What are the customs in Xinyi for the New Year?

General cleaning, as the saying goes, "28, careless washing." Near the end of the year, every household takes out everything that can be cleaned and cleans it all at once, which is only a few days a year.

When making new year's goods, we will buy some new year's goods one after another, and we should prepare our own food, worship and gifts. When I was a child, I thought I was happy for the New Year, because I could eat a lot of things that I couldn't usually eat. There is nothing special about the new year's goods now. You can eat it at ordinary times

Make dumplings. These zongzi are not like those sold in the supermarket during the Dragon Boat Festival, and the length is equivalent to the length of the average person's forearm. Glutinous rice is wrapped in fat pork, sesame seeds, spiced powder and so on. In a year, zongzi and dozens of zongzi are usually wrapped during the Spring Festival. Usually, zongzi can be kept for a long time. In addition to eating by yourself, you should also give back to your relatives and friends. Of course, it is also important to worship God during the New Year. After the New Year's Eve, we began to make zongzi. Before sending the wrapped zongzi to cook, we will say, "If you want to go to the kitchen, go at once. You can't go into the kitchen if you put the zongzi. " Once jiaozi is cooked, children can't go into the kitchen until jiaozi is cooked, otherwise jiaozi won't be cooked.

New clothes, put on new clothes after taking a shower on New Year's Eve. People you see on the street basically wear new clothes on New Year's Day. When children are young, parents will prepare new clothes for their children every New Year, and children will naturally be happy to wear them. If adults think they have a lot of clothes, they don't necessarily buy new ones for themselves during the New Year.

Put up couplets, after the reunion dinner on New Year's Eve, put up couplets at the gate, and hang banners in the compartment. For example, sometimes in front of the house, it says, "academic progress." In some places, the back door of the house will be labeled with "safe entry and exit", and people will put up couplets after setting off firecrackers on New Year's Day morning. These couplets or banners can basically be kept for one year, and they are removed by us every year during the cleaning.

Set off firecrackers. Every household sets off firecrackers together on New Year's Eve, and all they hear is firecrackers. They are excited about the new year when they see the smoke rising near their home and smell the smell of gunpowder. A round of firecrackers is followed by fireworks. The years when firecrackers were forbidden were particularly strict, and now people set off fireworks on the roof every year. There is no clear firecrackers, but you can only feel the atmosphere of the New Year from the fireworks outside the window.

Turn on the light. On New Year's Eve, the party stays up all night. Not all the lights are on, but basically every corner is on. The lights in front of the gate are usually turned on only at night and on New Year's Eve. At this time, as soon as you go out, the whole street is lit up. Some families will turn on the lights in front of their doors every night during the New Year.

Eat noodles, breakfast on the first day of every year, eat noodles, put some lean meat and onions. When the whole family sat together, they began to eat chopsticks. In fact, on the first day of the new year, the whole family will sit together and have breakfast. At other times, because everyone has different time, there is little chance to have breakfast together. The bowl in hand is brand-new, and a new set of chopsticks will be changed every year.

Shopping, for people in urban areas, has the habit of shopping on New Year's Day, which means "good luck" in words. In the past, everyone liked to go to Jinjiang Market or the shops in Laojie and Jiefang Road. Now Taojin Bay and Du Yu Park are crowded places.

You can visit relatives on the second day of New Year's Day, and the New Year will last until the 15th Lantern Festival. There is a more lively festival than the Lantern Festival, that is, the New Year Festival. Generally, before the Lantern Festival, the time of the year varies from village to village. If New Year's Eve is a family reunion and New Year's Day is the beginning of the reunion of two families, then the New Year is a festival celebrated by the whole village. The annual meeting lasts for several days. As the annual meeting approaches, every household in the village will donate money to hold some activities. I used to watch open-air movies, puppet shows and set off fireworks in the open space of the temple. Now it's changed to set up a stage to watch people take classes, dance dragons and swim the streets.

Since the second day of the Lunar New Year, there has been a lion dance team beating gongs and drums. Anyone who needs the blessing of the lion dance will prepare a red envelope in advance and hang it from the second floor with a few onions when he sees a team passing by.

No sweeping the floor on the first day of the new year, no haircut during the new year. When you get married, you have to pay dividends.