Chinese New Year Flower Market in Guangzhou Guangzhou is known as the "City of Flowers", and its annual Spring Festival Flower Market has been noticed by the world. On the eve of the Spring Festival, Guangzhou's streets and alleys are full of flowers, potted oranges, major parks are held in the Spring Festival Flower Show, especially three days before New Year's Eve. Theme streets in all districts put up colorful buildings, *** up the flower racks, the four townships flower farmers have flocked to set up positions, selling flowers and oranges, ten miles long street. Flowers, a sea of people like a tide, has been haunted to the early morning of the first day, before dispersing, which is unique to the Guangzhou Lantern Festival Flower Market.
Guangzhou planted flowers for the industry, has a history of more than 100O years. As early as in the five generations of the Southern Han Dynasty, the southern bank of the Pearl River Zhuangtou village area, there are many Su Xin flower fields, the Southern Han King Liu Distracted favorite concubine Su Xin is the Zhuangtou flower women. Every morning, flower growers picked flowers and crossed the river at the Wuxianmen Ferry Terminal to sell them under the Old City Gate, which was the weekday flower market. The annual flower market was formed in the early 1960s. At that time, the flower market was in front of the Clan Office, which is now the area around the Provincial Department of Finance, and then moved to the bottom of the Shuangmen Gate, where, in addition to selling flowers, it also sold antiques, miscellaneous shelves, and New Year's Eve products.
After the 1911 Revolution, the old city was dismantled, and the area in front of the Clan Office became more open, with more visitors, and expanded to the area of Shibafu and Gao Di Street. The flowers sold in addition to the Su Xinhua flower, there are daffodils, hanging bells, peonies, camellias, chrysanthemums and so on. Many merchants, restaurants, tea houses and eateries also ordered flowers for the four seasons. In the Xiguan area, flower vendors also appeared, specializing in delivering flowers to large households and stores. With the development of commercial economy, the flower street became more prosperous.
Guangzhou people love to insert peach blossoms in the Spring Festival, the so-called "a tree full of peach blossoms spring". A beautiful peach blossom plant inserted in the hall, full of stars red, holding on the holiday lights, draped in green silk apricot belt, is really adding a lot of spring, so not only home favorite, major hotels and restaurants, when a large peach blossom plant will be decorated with a court. Peach blossom has become Guangzhou's Spring Festival "Christmas tree".
Kumquats symbolize "good luck". In fact, now people love, it is the small and fruitful shape: a small tree 30-40 centimeters high, fruitful, golden, and the green branches and green leaves to support, it is indeed amusing, placed on a few seats, can indeed be fun. And kumquat similar four seasons orange, golden egg fruit, cinnabar orange, etc., can also play this role, so the general family only buy one of them. Similar to its generation of fruit, meaning generations of prosperity: Buddha's hand fruit, shaped like a finger palm, such as believers pious worship, elegant and solemn, y for the good men and women in favor.
The Spring Festival will also be inserted for daffodils. Every year, the beginning of the month of wax, the market will have a large number of daffodil head shipped from Zhangzhou, Fujian, people buy back, carefully cultivated, through the regulation of water temperature and sunshine to control the flowering period. Daffodils also seem to be able to understand, often on New Year's Eve when the family ate a reunion dinner, or in the first day of the first month of the sound of firecrackers in order to open, this scenario brings people endless fun. As the saying goes, "Flowers bloom with wealth", which coincidentally takes a good omen. In addition, the daffodil flower appearance, pavilion, fragrant, so every family must have.
In recent years, with the development of the commodity economy, the emergence of a number of new symbols of wealth and fortune of flowers and trees. For example, the green branches and leaves of the "Fortune Tree" to the cactus grafted "Blessed Star Flower", "Hong Luck", and so on, and even the price tag of the digital, but also related to wealth and prosperity. Such as a fortune tree price of 168, and the Guangzhou dialect "all the way hair" harmony; a peach blossom price of 88 yuan, meaning "hair and hair"; 38 yuan, that is, and raw and hair (Guangzhou dialect "3" and "raw") (Guangzhou "3" and "Sheng" are close in sound). The language of flowers in Guangzhou has already occupied a considerable place in folk life.
