The customs of celebrating the Spring Festival in various places are as follows: Jiangsu: "Digging for Yuanbao" The New Year customs in various places in Jiangsu have some unique features.

Suzhou people put cooked water chestnuts in their meals on New Year's Eve and dig them out when eating, which is called "digging for ingots." When visiting relatives and friends, they put two green olives in when making tea, which is called drinking "ingot tea" to wish them good luck and wealth.

People in Wujin are not allowed to sweep from the outside of their homes during the Chinese New Year, for fear of sweeping away "wealth" and "good luck", they can only sweep from the outside in.

Nantong people have the custom of planting sesame stalks, holly, and cypress branches at the door of their homes or in front of their halls, which means that life is blooming and green all year round.

Shanxi: Don't talk at the New Year's Eve dinner In Shanxi, there is a rule that "you can't talk at the New Year's Eve dinner".

The first meal of the Spring Festival is dumplings.

When cooking dumplings, firecrackers should be set off.

For good luck.

Drive away evil.

In some areas, sesame straw is used to cook dumplings, which means that the new year is like sesame seeds blooming steadily, and the days are getting better and better.

Dumplings need to be cooked more and must be more than enough, which means "more than every year".

When dining, in addition to one bowl per person, one or two more bowls are also served to pray for prosperity.

Hubei: Have a family reunion dinner at noon. There is a custom in Hubei that a married daughter can go back to her parents’ home to have a family reunion dinner on New Year’s Eve, but she cannot stay at her parents’ home overnight.

In order to make it easier for the daughter to rush back to her husband's house after dinner, the local family reunion dinner is usually held around 12 noon.

The dish "whole fish" must be on the family reunion dinner table, in order to "have more than enough every year". This dish is served at the end, and you can only look at it but not eat it. You must save it until after the third day of the Lunar New Year before you can use your chopsticks, otherwise

Will be punished by elders.

Jiangxi: Daughters and sons-in-law are not allowed to sleep in the same room when they return to their parents’ homes. In some places in Jiangxi, married daughters and husbands go back to their parents’ homes to celebrate the New Year. The couple cannot sleep in the same bed, or even live in the same room. Only an only daughter can break this custom, otherwise the father-in-law and mother-in-law will

I would rather my son-in-law sleep on the floor than allow my daughter and son-in-law to sleep in the same room.

And you can only return to your parents' home during the Xiaonian period (from December 24th to New Year's Eve in the lunar calendar). You are not allowed to go back to your parents' home after this period, otherwise it will be considered unlucky for your parents' family.

Tianjin: "Chop the villain" Tianjin people call the fifth day of the first lunar month "Po Wu".

this day.

Every household has to eat dumplings, and the chopping board must make a "dong-dong" sound for the neighbors to hear, to show that they are "chopping little people."

Attribute unsatisfactory things to the "villain". Only by getting rid of the "villain" can the new year be prosperous and smooth.

Firecrackers are also set off at night to pray for evil and disaster avoidance.

Tianjin also has the custom of sticking hanging money during the Spring Festival. Hanging money is a pattern cut out of colored paper and pasted on the glass and horizontal edges of doors and windows as an embellishment of the festive atmosphere of the Spring Festival.