Folk custom of Spring Festival in Cangnan County, Wenzhou City, Zhejiang Province and its enlightenment

During the Spring Festival in Cangnan County, Wenzhou City, Zhejiang Province, the folk customs mainly include: pounding rice cakes, burning incense, selling arts, believing in Yangfu and welcoming the Spring Festival in Thailand, polytheism and "gathering knives and carts", believing in Mazu and "Mazu security patrol".

Cangnan County, Wenzhou City, Zhejiang Province, is located in the southeast of Zhejiang Province, with a population of 1.3 million. Most of them are descendants of Fujian immigrants in Ming and Qing Dynasties. The conflict and integration of Fujian and Vietnam cultures have formed a multi-religious belief culture in Cangnan County.

Families in Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province want to buy a lot of "new year's goods", such as Spring Festival couplets, blessings, new clothes and food (most markets are closed during the New Year). Celebrating the Spring Festival is an important activity for China people. Compared with the past, China people's way of buying new year's goods has become more modern, and they are not constrained by tradition.

In China, the Spring Festival usually begins with offering sacrifices to stoves. The folk song "Twenty-three, Melon Stick" refers to the sacrificial stove on the 23rd or 24th of the twelfth lunar month every year. There is a saying that "officials, three people, four boatmen and five", that is, in the twelfth lunar month, officials hold sacrificial stoves, 24 officials hold them, and 20 senses hold them.