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Customs of Spring Festival in Northeast China

Wrapping dumplings and lighting longevity lamps.

1, dumplings: In the Northeast, on the night of the New Year's Eve, the whole family gathers together to chat and make dumplings. Some of the dumplings will be wrapped with coins, who ate such dumplings in the new year will be good luck, good luck, in the "fifth" day to eat dumplings, known as the "broken five", meaning that will be inauspicious things are destroyed, there is to drive away disasters and avoiding the evil intention.

2, point longevity lamps: from the night of the New Year's Eve, every family will point longevity lamps, hanging until the first month of the fifteenth, every night will be lit lanterns, meaning longevity, incense.