What is the three-piece set for Chinese New Year in Northeast China?

A box of frozen pears, a box of beer and a box of drinks.

The vast northeast, pay attention to everything with a "box". If you don't have a box, you can't get the new year's goods: beer is drunk by the box, fruit is taken by the box, and drinks are approved by the box. The fruit is either Nanguo pear or frozen pear.

When it was over ten degrees below zero, fruits, popsicles and drinks were piled up in the street. Ask the boss for some boxes and help yourself. Of course, in order to cope with the cold, the other three sets of New Year's greetings in Northeast China may be gloves, collars and cotton-padded clothes.

Northeast Chinese New Year custom:

The first day of the lunar new year

You can't use a broom on the first day of the first month, otherwise you will sweep away your luck and break your money. If you must sweep the floor, you must sweep it from the outside to the inside. Until today, many places have the custom of cleaning before New Year's Eve. On New Year's Day, don't put brooms, don't take out garbage, prepare a big bucket of waste water, and don't spill it outside that day.

Chinese New Year

On the second day of New Year's Day, the married daughter goes back to her parents' house and asks her husband to go with her, so it is commonly known as "husband-welcoming day". On this day, the daughter who goes back to her parents' house must bring some gifts and red envelopes to her children and have lunch at her parents' house, but she must get back to her husband's house before dinner. In the past, the family would choose this day to take a family photo.

New Year's Eve

New Year's Day, also known as Red Dog Day, is homophonic with "red mouth" and usually does not go out to pay New Year's greetings. It is said that it is easy to quarrel with people on this day. However, this custom has long been out of date, because few people get together in the Spring Festival now, and it has faded a lot.

Chinese New Year

In the past, the boss wanted to "fire" a person. On this day, he came to worship God uninvited. The other party knew it well and packed up and left. There is also a legend that Kitchen God will come to check the household registration this day, so it is not advisable to travel far.

The fifth day of the first month

On the fifth day of the first month, commonly known as "breaking the fifth", it is necessary to "drive out the five poor", including "intellectual poverty, academic poverty, literary poverty, life poverty and friendship poverty". People get up at dawn, set off firecrackers and clean up. Firecrackers are set from the inside out, and as soon as they are set, they go outside the door. It is said that anything unlucky will be blown out. On this day, the popular folk food custom is to eat jiaozi, commonly known as "squeezing people's mouths".