The custom of Wenzhou people celebrating the Spring Festival

The customs of Wenzhou people celebrating the Spring Festival mainly include the following:

1, post Spring Festival couplets. On New Year's Eve, all doors, columns and windows are pasted with red paper for Spring Festival couplets, commonly known as "door pairs". There are four words posted on the lintel, commonly known as "horizontal approval", and the word "Daji" is posted on the single door. Spring Festival couplets with different contents are posted in the main room, hall, study, pigsty, sheepfold and cowshed, mostly to pray for good luck and peace and a bumper harvest in all walks of life.

2. wine by year. Old wine is very auspicious. Generally, ten tall cinnabar bowls and ten kinds of cold dishes will be used at banquets, which is called "eating all". In addition to chicken and meat, there must be peanuts, oranges, carp, tofu and so on. Each bowl must have a round carrot head cover, and the top is sliced to show appreciation.

3, open the door gun. In the early morning of the first day of the first month, the first thing every household should do is to play "opening the door" in a hurry, and firecrackers in the whole city are ringing, symbolizing the farewell of the old year and the welcome of the new year, commonly known as "closing the year".