Shenzhen people usually start preparing for the Spring Festival on the afternoon of New Year's Eve, posting door gods and Spring Festival couplets, welcoming the kitchen god into the house, and worshiping heaven, earth, ancestors, etc. The whole family should wash themselves with "Daji water" (using orange peels, pomelo leaves, etc.).
Shenzhen has a saying of "Eastern Lin and Western Lion", that is, the Hakka people dance the unicorn in the east and the lion dance in the vernacular area in the west. During the New Year, Kirin teams and lion dance teams from each village went to neighboring villages of the same clan to pay New Year greetings and connect with each other.
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Guangfu people grab fireworks:
At the moment just after early morning, every household opens the door and says "open the door!" However, fireworks are no longer allowed to be set off in Shenzhen, which lacks some of the joy of the Spring Festival. In the past, firecrackers continued to sound from early morning to dawn in Shenzhen, which created a more New Year atmosphere, but it polluted the air.
Cantonese people from Futian, Nantou, Xixiang, Shajing, Songgang, and Gongming used to raise money to buy the biggest cannons and set them off in the open space of the village in the early morning of the first day of the new year. Who can grab the one in the middle? Whoever can use the cannon head to prevent it from exploding will be a capable person and a hero in the village, and will be immediately applauded by the villagers and rewarded by the elders. The one who seizes the cannon head will win a good fortune.
Nowadays, there is still an activity of "grabbing cannons and returning cannons" in the Xixiang area of ??Bao'an. Whenever the arrows and cannons are set off and the numbered firecrackers fall from the sky, people flock to it like a tide. Where the firecrackers land, fight for the numbered firecrackers for good luck.