Who knows the folklore of Anqing?

Early in the morning of the first day of the first year, every family sets off double pops and Bai Zi Cannon, wishing for good luck and prosperity in the New Year.

Eating New Year's Cake

New Year's Cake is eaten for breakfast. The word "cake" harmonizes with the word "high", which means "one year high".

New Year's Greetings

The youngest generation wakes up early and pays New Year's greetings to their parents and other elders, and then goes out to pay New Year's greetings with gifts of jujubes, cinnamon balls, lychees, and so on. Peers pay homage to each other, arching their hands and exchanging greetings such as "good new year" and "congratulations on wealth". New Year's activities have been extended to the first half of the first month, after the founding of the country, the first morning of the first month of each year, the party and government leaders invited people from all walks of life to hold a reunion, in order to reduce the redundancy of a hundred bye.

New Year's Wine

Between the Spring Festival, each family set "New Year's Wine" feast for friends and relatives. There are no specifications for New Year's wine, and it is usually served between the first and fifth days of the year. In the past, Miyang used to offer wine on the fifth day of the festival, which is the day of the "completion of the real".

Opening

On the first day, the readers cut a red paper, written on the congratulatory New Year's verse, or write "New Year's pen, great luck" characters, called "open pen".

Opening

Spring Festival in general stores are not open, residents need food and daily necessities, are purchased before the festival. After the first three or four, the stores opened one after another. The opening of the market, red and colorful, firecrackers. In recent decades, many stores for the convenience of residents, the first day of business as usual, or the same industry take turns to open the door to the market.

Send Yuanbao

Rural "send Yuanbao", during the Spring Festival, the two partners, holding a string of copper coins and branches of Nelumbo nucifera, door-to-door read "send Yuanbao" ballad. One person reads the blessing, one should be "good". For example, "Yuanbao enters the Taoist altar - good!" "Gold and silver fill the upper room - good!" Huai Ning has a proverb "the first day of the first month to send Yuanbao, talking about is good", that is, this custom.

Long eight days

On the eighth day of the first month, each courtyard burning firewood, known as the "prairie fire pan". Children jump on the fire and set off fireworks for fun. Men and women of good faith together to Yingjiang Temple to pray for the blessing of the family's well-being.