Customs of Spring Festival in Dongguan

The customs of Dongguan Spring Festival are:

First, visit the flower market.

Create people once said that "the Chinese New Year is celebrated only after the Flower Street", which means visiting the flower market for the Spring Festival first, and then celebrating the Spring Festival. It is recorded in the intangible cultural heritage of Dongguan: "Dongguan has a fixed winter jasmine market every year. Generally, I borrow books from the flower market one month before the Lunar New Year until New Year's Eve. Citizens should go to the flower market to buy flowers, which can not only decorate their rooms, but also hope to have a good sign in the coming year. "

Second, Huang Qishan.

Zhang Tiewen, a Dongguan folklore expert, pointed to his book "The Range Rover of Astragalus" and said that it is a folk custom to visit Huang Qishan during the Spring Festival. It began in Huizong period of the Northern Song Dynasty and flourished in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China.

Third, buy a doll.

Chashan doll is a kind of clay figurine. Because it is rich in Chashan town, it is also called Chashan doll, which is a very popular handicraft in Dongguan in the old days.

Since the Ming Dynasty, in the Pearl River Delta, every family that gave birth to a son will hold a banquet at home on the fifteenth day of the first month of next year to "turn on the lights" for the children and tell neighbors and people on the street that there are more people at home, and tea garden dolls are an indispensable part of this wedding reception.