After the founding of New China, the first plenary session of the People's Political Consultative Conference in China decided that China should adopt the method of AD chronology, and New Year's Day is the Gregorian New Year. New Year's Day has a three-day holiday (this year's holiday reform, only one day), and New Year's Day has become an important holiday composition in China. The joy of New Year's Day lasted until the Lunar New Year. Reunion, ancestor worship, eating jiaozi and enjoying lanterns have become the habits of every China people and family to spend the New Year.
New Year's Day Customs in the North
The winter weather in northern China is cold, with short days and long nights. Starting from New Year's Day, the people who are idle in farming kill pigs and sheep, sit cross-legged on the heatable adobe sleeping platform, talk about their families, do not work, and do not go out until the fifteenth day of the first month. Due to the cold weather, the Northeast New Year's Day diet mainly consists of frozen products, pickles and stew. Frozen jiaozi, stewed vermicelli with sauerkraut, pickled sherbet and so on are all necessary foods for New Year's Day.
Children in Beijing want to eat Sugar-Coated Berry in the New Year, which symbolizes the prosperity of the new year. Folk customs: Yangko dancing, walking on stilts, and duet in the northeast will all be performed in the temple fair one after another. Tianjin is inundated with window cuts, couplets and recreational activities. On New Year's Day, students in Shandong Province burn incense and worship the statue of Confucius in anticipation of to be no.1 in the coming year.
New Year's Day Customs in South China
Compared with the "vulgarity" of the northern New Year's Day custom, the southern New Year's Day custom is biased towards "elegance". In Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, bamboo poles are tied to grass and ignited on New Year's Day, which is called "Qingtian Silkworm". Shaoxing will treat guests with "tea bowls" on New Year's Day, and some even add olives and kumquat, which is called "holding gold ingots".
In Fujian, the Fujian pronunciation of "spring" is the same as "leftover". When eating on New Year's Day, flowers made of red paper should be inserted in the rice, commonly known as "spring rice". Spring rice is a symbol of "more than one year". In Guangdong, when paying New Year's greetings on New Year's Day, the elders will reward the younger generation with red envelopes or oranges, which is also a symbol of good luck and the balance in the coming year.