Hainan Spring Festival custom

Hainan's Spring Festival customs include: sending "bordeaux", buying a house to send to the poor, celebrating the New Year, offering sacrifices to ancestors, and not sweeping the floor on the first day of the New Year.

1, send "bordeaux"

Legend has it that "Duke Zao" is a god sent by the Jade Emperor to supervise good and evil, and he reports to the Jade Emperor on this day every year. To this end, every household should use bamboo sticks or bamboo branches to clean the front, back, inside and outside, up and down of the house, and the incense burner should also be cleaned and replaced with new ashes. In the evening, wine and fruit were prepared as sacrifices to see "bordeaux" off.

2. Adopt a house and send it to the poor.

After seeing off the bordeaux, you should "choose a house" before New Year's Eve, which means cleaning the house in Hainan dialect. Clean the roof, eaves and walls with a broom tied with bamboo branches and leaves, clean mosquito nets and bedding, put a laundry list, and then set fire to rags to "send the poor" to welcome the New Year.

3. Date of birth

Before the Lunar New Year's Eve, every household needs to go out and buy new year's goods, such as gold and silver incense sticks, Beijing fructose cakes, bowls, chopsticks, clay pots and public sacrifices. It is necessary to prepare enough new year's goods to "do" new year's goods. Of course, it is essential to sacrifice oranges in the New Year, which indicates good luck in the coming year!

Step 4 worship ancestors

Generally speaking, there is a fixed auspicious time. People will put cakes, boiled chicken, sweet potato wine or rice wine at home and light incense sticks. Parents will lead their children and grandchildren to worship and express their feelings of "pursuing the future with caution". It was not until our ancestors had dinner that people began to enjoy it.

Don't sweep the floor on New Year's Day.

On New Year's Day, especially in Qiongbei, Hainan, people think that sweeping the floor on New Year's Day will sweep away the wealth of the family and there will be no money for a whole year. In rural areas, on the first day of New Year's Day, incense is given to the citizens, firecrackers are set off in every household, and gun paper is everywhere, which is very spectacular. If you think the house is too dirty, you must sweep it from the door, commonly known as "making money."