What do you mean by setting off firecrackers on New Year's Eve 12?

The reason why firecrackers are set off on New Year's Eve 12 is because it is said that Nian will come out and eat people in inhabited places on this day. Once, someone lit bamboo and made a crackling sound, scaring Nian away. Nowadays, firecrackers are called "firecrackers" in some places and continue to this day. Every household sets off firecrackers on the 30th every year!

The climax of the Spring Festival is "New Year's Eve". It is also one of the most important festivals in China. Keeping old age on New Year's Eve is the most important custom, which was recorded in Wei and Jin Dynasties. On New Year's Eve, it is a custom that people in China still attach great importance to getting together for drinking and enjoying family happiness without sleeping for a year. Even people who work outside all the year round must rush home for reunion at this time.

New Year's Eve custom:

From New Year's Eve to the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month, every household should hang red lanterns. At night, it is important to keep the lights on, which means longevity and incense.

New Year's Eve is the most important day among the customs in Taiwan Province Province, and there are quite a few customs. First, we should resign from the New Year and decorate the "hall head", that is, put on new prints and couplets in the hall dedicated to the "Guanyin Bodhisattva" and the gods. In the afternoon, an "annual resignation" ceremony was held.

Five animals and pigs of all ages were put on the altar to worship God, and then they worshipped their ancestors and gave gifts of three kneels and nine taps to express their gratitude to God and their ancestors for their blessings, and prayed for more blessings in the new year. There is also a "spring meal" in front of the god table, that is, a small bowl filled with rice, flowers made of red paper inserted in the rice, the first three bowls of the Buddha, and a bowl on the stove.

These flowers are also called "spring flowers" or "rice spring flowers", and this kind of rice is called "Chinese New Year rice". In Minnan language, "spring" and "leftover" are homophonic, indicating that there are leftovers that can't be eaten. There are three piles of oranges and some red dates on the table. Jujube symbolizes good year after year. Oranges can't be picked until the Lantern Festival. There is a saying that "the orange shed is demolished overnight".

Finally, we will burn gold paper and set off firecrackers to end the ceremony.