1, shou sui
During the Spring Festival, Shandong has the custom of observing the age. On New Year's Eve, after the reunion dinner, the family will sit around the TV and watch the Spring Festival Gala program, waiting for the arrival of the New Year. Moreover, during the Chinese New Year, the younger generation will send blessings to the elders, and the elders will give back lucky money.
2. Visiting relatives
Shandong has the custom of stringing relatives during the Spring Festival. On the second day of New Year's Day, the younger generation at home will go out to pay New Year greetings to their aunts, grandmothers and other places, while the daughter who goes out on the third day will go back to her parents' home, and on the fourth day, she will go to a distant relative's home.
Step 3 clean the dust
Shandong has the custom of sweeping dust during the Spring Festival. Dust-sweeping is usually carried out from the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month to New Year's Eve. Choose sunny weather, move all the bedding and furniture in the house to the yard, wash and dry, and clean the room.
4, jiaozi, fried New Year's goods
In Shandong, it's an important annual activity on New Year's Eve to package jiaozi and fry New Year's goods. Every household buys jiaozi and fries new year's goods. After breakfast, the children began to put up Spring Festival couplets and set off firecrackers. The female elders at home began to pack jiaozi, and the male elders began to fry new year's goods.
5. Post Spring Festival couplets and blessings
Sticking Spring Festival couplets and blessings are usually carried out in Shandong on the morning of the 30th. After breakfast, the elders began to make all kinds of preparations, including jiaozi and fried new year's goods. The younger generation began to paste blessings everywhere, when they were noisy, positive, upside down and laughing, expressing people's good wishes to ward off evil spirits and eliminate disasters and welcome good luck.