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What are the customs of Guangdong?

Customs in Guangdong are:

1. The Spring Flower Market is held from December 28th of the lunar calendar to late at night on New Year's Eve, with millions of people taking part in the event.

2. Every family must have flowers, including Chinese New Year oranges, daffodils and flowers.

3, at the beginning of the New Year, the first thing to do is to stick door gods, couplets.

4, send the new year's money is an important custom, the elders to share the money to the younger generation, the younger generation can earn money to send money to the elders. On the morning of the first day of the year, the first thing to do is to pay homage to their own pairs, often the descendants first bless the elders. After breakfast, they each pay New Year's greetings to their own family and friends. But not to go far away.

5, thanks to the stove: the night of the 23rd day of the lunar month, to send Zaojun master to heaven, called "thanks to the stove", "send the stove" or "sacrificial stove". Tribute to the stove: a bowl of rice, two bricks of sugar, a letter of interest, a bowl of water, a gift of roast pork, some cane, orange, paper money and so on.

6, the second and third day of the first month, married out of the daughters have taken their husbands, children back to their parents' homes to pay homage. Daughters go back to their parents' homes.

7, the first seven days of the first month of the year to eat seven kinds of food, and then the first seven, to go out with the whole family.

8, 12 o'clock, to keep the New Year's Eve at home.

9, Cantonese people must buy a pot of kumquat, a pot of daffodil, or a peach blossom for the New Year. Why is the peach blossom tree one, not one? Yes, Guangdong people are the whole cut down peach blossom tree to buy home. Peach blossoms are to Cantonese people what Christmas trees are to Westerners. Guangdong people are fond of flowers, whether it is elegant people or vulgar city, New Year's Day to buy peach blossoms and other old few, with a variety of flowers.

10, Guangdong's lion is different from the provinces, known as the "waking lion". In the production and dance method has the characteristics of Guangdong. Guangdong lion dance originated in Foshan during the Spring Festival lion dance activities, in addition to performances in the square, but also along the street dance, house by house to congratulate, in order to show that the waking lion at the door, good luck, the master of the house is rewarded in the door, packet red hanging green, so that RuiLi to pick, called "picking green".