Customs of the Spring Festival in Chaoshan
New Year's Eve
The last day of the lunar year is called New Year's Eve, and the night of this day is called New Year's Eve, which is called "New Year's Eve" in Chaoshan custom.
Before New Year's Eve, people will be busy making preparations for all kinds of New Year's goods: buying chickens, geese, ducks, fish and meat; making new clothes; purchasing new furniture and utensils; and buying New Year's paintings and spring scrolls. Especially to buy oranges, green olives and other fruits as a symbol of good luck and welcome friends and relatives of the fruit. The old custom before the New Year, men must be new haircut, women must be "pulled face", now more women for the haircut beauty.
The 24th day of the 12th lunar month is the "gods" on the sky "duty" time. From this day onwards, every household is cleaned, and everything is washed and cleaned, so it is called "Caihao".
One or two days before New Year's Eve, families make various types of kueh kueh to prepare for the New Year.
New Year's Eve is the day when families have to rush back home for a reunion. On New Year's Eve, the whole family eats a reunion dinner around the fireplace. After the meal, the adults to children, children to their parents, distributed "New Year's money". It is the night of the farmhouse tank to be stored full of water, rice tank to be filled with rice, lights can not go out, to symbolize the "year after year", "year after year" a good omen.
The custom of keeping watch on New Year's Eve is very common. The New Year's bell is rung and firecrackers are set off in every house.
The Spring Festival
The first day of the first month of the lunar calendar is called the first day of the new year, the beginning of spring. The day side of the dawn of the sound of happy cannons, families in the hall on the big table, red plate full of Daji (i.e., citrus, citrus is greater than oranges, so it is called Daji), green olives and a variety of fine sweets, the door is decorated with lanterns and lanterns, and the younger generation of blessings to the upper generation of the tea toast. On this day, most people will eat vegetarian, at least not meat for breakfast. After breakfast, adults and children with children to take Daji to friends and relatives to pay tribute to the New Year, hosts and guests to the new and positive as expected, congratulations on the fortune and other auspicious words; hosts invited guests to Daji, betel nut (the ancient custom of betel nut, now with green olives instead), *** Pinfu tea, guests on the Daji congratulations on the master of the good luck and good fortune, the host to Daji back, commonly known as the turn to honor type for Ji, meant to return the good wishes.
On the morning of the first day of the year, many lion dance team and the Ying Ge team beat the gongs and drums to the villages and households to pay homage to the New Year, the owner of the firecrackers to welcome. There are also hand shaking Wan Nian Qing leaves (commonly known as money tree) or hand-held book with "fortune" and other auspicious sentences small red paper pasted on people's doors; or blowing suona, knocking the bamboo board, singing songs, do four sentences, say auspicious words from house to house to congratulate the New Year, are to take advantage of to beg for some money. The second and third day of the countryside pueblo more than organized to celebrate the Lunar New Year cultural and recreational activities, in addition to set up a tent performances Teochew opera, mountain opera, do shadow play, there are large drum and gong team, tiger and lion team, Ying song team, dragon dance team, such as parade along the streets of villages and villages to perform. Nowadays, there are also movies, ball games, calligraphy and painting exhibitions, riddles and so on. During the day and night, people travel in groups to enjoy watching, a lively and joyful atmosphere to welcome the Spring Festival.
