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Customs in my hometown of Jiangsu

The customs in my hometown of Jiangsu are as follows:

Fan Wenyi:

In addition to posting Spring Festival couplets, hanging New Year pictures, lion dancing and New Year greetings, there are some customs unique to Jiangsu during the Spring Festival. Custom, the current collection quantity is for readers' reference. Suzhou people put cooked water chestnuts in the New Year's Eve meal, dig them out when eating, and put two green olives in the tea, which is called drinking Yuanbao tea. Congratulations on getting rich.

On the morning of the first day of the New Year, Wujin people hung up the portraits of their ancestors in nave, presented them with tea fruits and rice cakes, and the whole family paid New Year greetings in turn, which was called the shadow of worshipping God. Don't let them sweep the floor from home, for fear of sweeping out their wealth and happiness, so they can only sweep from the outside to the inside.

Fan Wener:

My hometown is xuanbao town, Taixing, Jiangsu. Other festivals are almost the same as other hometown, only the Spring Festival is unique. As the saying goes, three miles away from home, especially the country style. Looking forward to, looking forward to, the Spring Festival is coming. Spring Festival is the beginning of a year, and you can be lazy at any time. Only on this day, adults and children should be diligent, which means that this year is full of vitality.

In the morning, people in the town get up at five. Hard-working grandma also got up early, washed the soaked red dates and ginger, and put the brown sugar into the pot to cook, which is called Japanese jujube tea. This kind of tea not only has the effect of warming stomach and expelling cold, but also indicates the sweetness of life in the new year.

Fan Wensan:

My hometown is a thousand-year-old town in Baoying County, Yangzhou City. There, the atmosphere of the New Year began to permeate the streets on the 18th of the twelfth lunar month. From this day on, people no longer go out, but sweep the dust at home. Everyone in Yangzhou knows a saying, "If you have money, you can spend the New Year clean." . In the concept of Yangzhou people, the first thing to greet the New Year is to wash clothes and quilts, sweep dust and remove scale, usually around the seventeenth and eighteenth day of the twelfth lunar month. Therefore, people often say: the seventeenth and eighteenth days are more and more sweeping.