What are the customs of New Year in Jiangsu?

Come to the door, take charge of the overall situation, etc.

1, Visit: On New Year's Eve, after dinner, the old Yangzhou lights incense burners and candles to celebrate the New Year, adults and children put on new clothes, and the elders begin to give the younger generation lucky money. At this time, adults will close the door and let the children at home grab the latch behind the door and climb up. The old-fashioned door is made of wood, with several cross bars from top to bottom and a latch switch in the middle. This custom is climbing the door. Old people say that little people can grow up by climbing the door at night, climb fast and grow fast, and climb high and grow high. Children from families with many children also compete with each other, which not only exercises the body, but also increases the festive atmosphere of the festival.

2. Take the overall situation as an example: On New Year's Eve, elders should put cloud cakes, apples and oranges on everyone's bedside for getting up and eating on the first morning of the New Year. Eating cloud cakes means "Gao Shuang" and eating apples means "safe and sound". These customs are found in many parts of the country, but eating oranges has a unique significance in Yangzhou. In Yangzhou dialect, luck is called "getting angry" and luck is called "going to the bureau". The word "orange" is homophonic with the word "bureau" of local anger, and giving away oranges contains a beautiful meaning that brings good luck to people. Yangzhou people invite people to eat oranges in the New Year, which means wishing each other good luck and all the best. Mr. Zhu Ziqing, a famous modern prose master who calls himself "I am from Yangzhou", wrote in his well-known masterpiece "The Back" that Zhu Ziqing's father, Xiao Pogong, personally went to Pukou Station to send his son to Beijing after his old mother's funeral, dragging his fat body up and down to buy oranges for his son. My father, who knows Yangzhou folk customs, bought oranges for his son, full of his good wishes to his son, hoping that his son would have a smooth sailing. The little orange actually bears the affection of a father who has suffered a lot for his son.