Shandong

In Shandong, wrapping dumplings and deep-frying New Year's goods is an important annual activity on the 30th day of the Lunar New Year. After breakfast, the female elders in the family start wrapping dumplings, while the male elders start deep-frying New Year's goods. There is also a special custom here, that is, when wrapping the dumplings, the flour should be a little more, after wrapping the dumplings must be left a little bit of flour, kneaded into an oval shape, all for two, symbolizing the "big treasure", which means that in the coming year the source of wealth is wide and prosperous.

Anhui

Ancestor worship, most places in Anhui is the 24th day of the lunar month, a few days before and after the New Year to go to the tomb to worship their ancestors, can not be delayed too late. Twenty-six, kill the New Year's pig, every Lunar New Year 26, rural households will kill the New Year's pig, and then make a sumptuous food, to entertain the townspeople and relatives, but now basically buy meat. On the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, they will all eat a piece or two of Bu Bu Bu Cake, either home-steamed or bought pastries, whichever they are.

Henan

"Twenty-three, sacrificing zaosuan; twenty-four, sweeping the house; twenty-five, grinding tofu; twenty-six, go cut meat; twenty-seven, kill a chicken; twenty-eight, steam jujube flower; twenty-nine, go to beat the wine; thirty, pinch the nose (dumplings); the first day of the year, pouting messy bowing children."

Hubei

Tuanfeng people drink chicken soup for the first meal of the Spring Festival, symbolizing "qingtai peace". Among them, the main laborers also eat chicken claws, meaning "New Year's catching money", "hopeful students" to eat chicken wings, meaning that they can spread their wings and fly, when the family members are eating chicken bones, with the meaning of "outstanding! "The first meal at Zigui people eat oil. Zigui people ate the first meal of fried artemisia, take its harmonic "hundred good" for good luck. Jingzhou, Shashi area, the first meal to eat eggs, meaning "real, good luck". In case of guests, to eat two boiled very tender, can see through the egg white yolk of the "lotus eggs", meaning "silver wrapped in gold, gold wrapped in silver, gold and silver".

Sichuan

Sichuan people attach great importance to the Lunar New Year, every family hangs colorful lanterns, paste the God of the Door, and in the grain silo, poultry and livestock circles on the stickers written in the language of good luck to show that the next year's harvest. Conditions of the Hakka townships from the first month to February to play the lights dance, the types of lights are dragon lights, lion lights, clam lights, etc., which is the Sichuan people in the origin of the colorful lamps of the custom handed down to this day. In addition, large-scale celebrations will be held - dragon dance, there are colorful dragons, fire dragons, dragons, water dragons, off the festival dragon and and on the Sichuan dragon.

Yunnan

An important part of the New Year's Eve dinner table in old Kunming was a whole fish. Wealthy people usually choose a very large fish, carp, grass carp, whether braised or steamed, as long as it is complete. Eating fish on New Year's Day is in line with the Chinese people's wish for a good year - a good year's harvest and a rich life.

Guizhou

Da Cai Nian, or Spring Festival, is celebrated a few days before the festival, when families brew yellow and white rice wine, and prepare rice, wheat, bait and oatmeal fried noodles and other delicacies. The day before the festival, two lighted incense sticks and two green pine branches are inserted in front of the ancestors' tablets, and a small pine tree is planted in the yard, which is called sacrificing to the god of the tree, after which chickens are slaughtered and cooking is done to receive the ancestors and sacrifice to the pots and pans to ask for blessings for the coming year's harvest and the safety of the whole family. The next day to back pure water and eat New Year's dinner, but also held horse races, target shooting, wrestling, high jump, kicking the carpet and other activities, mountain singing is not finished, the joy of the cottage. On the fourth day after sacrificing the pot pile, and then to send the ancestors back.

Hunan

New Year's Eve bathing, in addition to the home to clean up, individuals must also be in the New Year before the arrival of a good wash, wash away the bad luck of the old year and the bad luck, to a new attitude to meet the New Year.

Guangxi

According to the unique Spring Festival customs of the Zhuang family, it is necessary to carry out activities such as picking new water, drinking velvet water, lion dance, chicken dance, and spring bull dance. On the first day of the zero hour, families set off firecrackers, saying goodbye to the old and welcome the new, on the second day of the family and friends with gifts to visit each other "New Year's greetings", fifteen Lantern Festival night lanterns, sixteen rural temple fairs.

Guangdong

Part of the first meal of the Spring Festival in some areas to eat "Wannian food", that is, enough to do the Spring Festival three days of the family to eat the meal, meaning "no worries about food and drink" meaning. Before New Year's Eve, people will be busy to prepare for all kinds of New Year's goods: buy chickens, geese, ducks, fish and meat; add new clothes and accessories; newly purchased furniture, utensils; purchase of New Year's paintings, Chinese New Year scrolls, and so on. Especially to buy oranges, green olives and other fruits as a symbol of good luck and welcome friends and relatives of the fruit. Old custom before the New Year, men must be new haircut, women must be "pulled face", now more women for the haircut beauty.

