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Who can tell me about the New Year's Eve customs in Cangzhou?

Simply put: sacrificial stove sweeping dust sticking spring couplets, door god New Year's Eve New Year's Eve dinner (New Year's Eve dinner) ancestor worship year-end return to the mother's home on the sixth day of the year to send poor to receive the God of Fortune red envelopes (New Year's Eve money) New Year's gift orange New Year's firecrackers to pay homage to the New Year to usher in the spring Specifics: Lunar New Year's Day twenty-three/twenty-four: [sacrifice of the stove] [dust sweeping] [eat stove sugar] China's Spring Festival The Spring Festival in China is usually kicked off with the Zao Sacrifice on the 23rd or 24th day of the Lunar New Year, which is known as the "Officials Three, Folks Four, Boat Families Five", that is, the official government holds the Zao Sacrifice on the 23rd day of the Lunar New Year, the general folk families on the 24th day of the Lunar New Year, and the people living on waterways hold it on the 25th day of the Lunar New Year. After holding the sacrificial stove, will formally begin to do to meet the New Year's preparations. The period from the 23rd day of the Lunar New Year to New Year's Eve is known as the "Spring Festival". The 25th day of the Lunar New Year: [Receiving the Jade Emperor] [Catching up with the Messy Year] [Illuminating the Silkworms] [Thousand Lanterns Festival] After the Zaoshen is sent to heaven, it is only on New Year's Eve that it is welcomed back, and during that time, there is no god on earth to govern the world, and there are no taboos, and the people marry more often, which is known as "Catching up with the Messy Year". It is known as the "Catch up with the Year of Disorder". The Year of Disorder is a specific period of time designed by the people for themselves to regulate their social life. At the end of the year, people had leisure and savings, which was a good time for those who usually had little energy to organize big events. Lunar New Year's Day 27/28: [Bathing] Traditional folklore is to focus on bathing and washing on these two days to remove the bad luck of the year and prepare for the coming New Year, and there is a proverb in Beijing that says, "Wash away the guilt on the twenty-seventh day of the Lunar New Year, and wash away the slovenliness on the twenty-eighth day of the Lunar New Year". Lunar New Year's Day 26 bath for "wash the blessing of Lu". Lunar New Year's Eve: [small New Year's Eve] [over the New Year's Eve] The day before New Year's Eve, called "small New Year's Eve", the family set up wine feasts, people visit called "Farewell". The day before New Year's Eve is called "Little New Year's Eve." Families make wine and feasts, and people visit each other for three days. Lunar New Year's Eve: [posting door gods] [posting Spring Festival couplets] [observing the New Year's Eve] [eating New Year's Eve dinner] [setting off firecrackers] [sacrificing to ancestors] [giving New Year's Eve money] The word "除" in "除夕" means "to go; to be easy; alternately. "The meaning of New Year's Eve is" the end of the month and the end of the year ", people have to get rid of the old part of the new, there is the old year to this in addition, the next year for another new year's meaning, is the lunar calendar throughout the year on the last night. Therefore, the activities during this period are centered around the old part of the new, eliminate disasters and pray for blessings as the center. The first day of the first month: [New Year's Eve] [open door cannonball] [account for the year] [sticker painting chicken] [gather wealth] This day is the first day of the year, the first day of spring, the first day of the first month, so it is known as the "Sanyuan"; this day is also the age of the dynasty, the month of the dynasty, the day of the dynasty, so it is also known as the "three Chao! ". Different periods of Chinese history have changed the time of the first day of the first month according to their own cultural traditions and customs. The second day of the first month: [God of Wealth] [Legend of the God of Wealth] In the north of the first two days of the first month of the God of Wealth, this day, whether it is a trade store, or ordinary families, will be held to sacrifice the God of Wealth activities. Each family to the New Year's Eve to pick up the God of Fortune sacrifice. In fact, they incinerate the rough prints they bought. On this day, wontons are eaten at noon, commonly known as "Yuanbao soup". Fish and mutton are used as offerings. The third day of the first month of the lunar calendar: [Burning the paper of the god of the door] [Guzi's birthday] [Xiaonianzhao] Xiaonianzhao, or Tianqing Festival. Song dynasty court festival, Song Zhenzong Dazhong Xiangfu first year, because of the rumor that there is a heavenly book descending to earth, Zhenzong issued an imperial edict, the first three days of the first month for the day of the festival, officials and other leave for five days. Later it was called the Small New Year's Day, without sweeping the ground, begging for fire, or drawing water, the same as the Year's Day. The fifth day of the first month of the first month of the year: [sacrifice to the god of wealth] [road head god] [send poor] [market] The fifth day of the first month of the first month of the year is commonly known as the broken five. It is said that many taboos can be broken on this day before the fifth day. According to the old custom to eat "dumplings", the north called "cooking meat and potatoes". Women are no longer taboo door, began to visit each other to congratulate the New Year. The new bride in this day to return to peace. Said that the day of the broken five should not do things, otherwise the year meets a failure. The seventh day of the first month: [human day] [spread pancakes] [eat seven treasures soup] Legend has it that the female snail first created the world, in the creation of chickens, dogs, pigs, cows, horses and other animals, in the seventh day of the creation of human beings, so this day is the birthday of mankind. Han Dynasty began to human day custom, Wei Jin began to emphasize. In ancient times, there was the custom of wearing a "human victory" on the human day. Because it is the day of man, so in ancient times this day there is not the custom of execution. The eighth day of the first month: [Valley Day] [Shunxing] folk to the eighth day of the first month for the stars down to the world, making small lamps burned and sacrificed, known as the Shunxing, also known as the "sacrifice star", "catching the star". Legend has it that the eighth day of the month is the birthday of Guzi. This day the weather is sunny, the Lord of the day a good harvest of rice, the day is cloudy, the year is poor. The first ten days of the first month of the year: [stone birthday] [congratulations on the rat marriage] [New Year's ten days of song] In the old days, the folk in the first month of the activities held in the ritual of the rat, also known as the "rat marriage" "rat marriage". Specific date varies from place to place, there is the seventh day of the first month, there is the seventeenth day of the first month, there is the twenty-fifth day of the first month, a lot of areas is the tenth day of the first month. The way of sacrificing rats also varies from place to place. The first month of the fifteenth: [Lantern Festival] [send children lamps] [welcome purple nuns] [go a hundred diseases] [steal vegetables festival] [Bawu Festival] Lantern Festival, also known as the Lantern Festival, the night of the yuan, also known as the Festival of the first full moon of the New Year, because this is the first night of the New Year. Because of this festival through the ages there is the custom of watching lamps, so it is also known as the Festival of Lights. The formation of the Lantern Festival custom has a long process, the Han Emperor Wu Di first month on the night of Sin in the Ganquan Palace sacrifices "too one" activities, is seen by later generations as the first month of the fifteenth day of the first day of the festival of the God of Heaven's precursor. Spring Customs: [Eastern Suburbs Welcoming Spring] [Spring Posts] [Spring Cow] [Biting Spring] Welcoming spring on the day of spring is an important activity carried out by the Chinese ancestors on the day of spring. In the Zhou Dynasty, when the spring, the son of heaven personally led the three dukes and nine ministers of the vassals to go to the eastern suburbs to welcome the spring, and pray for a good harvest. After returning, he rewarded his ministers and gave them the favor of the people. This has become a universal spring event for generations to come.