What are the Spring Festival customs in Shaanxi?

The customs and habits of observing the old age, hanging red lights, posting couplets, setting off firecrackers and eating New Year's Eve.

In rural Shaanxi, the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month is the Lunar New Year, and the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month is called "off-year". Some places in rural areas are called "offering sacrifices to stoves", that is, offering sacrifices to the "kitchen god" who dominates good and bad luck in order to have ample food and clothing. Shaanxi folk culture is rich and unique, mainly manifested in the long dialect history, ingenious paper-cutting, exquisite clay sculpture skills, cheerful waist drums, soft or rigid folk songs, profound shadow play and unique charm of social fire. Shaanxi is one of the birthplaces of Chinese culture, and its rich historical background has given birth to colorful folk culture dialects. Shaanxi dialect refers to the dialect within the jurisdiction of Shaanxi Province.

Influenced by geography, history, politics, immigration and other factors, Shaanxi dialect has great differences in pronunciation and vocabulary. On the whole, Shaanxi dialect can be divided into three parts: Guanzhong dialect, northern Shaanxi dialect and southern Shaanxi dialect. The southern part of Qinling Mountain is the southern Shaanxi dialect area except Luonan, Shangzhou and Feng Dan, the northern parts of Yanchang, Ganquan and Yan 'an are the northern Shaanxi dialect area except Dingbian, and the areas outside the southern Shaanxi and northern Shaanxi dialect area are the Guanzhong dialect area.