What are the customs of the Spring Festival in Shanghai?

1, City God Temple, Shanghai people must go to the City God Temple on New Year's Day, walk the nine curved bridges there, and see the downtown lantern activities. This day the entire City God Temple is colorful, bright lights.

2, open the door cannonball, the Spring Festival morning, open the door, the first firecrackers, called "open the door cannonball". After the sound of firecrackers, broken red all over the ground, brilliant as a cloud of brocade, known as "full of red", which is full of the street, joyful.

3, rice cakes, because of the harmonic "year high", coupled with a variety of flavors, almost become a must-have seasonal food. The style of rice cake has a square of yellow and white rice cake, symbolizing gold and silver, meaning that the New Year will be rich.

4, the New Year's Eve, the New Year's Eve from the beginning of the New Year's Eve dinner, this New Year's Eve dinner to eat slowly, from the time of the lantern into the table, some people have to eat late into the night. This night immediately after the New Year, so many family elders, after the New Year's Eve dinner, not to go to bed, around the TV to keep the New Year's Eve, that is, while talking and laughing, while watching the CCTV Spring Festival gala.

5, the first five to welcome the God of Fortune: the fourth night, near midnight, everyone will be ready to take the high rise firecrackers to the door to catch the point of firecrackers to welcome the God of Fortune. Shanghai every fourth night early morning firecrackers sound is the loudest, its momentum over the New Year's Eve.