The customs and habits of Shangrao for the New Year.

1, buying new year's goods: The market economy is so developed that you can buy whatever you want to eat and wear. In the past, children heard the rustling of beans in the pot, and the year was approaching. Old-fashioned foods such as fried beans, fried dried sweet potatoes, fried rice and cola have been dismissed by children now, but we older people still have some nostalgia.

2, send the kitchen god, paste the New Year pictures: eat New Year's Eve, keep old, and pay New Year's greetings. It seems that the whole country is similar, so I won't go into details one by one. The following is mainly about rolling dragon lanterns and celebrating the Lantern Festival.

3. Dragon Lantern: In the past, every New Year, Shangrao Federation of Industry and Commerce, Dongshi Street and Xishi Street jointly organized a lantern parade. The staff and the masses lined up to decorate the city. Citizens have stopped to watch, and villages in the suburbs have spontaneously organized dragon lanterns to make guest appearances among villages. Shangrao's children's "Dragon Lantern" is more casual. Invite several good partners to form a "Dragon Lantern" team and go across the hall to play. The equipment of "rolling dragon lantern" is very simple. It is made of straw and tied into a foot-long faucet. The diameter of the dragon body and tail is 5 cm. Then wrap it in red paper or red cloth and light a candle on it; Each person holds a section, which is connected to the dragon lantern. Dragon lanterns generally don't go far, and they all live in their own communities. If they are from the east city, they will never go to the west city, because it is the territory of other children, and it will happen if they break into other people's places. Therefore, there is no need to fight in the New Year. The children went door to door "rolling dragon lanterns" and sang their own "Dragon Lantern Song": "Dragon lanterns belong to the house, guns and candles belong to the trunk, dragon lanterns belong to the trunk, and money is full." With luck, the boss's smile will make you happy. At this time, you will give the bonus child, one yuan more and fifty cents less. Every little makes a mickle, and there are dozens of dollars in one night, and then the dividends are distributed equally. However, there are also times of disappointment. Some stingy owners are penniless and their children are too noisy. The urchin retorted and changed the "Dragon Lantern Song" to read: "Dragon lanterns belong to the house, firecrackers and candles, dragon lanterns belong to the compartment, and the deaf are full of rooms. As soon as the tail of the dragon lantern became warped, the boss's milk fell into the coal cellar. If unlucky, the host will laugh and cry.

4. Lantern Festival: Lantern Festival is the end of the Chinese New Year program. The cultural symbol of Shangrao Lantern Festival is "light". There are many kinds of lanterns in Shangrao: stilt lamp, bridge lamp, flower boat lamp and frog clam lamp.