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Spring Festival Customs in the South

The people of Huaiyin have the custom of "roasting the head wind" for their children on the sixth day of the Lunar New Year. It is the night to take the child to the field open space lighting torches, for the child to drive away the disease, while roasting and singing: "Roast the head, wake up the brain, roast the feet, step corrective, roast the belly is not diarrhea, the whole body are roasted, the disease will never see." Nantong people have the custom of inserting sesame stalks, holly, and cypress branches in front of their homes or halls, in the hope that their lives will blossom and prosper, and that they will be verdant for years to come.

In the South, there is a New Year's Eve around the stove custom, the family ate New Year's Eve dinner will be sitting around the stove, high on melon seeds, watching TV, while eating and chatting about the sweet and sour of the year.

Southern first day of the year to do rice cakes and eat dumplings: the South people pay attention to the Spring Festival is the first day of the year, must be a family around together to eat rice cakes, do dumplings.