What customs are disappearing in rural areas during the Spring Festival?

With the development of the times, many Chinese New Year customs are gradually disappearing in rural areas. Let's discuss which customs are gradually disappearing.

1, kill pigs in the New Year

Older people should know that they can only eat one meal of meat during the Chinese New Year. Of course, people should buy pork when they package jiaozi during the New Year. Farmers who raise pigs will kill pigs in the New Year, and every household is waiting to share the pork in the New Year. This is also a technical job. Now with the progress of the times, our researchers have detected many food safety problems. In order to ensure that ordinary people can eat safe food, pigs must be quarantined by the health department before they can be slaughtered. Now there are special supermarkets in rural areas, which are not only cheap but also clean and hygienic.

Step 2 set off firecrackers

When I was a child, I used to set off firecrackers at home every New Year. When we were at school, we used to learn to set off firecrackers to scare away a monster called Nian. But now, many cities have stopped setting off firecrackers because of large-scale urbanization and increasingly serious air pollution. If you want to set off firecrackers, you can only set them off in the suburbs. Dry winter is easy to cause fires. Now many firecrackers are replaced by balloons, which is also very funny. Balloons can only replace the sound of firecrackers. Someone set off firecrackers, but only the sound of firecrackers exploding on the mobile phone. I think this can actually scare off Nian beast.

3. kowtow for the new year.

During the Chinese New Year, people usually get up before dawn, offer sacrifices, set off firecrackers, have a jiaozi, then go to the village to meet their peers and pay a New Year call to their elders in droves. This custom of kowtowing has been abandoned by some young people now, but if you live in the countryside, you have to do as the Romans do. Although kowtowing is nothing, it can not only set off the unique festive atmosphere of the New Year, but also reflect our fine tradition of respecting the elderly. But now, it's an improvement to bow to each other to pay New Year greetings.