1, Dust Day: year-end cleaning. In order to welcome the new year, people use tender bamboo branches and leaves, banyan branches and leaves, or long dusters tied with straw and sugarcane leaves to clean the dust cobwebs on the corner beams, and also use "tablecloths" to wipe all kinds of farm tools and articles.
2. He Zheng: In the morning, men, women and children get up to wash their hands and put on new clothes that have already been prepared. For breakfast, the family eats noodles with eggs, and the eggs are shelled, which is intended to remove mold and welcome good luck. Noodles symbolize longevity. After breakfast, I went out to visit my neighbors and relatives and greeted them with a smile. When you meet for the first time, you should say "congratulations" to each other, commonly known as "He Zheng", which also means to pay a New Year call to the Lantern Festival.
The next day is "son-in-law's day". All married daughters will take their son-in-law and children called "half-sons" back to their parents' homes to visit relatives the next day. There is an old saying: "There are parents in the second and third day, and if there are no parents, you have to bear it yourself", which means that the daughter-in-law whose parents are alive will definitely be taken as a guest in the second and third day. Without her parents' daughter-in-law, she has to stay at her husband's house and help relatives and friends who come home to be guests.
4. Steamed Bowl Cake in Minnan Spring Festival: After the Dust Festival, in many places in southern Fujian, such as Quanzhou, Jinjiang, Shishi and other coastal areas, in order to have a good Spring Festival, it is necessary to steam "Bowl Cake", also called "Hair Cake".
5, Minnan Spring Festival group worship: The so-called "group worship", even if the villagers go to the largest ancestral temple in the village to worship God, it starts at 8 or 9 in the morning. The origin of group worship is closely related to the production of villagers. When offering sacrifices to the gods in the ancestral temple, there is a most important ceremony called "Cup".