Zhoushan local Chinese New Year custom

The countryside is more distinctive than the island.

Having a family reunion dinner, jiaozi saw the kitchen god, set off firecrackers on the grave, and eating Yuanxiao on the fifteenth day of the first month is the end.

Zhoushan has a long Spring Festival. From lunar calendar1February 23rd to the first month15th, people are busy and happy to celebrate the New Year.

1February 23rd, it is said that Kitchen God reported the situation of every household for one year. People lit incense and offerings so that the kitchen god could put in a good word for himself before the Jade Emperor. We children are all looking forward to providing them with delicious sacrifices as soon as possible. 1February 24th is the day of dust removal. Housewives in every household picked up brooms to dust off. On the one hand, they make their homes cleaner, on the other hand, they also hope to clean up the dirty air for one year and make good luck in the coming year. From1February 25th to New Year's Eve, it is the day when families send out the New Year. At that time, many people prepared rich articles to worship their ancestors and bodhisattvas. Firecrackers break out one after another in the morning and evening, and the whole Zhoushan is filled with a strong flavor of the year. On New Year's Eve, families invited relatives and friends to eat New Year's Eve. All the children got lucky money and shouted around happily.

From the first day of the first month, it is the day when every family visits relatives and friends with gifts. Zhoushan is full of comfortable and harmonious atmosphere everywhere.