What are the Spring Festival customs in Zizhou?

Entering the twelfth lunar month in the rural areas of northern Shaanxi means the arrival of the New Year. Before the 30th anniversary, there was an activity to worship ancestors. Some mingbi was burned on their graves, so that the ancestors could buy what they liked, have a good year and pray for the safety of future generations. Cleaning the house usually lasts two days. Besides these activities, there are many exquisite festivals. It's interesting to think about it. At present, we only shoot guns, eat jiaozi, put up couplets, and occasionally someone will put up some window grilles. The first day of the twelfth lunar month, fry the first day of the twelfth lunar month, and it will be fine next year. Stir-fry some melon seeds or beans, hoping that the days will get better every year. This is also called the first day of frying. The eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, also known as Laba. Before dawn in the morning, go to the well or the river to "wax the ice", beat up the ice and carry it back in buckets, then enclose the house with ice and put some water tanks, pots, roofs and courtyards at home. Whoever goes first, who has recited it for many years, will have good luck. For breakfast, make laba porridge with all kinds of rice and beans: "children eat first, and little red millet cooks first." I hope there will be a good harvest next year. On the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, the Kitchen God saw the Jade Emperor in the sky. On this day, housewives get up early to clean the house, especially to wipe the stove and everything on it. They want the Kitchen God to put in a good word in front of the Jade Emperor, and bless the family to be safe and disaster-free all year round. On both sides of the kitchen god's seat, there are couplets with the words "Heaven says yes, return to the palace for good luck". Put some delicious food under the kitchen god seat, light incense and kowtow, and put sugar around the kitchen god's mouth. I hope that the kitchen god will say a good word to the jade emperor with his sweet mouth, and then put some delicious food into the stove with his hands, so that the kitchen god can eat enough and then go on his way. This day is a day when men, women and children have a rest and don't have to work: 23rd, the old donkey and the old horse have a day off. In the evening, we should set fire to the tower in the yard and burn incense to worship God. New Year's Eve is the most solemn day. After several firecrackers were set off in the morning, people hung lanterns and put up couplets. God's couplets are a little higher than those of the land gods, indicating that the sky is high and the ground is low. The woman scooped up a pot of rice and called Nian Shao. They beat the rice as high as a hill with a rice shovel, and put a few dates on it, which indicates that next year's harvest will be piled up like this rice. Never shovel rice at the door first, it will drain the good time from the door. After dinner, the women hung up the cut window grilles. At this time, the ingenious mother-in-law girls secretly compete to see whose window grilles are the best, and show off when the guests come in the first month. Of course, it is usually the wives who comment on whether the window grilles are good or not. Listening to the guests say that the window grilles have been cut, the aunts say that they are too busy to cut them, but they feel unspeakable sadness in their hearts. Stick grilles Paper and stick grilles will take half a day, which is a painstaking work. Put knives and rolling pins in every corner of doors and windows, and apply garlic paste to suppress evil spirits; In the afternoon, the adults built a fire tower with carbon in the yard and waited until dawn at night. The children put on new clothes, and those who don't have new clothes put on clean clothes to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new. Incense should be given to heaven and earth, the god of the earth, the god of wealth and the god of the kitchen before dinner. These incense can't be broken all night. It is unlucky to break it, which is the homonym of "broken incense". Put a steamed bun in the pot after dinner, which is called "pressing the pot". I hope there will be no shortage of food next year, which is the white flour steamed bread that people hope. Don't talk loudly all night, don't say unlucky things like "no, it's over", and don't swear outside. Staying up late at night is called "Shounian". On the first morning, the sun came out and the lights at home went out. In the evening, women will hang jujube strings for their children, including a jujube, a small straw and an ancient coin. A few firecrackers and small pieces of red cloth will be strung on the bottom to ward off evil spirits, and then dates will be strung on the children's shoulders. It seems that girls wear long braids. The next day, the children will count who has the most dates. That was a lot of wealth for children at that time, and there were few lucky money. In the dead of night, some brave people will go out to "listen to the sound of mountains". On New Year's Eve, it is said that they can see the celestial phenomena showing the country's luck, whether the crops are in good weather in the coming year, whether the villages are safe, and some people even encounter "ghosts". Is it true?/You don't say. I dare not try it myself, hehe. So I won't tell the truth. The first thing on the first day of the first month is to set off firecrackers at home, open the door, and then set off some firecrackers in the yard to light a stick of incense at the rising sun to welcome the new sun. Then greet the Western God and your God, open the door, bump your head on the door and say, "Welcome the Western God to meet your God, and when you get rich, the gold and silver ingots will come back"; I'm going to the mountain later, which means to pick up the aura of heaven and earth, and go home to pick up some willow branches and the like, which means to go home "money" on New Year's Day. Breakfast on the first day is usually fried cakes, and I hope that the days will become more and more "tall". The first day is a new year. When you meet someone, you should say "Happy New Year". If you are older than yourself, you should add the word "strong" before addressing, such as "strong grandparents, strong uncles and aunts". Eat jiaozi on the second day of the first month, and wrap a few coins in jiaozi. Whoever eats the most indicates that he can make a lot of money this year. On the first day of the first month, he took out the garbage he had swept on the fourth night away from home and said, poor daughter-in-law, go out early and get up quickly with a gun. Put two shots, and you can't turn back when you go home. Going home can give incense to the god of wealth, which means sending away the poor daughter-in-law and picking up the god of wealth. Men are symbols of the god of wealth, while women represent poor wives. On this day, if women don't go out, it will make people laugh. This is a standard preference for boys. The sixth day of the first month is a small year, also known as "people gather (children)". As the old saying goes, if you have money, you can't go home for the New Year. It is said that in ancient times, men always made money out of their mouths and rushed home every year. On the way, they arrived home on the sixth day of a snowy day, and everyone was here to spend the next year. The new year is not as grand as the New Year. Just like worshipping god and burning incense, you should light a lamp until dawn, and usually stay up until after midnight.