What are the characteristics of the Spring Festival?

The Spring Festival Flower Market in Guangzhou

Guangzhou Spring Festival Flower Market Guangzhou is known as the "Flower City", and the annual Spring Festival Flower Market attracts worldwide attention. On the eve of the Spring Festival, the streets and alleys of Guangzhou are filled with flowers and potted oranges, and all major parks hold Spring Festival exhibitions, especially three days before New Year's Eve. Color buildings and flower stands are set up on the theme streets in each district. Flower farmers from all over the country flocked to set up their positions and sold flowers and oranges. These streets are ten miles long. Flowers bloom and fall like a tide, and it didn't disperse until the early morning of the first day. This is unique to Guangzhou.

Guangzhou has been planting flowers for 1000 years. As early as the Southern Han Dynasty in the Five Dynasties, there were many fragrant flower fields in Zhuangtou Village on the south bank of the Pearl River. Ji Suxin, the pet of Liu Wei, the king of the Southern Han Dynasty, was the flower girl in Zhuangtou. Every morning, flower farmers pick flowers, cross the river at Wuxianmen Ferry and sell them at the gate of the old city, which is the usual flower market. The annual flower market was formed in1early 1960s. At that time, the flower market was in San Francisco Si Qian, which is now in the area of the Provincial Department of Finance, and later moved to Shuangmendi. Besides selling flowers, we also sell antiques, miscellaneous shelves and New Year's Eve products.

After the Revolution of 1911, the old city was demolished, and the area in front of the vassal government was more open, with more tourists, and it also extended to the eighteenth government and Gaudi Street. Besides jasmine, there are daffodils, hanging bells, peonies, camellias, chrysanthemums and so on. Many companies, restaurants and restaurants also order seasonal flowers. In Xiguan area, there are also flower vendors who send flowers to large families and shops. With the development of commercial economy, Flower Street has become more prosperous.

People in Guangzhou love to insert peach blossoms in the Spring Festival. The so-called "a peach blossom is full of spring". A beautiful peach blossom is inserted in the hall, full of stars, festive lights and green silk and apricot ribbons, which really adds a lot of spring scenery, so it is not only loved at home, but also decorated with a big peach blossom in major hotels and restaurants. Peach blossom has become the "Christmas tree" of Guangzhou Spring Festival.

Kumquat symbolizes "good luck". In fact, what people like now is its small and rich shape: small trees 30 to 40 centimeters high, full of fruits, shining, and green branches and leaves supporting each other. It is really cute and interesting to put a few seats on them. Four Seasons Orange, Golden Egg and Cinnabar Orange similar to Kumquat can also play this role, so ordinary families only buy one of them. Similarly, it is the fruit handed down from generation to generation, which means to reproduce from generation to generation: the fruit of bergamot, like the palm of your hand, is as elegant and solemn as a believer, and is favored by good men and women.

Narcissus will be planted in the Spring Festival. At the beginning of the twelfth lunar month, there were a large number of narcissus heads shipped from Zhangzhou, Fujian Province. After people buy it back, they cultivate it carefully and control the flowering period by adjusting the water temperature and sunshine. Narcissus seems to understand people's feelings. It often blooms in turn at the family reunion dinner on New Year's Eve, or in the firecrackers on the first day of the first month of the first month, bringing people endless fun. As the saying goes, "Flowers bloom with wealth", which is just a good sign. In addition, daffodils are delicate, graceful and fragrant, which is a must for every family.

In recent years, with the development of commodity economy, there have been many flowers and trees symbolizing wealth and luck. For example, the "rich tree" with green branches and leaves, the "lucky flower" and "good luck" grafted with cactus, and even the numbers marked with prices are also related to getting rich. For example, a rich tree is priced at 168, which is homophonic with "all the way" in Guangzhou dialect; A peach blossom costs 88 yuan, meaning "hair"; 38 yuan is born again (Guangzhou dialect "3" is similar to "sheng"). Flower language in Guangzhou occupies a considerable position in folk life.

