There are a lot of Chinese New Year customs in Xinji, and if you want to eat, there are many different kinds of food, such as Yipin pot, meatballs, dumplings with yellow leeks and cooked meat, and meat cake ......, but if you want to talk about the necessary dishes for the New Year's Eve dinner, it is Yipin pot.
Yipin pot as a local dish in Xinji, known for its long history and fine production. In the past, the full name of the Yipin Pot was Yuanyang Marbles Yipin Pot, which has a good meaning, coupled with a balanced combination of meat and vegetables, fragrant and delicious, and has become a big dish for the New Year's Eve of Xinji people.
The first day of the New Year can not move the broom, otherwise it will sweep away luck, broke the fortune. If you have to sweep the floor, you must sweep from the outside to the inside. To today many places are still preserved a custom, clean before New Year's Eve, the first day of the year not out of the broom, do not pour the garbage, prepare a large bucket of waste water, the day does not splash.
The second day of the Lunar New Year, married daughters back to their parents' homes, to be accompanied by their husbands and son-in-laws, so it is commonly known as the "son-in-law day". On this day, the daughter must bring some gifts and red envelopes to distribute to the children in her mother's home, and have lunch in her mother's home, but must return to her in-laws before dinner.
The fifth day of the Lunar New Year is commonly known as the Fifth Day of the Year, and it is necessary to "drive the five poor", including the "wisdom poor, learning poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor. People get up at dawn, firecrackers, cleaning. The firecrackers are set off from the inside out, and the firecrackers are set off while walking out the door. It is said that all unlucky things will be blasted out.