Generally on the 20th day of the year or around the time of the stove sacrifice, every family chooses an auspicious day to clean the door and courtyard, from the rafters and tiles down to the ditches, all corners of the house and the sides of the house. Brooms are tied with long poles and brushed everywhere.

And wash all the utensils to prepare for the New Year cleanly, which is also called "dusting off the new".

In the old days, in Cangnan, long-term workers went home to celebrate the New Year, so there was a saying of "not eating twenty-four meals for a long time."

Nowadays, every year around the 24th day of the lunar calendar, the custom of "dusting off the new year" in the twelfth lunar month is still followed, and the whole city carries out a cleaning and sanitation campaign centered on sweeping dust to welcome the new year.

On New Year's Eve, families gather together to have a wine dinner, or invite friends and relatives to have a meal together and drink happily, which is called "part-year wine".

Because New Year's Eve is the dividing line between the old and new years, eating Fensui wine means that the old and new years are separated on this night.

Therefore, no matter whether you are rich or poor, you should try to make this meal as sumptuous as possible.

Wenzhou people are very particular about eating "New Year's Eve dinner", also known as "New Year's Eve dinner".

The most important thing to pay attention to when eating is auspiciousness.

Generally, ten cinnabar tall red bowls are used at the banquet to hold ten kinds of cold dishes, which are called "Shiquan".

In addition to chicken and meat, there must be peanuts (called knots), citrus (called good luck), carp (called jumping over the dragon's door), tofu (called house cleaning), etc., and each bowl must have a thinly sliced ??round shape.

A carrot head is placed on the top to show favor.

In addition, taro and fish must not be missing from the main dishes served in the middle.

In Wenzhou dialect, the homophones of taro are "yu" and "yu", which means that if you eat taro, your family will have more than enough income next year and you will gradually become rich.

Eating fish also symbolizes "abundance every year".

The first dish on the table must be rice cakes, which means "open the cannon and close the cannon every year." In the early morning of New Year's Day, the first thing every household does is to rush to open the "open cannon". The whole city is filled with the sound of firecrackers, symbolizing farewell to the old and welcoming the new.

It is also customary to fire "opening firecrackers" to receive blessings. Usually, a bunch of small firecrackers are set off first, called "baizicrackers";

The year of epidemics and disasters will be over, and it is required to ring the three bells in a loud and clear voice, which is the most auspicious. According to popular belief, the sooner you open the "open gun", it means that whatever you do this year will go smoothly, and you will get rich and farm.

People will have a good harvest. In some places, when opening the door cannon, they also say something like: "Open the door, fire up the cannon; wealth will come, and happiness will come."

"Generally, the outer skin and inner skin of firecrackers are both bright red. After setting off, the paper flowers are all over the ground, shining like clouds and brocade, and the whole house is full of auspicious colors and joy. Every New Year's Eve, every household will set off firecrackers. This is called "closing the door". Happy New Year.

According to the old custom, Wenzhou people did not visit relatives on the first day of the first lunar month. The New Year greetings were usually from the second to the tenth or extended to the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. Before the 1950s, gifts were relatively simple.

They are longan, lychee, red dates, yuan dates, brown sugar, persimmons, etc., wrapped in special straw paper and sealed with red paper (some are printed with lace words to celebrate the New Year), so they are called "paper bags", also known as "Gao Peng Bao"

"Bao" and "Red Bao". Unwrapped gifts are about half a catty, and how many bags need to be sent depends on the situation of the relatives. In the old Nanhuo store, during the Spring Festival, many people bought red envelopes. From December 2

From 10 to 9 p.m., the shop assistants are busy giving out red envelopes until late at night, and each person can have a bowl of fried rice cakes with mustard greens for dinner. If business is good, some stores will give out red envelopes until after the Lantern Festival.

It was funny to say that there were only more than twenty red dates in it. After passing through the East family, I sent it to the West family, and then the West family sent it to the Nan family... Finally, the bag broke, and the children dug holes in the bag and ate it.

, sometimes there is only one left, and it is still being sent back and forth." (Nowadays, "noodles" are also used to mean "longevity"), and the last dish must be "eight-treasure rice", which symbolizes "making fortune and bringing treasures".