What are the differences in the cultural practices of different regions in celebrating the New Year?

Time flies, as if 2020 was yesterday. The Spring Festival is the grandest traditional festival for all of us in the Chinese nation, and the forms about celebrating the festival are colorful and diverse, with different ways of celebrating in different parts of the world, as it also carries strong characteristics of each ethnic group. In such a red-hot and lively, all the joy of the festival, the cultural customs of each place have what surprised it,

The earliest New Year Linzhi Gongbu New Year

In Tibet 2021 the first New Year - is the Gongbu New Year, in December 2006, the Gongbu New Year was included in the autonomous region level intangible cultural heritage list. cultural heritage list.

Earliest in November has taken the lead in the 2021 New Year, the Kumbum New Year has a long history, also known as the "Kumbum Festival", "Kumbum Year", is the Tibetan New Year in the Kumbum region of Tibet (Linzhi City, Bayi District, Miling County, Kumbum Jangda County), the time for the annual Tibetan New Year, the time for the Tibetan New Year. Tibetan New Year, which takes place on October 1 of the Tibetan calendar every year, is the grandest festival of the year in the region.

The most celebrated New Year in Chaoshan, Guangdong

People in the Chaoshan region eat vegetable kuey teow, bean curd dumplings, leavened buns, pipe-frying, and five-fruit soup every year at the Spring Festival, which signifies "a sweet life with a long history". In particular, in Chaoshan, every family will bring a big bag of tangerines before going out to pay respect to the New Year, and every time they go to a relative, they have to send a big tangerine, no matter how many, must be plural, and then say some words of blessing.

After being seated, the relatives will be entertained with Teochew kung fu tea, and when they are leaving, they will return the tangerines. to show their good wishes to each other.

The Most Orthodox Old Beijing New Year

Old Beijingers were very particular about the Spring Festival, especially when it came to food. There is a folk song circulating in Beijing: "Sugar Melon Sacrifice to the Stove, the New Year Comes", the first food into the festival is the "sacrificial stove" with sugar melons, Guandong sugar and other small food. It is a sign that the Spring Festival is approaching.

After eating Lapa congee, the year is over, and the New Year's Eve dinner must include dumplings and fish, symbolizing "family reunion" and "year-round surplus". According to traditional customs, dumplings must be eaten, but not on New Year's Day to eat dumplings, the old Beijing preaching to eat is "five more dumplings", that is, the first morning to eat.

The most elegant Suzhou New Year

The Spring Festival opens its doors early in the morning and three firecrackers are set off, signifying a "three-stage rise". When you go out in the morning, you should follow the direction specified in the yellow calendar, which is called "Xishenfang" (喜神方). And go to the city god, land and other temples to burn incense, must go through ten temples to stop, known as "burn ten temples incense".

On New Year's Eve, they will put cooked water chestnuts in the rice, and dig them out when eating, which means "digging for treasure". When relatives or good friends come to visit during the Spring Festival, two green olives are put into the tea to show that they are drinking "Yuanbao tea" and congratulating themselves on getting rich.

The best way to celebrate the New Year in Xiamen

As one of the cities in southern Fujian, Xiamen has some interesting customs for the Spring Festival. The most special is that on the first day of the New Year, it is taboo to call others by their names to urge them to get up, because this will make the other person be urged to do something the whole year. In the early morning of the first day of the year, firecrackers are lit to start the festival. People change into new clothes to the clan relatives, according to seniority in order to pay tribute to the New Year.

If they meet friends on the road, they will congratulate each other on the new year. If someone comes to the house as a guest, the host will be sweet tea, candy, candies, candied fruit, fruits and vegetables hospitality, everywhere a peaceful and joyful. Throughout the Spring Festival, businessmen do not do business, the first three days of the home can not be cleaned, feces can not be poured out, because this will be the wealth poured out, that is, the so-called "city does not list the restaurant, feces do not remove the three days".

The most comfortable but no New Year's Eve in Sanya

Sanya as a tourist city, almost no real large-scale New Year's Eve activities, most of the local residents will also be held in the local New Year's Eve activities for a year, but for the reason that Sanya city, most of the tourists who come here are outsiders, and almost carry the New Year's Eve customs of different regions, but because of the dispersal, and there is no form a unified New Year's flavor.

So, in addition to sunbathing on the big beach, relaxing in the hotel, all kinds of warmth and coziness, the only place with New Year's flavor is hanging around the red lanterns and couplets, but this feeling is not bound by the traditional New Year's flavor, and in fact, it is also very free.

For every Chinese, the Spring Festival is definitely one of the grandest and most lively traditional festivals of the year. During the Chinese New Year, we Chinese people not only in the house furnishings, everyone's food and clothing and speech and behavior, as well as a variety of symbolic eating habits are different from the usual customs. Although it is the same Spring Festival, but all over the country have their own unique Spring Festival customs, very different.