Hakka Spring Festival custom

Spring Festival, commonly known as Chinese New Year, is the biggest and most grand festival in a year. In December of the lunar calendar, men try their best to find more money to buy new year's goods, and women cut more firewood and grass to prepare for the New Year. 1February 25th is "Entering the Year", commonly known as "Ghost Lock the Gate". Instead of cutting firewood and grass in the mountains, women clean up at home to welcome the New Year. In the 65438+ February of the lunar calendar, every household began to prepare "new year's goods" to catch up with "new year's goods".

The indispensable new year's goods are as follows:

Tang Chuan cane sugar is produced in Longchuan, Heyuan and Zijin. It is characterized by strong stickiness and is suitable for making rice cakes. Almost every household has to buy several hundred kilograms.

New clothes. Everyone should at least make a new suit, a new pair of shoes and buy a new pair of socks.

Nianmi. Generally speaking, every household should have at least one month's rations, and no noise is allowed before the first month. In the past, there was no processing machinery such as rice mill, and it was all processed by hand, which was very heavy, and most of them had to work hard for three or four days to complete.