Chaoshan Spring Festival custom

New Year's Eve

The last day of the Lunar New Year is called New Year's Eve, and Chaoshan custom calls it "Chinese New Year".

Before New Year's Eve, people are busy preparing all kinds of new year's goods: buying chicken, duck and fish; Add new clothes; Newly purchased furniture and appliances; Buy New Year pictures, Spring Festival couplets, etc. I especially want to buy oranges, green olives and other fruits as auspicious symbols. Welcome friends and relatives. Before the Chinese New Year, men want a new haircut and women want to "pull their faces". Nowadays, most women have haircuts and beauty treatments.

Lunar calendar1February 24th is the day when "immortals" go to heaven to report their work. From that day on, every household was cleaning, packing things and bills, which was called "picking up".

One or two days before New Year's Eve, every household is making all kinds of new year's goods.

Families who go out on New Year's Eve have to rush home for reunion. On New Year's Eve, the whole family sat around the fire and had a reunion dinner. After dinner, adults give "lucky money" to children and their parents. At night, the farmer's water tank should be full of water, the rice tank should be full of rice, and the lights can't go out, which symbolizes the good omen of "more than one year old" and "more than one year old".

The custom of vigil on New Year's Eve is very common. Waiting for the arrival of the new year, the New Year bell rings and firecrackers sound in every household.

the Spring Festival; Chinese New Year

The first day of the first lunar month is called January Day, which is the head of the New Year and the beginning of spring. At the dawn of heaven, I heard guns. On the big table in the hall of every household, red plates are filled with good luck (oranges are bigger than oranges, so they are called good luck), green olives and various exquisite sweets. Decorated with lanterns in front of the door, the younger generation wishes the older generation tea. On this day, most families should be vegetarian, at least not eating meat for breakfast. After breakfast, adults and children go to relatives and friends' homes to pay New Year greetings with good luck, and the host and guest exchange blessings, congratulations on making a fortune and adding blessings. The host treats you with Daji, Betel nut (the ancient custom of honoring Betel nut is now changed to green olive) and * * * congou. The guest presents Daji to congratulate the host on his good luck, and the host wants to give it back with Daji, which is said to be a good wish.

On the morning of New Year's Day, many lion dance classes and English song teams beat gongs and drums to pay New Year greetings to every household in every village, and the host set off firecrackers to welcome them. There are also auspicious sentences such as hand-cranked evergreen leaves (commonly known as cash cows) or "lucky money into treasure" posted on people's doors with books in hand; Or those who play suona, knock on bamboo boards, sing songs, make four sentences and say auspicious words from door to door to pay New Year greetings are all asking for some money. On the second and third days of junior high school, rural towns organized many cultural activities to celebrate the Spring Festival. In addition to putting up a theater shed to perform Chaozhou Opera, Mountain Opera and Shadow Play, there are also gongs and drums, tigers and lions, English singers and dragon dancers marching in the villages along the street. There are also movies, ball games, calligraphy and painting exhibitions, lantern riddles and so on. During the day and night, people flock to visit and enjoy it, creating a lively and joyful atmosphere for the Spring Festival.

