What are the special customs of the Hakka people for the Spring Festival?

The Hakka traditional Spring Festival customs, not only inherited the tradition of Chinese traditional festival culture, but also reflects the characteristics of local traditional culture. Hakka people celebrate the Spring Festival, generally divided into three stages, the first stage is from December 24 into the New Year's boundary to the New Year's Eve for the preparation stage; the first day of the first month of the first five for the New Year's Eve stage; the first six years of the New Year's Eve to the Lantern Festival for the aftermath of the stage. The festival is held on December 23rd, and after dinner on the 23rd, the stove should be brushed clean, the old Zaojun should be removed and burned, and the new statue should be pasted on the 30th morning, and a sender and a greeter should be set up with wine and meat, candies, sugarcane, rice and fruits, etc., and incense should be burned, candles should be lighted, and paper cannons should be set off in front of the stove.

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In the New Year boundary Lunar December 25, into the "New Year boundary", to step up preparations for the New Year, out of people have to rush home for the New Year. After entering the Nian Boundary, children should be taught not to scold each other and not to speak unlucky words. Before and after the New Year's boundary, to choose an auspicious day in the house dust sweeping, cleaning. To clean kitchen tables and benches, wash and dry bedding mosquito nets, clean New Year's Eve.

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Send Zaojun Beforehand from the town to buy back the Zaojun statue, write a good ZaoShu (written on the family name and age), ready to YuanBao, incense and candles, three animals, wine, fruit and other offerings, in the stove side of the place a "table of the Eight Immortals", will be the offerings on the table. The whole family gathers in front of the statue of the God of Zao to salute and send the God of Zao back to Heaven to report his duties, praying that the God of Zao will give blessings and eliminate disasters in front of the Jade Emperor, and that the coming year will be prosperous and peaceful for the whole family.

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To honor the ancestors After breakfast on the 30th day of the Lunar New Year, anyone who has a male child in that year will be sent to the ancestral ancestral shrine to clean up and paint the walls of the ancestral shrine. In the afternoon, one after another people with gift boxes, three animals, firecrackers, joss sticks and other offerings to the ancestral ancestral ancestral worship incense. After the rituals are performed, firecrackers and some cannons are fired. Every New Year's Day afternoon, the ancestral ancestral ancestral temple incense fire, the sound of firecrackers and firecrackers, has continued until dusk. This custom has faded in recent years.

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Pasted Spring Festival couplets, New Year's paintings, hanging lanterns, large doors, small doors are pasted with large red Spring Festival couplets, the lintel pasted "Lishui", door panels pasted with the door god or "blessed", "Daji" and other words. The door panels are labeled with the door god or the words "Fu" and "Daji". Kitchen, cattle pen, pig pen, chicken grill, toilet and other places should also be affixed with red paper written with "prosperity", "six animals" and other red paper "peach charm". Hall and bedrooms, guest rooms are pasted with new year's paintings, there are red lanterns hanging on the door to signify a year of red-hot, a joyful and happy scene.

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Watch the New Year Eat the reunion dinner, the stove should be washed clean in preparation for the first morning of the first day of the New Year or all-day vegetarian. In the evening, we have to keep the New Year's Eve, resign from the old year and welcome the new year, and every room should be brightly lit all night long, which is called "pointing the New Year's Eve fire", and in some places, cattle pens and pigsties should be illuminated as well. The first thing you need to do is to give the children money, and in some places you need to give the old man money.

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Welcome to the New Year On the first day of the first month of the morning to eat vegetarian, after the meal people pay tribute to each other with auspicious words. On the second day of the first month of the new year, visiting relatives to pay tribute, especially the newly married son-in-law (the family in-law will be invited with a book sticker) to go to the home of the parents-in-law to pay tribute. Going to bring a small hen, rice fruit, candy, incense and candles, firecrackers, etc., when you arrive at the son-in-law's ancestors to burn incense, light candles, firecrackers. At noon the in-laws treat, the son-in-law to get drunk, not drunk and not enthusiastic.