Suzhou customs: Spring Festival early in the morning to open the door to the three firecrackers, called the "high rise three levels". Early in the morning to go out, to follow the direction specified in the yellow calendar, called "happy God side". And to the city god, land and other temples to burn incense, must have gone through ten temples is stopped, called "burn ten temple incense. From the Spring Festival to the Lantern Festival, whether or not to burn huge coals in the fireplace is called "Joyful Dumpling". According to the legend of Junan people, eating soup dumplings can catch the God of Fortune, so from the early morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, the soup dumplings started to come down, and there were soup dumplings to be eaten every day until the Lantern Festival. In Wujin County, women cut pine and cypress branches in the Spring Festival, wrap them in red silk and put them in their hair buns, which is said to help them live a long life.
Since entering the waxing moon, there are literati writing spring scrolls under the eaves of the marketplace, in order to earn some silver for the New Year. After the sacrificial stove, the new spring couplets gradually sticky hanging, thousands of families, a new look. Some people with Zhu paper, some with red paper, only the inner court and the royal family princes and so on routinely use white paper, set with red and blue edges, not the clan shall not be unauthorized use.
Lunar New Year will be bundled up in a belly in a small apparatus, placed in the ground five feet or so, burning fire, so that the ground slightly warm, the plum blossoms will gradually put back to the white, with a cage of paper, to the market to sell, small peach, Yu Li, Yingchun can be so. In the prosperous areas, they set up mats and scaffolds to sell paintings. Women and children compete to buy, for fun.
On the first day of the Lunar New Year, the street sells congee fruit rows into the market. More walnuts, persimmons, jujube, chestnut, dried lingjiao rice people, shoulder basket storage, called and sold. Next, there were fat pheasants, Guandong fish, wild cats, wild rasps, preserved meat, iron bird, deep-fried noodle cake, big Buddha flower, doo light thousand sheets, and floor zhuangyuanbao. After the 10th day of the lunar month, they sell guard paintings, door gods, hanging money, gold and silver foils, ingot and yellow money, pin gold inverted you, horse burnt paper, glass mirrors, and window eyes. After the 20th, they sell sugar melons, sugar cakes, glutinous rice and bamboo cakes, Guandong sugar. Bad grass copied beans, is the 23rd to send the stove when the supply of the gods and horses. There are also selling kilns, copper and silver for porcelain bowls, the capital of the incense burner candlestick; smothered gourd, children to save money; support pots and wattage, stove with the help of the Cuan. To the 25th after the sale of sesame straw, pine and cypress branches, South Cangzhu for the "simmering age" of the use. Lunar month the price of all things are more expensive than the weekdays, so there is a "Lunar month of soil and water expensive three proverb". Elderly people to this time, always want to advise the younger generation to spend money carefully, so there is "twenty-seven or eighty-eight, flat to take the product grasp" of the proverb
Spring Festival of Jiangsu folk, in addition to posting Spring Festival couplets, hang the New Year's Eve paintings, vigilance, lion dance, the New Year's Eve and other customs like the whole country, and there are also a number of unique customs are now recorded several of them for the benefit of the readers.
Suzhou people New Year's Eve in the rice into the cooked water chestnuts, digging out when eating, called "digging treasure", friends and relatives to come and go, make tea to be placed into the two green olives, said to drink "treasure tea", congratulations on wealth.