On New Year's Day in Wucheng County, Zhejiang Province, a long pole sokcho was placed on it, and it was lit and burned, and gongs and drums were played, which was called "Qingtian Silkworm". And light a lantern on the pole until March 3. Ningbo will eat bean porridge after ancestor worship on New Year's Day. Before you close the door at night, you should have another "closing gun". Shaoxing treats guests with "tea bowls" in the New Year, with olives and kumquat inside, and tea eggs at the same time, which is called "holding gold ingots".

Fujian

Before going out on New Year's Day, people in Xiamen have to worship the Jade Emperor in the sky, which is called "offering sacrifices to the gods". In the morning, flowers and fruits are used for offering sacrifices to the gods, and at noon, sacrifices and a bowl of spring rice are used for offering sacrifices to the gods. Spring rice is spring flowers made of red paper inserted into white rice. "Spring" and "surplus" are homophonic in Fujian, and spring rice is a good oral color to take its "surplus every year". The fourth day of Zhangzhou is called "Jiegu". In addition to entering the temple to burn incense, a candy and cake box called "recommendation box" should be prepared for the audience to greet the gods in the hall.

In Haifeng, Guangdong Province, when the younger generation celebrates the New Year with their elders, the elders will give them red envelopes or oranges. Chaozhou's Spring Festival diet includes preserved vegetables, rotten dumplings, fermented buns, tube frying and five-fruit soup. On the fourth night of the fourth day, every family should light a lamp and prepare a jar of water, which is called "waiting for the water". On the first day of the first month of the first month in Dongguan, it is called "wealth is predestined friends" to offer taro with sugar.

Jiangsu province

On New Year's Day in Jiangning County, your family put up a picture of a rooster at the door of the house. There are more worshippers in Wuxian than in Tongyuan Temple on New Year's Day. Suzhou custom: it takes three firecrackers to open the door early on New Year's Day, which is called "promotion to the third level". When you go out in the morning, you should follow the direction specified in the yellow calendar, which is called "Happy God". And to burn incense in temples such as the city god and the land, you must go through ten temples, which is called "burning incense in ten temples". From New Year's Day to Lantern Festival, huge coals are burned in the stove, which is called "Happy Group". According to the legend of Zhuan 'an people, eating dumplings can pick up the god of wealth, so dumplings are eaten every day from the early morning of the New Year's Day until the Lantern Festival. Women in Wujin County cut pine and cypress branches on New Year's Day, wrapped them with red silk and put them on a bun. It is said that they can live longer.

People in Chengdu, Sichuan Province

don't eat on New Year's Day, because "rice" and "crime" have the same pronunciation. In order to avoid taboo, they eat glutinous rice balls or dried noodles to pray for family reunion and live a long life. Liu Ge and other places will have a "off-year" on the seventh day of the first month, and besides worshipping the gods and ancestors, they will also have a reunion dinner. Chengdu people visit Du Fu Cottage in the western suburbs every day. On New Year's Day in Changshou County, nine candles were burned outside the door, which were called "Nine-grade Candles" to respect heaven and earth.

All clans in Fuping County, Shaanxi Province are portraits of their ancestors. On the first day of the Yuan Dynasty, children and grandchildren gather to worship, and after the sacrifice, they are given a golden banquet, which is called "festival sitting". On the second day of the second year, the relatives and friends give each other pasta and pork, which is called "Worship Festival". On New Year's Day in Gaoling County, yellow paper is hung on bamboo poles at dawn to worship heaven, which is called "meeting the gods". It is said that charcoal can be hung on the door, and it can go to the plague. Shiquan county uses yellow paper as money, and the New Year's Day knot hangs on the door, named "Bao Gai Qian". Lintong county regards the fifth day of the fifth day as the "send the poor festival". After cutting paper, every family takes it to the door and throws it away. Everyone must be full on that day, which is called "filling the five poor".

Eating wonton on New Year's Day in Ningyang County, Shandong Province is called "filling the warehouse". In Huangxian County and Penglai area, it is wasted to get up early on New Year's Day. The hostess holds a red candle and illuminates every corner of the house, which means to drive out darkness with light, and then puts all kinds of window grilles made of flour on the windowsill. After getting up, children have to climb the door and play three swings. It is said that they can grow fast. In some areas, cooking jiaozi with sesame stalks means that the new year is rising like sesame blossoms, and steamed bread should be put in the pot after meals, which means that there are "leftover heads". The new daughter-in-law in Jiaodong will pay a New Year call to her husband's grandparents' home in the first year, which is called "Zagen". It is said that when you arrive at your grandparents' home, you can take root, and there will be no divorce and early widowhood. In the old days, there was the custom of "sending the poor" on the fifth day. On the same day, firecrackers should be set off to show "driving the five poor". Qufu held the "Wenqu Star Club" on the fifth day. On the evening of the fifth day, students would go to the teacher's house and burn incense to worship Confucius. Then the teacher will write an article, and after it is finished, the teacher will burn it, which is called "Wenqu Star Club".

Old Beijing

There are many things for every family in the twelfth lunar month

Since the twelfth lunar month, there have been literati writing Spring Festival couplets under the eaves of the city in an attempt to earn some money for the New Year. After the sacrifice, the new Spring Festival couplets were gradually stuck, and thousands of families took on a new look. Some people use Zhu Jian, some use red paper, and only the imperial court and the imperial clan princes use white paper with red and blue edges as a rule. Those who are not imperial clan are not allowed to use it arbitrarily.

In the twelfth lunar month, the plum blossoms are tied up and placed in an appliance with a small belly and a big mouth. They are placed in a place about five feet underground, and the fire is lit to make the ground slightly warm. Then the plum blossoms will gradually turn white, put them in paper cages and sell them in the market. Momo, Yu Li and Ying Chun can do the same. In prosperous areas, tents are set up and pictures are sold. Women and children rushed to buy it for fun.

On the first day of the twelfth lunar month, the sellers of porridge and fruit lined up in the market. There are even people who sell walnuts, persimmons, dates, chestnuts and dried water chestnut rice, and they carry baskets on their shoulders and sell them. Followed by fat pheasant, Kanto fish, wild cats, wild birds, cured meat, iron sparrow, fruit cover, giant Buddha flower, Douguang thousand pieces, Louzizhuang ingot. After the 1th lunar month, we sell Wei paintings, door gods, hanging money, gold and silver foil, yellow money, gold coins, paper burning, glass mirrors and window holes. After the 2th, we sell candied melons, candied cakes, glutinous rice cakes and Kwantung sugar. Copying beans with bad grass was provided for Shenma when it was delivered to the stove on the 23rd. There are also kiln sellers, copper and silver for porcelain bowls, incense burners and candlesticks in Beijing; Stuffed gourd, children save money; Support the pot tile, and the stove mouth is used as an aid. After 25th, sesame stalks, pine and cypress branches and Atractylodes lancea are sold for "aging". Prices and money in the twelfth lunar month are more expensive than usual, so there is a proverb that "the soil and water in the twelfth lunar month are three points more expensive". When the elderly arrive at this time, they always advise the younger generation to spend money carefully, so there is another proverb, "Twenty-seven or eight, take the goods equally and grasp them."