The man is going to visit relatives and friends for the New Year. They don't need to buy any gifts. When they arrive at their relatives and friends' homes, they will bring firecrackers to light them, even if they are going to pay a New Year call!
If you are a woman, you don't need to set off firecrackers or buy gifts.
2. Sichuan Zigong Spring Festival custom:
There, you can't set off firecrackers during the Spring Festival. If someone sets off firecrackers during the Spring Festival, it means there must be a funeral in this family.
3. Taiwan Province Province:
Eating fish balls, meatballs and dog meat with the meaning of "starting from eating dogs", Chinese chives with the meaning of "long life", as well as various fried foods with strong local flavor, glutinous rice balls and rice cakes, especially "tortoise bean paste rice cakes" (a kind of rice cakes made of wooden molds engraved with tortoise shapes and filled with bean paste) can prolong life. In addition, there is a kind of salted radish rice cake, which needs to be baked and heated before it can be wrapped with laver. It not only has the function of removing the fishy smell of meat and adjusting the taste, but also contains the wish of "good color head" in the coming year (radish is called vegetable head in Taiwan Province Province, which is homophonic with "color head").
After the New Year's Eve, even the elders give their children "lucky money", which is quite distinctive: for older children, "lucky money" is wrapped in red paper in advance and given to them; Children's "lucky money" is wrapped in red rope in advance, tied into a small collar and worn around the neck.
On the first day of the first month, people will get up early, get dressed and wash, and then begin to greet each other, express their respect and wishes, visit relatives and friends or visit parks. Very lively and pleasant.
On the second day of the Lunar New Year, it was the new son-in-law who took his wife to visit her husband's house. It is naturally more interesting for the son-in-law to come to the door and the daughter to return to her family.
The third day is regarded as an unlucky day by compatriots in Taiwan Province Province. People don't go out much, eat early and go to bed early at night, which is also a good opportunity to stay away from the noise and rest.
The fourth day is the day to welcome the kitchen god to the world.
Since the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, many people have started their own businesses, and everyone who should go to work has gone to work.
According to legend, the ninth day of the ninth lunar month is God's birthday. Every family should prepare the best wine and food, burn incense and worship, and chant to celebrate God's birthday. This is the last day of the Spring Festival every year.
Since then, the "Lantern Festival" that followed is the last scene of the whole Spring Festival. On this day, according to the traditional custom, every household should eat glutinous rice balls and enjoy lanterns. Under the full moon, all kinds of lanterns are shining, and there are activities such as lion dancing, playing dragon lanterns and welcoming drums, which are colorful and dazzling. Especially those children who are full of childlike interest have been carrying lanterns and chanting songs across the street, like fish swimming around the bottom of the sea, adding icing on the cake to the lively Lantern Festival night!
4. Mongolians in the north:
Before the festival, every household prepared rams, various dairy products and several jars of wine. On New Year's Eve, people put on beautiful Mongolian robes, and the whole family sat among them to welcome the New Year. Eat and drink at midnight. Usually, you should eat and drink more. The more wine and meat left, the better. This symbolizes that there is no shortage of wine and meat in the new year. On the morning of the first day of junior high school, men and women wore all kinds of costumes, rode on war horses, and rushed to "Haote" (villages and towns) in groups of three and five, stringing together yurts one by one. When stringing bags, you should kowtow to the elders first, and then the son-in-law of the host family will toast the guests who come to string bags, and people will sing and dance.
5. Mountainous areas in eastern Guangdong:
Lunch at noon on Chinese New Year can be a little simpler, and dinner can be prepared after lunch. Take a shower and change clothes in the afternoon, and have dinner at six o'clock in the evening. There must be chicken, duck, fish and soup for dinner. Meatballs (made of pork and mushrooms), tofu, bacon (sausage, pork liver and duck) and a green vegetable (lettuce is commonly known as lettuce, which means making money). Set off firecrackers before dinner, and don't go to other people's homes after dinner unless they share the same family name. 12, every family will set off firecrackers at home to welcome the new year. Some people say that they will take the God of Wealth home in the New Year instead of visiting relatives and friends. I didn't start visiting relatives until the second day of the year. Generally speaking, those with low qualifications go to those with high qualifications, and the young ones grew up last year.
6. Buyi people: girls grab the first water.
Buyi people in the southwest border always stay up all night on New Year's Eve. At dawn, the girls scrambled to fetch water outside the house. Whoever takes the first sip of water is the most hardworking girl.
7. Guangxi New Year:
The biggest difference from other places is that there is one more thing: jiaozi and jiaozi have all kinds of fillings, all kinds of shapes, some small, and the big ones are as long as a cigarette.
Killing is not allowed on the first day of the new year. You can only eat what was cooked yesterday.
Generally speaking, sweeping the floor is not allowed on the first day, saying that it is to retain wealth.
On the first day and fifteenth day, many people will go to the temple to burn incense and pray. Those who don't go to the temple will also burn incense at home to worship their ancestors.
Eat glutinous rice balls at ordinary times during the tenth five-year plan.
Other customs are the same, but southerners seldom kowtow to their elders and mostly say auspicious words. I'm afraid of people saying those unlucky things.