What are the customs of celebrating the Spring Festival in Shanxi?

The Spring Festival customs in Shanxi include Shehuo, New Year's Eve and Hu's Cleaning Day, as follows:

1, "Shehuo", also known as "shooting tigers", refers to all kinds of juggling and festivals or festivals to welcome the gods. Fire means liveliness. When you go to Shanxi for the New Year, you must not miss the "Social Fire Festival" of Shanxi merchants. Now, apart from major celebrations, the Lantern Festival is a fixed day to make a social fire every year.

On New Year's Eve, every family stays up all night, commonly known as "old age". As soon as the rooster crows, they start burning incense, lighting lamps, offering offerings, setting off fireworks, offering sacrifices to their ancestors, and then the whole family pays New Year greetings to each other. Children kowtow to their elders to pay New Year greetings, and elders give them lucky money for good luck. According to tradition, you should have breakfast before the sun comes out. After breakfast, I went out to pay New Year's greetings, and my relatives went to church and scattered thorns. They met on the road, bowed and said "Congratulations on getting rich" and "New Year wishes" to each other. Auspicious words are nothing more than "congratulations on getting rich"

3. On the first day of the first lunar month, people call it New Year's Day, which is different from New Year's Day in Gregorian calendar and later called it New Year's Day. 18 After the Laba Festival, Taiyuan people are busy preparing for the New Year, and the atmosphere is getting stronger every day. Wang Min's 23rd and 24th are the days of cleaning, commonly known as "Hu Cleaning Day".

4. The terrain of Shanxi Province is a parallelogram inclined from northeast to southwest, and it is a typical mountain plateau covered with loess, with high terrain in northeast and low terrain in southwest. There are ups and downs in the plateau and vertical and horizontal valleys. Landforms include mountains, hills, plateaus, basins and platforms, of which mountains and hills account for 80%. Shanxi province spans the Yellow River and Haihe River, and the rivers belong to the self-produced outflow system. Shanxi Province is located in the hinterland of the mid-latitude zone and belongs to the temperate continental monsoon climate.