When guests come to pay New Year's greetings, firecrackers are set off to welcome them. After the guests are seated, two betel nuts are given to them. The betel nut is known as Yuanbao, which means blessing for wealth.

There is another way of celebrating the New Year in Changsha, which is to pay respect to the four directions on the first day of the year, the second day of the year, and the third day of the year. The first day of the New Year is to do son should go to his parents' home to pay tribute; the second son-in-law should go with the parishioners to pay tribute to his parents-in-law. The third and fourth are friends and relatives to pay tribute to each other.

Zhuzhou (Hunan industrial town)

Yanling County in Zhuzhou is a Hakka settlement in Hunan, and the Hakka people in Yanling attach great importance to New Year's Eve, and generally start drying potato chips and rice rice cakes for New Year's Eve deep-frying and stir-frying as early as a few months before. As soon as the winter solstice arrives, they begin to steam wine and smoke bacon. On New Year's Eve, when they have a reunion dinner, they put a few extra pairs of chopsticks and bowls next to the sumptuous dishes to show that they are inviting their ancestors to come back to spend the New Year together. Hakka people can't just open their doors on the first day of the first month, they have to wait until the auspicious time. When the time comes, the gates of every house are opened, and firecrackers are fired, reverberating through the mountains and fields. From this day onwards, everyone sees each other are arching their hands and say "good new year", children and grandchildren also want to give the elders to pay tribute to the New Year. The third is "send poor ghosts", this day early in the morning, people will be home for two days of accumulation of garbage, to the roadside a pour, will be loaded with garbage dustpan to the garbage on a buckle, burning three incense, put three firecrackers after shouting "poor ghosts to go, rich ghosts to come". This means that the family sends away the poor ghosts, from now on to the rich. Worship also, send "poor ghosts" also, the expression of the Hakka people's deep yearning for a happy life.

Xiangtan (the hometown of the great Mao Zedong)

From the first to the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar, in Xiangtan, no matter in the countryside or in the towns, you can see dragon lanterns dancing and lions playing everywhere. Not only in Xiangtan, this custom can be seen in many places around the central Hunan province. Dance dragon lantern first to "catch the dragon": the dragon dance team often send invitations from house to house, where the invitation is received by the family in turn into the house to dance dragon lantern to express congratulations. During the dance, a dragon dances up and down, spinning left and right, accompanied by cheerful gongs and drums, making the festive atmosphere even more intense.

Yueyang (Fan Zhongyan's Yueyang Tower)

According to Yueyang's old folk custom, on the 24th day of the Lunar month of the Lunar calendar, we have to sacrifice zaos, and in ancient times we used yellow goats to sacrifice zaos, and later on, the folk made offerings of sugar, which is meant to stick to the mouth of the Zaoswangdi, so that he can "say good things to Heaven and keep peace in the lower world". The lower boundaries to ensure peace". Xiangyin, Miluo and other places use more water tofu, said "Zao Wang" is vegetarian.

Yueyang people call the lunch on the 30th day of the Lunar New Year "Lunar New Year's Dinner". The fish on the table should be carp, as the saying goes, "Carp jump Dragon Gate, step by step". The fish is placed on the table, but not all of it can be eaten, symbolizing that there is more than enough for every year. When eating New Year's dinner, you can't eat beef, saying that if you eat beef, the family will not get along. Green vegetables in the Yueyang people's New Year's Eve dinner is not missing, said to eat the green vegetables, a year of fresh, clean, disease-free.

Changde (national civilization and health city, excellent tourist city)

Changde people in the New Year's Eve dinner before the custom of firecrackers, New Year's Eve dinner is usually early in the morning or in the evening, the meal on the table after the first tribute to the elderly have passed away to show respect and miss the feelings. The whole family sits together to eat snacks and chat during the New Year's Eve vigil, and firecrackers are set off at around 12:00 a.m. to celebrate the New Year. On the evening of the 30th, all the lights in the house are turned on, which represents the meaning of a prosperous year ahead. On the first day of the year, you can't throw water outside, sweep the floor, throw garbage outside, or go out, and this custom has been passed down for many years.

Hengyang (Nanyue Hengshan Mountain will make you forget to come back)

In Hengyang for the New Year, there is a dish that you will definitely eat, and this dish must be the first to be served, the name is also very simple, it is called "head bowl". The ingredients used in this head bowl can be rich, usually with rice beans, red dates at the bottom, the top of the round egg, yellow bird meat, fish balls, and then cashews, sea cucumber top.

On the first day of Lunar New Year every year, going to the Nanyue Temple to burn incense reverently has become a must-do for many people in Hengyang on New Year's Day. And there are also people waiting here on the night of the New Year's Eve, just to be able to burn the first incense on the first day of the New Year, you can imagine that the fireworks are full of people's expectations for the coming year.

Yiyang (World Famous Ramie Hometown)

In Yiyang, the New Year's Eve dinner is usually very slow and long. Some people eat for 2 to 3 hours without breaking up. After eating the New Year's dinner, the sky is getting late, this time the family will be piled up in the hall of wood burning fire, but also all the lights inside and outside the house are lit. Yiyang farmers have a saying: "thirty fire, fifteen lights". On New Year's Eve, there is no atmosphere without a big fire. Even on a sunny day, the fire must be burning.

During the Spring Festival, the custom of playing "three-stick drums" is also passed down in Yiyang, Taojiang, Yuanjiang and Nanxian. The performer can be just one person, but there are also two or three people who play together. The performer reads a jingle while throwing and catching three short sticks with both hands. Three short stick as long as the chisel hole at the three coins, thrown when the rustling, rhythmic, fancy, unpredictable.

