What are the customs of Spring Festival in Quanzhou?

The customs of Quanzhou New Year are as follows:

1. During the off-year period, the main folk activities include sweeping dust and offering sacrifices to stoves. Before the Qing Dynasty, the traditional festival of offering sacrifices to stoves in the off-year was the 24th of the twelfth lunar month. Since the middle and late Qing Dynasty, the emperor's family held a ceremony to worship heaven on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month. In order to "save money", they also worship the kitchen god, so the folks in the northern region have followed suit, mostly on the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month.

The next day is "son-in-law's day". All married daughters will take their son-in-law and children called "half-sons" back to their parents' homes to visit relatives the next day.

There is an old saying: "There are parents in the second and third day, and if there are no parents, you have to bear it yourself", which means that the daughter-in-law whose parents are alive will definitely be taken as a guest in the second and third day. Without her parents' daughter-in-law, she has to stay at her husband's house and help relatives and friends who come home to be guests.

On the third day, everyone usually goes to bed very late. It is said that in the past, a memorial ceremony was held on the third day of the third year for relatives who died less than a year ago. On this day, people don't like to pay New Year's greetings. Maybe from New Year's Eve to the second day of junior high school, I have been busy, happy and a little tired. You can have a good rest without visiting in the third grade. Therefore, there is a saying in the Minnan dialect that "the first day is early, the second day is early, and the third day is full of sleep".

The fourth day is "God Meeting Day", also known as "God Meeting Day". It is said that on the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month, every household sent immortals to heaven to celebrate the Spring Festival, and at the same time reported all the good and evil in the past year to the Jade Emperor.

On the fifth day, everyone began to get busy after the holiday. Shops opened and farmers went to the fields, so Minnan said in a jingle, "It's past the fifth day (after the festival, get ready to work).