Trendy people clean up a few days before New Year's Eve. On New Year's Eve or one or two days in advance, each household will post New Year's couplets and prepare all kinds of food, including fish, meat, and poultry, mainly geese and ducks - the traditional braised food (small braised meat).
In some areas, it is boiled), make some rice cakes (rice cakes, sweet cakes, carrot cakes, etc.), prepare a lot of oranges, Teochew oranges (mainly used to exchange good fortune when relatives and friends pay New Year greetings), olives, candies, melon seeds, happy
Fruit, peanuts.
On New Year's Eve, the family gathers around the table to have a reunion dinner (New Year's Eve dinner).
Starting from New Year’s Eve, you can call relatives and friends to pay New Year greetings.
On the first, second and third day of the first lunar month, worship ancestors in the morning.
In these days, relatives and friends visit each other to pay New Year greetings, exchange oranges and Teochew mandarin oranges (meaning good luck and exchange of blessings), sit down and talk, and play games.
Relatives and friends from far away call each other to send New Year greetings and greetings.
Married elders give lucky money and red envelopes to unmarried juniors to give blessings. Married young adults give new year's money and red envelopes to give blessings to older elders. Husbands and wives also give each other red envelopes to bless each other.
Worship God on the fifth day of the first lunar month.
On the 15th day of the first lunar month, people worship the gods, light lanterns, and dance lanterns and dragons to bless lovers during the Lantern Festival (Spring Festival, Chinese Valentine's Day).
In Chaoshan itself, many rural villages hold god-wandering games (different villages may worship different gods) around the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. They set off firecrackers, social operas (Teochew operas), songs and dances, which are quite lively. They pray to Mazu for peace and invite sugar lions (sugar lions).
, peanuts, white sesame made of lions) Great Detective (make a lot of money), worship Guan Gong for wealth.
The New Year is not celebrated until the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, so we can concentrate on work and business.
These Spring Festival traditions of Chaozhou people reflect the best wishes among relatives and friends, filial piety, respect for the elderly and love for the young, and harmony and love between husband and wife.
However, half (more than 20 million) of the hipsters do not celebrate the New Year in their hometowns, and many celebrate the New Year in a simpler way.
After the "Kitchen God ascends to heaven" on the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month, the people of Chaoshan start busy preparing for the New Year.
Every household carries out general cleaning, rearrangement and decoration inside and outside the house; steams red peaches, rat frog and other products; buys new year's goods and new clothes; gets haircuts and beauty treatments.
On the morning of New Year's Eve, "three birds" are slaughtered and sacrificial items are purchased.
After lunch, the whole family has to take a bath, wear new clothes, worship ancestors, put up Spring Festival couplets, hang lanterns, and put up talismans on the wall.
In the evening, a stove was set up in the hall, and the whole family gathered around the stove to have a reunion dinner.
No matter how far apart the family is, they must rush home to reunite.
After "circling the fire", the elders will give "New Year's money" to the juniors, and the juniors who can earn money will also give red envelopes to the elders, which is called "waist pocket".
On this day, you should not make any noise or break plates, bowls and other utensils. If you break the plates, bowls and other utensils, you should say auspicious words such as "open your mouth, you will be rich" to make up for the mistake, which symbolizes that the whole year will be complete for the whole family.
The water jar at home should be filled with water, and the rice jar should be filled with rice to symbolize "abundance every year."
It is a night with lights all night long, and every household stays up together, waiting for the arrival of the New Year.
The first day of the first month of the lunar calendar is the first day of the year, known as the "Spring Festival". It was called "New Year's Day" in ancient times and is commonly known as "New Year's Day".
Early in the morning on that day, men, women and children in every household put on new clothes, set off firecrackers, worshiped the ancestors of heaven and earth, and offered sacrifices to their ancestors.
When offering sacrifices to ancestors, vegetarian food should be used as an offering, because it is said that Maitreya Buddha is seated on this day, so a vegetarian meal is used.
This custom has been around for a long time. "Chaozhou Prefecture Chronicles" written by Shunzhi of the Qing Dynasty said: "On the first day of the year, vegetarian food is used for sacrifices." "Puning County Chronicles" written by Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty said: On the first day of the Qing Dynasty, ancestors are sacrificed with vegetarian food, and those with meat are used for ancestors.
"Then the whole family gets together to have breakfast in a warm and harmonious atmosphere. The younger generation gives blessings to the elders, and the elders send their hopes to the younger generation. After breakfast, parents take their children to the homes of relatives and friends to pay New Year's greetings. Anyone who goes to the homes of relatives and friends to pay New Year's greetings,
Always bring Chaozhou tangerine. Because tangerine is larger than orange, it is named Daju, and tangerine has the same pronunciation as auspicious, so it means "big auspiciousness". It doesn't matter how many tangerines you bring.
But it must be an even number, not an odd number. And the host's coffee table always has a plate of red and green oranges and oranges (now replaced by olives), plus candies, to welcome guests.
The customs of Chaozhou Prefecture are recorded in detail in prefecture and county annals. Qianlong's "Chaozhou Prefecture Annals" of the Qing Dynasty says: "If there is no betel nut, it is called simple.
"Because the word "Peilang" has the same pronunciation as "Binlang", which means "guest", the homophonic pronunciation of "Peilang Daju" becomes "Binlin Daji", which is a kind of etiquette to greet each other and exchange good luck. When guests come in, they say something to each other.
Good luck in the new year", "Congratulations on getting rich" and other auspicious words. The host should treat the guests to eat olives, candies, drink Gongfu tea (Jiexi Hakkas also have the custom of "Lei Cha, Mi Cheng"), and exchange good luck.
Children are also given "profits" (red envelopes), and then the host prepares wine and hosts a banquet to entertain the guests, which is commonly known as "Congratulations". According to the "Chenghai County Chronicles" of Jiaqing in the Qing Dynasty, "Everyone sets up wine to look at each other and invite them to drink."
As the saying goes, "Every family has wine in the first month." The Spring Festival is a holy day, so there are many taboos in Chaoshan, such as not sweeping the floor or washing clothes for fear of losing money; don't use long or short chopsticks when eating, otherwise it will
You may not be able to catch the boat; don’t eat porridge or rice soup, otherwise it will rain when you go out; you are not allowed to say bad words, curse, or fight. If a child of family A hits or scolds a child of family B, the parents of family A will bring a pair of big oranges to the door.
Apologize and wish everyone good luck. The customs of Chaoshan people during the Spring Festival: The Chaoshan people, who live in the easternmost part of Guangdong Province and border with Jiangxi and Fujian, still retain the folk customs of the ancient Central Plains of their motherland. Among them, Chaoshan people end the year.
"Rewarding the Gods" and "Wandering Gods" at the beginning of the year are long-lasting folk customs and cultural activities. There is a saying in Chaoshan: "Wandering Gods are in the second month.