have a family reunion dinner

New Year's Eve is approaching after all the houses in every household are completely decorated. Therefore, housewives are busy preparing the most abundant and meaningful reunion dinner in a year. A family reunion dinner, as its name implies, is a family gathering for dinner during the Chinese New Year, and even the deceased ancestors will not forget it. Therefore, after a good reunion dinner, every household should first "worship their husbands" (worship their ancestors). When offering sacrifices to ancestors, the incense burner representing ancestors should be removed from the shrine, put on the altar, and then burn incense to pray and invite ancestors to dinner. Then the old and the young bowed down in turn, fully demonstrating the traditional virtues of the hipsters, being cautious to the end, pursuing the distance, and putting all virtues first. After the sacrifice, the food for ancestor worship was reheated, and a big table was set in the hall, and the whole family gathered around. This is a wonderful time for every family to get together. No matter how far apart the family is at ordinary times, or how many zits there are at ordinary times, we should talk and laugh at this time, and we should not say anything sad or make noise. After dinner, housewives were busy clearing the table, so a cleaning activity began. This time, we don't have to care too much about cleaning, just for cleaning. Unlike the time at the end of the year, you have to brush pine grass. Then he lit a fire in the stove and began to prepare the offering to God tomorrow-vegetarian food. There are many kinds of vegetarian dishes, including taro, sweet potato, jujube, peanut, taro and sweet potato. All the ingredients of vegetarian dishes should be prepared and dried at noon. When frying vegetarian dishes, put the iron pot and inject a lot of peanut oil when the fire is good. When the oil boils, mix these materials with the slurry and put them into the pan, which will make squeaks and bubbles in the oil pan. Huang Chengcheng is especially attractive when cooking. At this time, if there are guests at home, the hostess will serve a plate of freshly fried vegetarian dishes, and then soak in mellow congou tea to let you taste delicious Chaoshan snacks.

Send lucky money

Giving lucky money is an important part of Chaoshan Spring Festival custom. The elders should give money to the younger generation, and those who can earn money should also send money to the elders. Money can't be sent directly to wait for a while, but it should be packed in a profit bag or a red paper bag. This is commonly known as "pressing the abdomen and waist", which means that from the beginning of the year to the end of the year, the pockets will be full of reality and wealth. What is particularly interesting is that when a child sleeps, his parents will put a large bill in his belly pocket and bring it back after waking up.

Happy new year, send big oranges.

New Year greetings, also known as "worship". In the early morning of the first day of junior high school, people get up and put on new clothes. The first thing they do is to pay homage to themselves. It is often the younger generation who wishes the elders first, and then the elders give their expectations to the younger generation. After breakfast, each of them pays a New Year call to relatives and friends. As the Chaoshan saying goes, "the first day and the second day have the meaning of New Year's greetings, and the third day and the fourth day have no intention of New Year's greetings." It is said that the sooner you pay a New Year call, the more you can see its sincerity. Therefore, some people go to pay New Year greetings to relatives and friends immediately after getting up, and then eat after coming back. No matter how many gifts people bring, big oranges (Chaozhou oranges) are indispensable. Big orange takes its homonym "Daji". It doesn't matter if you take more and less, but it can't be odd. People who pay New Year greetings enter the doors of relatives and friends, and they should look at different people and say different greetings. Say "Happy New Year" and "Longevity is better than Nanshan" to the old people, and they will grin. For those who have jobs, saying "smooth work" and "progress in the new year" will make the listeners very happy; If you are a business person, what you hear most is "making a big profit in the New Year" and "making a fortune and benefiting the market"; If children are studying, what they want most is to make progress in their studies and achieve excellent results in the new year. Send this greeting to them, and they will be very friendly to you. After being seated, the host will make famous Chaoshan congou tea to entertain the guests. Before leaving, the host will leave two oranges in the gift of the recipient, and then exchange his oranges in order to bring good luck to the other party. Humorous people often only put two oranges in their trouser pockets when they go out to pay New Year's greetings. After the New Year call, the two oranges are still in his trouser pocket. Therefore, good-hearted people call the New Year's greetings at the beginning of the year "orange-changing movement".

(of a person) return to one's place of origin or unit.

