Customs of the Sichuan people during the Spring Festival

Customs of the Sichuan people during the Spring Festival: killing the New Year's pig, curing preserved meat, sweeping the dust, making mochi, and catching up with the market.

1. Killing the Pig

One month or half a month before the New Year, Sichuanese people will bring their own fat pigs, which have been raised for a year, to be slaughtered, and then invite their relatives, friends and neighbors to have a lively pig-slaughtering dinner to share a sumptuous pork meal and the joy of the coming New Year.

2, cured bacon

Bacon is a specialty of Sichuan, after killing the New Year's Eve pig will be fresh meat sticky salt into the curing tank, cured for a few days after taking out, and then set up a good rack, smoked and burned with firewood. After a period of time, the meat will become oily yellow and bright color, fragrant.

3, sweeping dust

Sweeping dust is the end of the year cleaning, every year before the Spring Festival, Sichuan households have to clean. According to the Sichuan folk saying is that, in addition to sweeping away the dust, it is important to all the "poor luck", "bad luck" all swept out the door, which is also the performance of the Sichuan people on the resignation of the old and welcome the new.

4, patty cake

Many places in Sichuan, especially ethnic minorities, have "28, patty cake," the saying that on the twenty-eighth day of the month of Lunar New Year, outside the freezing cold, but the patty cake in the house of the family played a hot, lively.

5, catch the field

While usually Chuan people are not lack of catch the field, but the last one of the year, and the meaning of the previous day's catch the field is completely different. The last of the year before, almost every family to go to catch, to buy a variety of new year's goods, have to eat, have to play, the same does not fall, especially chicken, fish and meat to buy on, the chicken heralds good luck, the fish of course, is the annual surplus!