Customs of the Spring Festival around the world are as follows:
Jiangsu: "dig Yuanbao"
Jiangsu New Year's Eve customs around the country have some unique features. Suzhou people on New Year's Eve in the rice into the cooked water chestnuts, eat when dug out, called "digging treasure", friends and relatives to come and go, bubble tea to be placed into two green olives, said to drink "treasure tea", congratulations on wealth. Wujin people on New Year's Eve sweeping is not allowed to sweep from home to the outside, for fear that the "wealth", "Ruyi" swept out, but only from the outside to the sweep. Nantong people have in front of their homes or hall inserted sesame stalks, holly, cypress branches of the custom, meaning that life blossomed high, verdant all year round.
Shanxi: New Year's Eve dinner can not talk
In Shanxi, there is a "New Year's Eve dinner can not talk" rule. The first meal of the Spring Festival is dumplings. When the dumplings are cooked, firecrackers are fired. For good luck. To drive away evil. Some areas of the fire to cook dumplings with sesame straw, meaning that the new year like sesame blossoms higher and higher, the better the day. Dumplings to cook more, there must be more, meaning "year after year". In addition to a bowl for each person, one or two more bowls are served during the meal, which is meant to pray for a prosperous family.
Hubei: midday meal
Hubei has a custom, has been married to the daughter on New Year's Eve can go back to her mother's home to eat New Year's Eve, but can not stay at her mother's home overnight. In order to facilitate the daughter to eat the meal after rushing back to the in-laws, the local New Year's Eve dinner will generally choose to eat at around 12 noon. The New Year's dinner table must be "whole fish" dish, in order to "year after year", this dish is the last on the table, can only see can not eat, must be left until after the third to move chopsticks, otherwise it will be the elders training.
Jiangxi: daughter son-in-law back to his mother's home can not be the same room
In some places in Jiangxi, has been married to a daughter with her husband back to his mother's home for New Year's Eve, husband and wife are not allowed to sleep in the same bed, not even the same room, the only daughter may be able to break through the custom, or else the father-in-law and mother-in-law would prefer to son-in-law sleep on the floor, but also do not allow the daughter and son-in-law with the same room. And only in the small year (lunar calendar December 24 to 30) during the return to the mother's home, after this time period are not allowed, otherwise it is considered inauspicious for the mother's home.
Tianjin: "chopping small people"
Tianjin people call the fifth day of the first month of the year "broken five". This day. Every family should eat dumplings, and chopping board to chop "thud" loud, so that the four neighbors hear, to show that the "chopping villain". The bad things attributed to the "little man" on the body, in addition to the "little man" the new year in order to be very lucky, smooth. Evening firecrackers, praying for protection from evil spirits.
Tianjin also has a Spring Festival sticker hanging money custom, hanging money is cut with colored paper into a pattern, pasted on the windows and doors of the glass and horizontal prongs, as the Spring Festival festive atmosphere of the embellishment.