On the second and third day of the first month, the married daughters go back to their parents' homes to celebrate the New Year with their husbands and children. When a daughter returns to her mother's house, there must be a big bag of biscuits and sweets distributed by her mother to her neighbors, just like the scene of the New Year. If there are many daughters at home, and these daughters don't come back on the same day, then we must share one at a time. The gift is quite thin, just four biscuits. But it reflects the deep affection, the real "courtesy is light and affection is heavy", and expresses the girl's miss for the villagers. When the girl goes home, if there is a nephew at home, menstruation has to pay again. Although she gave lucky money on New Year's Day, this time it had a different meaning. This custom is called "eating midnight snack" by Chaoshan people. As the name implies, it's just lunch, and the daughter must get back to her husband's house before dinner.

Spring Festival Taboos in Chaoshan Area

Because the first month is the beginning of a year, Chaoshan people often regard it as a sign of good or bad luck in the New Year, so there are many "taboos" during the New Year. In terms of language, all unlucky words such as "broken", "bad", "nothing", "death", "light", "ghost", "killing", "illness", "pain" and "poverty" are taboo. It is also necessary to avoid crying of babies, because crying is "not winning the first prize", which indicates illness and disaster. Therefore, even if the child is in trouble on this day, don't fight or reprimand him, lest he cry endlessly. Behavior, end cup, end plate, end bowl, end plate should be extra careful not to break. When you accidentally break them, taking water is just a form. The custom of prohibiting sweeping the floor is gradually being eliminated, because firecrackers are set off during the Spring Festival, people come and go, and there are a lot of scraps of paper and garbage on the ground. It's really harmful not to clean. Therefore, starting from paying attention to hygiene, many young people are not very particular about these traditional taboo customs.

Creditors are not allowed to collect debts on this day, because it is considered unlucky for both borrowers and borrowers. Also avoid taking things from other people's pockets. People think that pulling out a pocket on the first day of the first month may lead to the danger of being "hollowed out" for one year.

Avoid dead people and funerals, because it will bring bad luck to the family. At the same time, don't have a haircut on this day, because people always associate a haircut with a funeral on this day. On this day, even killing is forbidden. Killing is considered to lead to disasters such as knife disaster, soldier disaster and blood disaster. However, now people's living standards have improved, and they have no scruples about eating fresh food for quick appetite.

In terms of diet, taking medicine is strictly prohibited on this day. Otherwise, I think it will lead to illness all the year round and take medicine constantly. There are several ways to avoid eating meat for breakfast on the first day of junior high school: one is to eat this meal quickly, and the effect is equal to one year; Another metaphor is frugality, not extravagance and waste.

Xijiang boathouse Spring Festival custom

On the surface of the "Little Three Gorges" in Zhaoqing section of Xijiang River in northwest Guangdong, there are still some "boatmen" who take boats as their home. Some of these fishermen have lived on boats for generations. Most of them cook on the boat and most of them burn firewood. Fishermen also like to grow sweet potatoes, rape, onions and garlic seedlings. Subsidize their lives in the open space on the river bank.

After the Spring Festival, fishermen hung red banners with auspicious wishes in their homes. They like to put "Bon voyage" on the bow, "All the best" and "Peace through the year" on the cabin, and "red money" with unique money paper-cut patterns. In addition, they will set off firecrackers at the bow, worship their ancestors first, and worship the gods on the shore to bless peace and happiness. Sacrifices mainly include yuba (Fulu), celery (diligence), green onions (cleverness), lettuce (wealth), oranges (auspiciousness), apples (peace), horseshoes, arrows (all bearing children) and so on.

Spring Festival in Zhanjiang

Like other parts of the country, the Spring Festival is the most grand and rich traditional festival among the people, but the Spring Festival in Zhanjiang also has local characteristics. Generally speaking, it takes about one month from the preparation to the end of the Spring Festival in rural areas, starting from the middle of December of the lunar calendar, including decorating houses, purchasing furniture, purchasing new clothes and purchasing various new year's goods. New year's goods include cane sugar, glutinous rice, New Year pictures, couplets, candy, biscuits and firecrackers. Most of the money earned in one year is used for the New Year.