Loudi (Meishan Dragon Palace is worth a look oh)

In Loudi Xinhua, the first day of the New Year must be prepared for an extremely rich breakfast, folklore says the first meal of the New Year, the more abundant that the more fruitful year. Also in Xinhua, in the Lahua this day, in addition to the traditional ancestral worship God's activities, people have to hold a traditional epidemic ceremony. This activity comes from the ancient exorcism, that is, the ancient rituals to drive away ghosts and epidemics. Xinhua held the ceremony on the day of Lunar New Year's Day is called Lunar New Year's Drumming to drive away the epidemic.

Zhangjiajie (world tourist attraction)

Zhangjiajie's many ethnic minorities, in the customs of the Tujia ethnic group, three times a year, Lunar New Year on the 29th (or 28th) "over the year of catching up," the lunar calendar on the 25th of June over the "June New Year "

There are three times a year in the custom of the ethnic groups.

The night of the "Catch the New Year", the Tujia people set up bonfires, dancing around the bonfire, singing the song of the New Year. "October Year" is the Tujia people in the migration to meet the new home of the first harvest season, the first day of October, the Tujia people organized celebrations, pay their respects to each other, *** celebration of the "October Year".

Huaihua

When the clock strikes zero on the first day of the first month of the lunar year, every household in Huaihua will set off long firecrackers -- the "thousand-pronged whips" -- to signify the end of the old year and to welcome the New Year. Afterwards, everyone closes the door, which is called "Guan Cai Men" - to keep the wealth and happiness that has been gained in time and to prevent it from flowing out of the door. In the early morning of the first day of the year, firecrackers will be set off to open the gate to receive the joy and wealth of the New Year. In addition mochi is one of the most important foods for Huaihua people in the New Year.

Huaihua (the city dragged by the train)

When the clock strikes zero on the first day of the first month, every household in Huaihua will set off long firecrackers - "Qianzihao" - to signify the end of the old year and welcome the new year. Afterwards, everyone closes the door, which is called "Guan Cai Men" - to keep the wealth and happiness that has been gained in time and to prevent it from flowing out of the door. In the early morning of the first day of the year, firecrackers will be set off to open the gate to receive the joy and wealth of the New Year. In addition mochi is one of the most important foods for Huaihua people in the New Year.

Shaoyang (Historical Baoqing Prefecture)

Whenever it comes to the end of the year, every household in Shaoyang must make a dish, which is pig's blood meatballs. People in Shaoyang call pig's blood balls "blood poi", and during the Spring Festival, fried bacon with blood poi is a good dish for Shaoyang people to serve to their guests. In addition to pig's blood meatballs, Shaoyang has also preserved a special Spring Festival custom, that is - Tantou New Year's Paintings. Tantou is located in the southeastern part of Longhui County, Hunan Province, 30 kilometers away from the county town. The town was established at the end of Yuan and the beginning of Ming Dynasty, and was called "Chunan Tantou Town". The hills of Tantou are filled with bamboo, the clear water of the caves and the simple and honest people's customs, which gave birth to Tantou New Year's Paintings, a treasure of China's folk art.

Chenzhou (the backyard of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao)

In the rural areas of Chenzhou, there is a dish that is especially polite at New Year's Eve, and that is a large piece of meat. This chunk of meat lives up to its name because each piece is at least half a kilogram or more, and each guest is expected to eat the whole thing at once.

There are many other special taboos during the New Year in Chenzhou. For example, you can't say the word "scissors" because it will "cut off" good luck, you can't turn off the lights on the night of the 30th, and you can't clean the garbage on the first day of the year.

Yongzhou (have you seen "The Snake Catcher"?)

Yongzhou is famous for its fragrant and sticky sticky sticky rice pudding, which is used to give gifts to each other on New Year's Day. In the first month of the lunar calendar, women carry baskets of mostly sticky rice and sugar when they visit people's homes. To pound the poop, they choose the best sticky rice, steam it in a cauldron, pour it into a mortar pit, and pound it with a pounding drum. It takes a lot of strength to do this, as good glutinous rice is sticky and can't be lifted out if it's stained by a weak pounding machine. After the rice is pounded, the women wash their hands and rub some oil on them to grab a handful out of the mortar pit and make snow-white poi, placing them in a big dustpan. Then use chopsticks to dot a little bit of red color in the middle of each poop, it looks beautiful and auspicious.

Xiangxi Autonomous Prefecture (Shen Congwen's hometown. It is dominated by the Tujia and Miao ethnic groups.)

The people of western Hunan eat their New Year's Eve dinner especially early, which is called the "New Year's Eve Rush". Legend has it that in the past, poor people had to pay off their debts before New Year's Eve, and in order to avoid spending the New Year's Eve in peace because of the debtors' pressure, they rushed to celebrate the New Year's Eve on the 30th day of the year in the early morning, a custom that has been passed down to the present day. On the day before New Year's Eve, people in western Hunan used to wash their hair, take a bath, change into new clothes, go to bed early, and wait until 12:00 a.m. to start preparing the New Year's Eve dinner. The New Year's Eve dinner is usually served from 1:00 am to 5:00 am in the morning. Before the meal is served, a large string of firecrackers is set off in front of the door, and as usual, the eldest person in the family takes the first bite, and then the whole family begins to eat. After the New Year's Eve dinner, the family will go up to the mountains to worship their ancestors at first light.