There are two old customs that Shanghainese pay more attention to during the Spring Festival. One is to eat New Year's Eve dinner. The second is to visit the City God Temple. Shanghainese are very particular about New Year's Eve. Before entering the twelfth lunar month, they began to arrange everything, such as chicken, duck, fish, southern goods, northern goods, fruits, cakes, sweets and melon seeds. New Year's Eve dishes, fried, fried, stewed everything, color, fragrance, taste, shape perfect. Housewives show their talents, and men go out to buy them. The twelfth lunar month family is happy, and all kinds of auspicious languages can bring a warm atmosphere to the family.
In the past, during the Spring Festival, City God Temple, Land Temple and Confucius Temple were all places where entertainment activities were concentrated. All walks of life are on holiday, and people are looking for a place to send them. Previously, the inner garden, Cuixiu Hall and Dianchun Hall of Chenghuang Temple were opened on the first and fifteenth day of each month, and visitors could watch them for free. So tourists gathered and flowed endlessly. When you walk out of the garden, you will find a shopping center. You can eat, use, watch and play. Visiting the Chenghuang Temple has become an important local custom in Shanghai.
Now, Shanghainese have a new fashion for the Spring Festival. On New Year's Eve, the whole family ate out. In other words, choose a desirable restaurant or restaurant, book seats and recipes in advance, and come here for dinner on New Year's Eve to celebrate the Spring Festival. In recent years, this new fashion trend has become more and more popular. Hotels and small and medium-sized restaurants have seats for New Year's Eve, which shows that Shanghainese are following the fashion and welcoming the new trend in all aspects.
On New Year's Eve, many dance halls in Shanghai became places where young people sang and danced all night. Instead of staying at home and watching TV, friends hugged each other, sang and danced and had a good time.
Nowadays, Shanghainese's New Year greetings are becoming more and more fashionable. A bunch of holiday flowers, a beautiful greeting card or a courtesy telegram all express people's beautiful friendship. In the past, it was difficult to take care of all aspects, but now it has become a common practice for BP machines to pay New Year greetings. "888" (the homonym of "Fafafa") and "59" (the code name of "Happy Holidays") have become the buzzwords of BP machine to pay New Year greetings. In recent years, with the popularity of mobile communication and computers, mobile phones, e-mails and QQ have become new choices for fashionistas to pay New Year greetings. The videophone of Shanghai TV Tower has become the most popular business for video conversation with overseas relatives and friends and relatives in Taiwan Province Province. Shanghai people's New Year's breath is full of new fashions, which have gradually integrated into customs and formed social folk customs in the new period.