On the 29th or 30th of 2008, the most lively scenes were killing pigs, catching fish in ponds, catching New Year's Eve, and sending out men, women and children together. In the evening, every household posted "Year Red", including both New Year pictures and traditional "door gods". Most couplets are related to wealth and so on. Families of military martyrs posted couplets issued by the civil affairs department at the gate, and posted "Eat enough" and "Six Livestock Flourish" in kitchens, pigs and chicken stalls. After the reunion dinner, it is lucky money. 12: 00, every household set off firecrackers to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new.

On the first day of New Year's Day, three taboos are popular in rural areas: no killing, no pouring water and no sweeping the floor. Some rural areas are still accustomed to fasting. On the second day of the Lunar New Year, I began to visit relatives and friends. You come, I'll leave. During this period, most villages and towns had lion dances, wandering souls, parades, dramas, martial arts performances and ball games, and various folk activities lasted for more than half a month.

Like other places, Shenzhen retains rich traditional cultural heritage and traditional customs. Historically, ancestors opened up wasteland here more than 6000 years ago, 1700 years ago, the Eastern Jin Dynasty established a county here, the ancient city of Nantou and the lock city of Dapeng were built here more than 600 years ago, and a large number of Hakkas settled and multiplied here more than 300 years ago. Baoan County, the predecessor of Shenzhen, is inhabited by both Guangfu people and Hakkas, and some families still live here. Over the past 20 years of reform and opening up, Shenzhen has attracted millions of construction troops from all over the world and south of the Great Wall, thus bringing the culture of almost all parts of the country. This has resulted in the rich and colorful folk customs in Shenzhen, so the Chinese New Year customs in Shenzhen are extremely unique and diverse.

Local traditional customs

Like the whole country, the aborigines in Shenzhen also call the Spring Festival Chinese New Year. When the countryside enters the middle of the twelfth lunar month, it will make preparations, make rice cake powder, make new clothes, buy new shoes and hats and get a haircut. The 23rd to 25th is called "the year of divination". On the day when the Kitchen God was sent to heaven, every household burned incense and lit candles in front of the Kitchen God's throne, and some even prepared sweets, cakes and tea fruits for the ceremony, entrusting the Kitchen God to report the good and evil behaviors in the past year to the Jade Emperor and pray for him. Women are busy picking tea (cakes) and cleaning furniture. From this day on, there are many taboos, such as not swearing and lying.

On the afternoon of New Year's Eve, the door gods, Spring Festival couplets and kitchen gods were invited into the house to slaughter chickens and ducks. Three kinds of animals (chicken, fish, pork, the same below), bowls of white rice (with chopsticks), tea, wine, etc. , with incense sticks, worship heaven and earth and ancestors. For dinner, the family has a reunion dinner, and when they go out, they come back for dinner. There is nothing urgent. Outsiders will not accept it. In the evening, the whole family should wash "Dajishui" (with orange peel, grapefruit leaves, etc. ), say a few words of good luck while washing. After washing, the elders should give the younger generation lucky money. In the evening, every household began to light the New Year's lanterns, which didn't go out day and night until the third day of the Lunar New Year.

On the first day of the first month (the first day of the first month), families go to the ancestral temple to burn incense and set off firecrackers to welcome the arrival of the New Year. At lunch, I am a vegetarian, with vermicelli, red dates, yuba and other dishes. Lettuce must be eaten. In the past, rich people also ate Nostoc flagelliforme and made a fortune by homophonic. On this day, it is forbidden to kill, not to worship God, and not to give money or things to others.

On the second day of New Year's Day, called "Opening the Year", people began to stop killing three birds. Relatives, friends, neighbors, etc. Pay New Year greetings to each other and send "welfare" to the younger generation. The lion dance team and Kirin team also began to go out and visit villages to perform martial arts.

On the fourth day of Lunar New Year's Day, married women go back to their parents' homes to visit relatives.

