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Chaoshan new year custom

Posting couplets, door gods, setting off firecrackers, eating New Year's Eve, giving lucky money and so on.

At the beginning of the Spring Festival, the first thing is to paste the door gods and couplets. On New Year's Eve (or 29th), every household goes to the streets to buy Spring Festival couplets, and those who are interested in it also spread paper and splash ink to make spring fun, decorating the doors inside and outside the house.

The keeper is said to be shentu and Yu Lei who can catch ghosts.

Door couplets are developed from peach symbols. It turned out that people painted portraits of shentu and Yu Lei on mahogany boards and hung them on two doors. Later, the portrait was changed to a "door" that only wrote.

In recent years, a traditional folk activity has arisen, that is, worshipping the God of Wealth from 23: to 1: the next day. Supposedly, the gods went to heaven on the 24th of the twelfth lunar month, and all the immortals on earth went to heaven to "report their work". However, people would rather believe that the God of Wealth still does not forget to benefit the world, and will send wealth to the world at the coming of the Spring Festival. Therefore, every household should pay homage at this time. As a result, the midnight bell rang, firecrackers roared, smoke curled up, as if clouds were auspicious, and the shouts of "the God of Wealth arrived" added a lot of excitement to this midnight.