What are the special customs of the Spring Festival in Hunan?

This city has the following special customs during the Spring Festival:

1. Smoked bacon in the twelfth lunar month: Hunan people have the custom of making bacon, preserved fish, preserved duck and sausage in the twelfth lunar month. These pickled foods have a unique flavor after being smoked, and they are essential foods on the table during the Spring Festival.

2. Ciba: Before the Chinese New Year, Ciba was a custom in many places in Hunan. After the glutinous rice is steamed, it is repeatedly beaten into sticky glutinous rice cakes with wooden sticks, symbolizing reunion and bumper harvest. Ciba can be sweet and salty, and there are many ways to eat it. It is a good gift for relatives and friends on holidays.

3. Put up Spring Festival couplets and hang lanterns: Like most parts of the country, Hunan people will put up red Spring Festival couplets before New Year's Eve to express their good wishes for the new year. At the same time, red lanterns are hung to add festive atmosphere, which means that life is thriving.