What are the customs in the South?

Southern customs are:

1, the first day of the South to do rice cakes, eat dumplings

In the South, the first day of the New Year's Day, pay attention to do the rice cakes and dumplings, rice cakes, which is the harmonic of the "year high", is a good omen of good fortune, dumplings, also known as "dumplings", "round", symbolizing the meaning of "reunion". "dumplings", "round", symbolizing the meaning of "reunion". Rice cakes are made of glutinous rice, taking the production and life "high year after year" meaning.

2, the second day of the South to eat New Year's Eve

Some places in the South to eat New Year's Eve, especially business people must eat New Year's Eve. In the New Year's dinner, there must be roasted meat, roasted meat must be red skin red strong, "healthy" meaning. On the second day of the Lunar New Year, married daughters and their husbands go back to their mother's home. On this day, the daughters who go back to their mother's home must bring some gifts and red envelopes to distribute to the relatives and children in their mother's home.

3, stick couplets

Pasted red, that is, the posting of Spring Festival couplets, door god, New Year's paintings, crosses, window, etc., collectively known as the red festive elements of the New Year's sticker, so collectively referred to as "posting red". Paste red is a traditional Chinese New Year's Eve customs, which reflects the customs and beliefs of the people, adding festive atmosphere, and sent people to the New Year of the new life of the good hope.

4, eat sugar ring

In the festive food, sugar ring is probably the most beautiful eye-catching, it is a chic shape, outside a circle, inside like a five-pointed star, meaning interlocking, endless. Sugar rings have a long history. Ancient Central Plains, sugar ring made of flour, and later to the Lingnan was changed to glutinous rice flour, put into the frying pan until cooked to a golden color, but also has the meaning of the gold full of houses.

5, out of the party

South New Year's Eve is the most important is this ceremony, the first morning of the New Year, the male members of the family get up early and open the door to the whole family male wearing new clothes, first to the ancestors God place offerings, light incense and candles, in the sound of firecrackers, open the door, to the direction of the Dali burning incense and bowing to the sky and the earth, it is called "out of the party," and prayed for This is called the "out of the square", praying for the blessing of heaven and earth to eliminate disasters and avoid calamities in the year.