1. Sacrificing the stove:

On the twentieth day of the twelfth lunar month, everyone will prepare for the New Year, and the stove division bodhisattva will ascend to heaven. In the ceremony of sending the kitchen god, Ninghai people call it "offering sacrifices to the kitchen", that is, offering sacrifices to the kitchen. On this day, you must eat kitchen candy, which is a kind of maltose. At the same time, you should put candy, water, cooking beans and grass on the console table in front of the kitchen king statue. There is a folk custom that "men don't Yue Bai, women don't offer sacrifices to the kitchen", so offering sacrifices to the kitchen Lord is limited to men.

2. Dust-blowing:

After holding the sacrificial stove, we officially began to prepare for the New Year. The most prominent thing is "dusting". Before and after the sacrifice of the stove to New Year's Eve, for example, there was a general cleaning, which Ninghai people called "dusting".

according to the folk saying, because of the homonym of "dust" and "Chen", the new year's dusting has the meaning of "except Chen Buxin", and its intention is to sweep away all "poor luck" and "bad luck". This custom entrusts people with the desire to break the old and establish the new and the prayer to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new.

3. Sticking Spring Festival couplets:

People in Ninghai are generally called "door pairs" and "spring couplets", which depict the background of the times and express their good wishes with neat, dual, concise and exquisite words. Every Spring Festival, no matter in urban or rural areas, every household should select a pair of bright red Spring Festival couplets and stick them on the door to add festive atmosphere to the festival.

At the same time of putting up Spring Festival couplets, some families should put large and small "Fu" characters on the doors, walls and lintels. The word "Fu" refers to good fortune and good fortune, which places people's longing for a happy life and wishes for a bright future.

4. New Year's Eve:

Keeping New Year's Eve is one of the most important annual customs in Ninghai, and the custom of keeping old age has a long history. "One night is even two years old, and the night is divided into two days." On New Year's Eve, the home is a particularly warm and sweet space. It is said that even prisoners in prison can temporarily go home for reunion in history. When the whole family is sitting together to have a New Year's Eve dinner, the elders will give the younger generation "lucky money", which Ninghai people call "Xie Nian".

5. The first day of the first month:

Every family, men, women and children, put on new clothes, hats and shoes until the first crow of the rooster and the dawn, and worship the heavens and the earth and ancestors in the hall where the offerings have already been arranged. Young people pay New Year greetings to their parents, and then open the door and set off firecrackers to welcome the new year. There is a saying in Ninghai that "opening the door and firing firecrackers".

that is, when the new year is coming, the first thing for every household to open the door is to set off firecrackers to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new. Setting off firecrackers can create a festive and lively atmosphere, which is a kind of entertainment in festivals and can bring happiness and good luck to people.

6. Worship the New Year:

Since the second day of junior high school, relatives have brought candy, white wine, etc. to each other for "Worship the New Year", and the party who receives the greeting offers wine and treats them with "lucky money".

Ninghai News Network-Ninghai people's Spring Festival