On New Year's Eve, every family will get up early to prepare for the New Year's Eve. Early in the morning, adults are responsible for killing chickens, ducks and geese, and children are responsible for cleaning the house. At one o'clock in the afternoon, the family will boil hot water with pomelo peel and bamboo leaves (it is said that it can ward off evil spirits), each person will take turns to take a shower, and the family will put on new clothes and shoes. At about three o'clock in the afternoon, the men at home will take the cooked rooster to the ancestral temple at home to worship, compare whose chicken is the biggest, indicating that the family has the most income, and then go home to worship and set off a lot of firecrackers. The door is full of red sea! After the worship ceremony, the whole family gathered for dinner. On the dining table, boiled chicken, a whole fish (representing more than one year) and Hakka bean curd brain (representing wealth) are essential! After dinner, parents will give their children a "profit". When children take the benefits from their adults, they will continue to receive their generous benefits from their uncles and cousins, and then the children in the village will get together to see who has more money. Most of the children's profit money will be used to buy firecrackers and fireworks! Adults at home will stay at home for the New Year, clean up the house and wash clothes. Before twelve o'clock, all the children should go home to meet the arrival of the god of wealth!
On New Year's Day, Hakkas are vegetarian and drink their own yellow wine! After breakfast, everyone in the family gathered in the ancestral hall and began to watch the firecrackers, fireworks and earth cannons set off at the entrance of the ancestral hall for two hours, which were donated by all the clansmen. After setting off firecrackers, people visit each other in the New Year! During the Spring Festival, Hakkas don't spend money to buy things, nor do they sweep the floor and bathe. They can't take a bath until the third night of the New Year's Eve. Adults say it's called "blocking money"!
On the second day of the first month, the most important thing for Hakkas is to kill a capon and pour chicken blood on paper money, which is called "blood money". After breakfast, the whole family dresses up, takes candles, firecrackers, tea, wine and vegetarian dishes with them, and goes to the grave to worship their ancestors. After the sacrifice, the family began to pay New Year greetings from door to door, drinking hot wine and saying good wishes. On this day, the new wife will rush back to her parents' home with her husband. Another custom of Hakka people is that foreign girls can't spend the New Year at their parents' home!
In the early morning of New Year's Day, the Hakkas got up early, cleaned up and cleaned up the garbage accumulated in the past few days. Adults say it's called "sending the poor"!
On the fifth day of the first month, polder fields around the country began the first polder day of the New Year, commonly known as "opening polder". On this day, people are busy performing. There are many toys and snacks, as well as lion dances and dragon lanterns, which are very lively.
On the morning of the seventh day of the first month, every household cooks porridge with seven seasonings, such as fried fruit, fried tofu and bacon, commonly known as "Qibao soup". Hakkas believe that eating "Qibao Tang" will make a year without disease and disaster. It was not until the fifteenth day of the first month after the Lantern Festival that the traditional China New Year ended.
Hakka people celebrate the New Year from the 24th of the twelfth lunar month to the 15th of the first month, which means that the New Year begins with the traditional "off-year". After the Lunar New Year, every household prepares new year's goods, fried rice noodles, candied fruit, fried tofu, and bought chicken, duck, fish, incense and firecrackers. In addition, it is indispensable to take time out to clean the courtyard and clean the doors and windows. On New Year's Eve, families put up couplets and New Year pictures early, and then prepare for the New Year's Eve. The most exquisite dish on New Year's Eve is "Nian Tang", which mainly includes meat, radish, meatballs and mushrooms. There are two things to do before eating New Year's Eve: First, serve steaming "New Year's Eve" to the elders; The second is to burn incense to worship ancestors and set off firecrackers. Later, a talented family ate a reunion dinner, which must be eaten, that is to say, eating the "New Year's Eve" made them one year older. After dinner, the old man will wrap auspicious "lucky money" for his children, and it will be finished on New Year's Eve. In the early morning of the first day of the first month, men get up early to wash their clothes, and then light candles and set off firecrackers to pay New Year greetings to their elders. After that, put a plate of vermicelli, rice candy and peanuts, and be sure to eat them, indicating that there is a way to eat during the New Year. There is a lot of stress on this day, don't fish for food, don't sweep the floor, don't draw water, and don't say unlucky things. Breakfast should also be lent, mainly celery and tofu, which means hard work and getting rich.