Putian people will give the house a general cleaning years ago. In Puxian dialect, it is called "sweep" and "sweep all around, tidy up and see your ancestors". Sweeping the floor is usually carried out on sunny days between the tenth and twentieth day of the twelfth lunar month, which indicates that the dust and filth of the old year will be swept out of the house and welcome the Spring Festival with a brand-new atmosphere.

2. Post Spring Festival couplets

In addition to the usual Spring Festival couplets, Putian also has a unique white-headed Spring Festival couplets with a white forehead 10 cm above the red couplets. This custom can be traced back to the Japanese uprising in the Ming Dynasty more than 300 years ago. It is said that this move is to mourn those who died in the Japanese rebellion that year.

Step 3 buy new year's goods

From/kloc-0 to February 26th, every household will make tofu, wrap jiaozi, stir-fry litchi meat, buy new year's goods and so on. Oil tofu is a necessary food for Putian people in the New Year. Delicious golden fried tofu symbolizes auspiciousness and wealth.

In order to preserve it for a longer time, it is generally cooked and sprinkled with salt. The red ball is a tribute that Putian people must make on holidays. Red symbolizes prosperity, and the circle symbolizes reunion.

Step 4 get old

Putian people call New Year's Eve "being old" or "being thirty". It is very vivid for a family to have dinner together. In addition, the night before New Year's Eve every year, every household will set a table of tributes at home and kill a rooster to prepare for the "resignation ceremony" after twelve o'clock (that is, New Year's Eve).

Step 5 set off firecrackers

On the morning of New Year's Eve, the door is opened to set off firecrackers, and then everyone eats a bowl of noodles, which will be filled with ingredients, such as fried eggs, fried tofu, fried peanuts, fried seaweed and so on. "Eating noodles adds one year", and eating noodles adds one year.

Each person has a bowl, which means that he is one year older and wishes the whole family a long life. After eating noodles, put on new clothes and go out for a spring outing. Putian people call it "spring outing" to go out to play in the New Year.