What are the customs of Fuzhou Spring Festival?

On the first day of New Year's Day, Fuzhou people have to make sacrifices to heaven before going out to pay a New Year call, and bamboo rice is a necessary sacrifice.

In Fuzhou, on the first day of the first month, every household will open doors, burn incense and set off firecrackers to welcome the New Year. On the second day of the first month, in Fuzhou's folk customs, this day is the day when the married daughter returns to her parents' home, and her husband will follow. Boiling wine porridge is the boiling wine festival on the 29th day of the first lunar month, and it is a unique traditional festival of Fuzhou language family. Its custom is to eat aojiu porridge, which comes from the story of the dutiful son "saving his mother's eyes" Early this morning, every household in the folk cooked porridge with glutinous rice, supplemented by peanuts, longan, red dates, water chestnut, sesame seeds, brown sugar and so on. , boiled into ninety-nine porridge. First, they introduce their ancestors, then they respect their parents, and then the family has breakfast. In the past, Fuzhou people would add a chopped water chestnut to the cooked porridge, and the head of this water chestnut should be kept, which means that children and grandchildren are full. On the night of Lantern Festival, every household in Fuzhou will light lanterns and hang them high in front of the door to watch each other.