Customs and human feelings in Changzhou

Here is an article that you may find helpful. "Congratulations on getting rich", "Happiness as the East China Sea" and other greetings, together with our jubilant Spring Festival, have formed a festival with unique China flavor. If Christmas is marked by snow and Santa Claus, then the year of China should be marked by red. Red represents happiness, and red represents auspiciousness. And the local conditions and customs all over the country, full of auspicious words, naturally became a must. The year of Changzhou is also somewhat different from that of Yancheng. I summed it up. If you are interested, you might as well talk about the custom of Chinese New Year there. 1. kowtowing to pay New Year's greetings Yancheng calls it "kowtowing". The first sentence when we meet is "kowtowing to you". I remember when I was a child, my brother liked to take me door to door to kowtow, and the neighbors in the village gave me melon seeds and peanuts at most. Those with a little money will give me some candy, which is also worth showing off among friends, and then everyone will kowtow. On the second day of New Year's Day, perhaps because the traffic was backward at that time, I just kowtowed to several relatives nearby and mixed some lucky money, but I never spent much. When I go home, my parents will confiscate it. In Changzhou, there is no kowtow. Kowtow is a word only used to worship ancestors. Here, it is called New Year greetings. If a child tells adults in Yancheng that it is impolite to pay New Year greetings, others will definitely say that the child has no rules. After the fireworks are set off in Changzhou on New Year's Eve, that is, a person hides at home and watches TV, and visits relatives and friends the next day, or goes to the town to pray for peace. 2. Bonfires and Spring Festival couplets always feel that the annual flavor of Changzhou is not very heavy, but there is one thing that we don't have in Yancheng, and that is the bonfire on New Year's Eve. Changzhou has no habit of posting Spring Festival couplets. Occasionally, there are a few, which may be related to the economy. In the old society, Spring Festival couplets were posted because the family was poor and owed money to the landlord. There was a saying that "when posting Spring Festival couplets, the landlord would turn around and say." After the bonfire in Changzhou on New Year's Eve, Yancheng used to set off some firecrackers in the New Year. Yancheng's New Year's Eve culture is not so particular, but there must be several dishes: fish stands for "more than a year", tofu stands for "wealth" and jiaozi stands for "reunion". After the New Year's Eve dinner, put a fish in the pot, put some cakes under the pillow, and eat them when you get up the next day, which means "high mouth, high rise and wealth" and onion "smart children". After the sumptuous New Year's Eve dinner, fireworks will be set off in Changzhou. 4. Auspicious words custom In Changzhou, we don't take out the garbage on New Year's Day, because it was the wealth of last year. It's usually garbage that sweeps out the door. It's the New Year, so there must be a god of wealth sweeping through the door. The unit can't give a greeting of "rolling financial resources". If we want to "roll over layoffs", don't we call people out of business? Once I went to a small restaurant for dinner on New Year's Eve and said, "Boss, is it closed?" I didn't expect the boss to suddenly say "I didn't pretend to be on the first day of the New Year", and I realized that I had put my foot in my mouth.