(1) The Spring Festival in Anhui is commonly known as the Chinese New Year. It has a strong festive atmosphere. No matter where your family is, they must rush home to reunite with their relatives before New Year's Eve.

(2) The New Year’s Eve dinner on New Year’s Eve is the most sumptuous meal of the year. People in northern Anhui eat dumplings, while people in central and southern Anhui set off firecrackers, put up Spring Festival couplets and worship their ancestors before eating. The ancestor worship ceremony is very particular. The dishes are served first, and there are 10 dishes, which must include chicken and fish.

(3) Before eating, the elders should wrap money in red paper and give it to each child, which is called "New Year's money." After the meal, the whole family gathers together and chats while eating melon seeds, peanuts, and candies. Watching CCTV's "Spring Festival Gala" until dawn, this is "staying up late".

(4) After getting up early on the first day of the new year, firecrackers are set off when the door is opened to worship heaven and earth. In some places, it is called the door god. Family members gather together to congratulate each other, eat dates, chestnuts, tea, eggs, longevity noodles, and then go out to pay New Year greetings to other elders.

(5) On the first day of the Lunar New Year, the floor cannot be swept, and the tea must be poured into a special basin. Don't spill it outside, which means don't sweep (spill) the wealth out. There is generally no work on this day, so there is a saying that "thirty nights of work, one day of leisure".

PS: More Anhui customs are as follows:

Anhui Spring Festival customs 1. Eat only one meal during the New Year

In Shouxian County, New Year’s Eve No one in the family is allowed to have breakfast or lunch, only one New Year's Eve dinner.

When eating New Year’s Eve dinner, you must have a plate of fresh fish, but no one is allowed to eat this plate of fresh fish (which means there is more than enough every year). You can only eat this plate of fish with chopsticks after the third day of the Lunar New Year. , everyone has to take a bite. You are not allowed to talk during the New Year's Eve dinner (which means immersing yourself in making a fortune), and you must leave some rice in the bowl when eating the New Year's Eve dinner.

On New Year’s Eve, the first, second and third day of the Lunar New Year, cooking is not allowed for four days. This is also a unique local custom in Shouxian County. Therefore, every family cooks a lot of New Year's Eve dinner on New Year's Eve, and some families can cook as much rice as the pot can handle.

The New Year’s Eve dinner on New Year’s Eve is also very unique. After everyone has finished the New Year's Eve dinner, the oldest person takes out the remaining rice and slowly cooks the rice crust on the stove. After about half an hour, a whole pot-shaped rice crust is freshly baked. At this time, the old man piously placed it on the rice field with both hands (no one was allowed to eat it), which meant a good harvest in the coming year.

Anhui Spring Festival Custom 2: Put "Yuanbao" on the threshold

To open the door to make a fortune, "Yuanbao" rolls in, which is vividly performed by local people in Feixi and Lu'an.

After twelve o'clock in the evening on New Year's Eve, people who "stay up" all close their doors. The local custom is that once the door is closed, it cannot be opened again, even if someone knocks on the door outside. It is not until the morning of the first day of the new year that incense and candles are burned, and then the door is opened and the cannons are fired. During this period, some local good guys put fake ingots, which were usually made of loess and were the same size and shape as the real ingots, on the threshold of the gate. On the morning of the first day of the new year, the moment the owner opened the door, "Yuanbao" rolled in. The owner of the household was elated when he saw the "Yuanbao" and respectfully placed the "Yuanbao" on the incense table. Everyone who came to pay New Year greetings I want to say a few words of auspicious blessings. But this "Yuanbao" is not given away for free. After the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the person who gives the "Yuanbao" will go door to door to ask for "lucky money".

Anhui Spring Festival Custom 3. The New Year's Eve meal is eaten at noon

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In many rural areas in Dingyuan County, the New Year celebrations are different. Here, what people often call "New Year's Eve dinner" is eaten at noon on New Year's Eve.

In many rural areas of Dingyuan County, it has always been the New Year's Eve meal at noon. In order to "grab an early morning", many families start posting Spring Festival couplets, setting off firecrackers, and having a "New Year's Eve dinner" before 11 a.m. Many business people sometimes have no choice but to change the "New Year's Eve dinner" to the evening because business is good. Some business people simply stop their business on New Year's Eve in order to have the New Year's Eve dinner at noon. The family starts preparing for the noon "New Year's Eve dinner" from the morning.

Four Anhui Spring Festival Customs , "End the New Year" at four o'clock in the morning

In Susong, in the middle and late twelfth lunar month, the flavor of the New Year gradually becomes stronger.

