Yuyao's Spring Festival Customs Yuyao's Festival Customs

Yuyao's Chinese New Year customs include: dust removal, writing Spring Festival couplets, setting off firecrackers, taking photos of locusts and making sugar tea. Yuyao is a county-level city under the jurisdiction of Zhejiang Province, managed by Ningbo City, and located in Ningshao Plain in the east of Zhejiang Province. It borders Jiangbei District and Haishu District in the east, Siming Mountain in the south, Fenghua District and Shengzhou City in the west, Shangyu District in the west, Cixi City in the north and Haiyan County in the northwest. Yuyao is the birthplace of Yaojiang School and the hometown of Wang Shouren, Huang Zongxi, Jiang Menglin and Shen Junshan.

1. On the 14th day of the first month, Yuyao children held a paper lamp to illuminate the corner of the house and the ridge of the river, and took a small gong in their hands, knocking and singing: "According to locusts, it was a good year, and all the snakes and insects died." People will stick torches on straw in the field to drive away locusts.

2, dust, that is, Yuyao's general cleaning, cleaning the home or around, cleaning some utensils and the like. Yang Pengfei told reporters: "Some villages often organize villagers to carry out large-scale cleaning to clean up weeds and rubbish, which means' cleaning the New Year'.

Writing Spring Festival couplets is a traditional custom in Yuyao. City Calligraphers Association organizes a group of calligraphers to write Spring Festival couplets for the citizens every year. In the old days, Spring Festival couplets had many greetings, such as "Tianzeng Life, full of spring". Today, Spring Festival couplets still write some auspicious sentences, but the content is more novel and full of the flavor of the times, and many people will paste the word "fu" upside down.

Setting off firecrackers is a very old folk custom in Yuyao, which means "to ward off evil spirits and pray". There are firecrackers on New Year's Eve and on the first day of the first month. In ancient times, bamboo was directly used to burn fire in Siming Mountain area, because bamboo knots would make a "bang" when burning. For the sake of environmental protection and safety, it is suggested to set off firecrackers as little as possible.

5. Making sugar tea is the highest courtesy for Yuyao during the Spring Festival. Generally, brown sugar is used. Now the conditions are good, white sugar is used. When someone goes home to pay New Year's greetings, he should be given a cup of sugar tea at the first time. I hope his New Year is as sweet as sugar.