On the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, although the atmosphere of the New Year is still filled with the smell of "New Year's divination", the climax has passed and people begin to work or farm in the new year.

Several years passed until the Lantern Festival. Lantern Festival is commonly known as Lantern Festival. On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, there is a habit of making glutinous rice balls (sugar pills). In the countryside, every household hangs lights on the gate at night, and children play in the street with all kinds of colored lights. Last year, people who gave birth to boys also held a special lantern ceremony and hung lanterns in the ancestral hall until the end of the month. This is called "lighting". Some places are chosen in the first half of the first month. After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), this custom was abolished and resumed in the late 1980s.

Entertainment folk custom

During the Spring Festival, residents in old Shenzhen, especially in Baoan County, will hold various folk dances, mainly lion dance, unicorn dance, dragon dance and fish lantern dance, which are distributed in various towns and villages. Among them, lion dance, unicorn dance and dragon dance are more common and have the most local characteristics. Lion dance and unicorn dance are distributed by genus. There are lion dances everywhere in Cantonese-speaking areas such as Xin 'an, Fuyong, Shajing, Songgang and Gong Ming. In Guanlan, Longhua, Longgang, Henggang, Pingshan, Pingdi, Shiyan, Kwai Chung and other places where Hakkas belong, unicorn dances are the majority.

Lion dancing and unicorn dancing are endowed with the desire to bring good luck and drive away evil spirits. The performance team is huge, with big gongs and drums and martial arts scenes with swords and halberds. On Chinese New Year holidays and auspicious days, the Lion Dance Team and the Kirin Team will transfer their ownership through the village, or perform in the open space, or go door to door to invite people to dance and sacrifice in the village. Lion dance is divided into "Wen lion" and "Wu lion" in performance. Shi Wen mainly shows the gentle demeanor of the lion, including sleeping, licking, shaking, scratching and rolling. "Wushi" shows the brave character of the lion, including jumping, falling, walking plum blossom piles, picking green, stepping on the ball and other difficult movements, which are similar in form and spirit and lifelike.

The performance of unicorn dance is very similar to that of lion dance. According to the traditional dance method, in the process of going down the mountain, picking green flowers and lying in the garden, all actions such as sleeping, waking up, scratching, shaking hair, licking hair, prancing, falling, climbing poles and playing are adopted, and the expression is vivid and realistic.

Dragon dance can be divided into "cloth dragon" and "fire dragon". "Bulong" is popular in Buji, Pinghu, Guanlan, Shiyan, Gong Ming and Longhua. "Bulong" is more than 4 feet long and is made of cloth and wire. It has a stick in its abdomen. Generally, 8 to 12 people hold staff and perform various dragon dance movements such as prancing, tumbling and lying down, which are vivid. This kind of dragon dance is considered to bring good luck, so it is often performed during the Spring Festival. "Fire Dragon" (also called grass dragon) is only popular in the fishermen's area of Nan 'ao Town in the east of Baoan. In the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, many fishermen died because of the incurable cholera in the local area. Because of superstition, they thought they had met an evil spirit and asked the Dragon King to exorcise it. Therefore, straw is used to make a dragon shape, which is about 4 feet long and divided into more than ten sections. Each section has a stick for the performer to use, a light bulb is placed on the longan, and the dragon is full of incense. The performance is held on the second night of the first month of each year. In the dragon dance, every household will set off firecrackers and fireworks. When the dragon passes the front door of every house, it will worship three times, and then perform various dragon dancing postures and martial arts in an open space. Dragon dance lights are everywhere, very lively and spectacular. As the "dragon" swam, the band beat gongs and drums and crossed the streets. When the dragon dances, it shines up and down, just like a turbulent dragon. Dancing grass dragons is the favorite activity of fishermen in South Australia. The heroic spirit of the dragon dancers and the enthusiasm for watching the dancers constitute a grand and jubilant picture.

