The Spring Festival in Fuqing is commonly known as "New Year". The Spring Festival activities in Fuqing begin with the "Wangtang" event. On an auspicious day between the 23rd and 30th of the twelfth lunar month, freshly cut bamboos are bundled into a broom and the house is cleaned. On the twenty-fourth day of the twelfth lunar month, the people set a day to worship the Kitchen God. On this day, they prepare Stove sugar and Kitchen cakes to offer sacrifices to the Kitchen Lord and send him back to heaven to report on his duties. This is called sending off the gods. On the fourth day of the first lunar month of the following year, after dinner, incense, candles and fruits will be prepared to welcome the Kitchen God back to take office, which is also called receiving the god. Every year on the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth lunar month, the son-in-law prepares New Year's goods and delivers them to his father-in-law and mother-in-law's home. This is called sending off the New Year. On New Year's Eve, it is a custom in Fuqing to stay up late on New Year's Eve. It is the night when the whole family gathers together at home to have a New Year's Eve dinner. In recent years, families in Fuqing have also gone to higher-end restaurants to dine. After the meal, the elders give new year's money to the younger ones who are not yet married, and the housewives "prepare the New Year's rice" and cut the vegetables and fish for the morning of the first day of the new year. Relatives and friends pay New Year's greetings to each other on the first day of the first lunar month. This is a custom across the country, but it is a unique custom in Fuqing to do so on the second day of the lunar month. It is also called New Year's greetings. All families who have lost an adult in the previous year do so on the second day of the lunar month. Another important point about setting up a mourning seat for relatives and friends to express their condolences is that if you don’t go to your friends’ houses to pay New Year greetings on the first day of the Lunar New Year, it is also a taboo to go to other people’s houses to play on the second day of the Lunar New Year. The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the "Dragon Lantern Dance". Every household prepares a long lantern, forming a long dragon team, beating gongs and drums, and passing from house to house, which means bringing warmth, happiness and peace in the new year. Marriage customs. Fuqing's wedding customs are highlighted in four distinctive customs: the lively sedan chair, the lively "bridal chamber", the courteous avoidance of Shizhushan

and the affectionate three-day invitation. When the groom goes to the bride's home to welcome the bride, it is called "inviting the bride" in Fuqing. When the groom invites the newlyweds back, someone will block the way with chairs and others on the way, and the groom will happily share melon seeds and candies with the sedan-blockers. Nowadays, instead of taking a sedan, you take a car. When someone blocks the road, the bride and groom will sing to the blocker, or distribute cigarettes and candies to the blocker. The more blockers along the way, the more talented and beautiful the bride is. The groom invites the bride to the door of his house, sets off firecrackers first, and informs the other female relatives of the husband's family, asking them to take a step away first, which is called "avoidance". After the bride and groom enter the hall, they first worship the heaven and the earth, then the ancestors, then the parents-in-law, and finally the husband and wife bow to each other. This is called worship hall. After the ceremony, the bride is led by the bride, with the groom in front and the bride behind, and they enter the bridal chamber together. At this time, the groom will knock on the door of the room, and the bride will sing the "Door Door Song" to increase the festive atmosphere. On the third day after the bride gets married, her natal family will send her brother-in-law (if there is no brother-in-law, a boy can be chosen from relatives and friends of the same generation) to her brother-in-law's house to invite her brother-in-law's sister to return to her natal home with her. This is called a three-day invitation. According to the old custom, after three days of invitation, the groom returns home and the bride stays at her parents' home for a month, so it was formerly called Guining. Now it is changed to come back with the groom on the same day or the next day.