What are the customs of Changle people in Fuzhou?

Changle traditional Spring Festival custom

Sacrifice a stove on the 23rd or 24th of the twelfth lunar month.

On the 23rd or 24th of the twelfth lunar month, when the Kitchen God wants to ascend to heaven to report the situation for one year, people will also offer offerings and delicious food to the Kitchen God. This is the so-called sacrificial furnace. Maltose and wine are essential when offering sacrifices to the kitchen stove. Wine makes the kitchen god get carried away and dizzy. Maltose is sweet and sticky. Stick it on the mouth of the kitchen god. Once the kitchen god has a sweet mouth, it is not good to speak ill, but only good words. Secondly, maltose sticks to your mouth, and you can't open your mouth if you want to speak ill. You can only say it vaguely. The common people also used the experience of "taking someone's hand short and eating someone's mouth soft" when offering sacrifices to the kitchen god.

Then on the 28th and 9th, they began to kill chickens and ducks, fold gold ingots and steam rice cakes.

In the afternoon of New Year's Eve, we should go to the temple "Bunian" first, with all kinds of tributes, gold ingots and incense.

Then the New Year's Eve, fish balls and meat swallows are essential, and there should be some fish. Rice is not cooked in a pressure cooker, but in a big barrel. Everyone should leave some in the bowl when eating, but they can't eat it all. Then, adults give small lucky money and shoot after dinner. Then many people go to the temple to burn incense. It is said that the first incense stick on the first day has special significance, so many people compete for the first incense stick.