1. Rush to get married
After the twenty-fourth day of the twelfth lunar month, Lord Siming goes to heaven, and there is no god in the world. They are all "auspicious days of the zodiac". It is natural to marry a wife or a girl. No need to look at the day, folk custom calls it "chaos". So from the New Year to the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month, no matter in cities or villages, or in the south and north of the Yangtze River, people getting married and marrying girls gathered together. In the streets and alleys, in villages ten miles away, the sound of gongs, drums, trumpets, and firecrackers could be heard everywhere.
2. Dust the dust
On the early morning of the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month, the whole family got up early and started working together. The male workers put on old clothes and straw hats, tied a brush or feather duster to the top of a long bamboo pole, and dusted off the floating dust and cobwebs on the roof, roof, and walls in turn, and then cleaned every corner and edge.
After dusting, the whole family took a bath and put on clean clothes. The hostess and the eldest daughter began to clean the bedding and clothes. Waiting until the 30th night of the twelfth lunar month, while observing the new year, the whole family's new clothes were placed separately. Each bedside.
3. Write couplets
During the Chinese New Year, people in Shiyan generally post Spring Festival couplets and door paintings. Spring couplets, also called "pairs", originated from peach symbols. The couple and the door god are "brothers", and there is a custom of sticking to the pair and the door god in urban and rural areas, as well as by officials and people in Shiyan. Spring couplets and door gods are two pairs of "spring-welcoming trees" "planted" on the doors of each house, with auspicious and festive symbols falling on them, which set off a spring scenery and new year's scenery.
4. Celebrate the New Year
To celebrate the New Year is to worship ancestors before New Year's Eve every year, which means celebrating the New Year with the ancestors. After the 26th day of the twelfth lunar month, every household will bring wine and food to their ancestors' graves to worship their ancestors. When worshiping ancestors, a place is chosen under a big tree in front of the grave, a straw mat is spread, and wine, vegetables, fruits, and steamed buns are placed. On behalf of the whole family, those visiting the grave pay New Year greetings and toast to their ancestors to show the reunion of yin and yang and their feelings of nostalgia.
5. Reunion Dinner
In ancient times, the Reunion Dinner was very particular and was more sumptuous than a wedding banquet. It included cold vegetables, stir-fried vegetables, steamed vegetables, stewed vegetables, as well as peanuts and melon seeds. wait. Cold dishes include soybean sprouts, pork liver, beef, sausages, cured fish, chicken feet (also known as "money grabbers"), pickled chicken, duck eggs and small green vegetables. Stir-fried dishes include chicken, duck, pork, pork loin, sweet and sour fish, etc., with both meat and vegetables. Steamed vegetables include various kinds of steamed meat, eight-treasure rice, sweet potato balls, steamed crispy rolls, etc.
The main soup dishes are lotus root stewed with pig's trotters, and beef, mutton and radish soup. There are also steamed pot fish, cocked fish soup, and yellow mulberry fish soup along the Han River. Zhuxi County has the "Zhuxi Steaming Basin" which is a mixture of bacon and fresh meat. When the food was served, a large firecracker was lit, causing sparks to fly in front of the door. After worshiping the gods, the whole family started to eat the reunion dinner that they had been craving for a year amid blessings and laughter.
Baidu Encyclopedia-Spring Festival Customs