What are the customs of Putian Spring Festival?

1, make a red ball

During the Chinese New Year, every household in Putian will have a red group, usually on the 27th and 28th of the twelfth lunar month. From the day when I made the Red League, the atmosphere of the New Year became stronger and stronger. Red ball, red in color, round in shape, full of fire and round in meaning.

The production of red balls is mainly made of glutinous rice dough stuffed with mung beans or glutinous rice, and then printed with red balls of Fu, Lu, Shou, Fu, Cai, Ding, Gui and ears, which are perfectly presented when printed. Finally, use the washed "chicken leaves" as the bottom, put them in a steamer and steam them over high fire. The bright red ball with hot air makes this year's taste more and more rich.

2. White-fronted Spring Festival couplets custom

In the forty-first year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty (1562), on November 29th of the lunar calendar, Xinghua Fucheng (now Putian City) was captured by the Japanese army and occupied for two months. It was not until the 25th day of the first month of the following year that Xinghua City was recovered and the fugitives returned home. At this time, the New Year's Day has passed, and after greeting each other on the second day of February, the New Year will be celebrated on the fourth day of February. In order to commemorate the tragic history of Putian, Putian folk agreed to celebrate New Year's Day on the fourth day of the first month, which is called "New Year's Day".

Today, the Spring Festival couplets of Putian people, which symbolize happiness and auspiciousness, are particularly warm and precious under the background and warning of the white forehead.

3. Year of resignation

Putian people have been inheriting the custom of "resigning from the old age". On New Year's Eve, people will set up an altar in front of their homes, tie embroidered red tables around them, and put sacrifices on them to thank heaven and earth and bid farewell to the old year. Sacrifices to bid farewell to the old year are very rich, including flowers, fruits, tea and wine. Six meats and ten vegetarian dishes, noodles, turtles, jiaozi, chickens and ducks, and "New Year's Eve" are all filled with offerings. "Gongyin" was burned in a basin on the ground. Adults are muttering to themselves, praying for peace in the coming year.

4, around the furnace

New Year's Eve dinner is the highlight of Putian people, known as "surrounding the stove", and every household often prepares a rich New Year's Eve dinner. If your family didn't come home that night, you should also leave a space on the table. After that, there should be a "New Year's Eve" on the stove, and there should be a large piece of "fire treasure" in the stove chamber, which symbolizes prosperity every year. Most of the dishes on the dining table have auspicious meanings and are very rich.

Eat longevity noodles on the first day of the first month to celebrate the New Year.

This bowl of noodles is very delicate. The bottom of the bowl is covered with kale, and the surface is covered with seaweed, peanuts, mushrooms and other side dishes. It means longevity. There is a saying in Putian that you don't drink noodle soup at the first bite of noodles. "Drink noodle soup in the morning of the first day, and don't do it when you go out." After eating noodles, relatives and friends pay New Year greetings to each other, and the host pays the guests with oranges, melon seeds, candy and cigarettes. On that day, people go to towns or mountain villages to visit places of interest, which is called a spring outing. Some people also go to temples to worship Buddha and pray for peace.