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On the second day of the Lunar New Year, you must bring gifts to your parents' home. According to the old rules, these gifts are a knife of meat (not less than four or five kilograms), two fish (fresh carp, each fish must weigh more than one kilogram, also known as "fish"), three bottles of white wine and four kilograms of snacks (egg cake, longevity cake, peach cake and ancient philosophers cake). These gifts are collectively called "four-color gifts", which include four seasons of a year.

Qingdao

Visiting relatives from the first day of the first month. In Qingdao, "pro" and "qi" are strictly separated. On New Year's Day, it is for important people and elders to pay New Year greetings. I used to kowtow to my elders, but now I'm not very particular about it. Usually just bow and ask "Happy New Year", but aunts and cousins are not allowed to walk around on this day. On the second day of the second month, I will pay a New Year call to my grandmother. When my grandmother is away, my son-in-law will pay a New Year call to her mother-in-law, and my unmarried and engaged daughter-in-law will pay a New Year call to her future in-laws on the fourth day. From the fifth day of the first month, it is the day to visit cousins in menstruation.

Bringing gifts to relatives is called "weaving baskets" in Qingdao dialect, because in the past, relatives used bamboo baskets that were brushed with clear oil and woven with thin bamboo strips. As for what's inside, it's nothing special. Whatever you have at home, one or two bottles of Jimo old wine, two Baoqing biscuits and some apples, that's all. Anyway, relatives will only take out one or two, and then press one or two to go back for a change, so as not to let the empty baskets go back.

Zibo

When they return to their parents' home, the girls will put steamed bread as a basic gift in a basket, then put four packets of snacks wrapped in red paper at the four corners of the basket, and then insert some sesame cakes. In this way, because the baked wheat cake is much higher than the rice basket when it is empty, when the rice basket is finally covered with a red bag, it looks like both a festive gift and many gifts. It indicates that the small life is full of prosperity and beauty.

Daughters bring gifts to their parents, but parents generally don't return them. Parents don't accept all the gifts from their daughters, but put them at the bottom of the basket, which means they can't let their daughters go home empty-handed.

Weifang

In the past, people usually brought steamed bread, cakes, meat or two pounds of big fruit (fried dough sticks). Better still, two pounds of snacks and two pounds of loose wine. When my daughter goes back to her parents' house, she brings a handkerchief (Weifang's general name for gifts). Besides snacks and wine, many of them also bring a white scaly fish "pressed in the pot" on New Year's Eve (two white scaly fish and two pieces of tofu are put in the pot on New Year's Eve).

Yantai

Visiting relatives is called "going out" in Yantai dialect. In Yantai, the most distinctive Spring Festival "going out" gift is a kind of pasta called "Bobo". Every year after the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month (that is, off-year), every household will make a lot of "cakes". Flour needs to be kneaded many times to make it into the shape of a bird's head and a big round body, which is called "milk cake"; Or make it into a circle with all the cut red dates on it, which is called "jujube cake".

Weihai

Visiting relatives and friends during the Spring Festival is generally from the second day to the fifth and sixth day, and can be extended to fifteen at the latest. There used to be such a jingle: "On the fifth day of the Lunar New Year's Day, there is no sacrifice, no bread and no meat." That means life is hard. If you are poor, you will have nothing to eat on the fifth day and the sixth day. Doesn't mean you can't visit relatives on the fifth and sixth day. The gifts brought by visiting relatives and friends are usually four cakes and a packet of peach cakes. If the other person is an elder or an important relative, he will also bring a bottle of wine.

Tai ' an

On the second day of the second day, the new son-in-law will bring six big gifts to her in-laws, and the six big gifts must be enough. There are two cocks, two fish, two bottles of wine, one elbow and a packet of vermicelli. There is also a saying called "new three years and old three years", which means that the son-in-law who has been married for less than three years has to prepare the same gift every year when he goes to his father-in-law's house. It can be almost the same in the next three years, and he can be casual after six years.

Laiwu

Generally, when visiting relatives and friends to give gifts, you should carry a basket with more than a dozen white-flour steamed buns and rice cakes and zongzi made by yourself. The rice cake is made like a pagoda, divided into nine layers, and each layer will be pressed with a circle of red dates. After the rice cake is steamed, the thorns of red dates are bulging outside, and some of them have cracked their mouths, which looks really cute.

Heze

Generally, we go to friends' houses, mostly before the Spring Festival, while we go to relatives' houses after the Spring Festival. No matter where you visit, you should avoid the afternoon. Many people think it is unlucky to visit friends in the afternoon. Since it is a holiday to visit relatives and friends, you can't go home empty-handed. You always have to bring some gifts. The most common gifts for Chinese New Year are tobacco, alcohol, sugar, tea, cakes and fruits. Some buy clothes for the children of relatives and friends, and don't forget to give them lucky money.

Linyi

In Linyi, visiting relatives and friends in the New Year is called "going out". When you go out, you should bring some gifts. In the early 1980s, the gifts you brought were nothing more than steamed buns, vegetable bags, bean bags and vermicelli. If the conditions at home are good, put one or two carp, one or two packets of biscuits or peach cakes, and weigh a catty of sugar for the elderly.

Zaozhuang

People often visit relatives with gifts before the festival, which is called "giving gifts". After the festival, it is a pure New Year greeting. There are no special rules for gifts, but the number must be even to show good luck. The main family will return some specialties such as vermicelli and vermicelli.

Texas

There is nothing special about visiting relatives and giving gifts in Texas during the New Year. In the past, when the living standard was not high, the "bun basket" was the most important gift. Even if the daughter with the worst living standard goes back to her mother's house, she should put steamed white steamed bread, fried fruit and other foods in a basket, cover the sheep's stomach with a clean towel, and bring two packs of avocados (snacks) if she is a little better.

Liaocheng

In the past, the living conditions were not good, and the gifts given by parents were nothing more than snacks and steamed bread, as well as some sugar, wine and fruit. Later, with the improvement of living standards, the four-color ceremony, that is, wine, chicken, fish and meat, must be even. Only half of the things at home were kept and the other half was returned. In return, the bride's family will send jujube flower cakes, which are quite large and silver-basin-shaped, meaning step by step every year. You should have brought such a generous gift three years before you got married, and then you would be free.

Binzhou

When I went back to my mother's house, I usually brought her two Jin of steamed bread (with red spots on it) and two Jin of dried noodles. If the conditions at home are good, I will buy another catty of cakes, put them in a basket woven with plastic strips and cover them with cloth. When she comes back, her parents will keep half of what she took and bring the rest back by herself. This is called "leaving a leftover". Visiting relatives is also sending steamed bread and noodles.