Jiangxi

Line Flower Street, the Spring Festival every year, according to the custom of successive generations, will organize the annual Lantern Festival Flower Market. Lunar New Year's Eve flower market generally in the Spring Festival about ten days before the start, to the end of the year thirty night twelve o'clock, New Year's Eve is the culmination of the Lunar New Year's Eve flower market, the closer to the first of the year, the more popular the more prosperous. The market sells flowers, Chinese New Year oranges and handicrafts.

Fujian

Lunar New Year's Day 27 to 29 for the Guanzhi people steamed buns time, every family will steam a lot of steamed buns and buns, and to prepare gift buns. Gift buns are divided into three kinds: one is the daughter-in-law to bring to the mother's family of the "big bun", shaped like a snail shell, inside the bread is vegetable oil, dry noodles, green onions mixed with the filling; a kind of not too much to bring to the distant relatives of the "small bun", shaped like a diamond horn; in addition to their own bun, made into a tiger, birds, fish, and so on, and so on. These buns are made in the shape of tigers, birds, fish and other auspicious animals, and the top surface of the bun is dotted with red paint to symbolize good luck. These buns and buns should be eaten until after the 15th day of the first month of the lunar calendar, and there is a custom of "not rolling out the noodles before the 15th day of the first month of the lunar calendar".

Zhejiang

Open Door Cannon: In the early morning of the first day of the first day, the first thing that every household does is to scramble to hit the "open door cannon", the whole city a firecrackers, symbolizing to send the old to welcome the new and to receive the blessing, commonly known as "to receive the New Year". Playing the "door cannon" also has the practice, generally the first small firecrackers a string, called "100 children gun"; and then put the double sound of big firecrackers, big firecrackers only three hair, meaning that can lift the year's plague disaster obscurity and said to pick up the New Year. Requirements for three rounds are loud, bright and clear sound, the most auspicious, commonly believed to play "open door cannon" the sooner the better, symbolizing that this year, do whatever will go smoothly, as you want to get rich, planting people will have a bumper crop.

Shanghai

Shanghai people in the waxing moon on the 25th to sacrifice the city god, which is one of the major activities of the Spring Festival period, the Ming and Qing dynasties have been uninterrupted. Shanghai people in the Spring Festival pay more attention to two old customs, one is to eat New Year's Eve dinner; the second is to visit the City God Temple. Shanghai people on the New Year's Eve dinner is very elaborate, before entering the waxing moon began to open, chicken, duck, fish, meat, southern goods, northern goods, fruits, pastries, candies, melons, all strive to handle complete. New Year's Eve dinner dishes, fried, stir-fried, deep-fried, braised, all have, color, aroma, taste, shape, are up to perfection. Housewives show their skills, men go out to buy, the whole month of Lunar New Year's happy family, "Learning to be rich," "day into the gold," all kinds of auspicious words can bring a warm atmosphere of the family.

Jiangsu

Suzhou New Year's Eve in the rice into the cooked water chestnuts, eat when dug out, known as the "digging Yuanbao", friends and relatives to come and go, make tea to be placed into the two green olives, said to drink "Yuanbao tea", congratulations on wealth.

Hainan

First of all, December 24 to send "Zao Gong". Legend has it that "Zao Gong" is the Jade Emperor sent to the earth to monitor the good and evil God, every year on this day to heaven to report to the Jade Emperor. For this reason, every household uses bamboo handles or sticks to clean the front and back of the house, inside and outside, above and below the house, and the incense burner is also cleaned and replaced with new ashes, and at night, wine and fruits are prepared and offered as a farewell for the "Zao Gong".

Hong Kong

In recent years, very few Hong Kong people have traditionally put up Chinese New Year couplets and paintings in their homes during the Lunar New Year, and instead they put up spring scrolls in some stores or at home to wish them "prosperous business" and "peace in and out of the city". In spite of this, the original intention of putting up spring scrolls is the same as putting up spring couplets and New Year's paintings, which is to take its auspicious meaning and hope that everything will go smoothly and peacefully in the coming year.

Taiwan

Since the ancestors of the Bao residents (mostly Minnan and Hakka) went to Taiwan to develop the country, it is important for the residents of Bao to have a good understanding of the Chinese culture. Every lunar month 23 "sacrificial stove" day this day, Taiwan compatriots have to put on good clothes, in the home for the pig, sheep, chickens, ducks, fish and other livestock seafood, as well as melon, candy, tea and other offerings, and then burn incense firecrackers, for the stove God to send off, hoping that its "heavenly words good things! "

Macao's New Year's Eve is the first year of the Chinese New Year, and it's the first year of the Chinese New Year's Eve.

Macao

On New Year's Eve, the New Year's Eve vigil and the flower market are the two major events for Macanese to celebrate the old and welcome the new. Vigilance is playing mahjong, watching TV, chatting, *** enjoy the joy of family, probably influenced by the Western Christmas and Valentine's Day, the Lantern Macau people also scrambled to buy some auspicious flowers and trees to welcome the New Year, has now become a Macau custom. Macau in the Lantern Festival organized flower market, mostly peach blossoms, daffodils, potted bamboo, potted oranges, blossoms, wishing for peace, flowers and trees signify a new year's good prospects. Macau's flower market is held for three days, which gives endless comfort to the people of Macau who have been running around for a year.