New year's new folk customs

Five or six years ago, every New Year, millions of new immigrants and migrant workers in Shenzhen returned home for reunion. The downtown area of Shenzhen is deserted and has no taste of Chinese New Year. Today, with the development of the city, new immigrants and migrant workers have strengthened their sense of identity with the city. This situation has fundamentally changed. As of this year, nearly 70% of people have chosen to spend the New Year in Shenzhen. The mixed and inclusive characteristics of Shenzhen's population structure and cultural structure make Shenzhen gradually form new folk customs during the New Year.

Everyone is very happy. Every year, the Municipal Youth Activity Center holds "Shenzhen is my home" recreational activities. Through such activities as "Happy New Year's Eve", "Dumpling Banquet for Thousands of People", "Masquerade Ball" and "Spring Festival Gala", it provides a stage for migrant workers who stay in Shenzhen for the New Year, which is well received by migrant workers and forms a unique new folk culture in Shenzhen.

Visit the flower market. As a city located in Lingnan, the custom of visiting the flower market in Shenzhen during the New Year is no less than that in Guangzhou and Hong Kong. Spring Festival travel rush has held 2 1 show this year. Huajie Street is a world of flowers and people, which is very lively. New immigrants and migrant workers also visit the flower market as a must-see place on New Year's Eve.

The custom of New Year's Eve. A few months before the Chinese New Year, restaurants, large and small, have been making a fuss, advertising and using various tricks to attract people to book in advance. As for the recipes, they are all auspicious, "Happy ever after".

Chinese New Year travel. It is the choice of many Shenzhen people, especially young people, to go sightseeing in other places during the Spring Festival. There are footprints of Shenzhen people in Heilongjiang, Tibet, Yunnan, Xinjiang, Hong Kong and Macao in China, Singapore, Malaysia, Japan, South Korea and even Europe and America abroad. Young people seem to have little interest in getting together for a reunion dinner, chatting, watching TV and visiting the flower market. They are usually nervous at work and have a fast pace of life. The Spring Festival holiday gave them a good opportunity to relax and travel. According to the statistics of relevant departments, 40,000 to 50,000 people travel by civil aviation flights every year from the first day to the fourth day.

Several large pots of vegetables. With Hong Kong's return to the motherland and increasingly frequent exchanges with the mainland, more and more Hong Kong compatriots and overseas Chinese come to Shenzhen and the mainland for the New Year. In recent years, during the Spring Festival, the number of passengers entering through Luohu Port reached three to four million. In order to welcome compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan and overseas Chinese back to Shenzhen for the New Year, some towns and villages in Shenzhen hold special social activities every year, with dragon and lion dances and gongs and drums to celebrate the New Year. The Huang family in Xiasha, Shenzhen, moved from the Central Plains in the Song Dynasty. It has a history of more than 800 years, and its descendants are all over China and the world. Thousands of overseas Chinese and compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan come back for the New Year every year. During the Spring Festival, the village committee of Xiasha usually puts hundreds of tables on the "Huang Ancestral Hall" square one day, and thousands of descendants of Huang at home and abroad taste the "cauldron dishes" with the most traditional flavor of South Guangdong in Xiasha, pushing cups for a change, catching up with the old and the new, with a warm atmosphere and spectacular scenes. This is a combination of tradition and modernity, native and overseas.

Pay New Year greetings online. Paying New Year greetings is a traditional folk custom in the Spring Festival. In addition to popular greeting cards, telephones, B B telephones and mobile phones, Shenzhen people have also started to pay New Year greetings online in recent years. Folk festivals and high technology have found a point of convergence.

Of course, the new custom of celebrating the New Year in Shenzhen is still in the process of formation, and new contents and forms will appear constantly. In the collision and integration of local customs and mainland customs, traditional culture and foreign culture, and in the creative transformation of the cultural form of China's most dynamic immigrant city, I believe that Shenzhen will one day become a dynamic museum of China's New Year customs.