Customs of the Spring Festival in Guangxi:
1, Nanning Chongzuo area
Whenever the Spring Festival is approaching, the people of Nanning will prepare a lot of New Year's Eve food, among them, rice cakes, rice dumplings, powder is the Nanning people over the Spring Festival of the necessary traditional food, commonly known as the Spring Festival food, "three pieces of head".
New Year's cake and rice dumplings means "high year (cake) in (dumplings)", Nanning people to buy rice cakes to print the word "hair"; and powder Li and the Spring Festival on both sides of the gateway potted tangerine combination of "years of good luck (tangerine) Li! It is also a combination of "Fanli" and the potted oranges placed on both sides of the gateway during the Spring Festival.
2, Guilin - Liuzhou - Hechi area
Dragon and lion dance to pay homage to the New Year is a favorite traditional project of the people of Guilin and Liuzhou, so every Spring Festival eve, the dragon and lion dance team will be dressed up the dragon and lion, practicing the traditional routines of the dragon and lion dance.
3, Beihai - Qinzhou - Fangchenggang Beibu Gulf area
The Spring Festival - the beginning of the Lunar New Year through the closed doors, every family posted red couplets. The practice of the first day of the year is not the street. The phrase "Congratulations on the New Year, add Ding Fa Cai" can be heard anywhere and everywhere. New Year's custom "first day of fasting", shall not pour water to the ground, to congratulate the New Year is the rite of meeting, the elders accustomed to give packets to the children.
The second day of the first month of the first tooth to worship, business owners especially grand, New Year's Eve out on the street to choose the day, choose the hour, choose the direction of the auspicious.
4, Guiping - Yulin - Wuzhou area
This direction of the people over the Spring Festival is quite local color. A few days before, people began to "three busy":
One busy "clean house", the family to clean, remove dirt and grime;
Two busy "to do the New Year", to prepare for the New Year's Day required chickens (chicken). The New Year's Eve requires chickens (castrated chickens are the main ones, and geese are the main ones in Luchuan area), ducks, fish, meat, and all kinds of vegetables. As well as spring couplets, firecrackers, joss paper candles, etc.;
Three busy "fried food", making a variety of fried foods such as "white scattered", crispy angle, crispy, thin crisps and so on.
The year-end vigil to midnight at zero hour, families scrambled to firecrackers, in a joyful resignation of the old and welcome the new, and began to bless each other with the best words. In Rongxian, Bobai and other places in the New Year's Eve vigil mostly sleepless all night, keep an all-night.
5, Baise - Debo - Jingxi = Longlin area
In Baise City, Guanxi, a number of counties in rural areas, every New Year's Eve, still inherited a number of different places, each with its own characteristics, interesting, colorful old customs.
Every year on New Year's Day, many places in the countryside are killing pigs for New Year's Day.
Expanded:
Guangxi, abbreviated as "Gui". Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, capital city of Nanning. It is named after the ancient place name "Guangxin", and the two provinces are divided by Guangxin, and the western part of Guangxin is called Guangxi. It is adjacent to Guangdong, Hunan, Guizhou and Yunnan, and across the sea from Hainan, with 14 prefectural-level cities and 111 county-level administrative districts (40 municipal districts, 8 county-level cities, 52 counties and 12 autonomous counties) under its jurisdiction. With the Beibu Gulf to the south, it is the only autonomous region along the coast of China.
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