Drinking tea is a Guangzhou custom.
New Year's Eve customs:
1. The Chinese New Year Flower Market is held from December 28 of the lunar calendar to late at night on New Year's Eve, with millions of people attending the event.
2. Every family must have flowers, including Chinese New Year oranges, daffodils and flowers.
3. The lions of Guangdong are different from those of other provinces and are called "waking lions". The lion dance in Guangdong is different from those in other provinces and is called "Waking Lion". It has Guangdong characteristics in both production and dance. Guangdong Lion Dance originated in Foshan during the Spring Festival lion dance activities, in addition to performances in the square, but also along the street dance, house by house to congratulate, to show that the lion in front of the door, good luck, the master of the house is rewarded in the door, packet red hanging green, so that RuiLi to pick, called "picking green". Through this activity, we hope that the lion can bring good luck to the family. Next is the Dragon Dance, Guangdong's dragon dance, a variety of names, a thousand different styles, different dragon dance, puts people's different ideals and aspirations. The Spring Festival is a day of celebration, playing and dancing is more enthusiastic and exuberant colorful dragons, golden dragons and yarn dragons and so on, the daytime dance cloth dragons, the night play dragon lanterns.
Old customs: according to the "old wide" old customs, the first day of the Lunar New Year can not wash their hair, for fear of washing away the wealth; the second day of the Lunar New Year is the beginning of the New Year, since New Year's Eve New Year's Eve dinner, to the day to move the meat; the third day of the Lunar New Year is the red mouth, do not pay tribute to New Year's Day, easy to attract right and wrong; followed by the Chegongxian, the day of the people and so on have to talk about the preoccupations. Also, you can't buy shoes for the New Year because the Cantonese pronunciation of "鞋" is the same as "唉"; buying books is even worse because the pronunciation of books is the same as "输", which means "lose, lose, lose", which is even more important. It is even more taboo to buy books. In the big festival, happy birthday feast, used to talk about auspicious words, do not say the words of mourning. If someone accidentally broke the dishes, that is, read a "years and years (harmonic broken) peace", or "the ground blossoms, wealth and honor".
Almost all of these are different.