Eat glutinous rice balls, rice cakes, doughnuts and New Year's Eve in the south.

Due to regional differences and different food cultures, southerners and northerners eat different foods on New Year's Eve. Southerners eat glutinous rice balls to mean reunion, rice cakes to mean rising, sugar rings to mean sweetness, and New Year's Eve to celebrate family reunion.

Eating jiaozi is a traditional custom of southerners. Jiaozi's crust is glutinous rice flour, and peanuts, black sesame seeds and sugar are used as fillings to make a round jiaozi, which means "reunion".

Rice cakes are one of the necessities of southerners. Its homonym is "high year", so the rice cake has the meaning of rising step by step, being rich and sweet, which means that life in the new year is sweet and the career is smooth.

Sugar doughnuts are a must-have snack in southern China for the New Year. The shape of the doughnut is unique, with a ring on the outside and a five-pointed star inside. Sugar doughnuts are made of flour and sugar, which means interlocking and sweet.

Southern New Year's Eve and Spring Festival customs?

1, dust removal

Generally speaking, since the 25th day of the lunar calendar, every household has started a general cleaning inside and outside the house. Every household should do a great job, take on a new look inside and outside, greet the New Year with the latest look, and the New Year will have a new atmosphere.

Step 2 supply oranges

In the south, especially in Hainan, Guangdong, during the Spring Festival, people put oranges at home, which is called "offering oranges" because "oranges" are homophonic with "auspiciousness". So every household will buy pots of oranges or bundles of oranges. There are usually pots of oranges in the living room, and some people will stick the word "Ji" in red paper and black on the pots.

3. ancestor worship

In many areas in the south, before eating New Year's Eve, ancestors should be worshipped first. People will go to the ancestral temple to worship their ancestors first, or at home, light lamps, burn incense and put on rich dishes. Parents who are in charge of the family will take the lead in kneeling down and burning incense to worship their ancestors. We sincerely invite our ancestors to come and enjoy it, and wish the whole family peace and prosperity. Some places will burn gold foil paper money for ancestors. After that, we lit the firecrackers we had already prepared and began to eat New Year's Eve.

4, lion dance

During the Spring Festival, lion dancing is also one of the ways people celebrate. Southern lion is popular in Guangdong, so it is also called Guangdong lion. Guangdong lions are performed by one person dancing the lion's head, one person dancing the lion's tail, and one or two people wearing big-headed Buddha masks to lead lions, dance lions and perform solo dances. Lion dancers wear colorful knickerbockers and Tang lantern sleeves or tight vests.