The customs of celebrating the New Year in Anhui include celebrating the New Year on May 5th, dancing with gongs and drums, and Nuo opera.

1. Wuhu-New Year's greetings are not over five

Wuhu people's Spring Festival consists of activities such as sending away the stove, New Year's Eve, celebrating the Spring Festival in Zhengdan, and welcoming the God of Wealth. In the past, Wuhu people used to worship their ancestors and ancestors before the New Year's Eve. If you are in the countryside, you will also send a pot of delicious food to the cattle who have worked hard for a year to show your comfort. Wuhu has always been a "New Year's Eve". From the first day of the Lunar New Year to the fifth day of the lunar new year, friends and relatives come to visit each other to congratulate them. When friends and relatives come to visit, housewives will make tea and put out boxes with snacks such as jade belt cakes, longan, crisp sugar, peanuts and melon seeds.

2, Chizhou-Nuo Opera with gongs and drums dancing in the sky

The streets of Chizhou are filled with the breath of Nuo culture, and the art itself and cultural connotation of Nuo are deeply rooted in people's hearts. In Yaojie Village, Meijie Town, during the first month, in the village of family ancestral temple, gongs and drums were loud and birds were singing. Farmers who have been working in the fields for a year have cleaned the socks of Nuo dancing noodles, and invited fellow villagers who have inherited their skills from the clan to perform in a vivid way. This ancient folk culture with the purpose of inviting gods to worship their ancestors and exorcise evil spirits has once again given off a long-lost vitality.

Spring Festival custom

The Spring Festival is the most solemn traditional festival of the Chinese nation, with the centenary year as the first and the four spring seasons as the first. The New Year's greeting activities are centered on offering wishes and praying for the new year, and are carried out in the form of eliminating the old, worshipping the ancestors, exorcising evil spirits and praying for a good harvest. The content is rich and colorful, lively and festive, and the flavor of the year is rich, which embodies the traditional cultural essence of Chinese civilization. During the Spring Festival, various New Year celebrations are held all over the country, and there are differences in customs content or details due to different regional cultures.

Chinese New Year has a long history, and some relatively fixed customs have been formed in the process of inheritance and development, many of which have been handed down to this day, such as buying new year's goods, sweeping dust, pasting New Year's greetings, eating New Year's Eve, observing the New Year's Eve, worshipping the New Year, dancing dragons and lions, praying for the ancestors, visiting gods, betting on boats, holding temple fairs, playing gongs and drums, floating flags, and lighting lanterns and drinking wine. Traditional festival ceremonies and related custom activities are important contents of festival elements, bearing rich and colorful festival cultural connotations.

above content reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Anhui Province