Eating New Year's dinner
New Year's Eve is approaching after the homes of families have been dressed up. Housewives are busy preparing the most sumptuous and meaningful New Year's Eve dinner of the year. As the name suggests, the New Year's Eve dinner is a time for families to get together and eat together without forgetting their deceased ancestors. Therefore, after a family has made a New Year's Eve dinner, the first thing they must do is to "pay homage to their husbands" (offer sacrifices to their ancestors). When making offerings to the ancestors, the incense burner representing the ancestors should be brought down from the shrine and placed on the offering table, then incense should be burned and prayers should be made to invite the ancestors to have their meal. Then the elders and children kneel down in order, which fully demonstrates the traditional virtue of the Chao people to be prudent and filial. After the festival, the meal for the ancestors is reheated, a big table is set up in the hall, and the family gathers around the Kin, which is a wonderful moment of reunion for every family. No matter how far apart the family is, or how many problems they have, this is the time to laugh and be happy, not to talk about sadness or quarrels. After dinner, the housewife is busy cleaning up the dinner table, so a big cleaning activity will begin. This cleaning was not very elaborate, but was purely for the sake of cleanliness, unlike the one at the end of the year, when the grass had to be swept and scrubbed with pine boughs. Then the fire was built and the preparation of the offerings for tomorrow's sacrifice, the fasting food, began. There are many kinds of fasting food, there are taro made, sweet potato made, some are made with dates, some are made with peanuts, taro and sweet potato combined. All the ingredients for making the fasting dishes should be prepared in the afternoon and allowed to dry. To deep-fry the dishes, put an iron pot on the stove when the fire is ready and fill it with a large amount of peanut oil. When the oil boils, the ingredients are mixed with a batter and put into the pot, and it squeaks and bubbles in the frying pan. When it is cooked, it is yellow, fragrant and very attractive. At this time, if there are guests at home, the hostess will offer a plate of freshly fried vegetables, and then brew a fragrant work tea, so you can taste the deliciousness of the famous Chaoshan snacks.
Sending New Year's Money
Sending New Year's money is an important part of the Spring Festival custom in Chaoshan, whereby the elders give money to their offspring, and those who are able to earn money also give money to their elders. The money can not be sent straight, but to be very carefully packed in a Li Shi package, or with a piece of red paper package to see. This is commonly known as "pressure belly waist", meaning that the year from beginning to end, the waist bag will be full of solid, rich. Particularly interesting is that the child before going to bed, parents will be a large-denomination banknotes in the child's belly pocket, wake up after the banknotes will be retrieved.
New Year's Eve, send big orange
New Year's Eve, also known as "worship". Early on the first day of the morning, people get up and put on their new clothes, the first thing is to worship their own family, often the first generation to bless the elders, and then the elders and then to the elders to the expectations. After breakfast, each to their own friends and relatives to pay tribute to the New Year. Chaoshan proverb says: "Have the intention to pay New Year's Day, two, no intention to pay New Year's Day, three, four." The saying is that the earlier you pay your respects, the more sincere you are. Therefore, some people get up immediately after the New Year to relatives and friends to go, back to eat. No matter how many gifts people bring to pay New Year's call, one of them is the big orange (Chaozhou mandarin) is indispensable. Big tangerines take its harmonic "big luck", it does not matter how many or how few you bring, but it should not be an odd number. After entering the door of friends and relatives, the New Year's visitors should say different greetings to different people. To the old man said "Happy New Year", "longevity than Nanshan Mountain", the old man will grin toothless grin; on the work of the people said "work well", "New Year Progress", the listener will find it very pleasing to the ear; if it is a businessman, there is nothing more pleasing to the ear than "New Year's big profits", "Fortune and profit"; if it is a child who is studying, they hope for nothing more than the New Year's learning progress, outstanding results. If it is a child who is studying in school, what they want most is to make progress in their studies in the New Year and get outstanding results. If you send them this kind of greeting, they will be very friendly to you. After being seated, the host will make the famous Chaoshan Kung Fu Tea for the guests. Before leaving, the host will leave two big tangerines in the gift from the visitor, and then take out his own big tangerines to exchange, meaning to give each other good luck. There is a good attainment of witty new is going out to pay homage to the New Year, often only in the pants pocket with two large orange, one by one after the New Year, the pants pocket is still loaded with two large orange unchanged. Therefore, the folk have good Attainment people called the beginning of the New Year's greeting custom for "change citrus movement".
Return to the mother's home
The second and third days of the first month of the new year, the daughters married off have brought their husbands and children back to the mother's home to pay homage to the New Year. When a daughter returns to her mother's home, she must bring a big bag of cookies and candies, which her mother distributes to her neighbors, just as she does in the New Year. If there are more than one daughter at home, and these daughters do not return on the same day, then, we have to come to a sub once, the gift is quite thin, four cookies only. However, it reflects the sentiment is very strong, the real "gift is light and heavy", it expresses the girl to the townspeople of the cut longing. The girl returned home, if there are nephews at home, when the aunt must be again out of pocket, although the first day of the new year's money to the new year's money has been sent, but this time the significance is different. This custom, the Chaoshan people called "eating day day". As the name suggests, it's just a midday meal, and daughters must make it back to their in-laws before dinner.
