Dongguan City Spring Festival Customs

Dongguan’s Spring Festival customs include:

1. Visiting the flower market

Old Dongguan people once had a saying of “walking through the flower street before celebrating the New Year”, which means visiting the flower market first to welcome the Spring Festival. Chinese New Year after the flower market. It is recorded in the "Dongguan Intangible Cultural Heritage": "Dongguan City has a fixed Spring Festival flower market every year. Generally, it starts one month before the Lunar New Year and ends on New Year's Eve to borrow books. Citizens go to the flower market to purchase flowers, which can decorate their homes. I also hope there will be a good sign in the coming year."

2. Climbing Huangqi Mountain

Dongguan folklore expert Zhang Tiewen pointed to his "Astragalus Range Rover" and said that climbing Huangqi Mountain during the Spring Festival is the best. A folk custom in Dongguan City. It began during the Huizong period of the Northern Song Dynasty and flourished since the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China.

3. Buying an office doll

Chashan doll is a kind of clay figurine. Because it is abundant in Chashan Town, it is also called Chashan doll. It is a very popular handicraft in Dongguan in the old days.

Since the Ming Dynasty, in the Pearl River Delta area, any family that has given birth to a son, in order to celebrate, will "turn on the lights" at home and hold a banquet for the child on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month of the coming year, and announce the good news to the street. Neighbors and tribesmen have a new baby in their family, and the tea garden doll is an indispensable part of the wedding banquet.