There is a folk song in Susong that children can sing at a very young age. "Oh God, God, don't let the wind blow. Twenty-four miles to pick up the ancestors; Twenty-five, make tofu; Twenty-six, chop New Year's meat; Twenty-seven, make cakes to eat; Twenty-eight, kill chickens and ducks; Two On the 19th, everything is there; on the 30th night, if you say good things, you will not get scolded on the first and second day of the lunar month. "Susong makes rice cakes, steams them in a steamer, and when they are cool and dry, they are soaked in water. You can eat spring plowing and transplanting rice. The cake is made of peach wood carvings, with seals with ten thousand characters, happiness characters, longevity characters, spring characters, blessing characters and other seals. Families with many children also carve peach seals.

Most places in Susong are the same as other places in the country when it comes to the time to eat New Year’s dinner. However, Susong Lake District, near Donghong and Xiacang, is a little special: on the morning of New Year’s Eve, it’s just dawn. , some people blew up firecrackers to "celebrate the New Year", and the family gathered around the table to eat the "New Year's breakfast". The impatient family even "finished the New Year" after four o'clock.

The "Little New Year" for Susong people is celebrated on the seventh day of the first lunar month. The Little New Year is celebrated very casually. It is usually celebrated by setting off firecrackers at dusk. The Lantern Festival is very grand. In the past, there was a saying that "after eating Yuanxiao meat, farmers went barefoot", which meant that spring plowing and production had begun again.

Anhui Spring Festival Customs 5. Worship ancestors before eating

Celebrating the New Year in Lujiang, you can still feel the customs with strong local characteristics.

As soon as lunch is finished on New Year’s Eve, adults take their children to burn paper on their ancestors’ graves. Before the New Year's Eve dinner, the oldest person with the same surname gathers his children and grandchildren to the ancestral hall to worship the ancestors, which means that the ancestors will not be forgotten during the New Year. First, a table of food and wine are served, and then everyone kowtows according to the seniority in the family. After all this work, we can go back to our respective homes to have New Year's Eve dinner.

Anhui Spring Festival Custom 6. "Reunion Cake"

There is a custom in Bengbu area. During the Chinese New Year, every family steams big buns, steaming them one pot after another. Put it in a basket containing grain. Years ago, when steaming buns, every family would steam a one-foot-round cake, which the locals called reunion cake. The cakes are usually stacked in three or four layers in a row, with a pair of little dragons made of flour on top, which indicates that the children will become dragons and phoenixes; garnished with lotus seeds, red dates and other embellishments, it means that a child will be born early and prosperous. Children are not allowed to interfere when steaming reunion cakes. After steaming, they should be placed on their own grain store, which also means celebrating the harvest.

Anhui Spring Festival Custom 7. Put coins into flat food

In the Suzhou area, starting from the 24th of the twelfth lunar month, people begin to prepare new year's goods. They also steam buns and fry various small pastries made from flour. After the first pot of steamed buns comes out of the oven, firecrackers are set off to honor the Kitchen God. We have a reunion dinner at noon on New Year's Eve. A bunch of firecrackers will be set off before the meal. The food is quite rich, but it does not necessarily have rice, it can also be porridge. Dinner is very simple, just eat some noodles or yuanxiao. After dinner, we start to eat flat food. , the whole family does it. Bianshi is a breakfast served on the first day of the Lunar New Year. It has a vegetarian filling and is mainly made of green vegetables, minced eggs, and minced vermicelli. Some coins, one yuan, one dime, five jiao, etc. are randomly put into it when making it. After the feast is completed, there will be a family member who volunteers to "stay up" to take care of it. At breakfast on the first day of the Lunar New Year, whoever eats the flat food wrapped with coins means that he will have good fortune in that year, and the larger the face value of the coin, the more money he will make.

In the Suzhou area, New Year greetings are held at the end of the year, and everyone visits relatives with gifts. On double dates such as the second, fourth and sixth day of the first lunar month, the younger generation will go to their elders’ home and receive the New Year’s money prepared by the elders in advance.

Anhui Spring Festival Customs 8. Red candles are not allowed to be extinguished

In rural areas of Fuyang, people have a traditional folk custom that has been inherited since ancient times when celebrating the Lunar New Year. Starting until the first day of the new year, two red candles are lit in the main room (living room), and some tributes, such as chickens, fish, meat, etc., are placed in the middle of the red candles. During this period the red candle must not be extinguished.