What festival is Lanzhou today?

Lanzhou has the custom of "weeping at the end of the world", mainly because most Lanzhou people immigrated from Shanxi or the south, far from their ancestral homes, and could not go to the ancestral temple to express their thoughts for their deceased relatives.

The custom of the old Lanzhou people is to eat minced meat noodles on New Year's Eve, also known as "long noodles", which symbolizes family reunion, health and longevity, and eternity. Minced meat noodles are boiled handmade noodles with minced meat, day lily, fungus, eggs, tofu and garlic sprouts. It is full of flavor, including the sweetness, hardship and luck of life in the past year, as well as the beautiful vision of life in the next year. In recent years, jiaozi has eaten on New Year's Eve, which is the custom in most northern areas. When eating noodles, the first bowl of noodles should be dedicated to ancestors, which is called "offering noodles".

After worshipping the family god, I began to "keep the old age". Young students should kowtow to their elders to pay New Year's greetings, while old people give their children "lucky money". On the night of Shousui, the whole family, old and young, stayed up all night and sat around laughing and laughing until dawn, so it was also called "vigil" and "Ao Shou".

Late at night, the "vinegar altar" began. The man holds a big iron spoon in his hand, which is filled with old vinegar. Add the red-hot chicken pebbles to the vinegar spoon with a poker, and the vinegar will give off a strong smell when heated. "Vinegar altar" holds a vinegar spoon in its left hand, and a sorghum spike with seeds in its right hand is dipped in vinegar and sprinkled in every room, kitchen, toilet, cattle and sheep, and every corner of the horse pen, in order to sweep away the unclean air accumulated due to closure in winter.

As time passed, every household took action and set off firecrackers to welcome the New Year. Firecrackers tell people that the old year has passed and the new year is coming.