Taboos of Spring Festival in Chaoshan
Because the first month of the year is the beginning of the year, the Chaoshan people tend to regard it as a sign of good or bad luck in the new year, and therefore there are many "taboos" at the time of the New Year. Therefore, there are many taboos during the Chinese New Year. In terms of language, any words such as "broken", "bad", "no", "dead", "light", "ghost", etc. are not allowed to be used. ", "ghost", "kill", "sick", "pain", "lose", "poor" and other unlucky words, are forbidden to say. Also taboo baby crying, because crying is "no head color", signs of disease, disaster. Therefore, even if the child has caused trouble on this day, can not beat him or scold him, so as to prevent him from crying endlessly. Behavior, end cups, plates, bowls, dishes to be extra careful, can not be broken, accidentally broken, in the water a custom has been in vain form only. Prohibition of sweeping the custom is also slowly being eliminated, because during the Spring Festival firecrackers, people come and go, the ground confetti, garbage, especially more, not to clean up indeed impede the elegance. Therefore, from the point of view of hygiene, a lot of young people on these traditional taboos custom not pay attention to.
This day the debtor is not allowed to door to door debt collection, because it is believed that this day of debt collection on both sides of the borrower and lender are unlucky. It is also forbidden to take things out of other people's pockets, it is believed that the first day of the first month of the pockets of people, may lead to the danger of the year is "empty".
The taboo on death, also taboo funeral, because it will bring bad luck to the family. At the same time, avoid the day of haircut, because people in this day, day always like to haircut with the funeral associated. This day even avoid killing, killing is believed to lead to knife disaster, military disaster, blood disaster and other calamities, but now people's standard of living has improved, eat something fresh, for the sake of the mouth and stomach, there is nothing to worry about.
Diet, this day is strictly prohibited to take medicine. Otherwise, it is thought to lead to a year from the beginning to the end of the disease, medication constantly. The first day of the morning meal to avoid eating meat, there are several ways to say: one is this meal to eat fasting, its function is equal to a year; the other is an allusion to the frugal management of the family, not to be wasteful.
Xijiang River, the Spring Festival customs
In northwest Guangdong, the Xijiang River, Zhaoqing section of the "Little Three Gorges" on the water, and still live in some of the boat as a home, "the water family". Some of these fishermen have been living on the boat for generations, and most of them cook on the boat, and most of them still burn firewood. The fishermen also like to plant sweet potatoes, rape, green onions and garlic seedlings in the open space along the riverbank to subsidize their lives.
When the Spring Festival comes, the fishermen put up red banners with good luck and blessings in their dwellings. They like to put "Smooth Sailing" on the bow of their boats, "All Things Go Well" and "Peace for the Young and the Old" on the cabins, as well as a unique money sticker, which is a symbol of their love for the river. ", and unique money paper-cut patterns of "red money", in addition to firecrackers in the bow of the boat, sacrifices to ancestors, sacrifices to the gods on the shore, to bless their own peace and happiness. Offerings are mainly bamboo (fortune), celery (hard work), green onions (smart), lettuce (wealth), oranges (auspicious), apples (peace) and horseshoes, mushrooms (all symbolize fertility) and so on.
The Spring Festival in Zhanjiang
Like the rest of the country, the Spring Festival is the grandest and richest traditional festival among the people, but the Spring Festival in Zhanjiang also has local characteristics. The Spring Festival in rural areas usually takes about a month to prepare, starting in the middle of December on the lunar calendar, with preparations including house renovations, furniture purchases, new clothes, and various kinds of New Year's goods. New Year's goods include sugar, glutinous rice, New Year's paintings, couplets, candies, cookies, firecrackers and the like, and most of the money earned in a year is spent on the Spring Festival.
The most lively scenes on the 29th or 30th day of the year are the slaughter of pigs, catching fish in ponds, and catching the New Year's Eve Wei, with men, women, and children all out in force. In the evening, every household puts up "New Year's Red", both new year's paintings and traditional "door god", most of the couplets are related to fortune and so on, and the martyrs' families put up the couplets "Carry forward the tradition of the revolution and strive for greater glory" issued by the civil affairs department on the main door, and the kitchens, pigs and chickens put up the banners "sufficient food" and "prosperity of the six animals", etc. After the reunion dinner, they share the money to pay off the debts. After the reunion meal, the new year's money is divided. 12:00, every household firecrackers, to send off the old and welcome the new.
