Wuxi customs include dusting eaves, sending stoves, steaming rice cakes, eating dumplings and offering sacrifices to ancestors.

1. Dust the eaves

As the saying goes, "The more you dust, the more you dust". People will inevitably encounter some troubles in a year, so at the end of the year to welcome the new year, folk customs will use "dust off the eaves" to sweep away their bad luck, hoping for good luck in the New Year with a new look. This custom also purifies the environment at home, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone.

2. Giving away the kitchen stove

The folk custom is that on the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month, family members should pay tribute to the kitchen god who is located in the shrine on the kitchen wall, and give him "giving away the kitchen candy" made of caramel and flour, which means to make the kitchen god sweet-mouthed, and only say good things the day before and the day after, and put a couplet under the kitchen god's shrine: "Go up to heaven and do good things, and the lower bound will be guaranteed.

3. Steaming rice cakes

Rice is scoured at home the day before steaming rice cakes and ground into powder with a stone mill. The powder pulled from the stone mill is made into a small slice, which is called "peach blossom petal". This powder has the best quality. ?

when steaming cakes, first light incense sticks in front of the stove, in the middle of the hall and in front of the sitting room, and close the door. When the first cage cake is baked, before it is ready to be processed, break off a large piece by hand, put it in the cup and put it in the above three places. At this time, the candlelight is shining at home, cigarettes are lingering and steaming. At this time, all the people in the family must taste a piece of rice cake.

4, eat dumplings

On the first day of the first day, in Wuxi, people will eat shredded cakes, dumplings and noodles for breakfast, which means reunion, promotion and longevity. On this day, I only eat leftovers on New Year's Eve, which means "more than enough".

5. Sacrificing ancestors

In folk customs, people will sacrifice their ancestors before beginning of spring. On the one hand, they will not forget their ancestors. On the other hand, in folk customs, they can ask their ancestors to bless their good luck in the coming year.