The custom of Chinese New Year in South China

What are the characteristics of New Year customs in the south?

The custom of New Year in China is quite different between the south and the north. For example, jiaozi, who had eaten for years. This is very important for northerners. Jiaozi won't celebrate the New Year until it has been celebrated. Southerners pay more attention to New Year's Eve. It doesn't matter whether there is jiaozi or not as long as the family is around the reunion dinner.

However, southerners are very particular about breakfast on New Year's Day, except on New Year's Eve. In order to have a good omen for the new year, adults and children are not allowed to sleep in on the first day of the new year. No matter how late you play on New Year's Eve, you have to get up at six o'clock in the morning on New Year's Day, and the whole family will sit together for New Year's breakfast at seven o'clock.

In this kind of breakfast, there is a special custom for southerners to celebrate the New Year. As the saying goes, a hundred miles is different from the wind and a hundred miles is different from the customs. It's not surprising for friends who don't know this custom. If there is any difference, you are welcome to bask together as a New Year greeting to each other. )

What is the custom? That's easy to say. It is this breakfast that must be cooked by the owner of this family. Mainly considering that housewives have been cooking for their families for a year and have been unable to rest. Beggars still have three days off during the Chinese New Year. Why can't housewives enjoy the right to celebrate the New Year? But men generally can't stare at the main stove. Making New Year's Eve dinner is just to help. Then we should choose a simple project-making breakfast on the first day of the New Year's Day, and make a simple meaning. It is also fully considered that most men can't cook, so the breakfast on New Year's Day is finished. The women prepared a steamer of steamed bread, steamed cakes and rice. In advance. Men just need to steam in the pot for ten minutes when they get up in the morning. There is no technical content. But although this matter is not simple, it is of great significance. It embodies the cultural tradition of mutual understanding and respect between husband and wife. Things may have changed now. There are more men who can cook and take care of cooking, but women have become a vulnerable group in the kitchen. It used to be said that women can enter the hall and the kitchen. Nowadays, women generally only go to the mall, not the kitchen. However, no matter how women change, the custom of men getting up early to make breakfast on New Year's Day has not changed (probably not).

Although making breakfast is relatively simple, other preparations are more complicated. Housewives who make breakfast usually get up around five o'clock. First, clean the house inside and outside the yard, and then put peanuts, melon seeds, fruits and other snacks on the table with a number of fruit bowls. Then go to the kitchen and boil a pot of boiling water for later use. Breakfast had better be ordered. After breakfast is done, everyone in the family should be given a cup of tea with sugar in a teacup with a lid (usually used only when guests come). After the family washes, sit together for tea, eat some dried fruits, say some auspicious words for the New Year and get some prizes for the New Year. After about ten minutes, I packed up the snacks on the table, then served the steamed breakfast, and the family had a nice meal. The new year has just begun.

For housewives, in addition to not cooking breakfast on New Year's Day, there is another custom, that is, not washing clothes on New Year's Day. A woman who washes clothes on this day is not considered diligent, but lazy. All the laundry must be finished before the 30th of one year, and it can never be left over to the next year.

One more thing. On New Year's Day, northerners are busy kowtowing to their elders to pay New Year's greetings, while some southerners only go up the mountain to pay New Year's greetings to the dead old people on New Year's Day and start visiting relatives the next day.

You don't say that China's culture is profound and profound, but it has connotations bit by bit.

Southerners celebrate the Spring Festival. Generally speaking, the customs of the Han people in the Spring Festival are to eat rice cakes, jiaozi, Ciba, glutinous rice balls, poached eggs, meatballs, whole fish, wine, oranges, apples, peanuts, melon seeds, sweets, fragrant tea and dishes. Accompanied by many activities, such as dusting, washing bedding, preparing new year's goods, pasting Spring Festival couplets, pasting New Year's pictures, pasting paper, stick grilles, pasting blessings, lighting candles, setting off firecrackers, watching the Spring Festival, giving lucky money, visiting relatives, visiting flower markets, making social fires and so on, it is extremely enjoyable. People in China still have the habit of hanging Chinese knots during the Spring Festival.

