to God at noon. Spring rice is a spring flower made by inserting red paper on white rice. Spring and surplus are homophonic in Fujian, and spring rice has surplus every year, which is a good oral color. The fourth day in Zhangzhou is called Jiegu. In addition to burning incense in the temple, we should also prepare a candy and pastry box, called the recommendation box, for the audience to meet the gods in the hall.

Spring Festival in Zhejiang Province

Spring Festival in Jiangsu Province

During the Spring Festival in Jiangning County, a rooster was posted at your door. On New Year's Day, there were more believers in Wuxian than in Tong Yuan Temple. Suzhou custom: when you open the door early in the morning, you have to set off firecrackers three times, which is called the third grade. Going out in the morning should follow the direction specified by the solar calendar, which is called divine joy. To burn incense in temples such as the City God Temple and the Land Temple, you must go through ten temples, the so-called Ten Temples. From New Year's Day to Lantern Festival, huge coal is burning in the stove, which is the so-called happy group. Legend has it that people in Zhuan 'an eat jiaozi, so they eat jiaozi every day from the early morning of the New Year's Day to the Lantern Festival. Women in Wujin County cut off pine and cypress branches on New Year's Day, wrapped them in red silk and put them on a bun. It is said that they can live longer.

Spring Festival in Hubei Province