Spring Festival Customs in Ningxiang, Hunan Province

1. Day one, day one, day one, day two, day three, day four.

It means that children and grandchildren will come back on the first day of the first month; The daughter-in-law of the second day came back to pay New Year greetings; I started traveling in the third grade and paid New Year greetings everywhere.

2. Eat, drink and be merry. Different times mean different things. Eat, remember looking forward to the New Year when I was a child. There will be delicious food during the Spring Festival. You can eat hard without scolding your elders: you were full in your last life! Now, the requirement is how to eat healthily/tastefully. So many families choose to eat New Year's Eve in hotels. Of course, most of them still have a round New Year's Eve dinner at home. It is the choice of many people to get together with relatives and friends to play mahjong and fight landlords. It is necessary to set off firecrackers just after 0/2 o'clock on New Year's Eve. Moreover, firecrackers should be set off on the fifteenth day of the first month, which means that they will be changed after the New Year's Eve. When I was a child, I watched the Spring Festival Gala on TV after New Year's Eve. The songs of the Spring Festival Gala must be popular songs for next year. There are fewer and fewer people watching the Spring Festival Gala now, not because the program is too bad, but because people have more choices.

Add a few words about food. Customs vary from place to place. For example, if you go to Ningxiang, you must eat pig's trotters for 30 nights. It is essential to go to Ningxiang elbow.

3. New Year greetings and lucky money. When the bell of 12 o'clock strikes, people are busy greeting their relatives and friends. It used to be a new year's greeting by knocking at the door, but later it evolved into a new year's greeting by telephone. It is popular to pay tribute to your mother-in-law by SMS now. It's much simpler. Generally, before the 29th lunar month, the son-in-law will bring his wife and children to pay a New Year call to his mother-in-law. It's called "Farewell Festival" or "Worship Festival". Usually you bring red envelopes/pork elbows/cigarettes/snacks. Of course, there are also festivals that disciples/subordinates need to worship. On New Year's Eve, elders usually give lucky money to their younger generation, which varies according to the economic situation. When I was a child, my parents gave 2 yuan lucky money, but I will soon take it back to "save it for your tuition"-there is nothing I can do.