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What are the Spring Festival customs in Zhejiang?

Hangzhou tastes the taste of the year. On the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, also known as Laba Festival, Hangzhou ancestors generally made Laba porridge with walnuts, pine nuts, lotus seeds, dates, Euryales, longan, lychee, etc., and gave it to relatives and friends. This is a prelude to the Spring Festival in Hangzhou. This bowl of porridge originated from temples in the Southern Song Dynasty. Originally, it was used as supplies for monks' families, and it was called "Qibao Wuwei porridge".

Shaoxing people's custom of being 20 years old not only has a long history, but also has local characteristics. Although times have changed and many customs have kept pace with the times, authentic Shaoxing people still pass these customs on from generation to generation. A series of old customs, such as curing bacon, spreading powder, making zongzi, praying for blessings, sending stoves for twenty-three nights, and social drama, are unique in charm. ...

New Year's Eve has a unique name here in Wenzhou: New Year's Eve wine. When the new year and the old year alternate, how can it be without New Year's Eve wine? Wenzhou people attach great importance to New Year's wine, drying New Year's goods in advance, pounding rice cakes and offering sacrifices to stoves ... All folk activities are carried out around the New Year.

Jinhua has many folk activities with a long history, among which the most famous are traditional operas: Wuju Zhezi Opera, Pujiang Random Play, Puppet Show, Yongkang Wake-up Play and Dongyang Puppet Show. Pujiang earthworms are loved by men, women and children; Wuyi's Langjie, Jingle and Kunqu minor are the persistence and inheritance of tradition. ...

Taizhou 23 to send the kitchen god, 24 to dust the tent, 25 to catch the long-term workers, 26 grams (to go) to the market, 27 to smash, 28 to make (pack) zongzi, 29 to freeze, 30 to take firewood early (early), 30 to wait for the first meter to take care of five (to eat), at the beginning of the first month.

The old taste of Ningbo began to prepare bacon as soon as the twelfth lunar month, and the development process was all done by ourselves. People in Ningbo have a special liking for eels, and drying eels naturally becomes an indispensable part of Ningbo people's preparation for new year's goods.