Spring Festival customs in the south and the north: In the north, on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, we eat jiaozi and sugar officials. In fact, we eat very simply on the 30th and at noon. In the afternoon, we started to pack jiaozi, which was the thirtieth night and the first morning of the first day. In the evening, after eating jiaozi, I began to cook a snack. Eat midnight snack until the next year. On the first morning, the whole family pays New Year greetings to grandparents, the younger generation pays New Year greetings to parents, and then goes out to visit relatives with parents to pay New Year greetings to teachers and elders. Go back to my mother's house with my mother in the second day of junior high school.

What are the customs for southerners to celebrate the Spring Festival? The customs of the Han people in the Spring Festival are generally to eat rice cakes, jiaozi, Ciba, glutinous rice balls, poached eggs, meatballs, whole fish, wine, oranges, apples, peanuts, melon seeds, sweets, fragrant tea and dishes. Accompanied by many activities, such as dusting, washing bedding, preparing new year's goods, pasting Spring Festival couplets, pasting New Year's pictures, pasting paper-cuts, stick grilles, pasting blessings, lighting candles, setting off firecrackers, observing the New Year, giving lucky money, visiting relatives, visiting flower markets, and making community fires, it is extremely enjoyable. People in China still have the habit of hanging Chinese knots during the Spring Festival.

What are the customs and time for southerners to celebrate the New Year? On New Year's Eve in the south, families will have a reunion dinner together. Generally, fruit rice made of fish, plums, elbows and glutinous rice is a common dish on the table, and some families make their own meatballs. Of course, on this evening, we will watch the Spring Festival Gala together, and around twelve o'clock, firecrackers and fireworks will be set off to celebrate. This night, the child will be several years old, stay up all night, and will receive lucky money from adults, but this is not the case now. In some traditional rural areas, firecrackers will be set off and doors will be opened on the first morning of the new year. It is said that it is a rich valve, which indicates that the new year will be rich.

What are the similarities and differences between the Chinese New Year customs in the south and the north: setting off fireworks; Family reunion is different: on New Year's Eve, the north eats rice from the south of jiaozi.

What are the different atmospheres of Chinese New Year customs in the south and the north? The main reason is that the north is cold and the south is hot, and the south can still work outside. Most rural areas in the north have started to eat cats in winter, and they have to eat and set off firecrackers after 1 1 most nights in the north. There are many people in the south. They eat at 6 pm and play mahjong after dinner. I can guarantee that in some places in the north, even if you have money, you may be hungry if you don't cook by yourself, because everyone has gone home during the New Year and no one has served you, while many restaurants in the south are still open normally.

