What are the customs of New Year in Northeast China

The customs of the New Year in the Northeast are dumplings, eating frozen goods, lighting long lamps, pressure money, and not sweeping the floor.

1, dumplings

Northern people have the habit of eating dumplings on New Year's Eve. On the night of the New Year's Eve, the family gathers together to chat while making dumplings. Dumpling skin and dumpling filling should be just enough to use up, more skin or more filling is said.

2, eat frozen goods

Frozen goods is a specialty of the Northeast, although the habit of eating frozen goods is not at home, but after the New Year's Eve dinner, frozen pears, frozen persimmons put in the water to slow down for a while, and the melt almost ready to eat.

3, point long lights

The night of the New Year's Eve is not to turn off the lights, to point long lights. And before the first month of the fifteenth home should be lit lanterns, the old Northeastern people say that this means that life and prosperity, incense continues.

4, the new year's money

Pressing the new year's money is the children's favorite, press the new year's money is China's New Year's Eve a tradition, is the elders of the younger generation of blessings and love. Children want to get the New Year's money is to kowtow to the elders to pay respect to the New Year, to the present almost all kowtow this link is omitted.

5, do not sweep

The old Northeastern people in the past that the New Year is the gathering of a year of good luck at a critical time, so can not easily do the cleaning, for fear of sweeping the year's good luck are out of the. So the first two days of the first year is not sweeping the ground, never mind the ground to create more buried, are not sweeping.