The first day of the Lunar New Year, the rural areas are generally popular three taboos: taboo killing, taboo pouring, taboo sweeping, some rural areas are still accustomed to eating fasting. The second day of the year began to go to friends and relatives, you come and go. Most of the villages and towns during this period are lion dance, God, floating color parade, do opera, martial arts performances, ball games, etc., a variety of folk activities, has been extended for more than half a month.
Shenzhen, like everywhere else, retains a relatively rich traditional cultural heritage and traditional customs. From the historical point of view, more than 6,000 years ago, there have been pioneers in this pioneering, more than 1,700 years ago, the Eastern Jin Dynasty set up counties here, more than 600 years ago, the ancient city of Nantou and Dapeng city built here, more than 300 years ago, a large number of Hakka people settled here to reproduce, Shenzhen's predecessor in Bao'an County, the native inhabitants of Canton and the Hakka two major ethnic groups both, but also living in part of the family. Over the past 20 years of reform and opening up, Shenzhen has attracted millions of construction troops from all over the world and from the south of the country, thus bringing the culture of almost all regions of the country. This has resulted in Shenzhen's colorful, colorful folk customs, and thus, Shenzhen New Year's Eve customs also appear extremely chic and diverse.
Native customs
Like the rest of the country, Shenzhen's aboriginal people also call the Spring Festival "New Year's Day", and the countryside makes preparations in the middle of the lunar month, such as pounding rice cake, making new clothes, buying new shoes and hats, and getting a haircut, etc. The 23rd to 25th of the month is known as "Nianjiagua," which is the day of the sending of Zaogun to the heavenly court, and families burn incense and light candles before the deity's seat, and then burn a candle and a candle in front of the deity's seat, and then burn incense and light candles. God in front of the burning incense and candles, some also prepared sugar cookies, tea and fruit to send, entrusted to the Jade Emperor Zaojun report to the Jade Emperor a year of good and bad behavior, and on behalf of the house to pray for the blessing. The women began to be busy picking tea fruit (pastry) leaves, washing furniture and so on. From this day onwards, there are many taboos, such as no foul language or lying.
The New Year's Eve (New Year's Day) begins in the afternoon with the New Year's celebration, posting the door god, spring couplets, receiving the Zaojun into the house, slaughtering chickens and killing ducks, using three animals (chickens, fish, pork, the same hereafter), a few bowls of white rice (with chopsticks), tea, wine, etc., inserting joss sticks and candles, and worshipping the heaven, earth and the ancestors. Dinner family to eat the New Year's Eve dinner, outside the family without important things to come back to the reunion dinner. Outsiders will not accept invitations to eat. Is the evening, the family bath to wash "big auspicious water" (with orange peel, pomelo leaves, etc.), wash while saying a few words of good luck, after washing, the elders should give the younger generation pressure money. Into the night families began to point the New Year's light, day and night, until the third day of the year.
The first day of the year (the first day of the first month of the year) at midnight zero hour, each family should go to the ancestral shrine to burn the first incense, firecrackers, to welcome the arrival of the New Year. On the lunch eat vegetarian, with vermicelli, red dates, rotting bamboo and other dishes, lettuce is definitely eaten, in the past, rich people also eat hairy vegetables, to take the harmonic hair wealth. This day is strictly prohibited to kill, do not worship God, but also avoid sending money to others.
The second day of the year, called "the beginning of the year", began to open the slaughter of three birds. Friends, relatives and neighbors of the same clan to congratulate each other on the New Year, to the younger generation to hand out "lai see". Lion dancers and unicorn dancers also start traveling to villages to pay their respects and perform martial arts.
The fourth day of the new year is the day of visiting relatives, married women have returned to visit their families.
On the fifth day of the new year, the "New Year's Gua", although still filled with the atmosphere of the New Year, but the climax has passed, people began the new year's work or farming.
