Spring Festival custom in Shangrao, Jiangxi Province

There are strict time limits for Nuo jumping, generally from the first day of the first month to the sixteenth day of the first month, with the first day called Nuo and the sixteenth called Nuo. After Nuo, Nuo class began to tour around, 16 went back to the village to "look for a visit". The "Nuo Search" ceremony was extremely warm and grand. On this night, villagers from eight neighboring towns often rush to relatives' homes in Youshi Village, and several to dozens of tables are often set up in the village to concentrate on entertaining some "upper class people" who come here to see Nuo.

Nuo is an ancient cultural phenomenon in China, in which gods chase ghosts and pray for disaster elimination. Nuo culture includes Nuo temple, Nuo mask, Nuo dance, Nuo opera, Nuo symbols, Nuo costumes, Nuo weapons, etc. It includes anthropology, ethnology, folklore, religion, drama and many other aspects.

Red Lantern 1 and Laba: The eighth day of the twelfth lunar month is a traditional festival of the Han people, as a signal that "New Year's Eve" is coming. As a tradition, we drink Laba porridge and make Laba garlic on this day. Look at Laba Festival 2, offering sacrifices to the stove, that is, sending the kitchen god to heaven in the next year 3, sweeping the dust 4, posting Spring Festival couplets, New Year pictures 5, inviting, worshipping and sending the gods 6, burning incense, lighting candles 7, hanging lanterns, lighting candles in lanterns, and the flames of candles are jumping, which is really beautiful. It would be much worse if you put a light bulb. 8. People who go out to study and work should go home to reunite with their parents and celebrate the New Year together. 14 Although the legal holiday of the Spring Festival in Chinese mainland is three days, many places (especially non-state-owned units) will not officially go to work until the eighth day of the first month.

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The first day was early, the second day was clever, the third day was sleepy, the fourth day the gods fell to the ground, and the fifth day they parted. (Pronunciation in Minnan)

* The first day: wear new clothes, worship ancestors, and go to the temple to pray for a year.

* The next day: go back to my parents' house. The married daughter returns to her parents' home to reunite with her family on this day, which is also called the second day of the following year.

* The third day: the mouse gets married. From New Year's Eve to the second day of New Year's Eve, you should have a good rest in the third day. The ancients also said that it is good to care for animals and not disturb mice to get married. So I'm sleepy and full in grade three.

* Day 4: God fell to the ground. When the gods return to earth, every household prepares sacrifices and prays for the gods' blessing.

* Day 5: Separation. At the end of the Spring Festival, shops open to worship the God of Wealth.

Have a reunion dinner on New Year's Eve (September 29th if there is no New Year's Eve), and the whole family should get together neatly all year round. Eat new year's eve dinner on the second day of the lunar new year.

4. Hanghua Street, according to the customs of past dynasties, the annual Lunar New Year Flower Market will be held every Spring Festival. The Chinese New Year's Eve flower market usually starts about ten days before the Spring Festival and ends at twelve o'clock on the 30th. New Year's Eve is the climax of the Chinese New Year's Eve flower market. The closer it is to the first day of the Lunar New Year, the more popular it is. The flower market sells flowers, oranges, handicrafts and so on. Every household in Foshan will plant flowers to celebrate the Spring Festival. Peach blossom is an essential winter jasmine, pray for peach blossom luck in the coming year. Kumquat symbolizes "good luck". Four Seasons Orange, Golden Egg and Cinnabar Orange similar to Kumquat can also play this role, so ordinary families only buy one of them. Similarly, it is the fruit passed down from generation to generation, which means prosperity from generation to generation. Narcissus is also one of the decorations for Foshan people in the New Year.

5. Pay New Year greetings. No matter how many gifts you bring, it can't be odd. People who pay New Year greetings enter the doors of relatives and friends, and they should look at different people and say different greetings. Say "Happy New Year" and "Longevity is better than Nanshan" to the elderly; For those who have jobs, say "smooth work" and "progress in the new year"; If you are a business person, what you hear most is "making a big profit in the New Year" and "making a fortune and benefiting the market"; If children are studying, what they want most is to make progress in their studies and achieve excellent results in the new year. Before leaving, the host will leave two oranges in the gift of the recipient, and then exchange his oranges in order to bring good luck to the other party.

Back to her mother's house, on the second day of the first month, the married daughter went back to her mother's house with her husband and children to pay New Year's greetings. When a daughter returns to her mother's house, there must be a big bag of biscuits and sweets distributed by her mother to her neighbors, just like the scene of the New Year. If there are many daughters at home, and none of them came back on the same day, then they should come one by one to show the girls' yearning for the family.

6. Giving gifts (red envelopes or lucky money) to underage juniors means bringing them blessings and good luck. The main meaning of auspiciousness lies in red paper, because it symbolizes good luck. Therefore, it is impolite to open the welfare in front of the elders who distribute it.

When visiting the New Year during the Spring Festival, the elders should distribute the lucky money prepared in advance to the younger generation. It is said that lucky money can kill evil spirits, because "old" and "expensive" are homophonic, and the younger generation can spend a year safely with lucky money.

Folks believe that giving children lucky money, when evil spirits or "Nian" hurt children, children can use the money to bribe them and turn evil into good luck.

7. On the 16th day of the first month, there is a saying in Foshan that "there is no place for the economy". On the same day, I bought windmills and lettuce and walked on Tongji Bridge to pray for Geely (the homonym of lettuce) and make a fortune. Sacrifice the stove to sweep the New Year's Eve, paste the Spring Festival couplets and pick up the New Year's Eve of the God of Wealth.