On the fifteenth day of the first month in southern Henan, there is a custom of "stealing a lamp holder to give birth to a monkey". When lighting the lamp, the children next door can quietly take away the "face lamp" that has burned out the lamp oil, commonly known as "stealing the lamp". In some places, you don't accept the lights you ordered that night, so you can burn as much oil as possible and light them the next day, which is called "continuing the lights".
Eating jiaozi on New Year's Eve is the custom of northerners. Eating jiaozi on New Year's Eve means "having sex next year". In Henan people's New Year's Eve dinner, "jiaozi" is definitely the highlight. It's hard to imagine a New Year's Eve dinner without jiaozi. Even though many people arrange New Year's Eve in restaurants and hotels now, no dish can cover up jiaozi's New Year's Eve. Jiaozi will be set round and round from the periphery until it is full, which is commonly known as "circle blessing" among the people.
Fried meatballs and crispy meat are one of the dishes that every household in Anyang must order. Xinyang bacon is different from smoked bacon in other places. It is naturally air-dried and has no smoky smell. After four or five months, it tastes excellent.
Origin of the Spring Festival
Spring Festival is the first day of the first lunar month, also called Lunar New Year, commonly known as "Chinese New Year", which is the most grand and lively traditional festival among the people in China. The Spring Festival has a long history, which originated from the activities of offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors in the beginning and end of the Shang Dynasty. According to the China lunar calendar, the first day of the first month is called Yuanri, Chen Yuan, Jacky, Yuanshuo and New Year's Day. , commonly known as the New Year's Day, and later changed to the Gregorian calendar. The first day of the solar calendar is called New Year's Day, and the first day of the lunar calendar is called Spring Festival.
The original intention of the two concepts of Spring Festival and New Year comes from agriculture. In ancient times, people called the growth cycle of the valley "year", and Shuo Wen and Bu recorded: "Year, the valley is ripe". The Xia calendar came into being in Xia and Shang Dynasties. The moon's profit and loss cycle is one month, and a year is divided into twelve months. Every month, the day when the moon can't be seen is the new moon, and the first day of the first month is called the beginning of the year.
Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Henan Province