Year until the Lantern Festival. Lantern Festival is commonly known as the Festival of Lights, the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar, there is a custom of making dumplings (sugar balls) to eat. In the countryside, every family hangs lamps on the door at night, and children carry all kinds of colored lamps through the streets and alleys to play. People who gave birth to a boy in the previous year will also hold a special ceremony to add lanterns and hang colored lanterns in the ancestral hall until the end of the first month, called "light the lanterns". Some places choose the first half of the first month. This custom was canceled after the founding of the country, and was restored at the end of the 80s.
Folklore
Old Shenzhen residents, especially those from the former Bao'an County, held various folk dances during the Spring Festival, mainly lion dances, unicorn dances, dragon dances and fish lantern dances, which were distributed in various townships. Among them, the Lion Dance, Unicorn Dance and Dragon Dance are more common and have the most local characteristics. Lion Dance and Unicorn Dance are distributed according to the language genus. In Cantonese, the Lion Dance is performed in Xin'an, Fuyong, Shajing, Songgang, Gongming, etc. In Hakka, the Unicorn Dance is performed in Guanlan, Longhua, Longgang, Henggang, Pingshan, Pingdi, Shiyan, Kwai Chung, etc. The Unicorn Dance is the most popular dance.
The Lion Dance and the Unicorn Dance are performed with the wish to bring good luck and to drive away demons and evils. The performance team is huge, with big gongs and drums, and there are also martial arts scenes of knives, guns, swords and halberds, which make a great sound. Every New Year's Eve, festivals, celebrations, lion dance, unicorn team through the village, or in the open field performance, or in the village door-to-door invited to dance worship. The lion dance is divided into two types of performances: the "cultural lion" and the "martial arts lion". The "cultural lion" mainly shows the lion's tame demeanor, sleeping, licking hair, shaking hair, scratching, rolling and other stable action; "martial arts lion" shows the lion's courageous character, there are jumping, falling pouncing, walking on the plum blossom pile, picking the green, stepping on the ball, and other difficult actions, the shape of the God is very similar, The "Martial Lion" shows the lion's courageous character.
The unicorn dance is very similar to the lion dance. According to the traditional dance method of descending the mountain, picking up the green, and teasing the garden process, it adopts the actions of sleeping soundly, waking up, scratching the itch, shaking the hair, licking the hair, prancing, stumbling, going up the pole, and playing, etc., and its demeanor is vividly lifelike.
The Dragon Dance is divided into two types: the "Dragon" and the "Fire Dragon". "Cloth dragon" is popular in the towns of Buji, Pinghu, Guanlan, Shi Yan, Gongming, Longhua and so on. "Cloth dragon" body length of more than 4 feet, the whole body with cloth and wire production and become, the body belly with a staff, generally by 8 to 12 people holding a staff, performing a variety of dragon leaping, tumbling, bowing and other dance movements, alive and well. This kind of dragon dance is considered to bring good luck and good omen, so it is mostly performed during the Spring Festival. The "fire dragon" (also called grass dragon) is only popular in the fishermen's area of Nan'ao Township in the eastern part of Bao'an. At the beginning of the Republic of China in the late Qing Dynasty, due to the local cholera disease, which could not be cured, many fishermen lost their lives, due to superstitious thinking, that the evil spirits were attacked, and the Dragon King should be invited to drive away the evil spirits and remove the demons. Therefore, made of straw in the shape of a dragon, about 4 feet long, divided into dozens of sections, each section has a staff for the performers to use, the dragon's eyes placed in the luminous light bulb, the dragon all over the body inserted incense. Performances are held on the second night of the first month of the year. Fire dragon activities, each household lit firecrackers, fireworks, fire dragon where by the front door of each household is three big worship, and then to an open space to perform a variety of dragon dance posture and martial arts, fire dragon dancing, everywhere fire, very lively and spectacular. With the "dragon" swimming, the band beat gongs and drums, through the streets and alleys. When the dragon body dances, the upper and lower flashes of light, as if a fire dragon in the turbulence. The dance of the grass dragon is a favorite activity of the fishermen of Nanao, and the bravado of the dragon dancers and the enthusiasm of the dancers constitute a grand and joyful picture.
