Every region has its own regional culture, and the traditional folk customs are also different during the Chinese New Year holidays. Taizhou's annual customs include king of people, dusting, writing Spring Festival couplets, posting Spring Festival couplets, eating New Year's Eve dinners, keeping old, etc. The following is a brief introduction to Taizhou's annual customs. Let's learn more about it! King of people
off-year is a day for people to offer sacrifices to stoves. Legend has it that every year on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, the Kitchen God reports good and evil to the Jade Emperor, so that the Jade Emperor can reward and punish him. Therefore, when sending stoves, people put candy, water, cooking beans, and sacrificial stoves on the console table in front of the statue of the kitchen king. When offering sacrifices to the stove, we should melt the Kwantung sugar with fire and smear it on the mouth of the kitchen god, which indicates that the kitchen god has a sweet mouth and can help him put in a good word. Dusting
"Dusting" is usually carried out after the stove is delivered, which means cleaning up and welcoming the new year. Sanitary cleaning is the first important event in the Chinese New Year. Every year, the whole family goes into battle to clean the house, clean the windows, wash clothes, scrub pots and pans, and implement a clean and thorough sanitary cleaning, which places people's desire to break the old and create new ones. After writing Spring Festival couplets and posting Spring Festival couplets
, every household should write Spring Festival couplets to create an atmosphere for the New Year and indicate good luck in the new year. Folks pay attention to the fact that God must post it, every door must post it, and everything must post it, so the Spring Festival couplets have the largest number and the most complete content. The couplets in front of the gods are particularly particular, and most of them are words of admiration and blessing. On New Year's Eve, it is natural to have a "reunion dinner". The whole family got together and had a hearty dinner. After eating the New Year's Eve dinner, the family will sit in front of the TV and watch the CCTV Spring Festival Gala program until midnight. This viewing habit has become a new folk custom of "welcoming the New Year". Wear new clothes
On the first day of the New Year's Eve, men, women and children should wear new clothes, which means a new atmosphere for the New Year. On the 31 th night, new clothes will be ready for good luck, which is also a necessary process in the New Year. When we were young, we longed for the Spring Festival, that is, we could put on beautiful new clothes. Happy New Year
On the first morning of the first month of the first month, tea fruits and glutinous rice balls are offered in front of the tablets of the family gods and ancestors, and the whole family burns incense and worships. After eating mariko, fruit tea, etc., go out and pay a New Year call to your elders. During the Spring Festival, the younger generation should first pay New Year greetings to their elders, wishing them a long and healthy life, and the elders can distribute the lucky money prepared in advance to the younger generation. From the first day of junior high school, people in Taizhou always say "Happy New Year" and "Congratulations on making a fortune" when meeting everyone. As long as it is in the first month, it can be regarded as the New Year. Yuanbao Tea
During the Chinese New Year, everyone wears new clothes and puts good cigarettes and sweets at home to entertain people who come to visit New Year. The younger generation will get lucky money when they pay New Year greetings to their elders. Guests should drink "Yuanbao tea" soaked in red dates or kumquat and some snacks when visiting the main house for the New Year. Snacks are mainly sweets and cakes. Candies symbolize the sweetness of the New Year, and cakes symbolize the rise of the New Year. Nianjiu
In the first month, residents in Taixing and Gaogang welcome the custom of Nianjiu. Known as contacts, people invited each other, and some people feasted for days, reaching tens of days. Teachers who entertain the family's new husband, daughter-in-law and children are often combined with "please spring", which are called "waiting for the son-in-law", "waiting for the bride" and "waiting for the husband" respectively.
in Taizhou, a married daughter will visit her family on the second day of the first month. On this day, my daughter and son-in-law come to pay a New Year call with big bags and small bags, and my husband-in-law will be busy and receive her daughter and son-in-law attentively! In Jiangyan, on the second day of the second day, there will be adults throwing money everywhere on the floor at home, so that the children at home can sweep the floor and sweep the money, which also means that the financial resources are rolling. Rob the God of Wealth
The fifth day of the first month is the "God of Wealth Day", and Taizhou people rob the "Five-way God". Folks believe that the sooner you receive the God of Wealth, the better, and the first one you receive is the true God. Therefore, as soon as the fifth day arrives, every household opens doors and windows, and people light incense, light candles and set off firecrackers, vying to take the real God of Wealth home.