What's the difference between the Chinese New Year customs of northerners and southerners? In the north, people will get up early on New Year's Eve to pack jiaozi. When it's time for dinner, there will be crackling firecrackers, which indicates that the new year is coming. After dinner, everyone in jiaozi was beaming, busy with some unfinished odds and ends to welcome the New Year. All the children put on new clothes, held firecrackers and enjoyed the joy brought by the New Year in the bright sunshine. Gay men should prepare some fruit snacks for sacrifice and burn incense and paper for their deceased relatives to make them happy. Older and more sensible children will be busy pasting Spring Festival couplets, and old people will paste noodles and wait for their children to paste them. First, clean the old Spring Festival couplets with a broom. In order to make the paste work better, stick it tighter and look more beautiful. It's the Spring Festival, and everything should be brand-new. Inside and outside the house, outside the courtyard, at the gate, at the entrance, at the front window, at the rear window, and wherever it should be posted. Even the water tank at home should be affixed with a "flowing water" and a "safe population" on the wall, giving people a particularly happy feeling. The Spring Festival couplets are posted. By three or four o'clock in the afternoon, adults and children have no activities, and they are all waiting for the arrival of New Year's Eve in their own homes. After dinner in the evening, everyone began to look for their companions again. The children set off firecrackers and went out for a while. My nose froze, so I ran into the house to warm myself up and then went out again. Older people will be in groups, in twos and threes, and they will also celebrate with friends who are similar in age and get along well with each other. The rest of the adults and old people stayed indoors, playing mahjong, playing poker, watching TV, talking and laughing, waiting for the bell to strike zero. About half an hour before the stroke of zero, the children will return to their homes to prepare for the arrival of the New Year, which is, in my family's words, "receiving the gods". Five, four, three, two, one, as the bell rings, firecrackers will sound outside the house, and everyone will go out to the yard to meet this moment. At this time, some firewood will be put in the yard to light it. The more the fire, the more prosperous it is, which indicates that everyone's life will be very prosperous in the coming year. This moment will last for about half an hour. When only scattered firecrackers could be heard, everyone started their own activities again. If you are in good spirits, eat the first jiaozi on New Year's Day and eat it until dawn. If you are in a bad mood, you can have a rest. Before dawn, you will get up and pack jiaozi together to share the joy brought by the New Year! Even if everyone goes to rest, the light won't go out, and it will stay on until dawn. Every room, yard and shady room will be lit with lights. If there is no light, candles will be lit until dawn. I ate jiaozi in the first morning. According to the custom, it is a string of relatives to pay New Year's greetings. Gay men will go door-to-door to pay New Year greetings in twos and threes, while lesbians will wait for others to go home to pay New Year greetings. The first thing everyone says when they meet is "Happy New Year". Every time they go to a restaurant, there will always be a glass of wine to celebrate the New Year.

In the south, it is very different from the north. Thirty children got up in the morning, but there was no atmosphere to welcome the New Year. Jiaozi is not eaten in the South during the Spring Festival, but rice is eaten every day. Thirty children eat quietly in the morning without setting off firecrackers. Everyone is also busy posting Spring Festival couplets. Of course, the paste is made of rice. You can put up with it a little. If it is replaced by the wind blowing in the north, it will definitely become a bean curd project, and all will go away. The biggest difference with the north is that not all windows are pasted. You can paste them wherever you want, and you can not paste them if you don't want to. Some people only put up doors, while others put up nothing. It's weird. Even if the Spring Festival couplets are posted, the new year will begin. Hehe, my feeling is this. Until three or four o'clock in the afternoon, I was asked to burn incense for the dead elders, bring fruit snacks for sacrifice, and burn paper on their graves to add a little flavor to them. After dinner in the evening, everyone is busy with their own affairs. They sleep when they drink too much, and so do those who don't drink. Several people, large and small, got into the quilt before 9 o'clock and the lights went out. It was dark, but the fire in the stove burned until dawn. Listen to the pig, the south, pay attention to thirty fires, fifteen lights do not go out. In the north, there will be no such pressure. It is very cold in the north, and the fire will not go out all winter night. I think that's why I emphasize not to turn off the lights at night. I'm not used to lying in bed, so do as the Romans do. . . I didn't watch the Spring Festival Gala, so I called my mother and fell asleep. I was woken up early on the first day, and everyone was drinking morning tea around the table without firecrackers. Around ten o'clock, I am going to go out to pay a New Year call, and I will bring gifts, including firecrackers and sugar. People pay attention to it. Only old people don't pay New Year greetings, and young people have to go out ... >>

How do Cantonese celebrate the Spring Festival? What are the holiday customs of southerners? Southerners don't celebrate many festivals. Generally speaking, it is necessary to establish "rules" on holidays, that is, to buy meat, wine and incense to worship the club. In addition, it is the custom of some festivals, such as eating glutinous rice balls on the first day of the first month, and wrapping jiaozi in the Lantern Festival.