New Folklore for the New Year
Five or six years ago, every New Year, millions of new immigrants in Shenzhen and the army of workers have to go back to their hometowns to reunite, the city of Shenzhen, a cold atmosphere, there is no New Year's flavor. To date, with the development of the city, new immigrants and workers to the city's sense of identity, this situation has fundamentally changed, so far this year, nearly 70% of people have chosen to spend the New Year in Shenzhen. The demographic and cultural structure of Shenzhen, which is characterized by a mix of five parties and an eclectic mix of cultures, has led to the slow formation of a new folklore quality for the New Year in Shenzhen.
Everyone's happy. Municipal Youth Activity Center every year to organize "Shenzhen is my home" recreational activities, through the "New Year's Eve", "thousands of dumplings feast", "masquerade ball", "the New Year's Eve", "the New Year's Eve", "the New Year's Eve", "the New Year's Eve" and "the New Year's Eve". Masquerade", "New Year's Eve Arts and Crafts" and other activities for the workers to stay in Shenzhen for the New Year's Eve to provide a stage, popular with the workers, has formed a new folk culture in Shenzhen is quite distinctive.
The flower market. As a city located in the south of the Yangtze River, Shenzhen New Year flower market custom is not inferior to Guangzhou, Hong Kong. Shenzhen Spring Flower Festival has been held 21 times this year. The flower street is a sea of flowers and a world of people, bustling with activity. New immigrants and working people also take the New Year's Eve flower market as a must.
The custom of New Year's Eve dinner. With just a few months to go, restaurants of all sizes are already blowing up the airwaves, advertising and pulling out all the stops to get people to make reservations in advance. As for the menu, it's all about good luck and "gold and jade".
Traveling for the New Year. Sightseeing tours in foreign countries to spend the Spring Festival, is a lot of people in Shenzhen, especially young people's choice, the domestic Heilongjiang, Tibet, Yunnan, Xinjiang, Hong Kong, Macao, foreign countries, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Japan, South Korea and even Europe and the United States, everywhere in Shenzhen people's footprints. Young people seem to be for the family reunion together to eat New Year's Eve dinner, chatting, watching TV, shopping flower market is not very interested in the usual tension of work, the fast pace of life, the Spring Festival holiday gives them a good opportunity to relax and sightseeing tours. According to the statistics of the relevant departments, every year between the first and fourth day of the Lunar New Year, there will be 40,000 to 50,000 people take the civil aviation flights to go out to travel.
Big pots of food. With the return of Hong Kong to the motherland and the increasingly frequent exchanges with the mainland, more and more Hong Kong compatriots and overseas compatriots are coming to Shenzhen and the mainland to celebrate the Lunar New Year, and the number of travelers entering the country through the Luohu port during the Lunar New Year period in recent years has reached three to four million. In order to welcome compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan and overseas Chinese to spend the New Year in Shenzhen, some villages and towns in Shenzhen organize special activities every year to pay tribute to the New Year, with dragon and lion dances and drums and gongs. The Huang Clan of Xiasha, Shenzhen, migrated here from the Central Plains in the Song Dynasty, and has a history of more than 800 years, with descendants all over the country and the world. Every year, thousands of overseas Chinese, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan compatriots come back to celebrate the Chinese New Year. During the Spring Festival, the village committee will usually choose a day in the "Huang's Ancestral Hall" square set up hundreds of tables, thousands of Huang's descendants at home and abroad under the sand, *** taste the most with the traditional flavors of southern Guangdong "big pot dishes", pushing the cups and exchanging ideas, talking about old times, the atmosphere is warm, the scene is spectacular. Spectacular scene. This is a combination of traditional and modern, local and overseas.
Online New Year greeting. New Year's greeting is a traditional folk custom of the Spring Festival. Shenzhen people in the popular greeting card to pay homage to the New Year, telephone to pay homage to the New Year, B B machine to pay homage to the New Year, cell phone to pay homage to the New Year, in recent years began to popular online to pay homage to the New Year. Folklore festivals and high-tech to find a fit.
Of course, new customs for the New Year in Shenzhen are still in the process of formation, and new contents and forms will constantly appear. In the collision and fusion of local and mainland customs, traditional and foreign cultures, and in the creative transformation of cultural forms in China's most vibrant immigrant city, we can believe that Shenzhen will one day become a dynamic museum of Chinese New Year customs.