Xinyi City, Guangdong Province, has simple folk customs and still retains some living habits and customs of ancient Western Guangdong people. In addition to the traditional culture of the Han nationality during the New Year and Spring Festival, some habits are different from those in the Central Plains.

1 The traditional belief is that when people celebrate the New Year, they must be able to make rice dumplings. It is commonly known as making ancient rice dumplings on New Year’s Eve, which means they are prosperous and prosperous!

Whether studying, establishing a career or doing business, who doesn’t want to be prosperous?

2. Eat cooked chicken (yak) like a reunion dinner. In addition to being delicious, cooked chicken also represents ripeness. In rural areas, it means ripeness and richness.

The fat and oily fried pork is also indispensable, which means there must be carp (surplus) during the Fat Year, and there must be surplus for the reunion dinner, which means there will be plenty every year.

3 In the old days, people had to stay up on New Year's Eve, and every house in the house had to light up lights. Nowadays, electric lights are called longevity lights. Some families will light them for three nights in a row, and the family will sit together until the "New Year's Eve".

"Waiting to set off firecrackers.

4. Firecrackers represent prosperity and prosperity. Lighting long firecrackers is indispensable for every household. Rich people often compete with long firecrackers. The longer the firecrackers are lit, the longer the prosperity!

5. Giving New Year's money to children is the first thing every parent does during the "New Year". The New Year's money is usually placed on the children's bedside or under the mat, and must be collected until the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

6. On the morning of the Spring Festival, Xinyi people have the habit of eating sugar water. It is a sweet start to the new year. The preparation of sugar water is similar to that of the Lantern Festival, mostly using glutinous rice flour to wrap sugared sesame seeds.

Add the red dates and lilies and boil the sugar water, then boil the glutinous sugar garden.

Traditionally, Xinyiren does not eat Yuanxiao on the 15th day of the first lunar month, but packs rice balls. This is a roundabout way from the Central Plains custom of celebrating the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first lunar month.

7 The custom of not killing animals during the Spring Festival exists in some rural areas. This is mainly related to the belief of some elderly people in Buddhism.

8 During the Spring Festival, children pay New Year greetings to their elders. The elders give their children "New Year's money", also called "profit". When people meet on this day, they always "congratulate" each other.

If you don't say unlucky words, if you say unlucky words, you will encounter bad luck, and the bad luck will last until the end of the year.

9 The first day of the first lunar month is the first day of the new year. It is a common folk custom not to sweep the floor to avoid sweeping away wealth. The ancients called it "not sweeping the courtyard to collect and store it".

10 Visit parents on the first day of the first lunar month, visit relatives and friends on the second day of the first lunar month, and do not travel far before the third day of the lunar month. The new year usually starts after the fourth lunar month. The abacus rings on the fifth day of the first lunar month. The fifteenth year of the first lunar month is busy. This is the Xinyi Jiutu area

customs.

In the Xinyi Xintu area, there used to be a custom of making a spring ox on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, but now it has gradually disappeared and been replaced by the lion dance.

If it is possible to return to some folk traditions and seek some luck in the New Year, it will be of great help to both the fortunes of the Year of the Ox and people's psychology.

Most people usually celebrate the Spring Festival holiday from the first to the seventh day of the first lunar month. Among these seven days, the most important ones to pay attention to are the first and fifth day of the first lunar month, so these days are very important.

The first day of the first lunar month is the day to welcome the God of Wealth. As the saying goes, it is difficult for scholars, farmers, industry and commerce to survive without money. The first day of the first lunar month is the first day of the new year. It is a common folk custom not to sweep the floor to avoid sweeping away wealth. The ancients called it "not sweeping the floor"

The courtyard is used for collecting and storing things."

On the morning of the Spring Festival, when the door is opened, firecrackers are set off first, which is called "opening the door and firecrackers".

After the sound of firecrackers, the ground was filled with broken red, shining like clouds and brocade, which was called "Man Tang Hong".

At this time, the streets are full of auspiciousness and joy, and people living with their elders pay homage to their parents and bless each other.

The oral greetings on the first day of the Lunar New Year are very important. Relatives wishing each other happy New Year and wishing you good luck are the first words.

At the same time, the first day of the first lunar month is also a day for worshiping gods. Friends with religious beliefs can go to the temple to burn incense and pray for blessings to ensure a smooth and safe year.

In addition, you should be careful with bowls and the like on this day to prevent them from being damaged. If they are accidentally broken, you should say "be safe every year."

The second day of the first lunar month is a good day for visiting relatives. Friends who are traveling long distances or visiting relatives during the New Year holiday can choose to travel on this day, and most of them will go smoothly.

This day is also the day when married daughters take their husbands and children back to their parents' homes to pay New Year's greetings.

On the third day of the first lunar month, Red Dog Day. Red Dog is the god of wrath and is considered a "red mouth", so he cannot go to pay New Year's greetings.

It is believed that this is the day when the red child is angry and brings bad luck to his brother. On the third day of the Lunar New Year, ancestors and gods are worshiped, so many people go to temples to pray for blessings on this day.

On the fourth day of the first lunar month, the Kitchen God wants to check the household registration, so every household must stay at home, prepare abundant fruits, burn incense, light candles and set off firecrackers to show their welcome.

How to have good luck on the fourth day of the Lunar New Year: Paste the new Kitchen God statue in the shrine, light incense and candles, make a cup of tea, and worship the statue.

The way urbanites now do is to clean the kitchen, put the food in categories, and keep it free of garbage and moldy things.

The fifth day of the first lunar month is the day when southerners welcome the God of Wealth. Therefore, at 0:00 on the fifth day of the first lunar month, people open their doors and windows, burn incense, set off firecrackers, and light fireworks to welcome the God of Wealth.

"Giving away the poor" on the sixth day of the first lunar month is a very unique folk custom in ancient my country.

Its meaning is to offer sacrifices to the poor god.

Clean the house and stove, and send garbage and fire ashes out of the house.

The seventh day of the first lunar month is also called Human Day, and firecrackers can usually be set off in the evening.

The seventh day of the lunar month is to celebrate the birth of a person, so on this day everyone often gets together and has a big meal.

Nowadays, urbanites are no longer as particular about celebrating the New Year as they used to be.

From the Southern and Northern Dynasties to the early Tang Dynasty, under the leadership of Mrs. Xian, the Liao people in western Guangdong learned the advanced culture of the Central Plains and integrated with the immigrants from the Central Plains. Some customs during the New Year were brought in by these immigrants from the Central Plains.