What are the New Year customs in your hometown?

My hometown is a place full of traditional culture, with a rich variety of New Year's customs. Here are the answers and related pictures I have prepared for you:

1. Spring Festival Couplets: Before the New Year, every family will put up spring festival couplets to pray for good luck and good fortune in the New Year. Spring Festival couplets usually consist of a couplet, which is usually written with an auspicious blessing, and a crossword, which summarizes or punctuates the couplet.

2. Lunar New Year's Eve Dinner: On New Year's Eve, the whole family gathers together to enjoy a sumptuous Lunar New Year's Eve dinner. The New Year's Eve dinner features a wide variety of dishes that represent good harvest and good luck. Common dishes include fish (Year-end surplus), chicken (good luck), shrimp (happy and smiling), and so on.

3. Firecrackers and fireworks: On New Year's Eve, people set off firecrackers and fireworks to drive away evil spirits and welcome the New Year. The sound and colorful bloom of firecrackers and fireworks bring a festive and lively atmosphere.

4. Paying New Year's Eve: During the New Year's Eve, people pay New Year's Eve to each other, wishing each other a happy New Year, good health, and success in business. The elders will also give the younger generation New Year's money, which means that they hope they will be peaceful, healthy and happy in the new year.

5. Dragon and Lion Dance: On the first day of the first month of the lunar year, people will hold a dragon and lion dance to drive away evil spirits and pray for a good harvest and good luck. The dragon and lion dance teams wear colorful costumes and dance huge dragons and lions to bring a festive and peaceful atmosphere.

6. Lantern Festival: The 15th day of the first month is the Chinese Lantern Festival, where people hold activities of guessing lantern riddles, enjoying lanterns and eating Yuanxiao. Lanterns are a dessert made of glutinous rice with a variety of flavors and fillings to choose from.

These are some of the New Year's Eve customs in my hometown, I hope you like the pictures and answers!