Sweeping graves is a general cleaning in other places, usually about ten days before New Year's Eve.

Putian people will move everything that can be moved at home outside to wash it, and then expose it to the sun for disinfection.

Indoor floors and ceilings, all kinds of dead ends, should be swept and searched, and cleaned up very cleanly.

Grave-sweeping usually lasts for a few days. Putian people love to build houses, and often a family of four cleans up a five-story house.

2. Become a red group

Red ball is a unique traditional food in Putian.

Before the Chinese New Year, every household in Putian would have a red group. Grinding glutinous rice into powder, adding edible red flour, wrapping with glutinous rice or bean paste, pressing into shape with red ball printing, and steaming in a steamer.

Although the red ball is made of ordinary material, it is indeed the best gift in Putian people's hearts. When you get married for your birthday, you will send several pairs of red groups to your relatives and friends.

Every year, when doing red groups, relatives and friends get together and chat while doing red groups, which is very interesting.

But now there are fewer and fewer young people who can make red balls, and they are very worried about the loss of skills.

Step 3 be older

The Lunar New Year, also known as the Lunar New Year, is celebrated again on the fourth day of the first month (the fifth day in Xianyou area).

This custom has its origins. In the Ming Dynasty, Putian was invaded by the Japanese, and burned and looted everywhere. After Qi Jiguang, an anti-Japanese hero, drove away the enemy, the people of Putian returned home on the second day of February and celebrated the New Year on the fourth day of February.

Therefore, Putian people regard the fourth day of the first month as their big birthday, which is more important than New Year's Eve.

When you are older, there will be cultural activities in the village, such as Puxian opera performance, ten tones and eight music, which are very lively.

4. Swimming lights

Lantern tourism is a large-scale folk activity in Putian, usually around the Lantern Festival, which is very interesting.

Between neighboring villages, there will be holiday time for lantern tours, so the activities will last for several days.

On the Lantern Festival night in their village, men will gather on the road with wooden lamp holders. Connect the front end of your own lampstand with the back end of the previous one, and then fix it with a wooden stick, thus forming a long string of lights and walking around with a wooden stick. A village usually has several strings of lanterns, which are very spectacular.

The colorful lights on the lamp stand are very beautiful in all styles. The lantern team set off, winding forward like a dragon with a high head. There are bonfires, firecrackers and fireworks at the door of every household, which is very lively.