What are the folk customs in Shaoxing during the Spring Festival?

1. In Shaoxing, as soon as the lunar calendar enters December, people are busy preparing for the New Year: buying wine, spring cakes, making zongzi, removing dust, killing chickens and geese, buying fish and meat, preparing clothes, shoes and hats for the New Year, and buying gifts for relatives and friends. It can be said that I'm as busy as a bee for fear that I can't raise enough money and make a joke.

2. On the 23rd night of the twelfth lunar month, every household should send a sticky candy to the sky and stick it on the kitchen god's teeth, so that he can't tell Jade Emperor Chen about people's fault.

3. After sending the Kitchen God, before New Year's Eve, every family always chooses a blessed auspicious day of the zodiac, which is the most solemn festival in every family year. The deities worshipped are "Southern Tour", which Shaoxing people call the Blessing Bodhisattva and the Great Bodhisattva, and they are said to be the emperors of the Song Dynasty. After the demise of the Southern Song Dynasty, the adherents were afraid of the arrogance of the rulers of the Yuan Dynasty and did not dare to publicly sacrifice to the king of the Song Dynasty, so they had to do it quietly in the dead of night.

The biggest feature of Shaoxing's New Year is sacrifice and social drama. Sacrifice is also called "blessing sacrifice" in the local area. On the 24th of the twelfth lunar month, every household sets dishes to worship the kitchen god for two days. In the local area, it is believed that the Kitchen God is not only in charge of the kitchen fire, but also inspects human peace and informs the Heaven Emperor. The annual sacrifice is to "bribe" Kitchen God, let him say a few more good words in front of the Emperor of Heaven, and bless the good weather in the coming year.

5. "Jishan Jianshui social drama is hot", Shaoxing people have the habit of watching social drama since ancient times. Every temple fair and New Year's Day, social drama has become the most "explicit" performance in Shaoxing, a water town. The stage is set in the middle of the lake, and the lake in front of the stage is crowded with boats, boats and Wu Peng boats. With the gong of "Tang Qiang", all the men, women and children on board craned their necks.