Local customs and culture

The Spring Festival is the most solemn and festive day for China people. After thousands of years of circulation and evolution, it has accumulated rich folk culture.

Guangdong Shenzhen prefers oranges and flowers, and it is "profitable" to meet people.

Laiyang, Shandong Province, kowtowed to eat "the next year's meal" and "favored boys over girls"

Take a bath in Dangyang, Hubei, wear new clothes, give gifts and send wood.

Xiaogan, Hubei, wearing a hat to eat New Year's Eve.

In Chengde, Hebei Province, sorghum stalks "hide from the stars" when measuring drought and flood.

There are many kinds of frozen pears and lanterns in Shenyang, Liaoning.

Eat stove candy on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month. Northerners all offer sacrifices to the king, and the common people seal the king's mouth with kitchen candy on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, so that he can put in a good word in front of the Jade Emperor, so as to achieve good luck in the coming year! Sweep the house on the 24th of the twelfth lunar month. Cleaning the house on the 24th is not for cleaning, but for attention. It is necessary to thoroughly clean up the bad luck at home to get rid of it. After cleaning the house, the family was distracted. It indicates that the coming year will be prosperous!

Put up windows on the 25th of the twelfth lunar month. One of the four eccentrics in Northeast China "sticks enough paper on the outside". Spring Festival couplets, blessings, window grilles and paper-cuts engraved with auspicious patterns are all stuck on the paper, adding festive colors to the Spring Festival! Stewed meat on the 26th of the twelfth lunar month. On the 26th of the twelfth lunar month, it's time to prepare for the New Year's Eve dinner. A pot of delicious stew is the simplest New Year's Eve dinner in the minds of northerners, which is more enjoyable and affordable than delicacies!

Kill chickens on the 27th of the twelfth lunar month. The voice of the chicken carries "good luck", while in ancient times it conveyed "urgency". Killing chickens is a saying, which means that the new year's goods will be finished from this year. Because it takes time to make new year's goods, it's too late if you don't start! Twenty-eight sides of the twelfth lunar month. On the 28th of the twelfth lunar month, we will make all kinds of pasta: steamed bread, tofu, twist, etc. People can eat it while it is hot in the first month. Convenient and delicious!

Twenty-nine steamed buns in the twelfth lunar month. The moral of steamed bread is to have a good start in the coming year. Steam out some jujube cakes, bergamot and other shapes, pinch some bean buns and point red dots for good luck!

One of the great events: having a big dinner on New Year's Eve, as the saying goes, is also called "reunion dinner", "family reunion", "reunion dinner wine" and "reunion dinner wine". The second thing: setting off firecrackers According to folklore, Nian was a wild beast, which often harassed the six animals raised by human beings. In order to drive away the New Year, people used fire to burn bamboo, which was the earliest "firecracker" and gradually evolved into "firecracker". The third activity: posting Spring Festival couplets, also known as "door couplets", "spring couplets", "couplets" and "couplets", originated in Fu Tao, depicting the background of the times with neat, dual, concise and exquisite words and expressing good wishes. The fifth thing: watching the Spring Festival Evening 1983, TV sets began to become popular. So how can we bring happiness to the audience in China on New Year's Eve? The Spring Festival Evening came into being. Legend has it that "Happy New Year" is the early morning of the first day of the New Year, and people congratulate each other to celebrate that they have not been eaten by the beast "Nian". Event 7: Visiting the temple fair is a popular traditional folk activity, which is usually held in or near the temple on the date specified by the temple fair or the lunar calendar. The eighth thing: Spring Festival travel rush fever In the 1970s, Spring Festival travel rush fever was dominated by educated youth visiting relatives; After the resumption of the college entrance examination in the late 1970s, student flow began to join. In 1980s, when a large number of migrant workers went out, the Spring Festival travel rush craze began to form a "three-stream superposition" phenomenon. Event 9: Sacrificing the Kitchen God People believe that among the folk gods in China, the Kitchen God will expose the crimes of the world at the end of the year. In order to pray for good fortune and avoid evil spirits, the folk gradually formed the custom of offering sacrifices to stoves.