What are the customs of the Spring Festival in Guangzhou?

Customs of the Spring Festival in Guangzhou:

1, New Year's Eve: New Year's dinner, rows of flower street

New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, eating New Year's dinner, the New Year's Eve vigil and stroll in the Flower Market is the old Guangzhou three major events of the old year and welcome the New Year, the day, Guangzhou, prepare for the old year and welcome the New Year, a family gathering **** into the dinner, so that family members are more close to each other. "Walking the Flower Street" (Cantonese dialect: shopping at the Flower Market) is the most familiar Guangzhou New Year's Eve tradition, a complex that lingers in the hearts of the Guangzhou people.

2. The first day of the Lunar New Year: paying homage to the gods and sending big tangerines

Guangzhou commonly known as "paying homage to the gods" is not only to pay homage to the gods in the temples, but also to pay homage to the gods and ancestors at home. Many Guangzhou people at noon on the first day of fasting, with vermicelli, bamboo, hairy vegetables, mushrooms, etc. cooked into a pot of "Lohan Zhai", hope that the year to eat the vegetarian dishes in this day to eat, and later can be big fish and meat; and send Lixiang red packets to convey good luck, "Lishou", often said Lili things, meaning good luck.

3, the second day of the year: the beginning of the year tooth festival, back to his mother's home

Guangzhou people fashionable second, sixteen tooth festival, the second day of the first month of the year is the "first tooth", to eat New Year's Eve dinner, so do it early, called the head of the tooth grabbing. Married daughters with their husbands, children back to their parents' homes to pay tribute to the New Year, must do a big bag of cookies, candies, distributed by the mother of the neighbors, reflecting the sentiments but very strong.

4, the third day of the New Year: Chikou

The third day of the New Year usually do not go out to pay homage to the New Year, because of the Chikou, want to avoid quarrels with people, will choose to stay at home.

5, the fifth day of the Lunar New Year: pick up the God of Fortune

Pick up the God of Fortune to go home, if the old year is not as good as you can use "a bowl of water, three incense" sacrificed to the king of the stove, the old year of the developed with chicken, ducks, fish and meat offerings.