What are the customs of Chinese New Year in Shandong?

Saying goodbye to the stove, putting up spring couplets, posting blessings, wrapping dumplings, frying New Year's goods, etc.

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1, quit the stove: as in other regions, Shandong people's "New Year", from the 23rd day of the lunar month, "small year" began. "New Year" in the old days called "quit stove day", legend has it that this day is the day of Zaowang master to the Jade Emperor to report to the family's work, study, life situation. Therefore, on this day, people should be at home "sacrificial stove", set up offerings to worship the God of the stove, to send it to heaven to report on the work, in order to pray for good luck and good fortune. On this day, the family also carries out a comprehensive cleaning, known as "dust sweeping". "Sweeping" means all the old "bad luck", "poor luck" to sweep away, so as to meet the new face of the New Year's blessings into the door.

2, posting spring couplets, posting Fu: posting spring couplets, Fu, in Shandong is generally carried out on the morning of the New Year's Eve, after breakfast, the elders began to wrap dumplings, fried New Year's Eve all kinds of preparations, the younger generation began to go around the posting of Fu, noisy, posting the right, posting the wrong, all sorts of laughter, expressing a kind of people in addition to the evil spirits, to meet the auspicious good luck wishes.

3, dumplings, fried New Year's goods: in Shandong, dumplings, fried New Year's goods is an important New Year's Eve activities, every family dumplings, fried New Year's goods. After breakfast, children start to put up spring couplets and set off firecrackers, while female elders in the family start to make dumplings and male elders start to fry New Year's goods.