What are the customs of Anhui people during the Spring Festival?

1. Only eat one meal during the New Year.

On New Year's Eve, no one in the family is allowed to have breakfast and lunch, but only New Year's Eve. To eat New Year's Eve, you must have a plate of fresh fish, but no one is allowed to eat this plate of fresh fish (meaning more than one year). You can't eat this plate of fish with chopsticks until New Year's Eve. Everyone should take a bite. Don't talk when eating New Year's Eve. When eating New Year's Eve, you must leave some rice in the bowl on the 30th, 1st, 2nd and 3rd day, and you are not allowed to cook for four days. This is also a local custom.

2. "Yuanbao" is placed on the threshold.

Opening the door to make a fortune, "Yuanbao" rolled in and was vividly interpreted by local people in Feixi and Lu 'an. People who stay indoors after twelve o'clock on New Year's Eve. The local custom is that you can't open the door after closing it. Even if someone knocks at the door outside, you have to wait until the morning of New Year's Day, when you burn incense and light candles, and then open the door and shoot.

The New Year's Eve is eaten at noon.

In many rural areas of Dingyuan County, the methods of celebrating the New Year are different. Here, people often say that "New Year's Eve" is eaten at noon on New Year's Eve. In many rural areas of Dingyuan County, it has always been New Year's Eve. Many families, in order to "grab breakfast", began to paste Spring Festival couplets, set off firecrackers and eat "New Year's Eve" before 1 1 in the morning. ?

4. Worship your ancestors before eating.

Lujiang is there for the New Year, and you can still feel the rich local customs. After lunch on New Year's Eve, adults took their children to burn paper on their ancestral graves. Before the New Year's Eve, old people with the same surname will invite their children and grandchildren to the ancestral temple to worship their ancestors, which means that they will not forget their ancestors during the New Year. First, they will set a table and pour the wine. Then, they will kowtow one by one according to the size of the family. After all this, they can go home for New Year's Eve dinner.

5. Make a reunion cake.

There is a custom in Bengbu area. During the Chinese New Year, every family steamed big steamed buns, pot by pot, and put them in a basket full of food. Many years ago, when steaming steamed bread, every household steamed a foot-long Fiona Fang cake, which was called reunion cake by local people. Generally, the cake is stacked three or four times in a row, and a pair of little dragons are made of flour on it, indicating that children can become dragons. Decorate with lotus seeds, red dates, etc., meaning early birth and prosperity. Never allow children to intervene when steaming reunion cakes. After steaming, put it on your own grain depot, which also means to celebrate the harvest.