Chaoshan people celebrate the Spring Festival composition

After the kitchen god went to heaven on December 24 of the lunar calendar, Chaoshan people began to prepare for the New Year. Every household carries out cleaning, rearrangement and decoration inside and outside the house; Steamed hearts, rat treading koji and other products; Buy new year's goods and new clothes; Haircut, beauty. Slaughter the "Three Birds" early on New Year's Eve and buy sacrificial items. After lunch, the whole family should take a bath, put on new clothes, pay homage to their ancestors, put up Spring Festival couplets, hang lanterns and put up notices on the walls. It is to set up a stove in the hall at night, and the family will have a reunion dinner around the stove. No matter how far your family is usually scattered, you should hurry home for reunion. After "surrounding the kitchen", elders should give their elders "lucky money" and those who can earn money should also give them red envelopes, which are called "waist-pressing pockets". On this day, you can't make noise and break plates, bowls and other utensils. If you break them, you can say something auspicious to make up for your mistakes, such as "opening your mouth to make a fortune", which symbolizes that the whole family is full from beginning to end. At home, the water tank should be filled with water and the rice tank should be filled with rice to symbolize "more than one year". Stay up all night, and every family stays up all year.

The first day of the first lunar month is the first year of the lunar calendar, which is called "Spring Festival". In ancient times, it was called "New Year's Day", commonly known as "New Year's Day". Early in the morning, every household put on new clothes and set off firecrackers to worship the ancestors of heaven and earth. When offering sacrifices to ancestors, vegetarian food should be used as a confession, because it is said that Maitreya Buddha sat down on this day, so vegetarian food was used. This custom has been circulating for a long time, and the Qing Shunzhi's Chaozhou Fuzhi said: "Yuan Day is a sacrifice." Qing Qianlong's "Puning County Records" said: In the Yuan Dynasty, ancestors were vegetarian and ancestors ate meat. "Then the whole family had a warm and friendly breakfast, and the next generation blessed their elders, who gave their expectations to the next generation. After breakfast, parents will take their children to visit relatives and friends. Whenever you visit relatives and friends, you should bring Chaozhou oranges. Because oranges are bigger than oranges, they are named big oranges. Oranges are homophonic with auspicious words, meaning "auspicious". A big orange means good luck. It doesn't matter much how many oranges you bring, but it must be even, not odd. On the tea table of the host family, there is always a plate of red and green oranges, banlang (now replaced by olives), plus candy to welcome guests and respect them. The custom of using betel nut in Chaoshan is recorded in detail in local county annals and county annals. Qing Qianlong's "Chaozhou Prefecture Records" said: "Without eat areca, it is simple and slow. Because "Bin Lang" and "Bin Lang" are homophonic and contain the meaning of "guest", the homonym of "Bin Da Lang Ju" has become a kind of etiquette to greet each other and exchange good luck. When the guests come in, they say some auspicious words to each other, such as "Happy New Year" and "Congratulations on getting rich". The host should invite guests to eat olives and sweets, drink congou (Jiexi Hakkas also respect the custom of "smashing tea and rice"), exchange good luck and give each other "profit market" (red envelopes). Then the host prepares wine and holds a banquet to entertain the guests, commonly known as congratulations. Qing Jiaqing's Chenghai County Records invited each other to drink. As the saying goes,' every family has wine in the first month' ".

Spring Festival is a sacred day, so there are many taboos in Chaoshan, such as not sweeping the floor, not washing clothes, and being afraid of losing money; Don't use long and short chopsticks when eating, or you will miss the opportunity in the transition; Don't eat porridge or drink rice soup, or it will rain when you go out; Don't speak ill, swear or fight. If a child hits or scolds a child, parents should apologize with a pair of oranges and wish others good luck.