"Spring Festival in Shanwei" In the Hailufeng area of ??Shanwei, there are many unique folk customs for celebrating the Spring Festival.

Hailufeng has the saying of "Eight Festivals of the Year", and the Spring Festival is the first of the eight festivals and the most solemn festival.

The New Year begins on the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month.

After "sweeping the dust" on this day, some people begin to put up New Year paintings and New Year couplets to heighten the festive atmosphere; every household buys candied fruits, tea ingredients, and sugar, and puts them in front of the "Siming Zaojun" on the stove, brewing them to make them fragrant.

Tea, then burning incense and setting off firecrackers to see off the "Zao Lord".

There are still many days before the Chinese New Year, and every household will happily prepare New Year's goods to welcome the New Year.

New Year's Eve The last day of the lunar year is called New Year's Eve, and this night is called New Year's Eve. The custom in Shanwei is called "New Year's Eve".

Before New Year's Eve, people are busy preparing all kinds of New Year's goods: buying chickens, geese, ducks, and fish; making new clothes; buying new furniture and utensils; buying New Year paintings, Spring Festival couplets, etc.

In particular, you should buy citrus, green olives and other fruits as they symbolize good luck and are good fruits for welcoming relatives and friends.

It is an old custom that before the Chinese New Year, men must get a new haircut and women must "put their faces in shape". Nowadays, most women get haircuts to beautify their hair.

The 24th day of the twelfth lunar month is the time when the "gods" go to heaven to "report their duties."

Starting from this day, every household will do a general cleaning, and all utensils and bed sheets will be cleaned, which is called "collecting and hoarding".

One or two days before New Year's Eve, every household makes various kinds of cakes to prepare for the New Year.

Family members who go out on New Year’s Eve have to rush home to reunite.

On New Year's Eve, the whole family gathers around the fire for a reunion dinner.

After the meal, the adults distribute "New Year's money" to the children, and the children to their parents and elders.

In the evening, the water tank in the farmhouse should be filled with water, the rice tank should be filled with rice, and the lights should not be extinguished to symbolize the good omen of "more than enough every year" and "constant cooking every year".

The custom of staying up late on New Year's Eve is very common.

Waiting for the arrival of the New Year, the New Year bell rings and every household sets off firecrackers.

After the New Year's Eve dinner, every household's house is decorated with a new look, and New Year's Eve is approaching.

Therefore, housewives are busy preparing for the most sumptuous and meaningful reunion dinner of the year.

Reunion dinner, as the name suggests, is when the family gathers together to have a meal during the Chinese New Year, and even the deceased ancestors do not forget it.

Therefore, after every family has prepared a reunion dinner, they must first "worship their husbands" (sacrifice their ancestors).

When worshiping ancestors, the incense burner representing the ancestors should be taken down from the shrine and placed on the altar table, then burn incense, pray, and invite the ancestors to have a meal.

Then the elders and the younger ones kneel down and worship in sequence, which fully demonstrates the traditional virtues of the fashionable people who are prudent and pursue filial piety first.

After the sacrifice, the meals used to worship the ancestors are reheated, a big table is set in the hall, and the whole family gathers around them. This is a beautiful moment for every family to reunite.

No matter how far apart a family is or how much trouble they usually have, they should laugh and laugh at this time instead of saying sad things or making noise.

After dinner, the housewife was busy clearing the dining table, and a general cleaning activity began.

There is no need to be particular about the cleaning this time, it is purely for cleanliness and hygiene. Unlike the one at the end of the year, it had to be swept with pine branches and grass.

Then they lighted the stove and started preparing the vegetarian food for worshiping the gods tomorrow.

There are many types of vegetarian dishes, some are made from taro, some are made from sweet potatoes, some are made from dates, and some are made from peanuts, taro and sweet potatoes.

All ingredients for vegetarian dishes should be prepared in the afternoon and allowed to dry.

When frying vegetarian vegetables, when the fire is lit, put an iron pan and pour a large amount of peanut oil.

When the oil boils, mix these ingredients into the slurry and put it into the pot. It will bubble in the oil pot.

When ripe, the yellow color and fragrant aroma are particularly attractive.

At this time, if there are guests at home, the hostess will offer you a plate of freshly fried vegetarian dishes, and then brew them with fragrant Gongfu tea, allowing you to taste the deliciousness of the famous Shanwei snacks.

Sending New Year's Money Sending New Year's Money is an important custom in Chaoshan Spring Festival. Elders should give money to their younger generations, and younger generations who can make money should also give money to their elders.

The money should not be given away in a blank manner, but should be carefully packed in a profit bag or wrapped in a piece of red paper.

This is commonly known as "pressing the belly and waist", which means that from beginning to end of the year, the pockets will be full and rich.

What is particularly interesting is that before a child goes to bed, parents will put a large-denomination banknote in the child's belly pocket and take the banknote back after waking up.

To pay New Year greetings, send big oranges to pay New Year greetings, also known as "Worship the Righteousness".

On the early morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, after people get up and put on new clothes, the first thing they do is worship at home. It is often the younger generation who first bless their elders, and then the elders give their younger generations their wishes.

After breakfast, everyone would like to send New Year greetings to their relatives and friends.

A Shanwei proverb says: "If you are interested in greeting the first or second day of the new year, you have no intention of greeting the third or fourth day of the new year." It means that the earlier the New Year greetings are, the more sincerity they show.

Therefore, some people go to pay New Year greetings to relatives and friends immediately after getting up, and only eat after returning.

No matter how many gifts a New Year visitor brings, oranges are indispensable.

The homophony of big orange is "big luck". It doesn't matter if there are more or less characters, but it cannot be an odd number.

When New Year greeters enter the door of relatives and friends, they should say different greetings to different people.

If you say "good luck in the new year" and "longevity to the south" to the elderly, the old people will grin with toothless smiles; if you say "good luck in the work" and "progress in the new year" to those who have jobs, the listeners will find it very pleasant;

For business people, nothing is more popular than "making big profits in the New Year" and "making a fortune and benefiting the market." If they are children who are studying, what they want most is to make progress in their studies and achieve outstanding results in the New Year.

Send them this kind of message and they will be very kind to you.