What are the customs of Shandong Spring Festival?

1, New Year's Eve: New Year's Eve is one of the most important food activities during the Spring Festival. Shandong's New Year's Eve party will prepare some traditional dishes, such as fish, chicken, meat and vegetables. These dishes have special meanings, such as fish for more than a year, chicken for good luck, meat for harvest and happiness, and vegetables for health and longevity.

2. Post Spring Festival couplets: During the Spring Festival, Shandong people will post some auspicious Spring Festival couplets at their doorsteps or in their rooms to pray for good luck and peace in the new year. These Spring Festival couplets are composed of four words, such as Fulu Xi Shou, Qihe Jixiang and so on.

3. Setting off firecrackers: Setting off firecrackers is a traditional activity during the Spring Festival, which is intended to drive away evil spirits and welcome the arrival of the New Year. Shandong people will set off firecrackers on New Year's Eve and the morning of the first day of junior high school. These firecrackers will last for a long time until dawn.

4. Happy New Year: Happy New Year is also an important activity during the Spring Festival. In the process of New Year's greetings, people will send blessings to each other and bring some gifts, such as candy, fruit, biscuits and so on. In addition, there was a custom of kowtowing in Shandong in the old days, just to say hello and congratulate each other on making a fortune.

5. Lion Dance and Dragon Dance: Lion Dance and Dragon Dance are traditional performances during the Spring Festival. Shandong people will hold lion and dragon dances a few days before the New Year to celebrate the arrival of the New Year.

6. Watch the dragon dance performance: In Shandong, on the first day of the New Year, people will watch the dragon dance performance to celebrate the arrival of the New Year.