Folk customs of various places during the New Year

The Spring Festival is the most solemn traditional festival of the year for the Chinese nation, reflecting the most typical customs and culture of a place. The Spring Festival is approaching. In order to fully reflect the colorful and evocative festival customs and customs in various parts of Hainan during the Spring Festival, reporters from Nanguo Metropolis Daily were divided into five teams to allow readers to have an in-depth understanding of the New Year customs in different regions in the east, west, south, north and central. , deeply appreciate the rich local culture of Hainan Province, and taste the strong flavor of the New Year——

Haikou countryside--picking houses, surrounding the stove, and eating vegetarian food

Spring Festival customs in rural areas of Haikou It’s very lively. When talking about Chinese New Year, the first thing to mention is “Caiwu” (Hainan dialect). Caiwu, simply put, means general cleaning at home. Generally, a large broom made of green bamboo branches and leaves is used to clean away the dust, cobwebs and other dirt accumulated on the roof, eaves and walls. In addition to cleaning the dust and dirt in the house, it also includes cleaning furniture, clothes, etc. This custom is very particular in the countryside of Haikou and is passed down from generation to generation.

The New Year’s Eve dinner is always the “highlight” of the New Year, and the countryside in Haikou is certainly no exception. Traditionally, Haikou people call the New Year's Eve dinner "eating around the stove". The whole family gathered around a stove. There was a pot on the stove, and the family gathered around to eat. Chicken is essential, as well as our local famous food - suckling goat. Bring the soup to a boil. Use chopsticks to scoop the chopped meat and vegetables into the soup. Once cooked, you can eat it and dip it in condiments. It will taste delicious.

Eat "vegetable rice". In some villages, eating "vegetable rice" is also one of the important customs. Chen Hai, a villager in Ziluo Village, Dongshan Town, said that their hometown eats "vegetable rice" on New Year's Eve, a custom that has been passed down for a long time. The so-called cabbage rice is to mix meat, vegetables and rice together, wrap it in vegetable leaves and eat it with your hands. According to Chen Hai, making cabbage rice is still very troublesome. First, you need to cook the dry rice; secondly, wash and dry the rapeseed used to make the rice; and then prepare some garlic, leeks, lean meat, chicken, dried shrimps or sausages. After these raw materials are prepared, stir-fry the vegetables and meat first, then stir-fry the rice with garlic, shrimp, etc. Pour the vegetables and meat into the rice and mix well. Finally, break the rice into the vegetable leaves while it's hot, ball it up with your hands and eat it. Eating vegetables and rice means reunion.

Eat vegetarian food. On the first day of the Lunar New Year, eating "zhai" is also a traditional custom spread among the people in Haikou. Zhai Cai Pot is a traditional folk dish in Haikou. Its biggest feature is that it does not use animal raw materials. The making method of Haikou vegetarian vegetable stew is very particular. First, soak and rinse dried vegetables such as yuba, vermicelli, day lily, mushrooms, and black fungus respectively, then rinse them in boiling water, drain them, and then stir-fry them with hot oil until evenly mixed, and then simmer. Cook until ready for use; wash and cut the black bean sprouts, beets, cress, etc., and stir-fry until half-flavored; cut the dried yellow tofu into long strips, fry lightly in hot oil until it turns yellow, and add seasonings until half-flavored. Then heat a clean pot. After the oil is hot, put all the vegetables in, add water, add an appropriate amount of light soy sauce, monosodium glutamate, and sesame oil, and cook over low heat. Then put the cooked vegetarian vegetables into a casserole according to the colors of their raw materials, bring to a boil over medium heat and serve.

Eating fast on the first day of the Lunar New Year means not killing animals in the coming year. Nowadays, this custom has been preserved to a large extent. In the opinion of many people, eating fast on the first day of the Lunar New Year has adjusted the diet structure during the New Year and is beneficial to health.

After the first day of the Lunar New Year, the remaining process is to visit relatives and friends. The second day of the Lunar New Year is usually the day when married daughters and sons-in-law return to their parents' homes to visit relatives. When you go back to your parents’ home to visit relatives, you usually bring two kinds of gifts, rice cakes and oranges. New Year cake, also called sweet cake or cake basket in some villages in Haikou. It is made from ground glutinous rice powder and brown sugar, stirred into syrup, poured into a bamboo basket and steamed in a pot. Traditionally, villagers are used to wrapping rice cakes in a piece of red paper, which means red and good luck; the word "ju" in orange is a homophone to the word "ji" in auspiciousness, so giving oranges also means giving good luck.

With the development of society, while Haikou villages inherit these customs, the Spring Festival customs have also been given some new content. For example, during the Spring Festival in many places, in addition to some traditional customs, some elderly people meet to play chess together, while young people hold tug-of-war, volleyball, lion dance and other entertainment activities together.

Wenchang Lantern Festival lantern sending is a traditional rural project. After the third day of the Lunar New Year, "lantern sending" began in various towns and rural areas according to different auspicious days and good times in different places. On this day, every household kills chickens and sheep, prepares many traditional delicacies, holds a big banquet, and invites relatives and friends from all walks of life to their homes.

The villagers hold up lanterns (there are 72 large and small red characters for "happiness" and 36 characters for "longevity" visible in the entire lantern. There is also "Lucky" printed on the front of the lantern, " ("Lian Sheng Gui Zi" and other auspicious words or people and landscapes with nostalgic feelings), led by a "Lamp Master", they lined up in a long line, beat gongs and drums, set off firecrackers and paraded along the village, and then went to the Gongmiao Temple not far from the village. , lanterns are hung inside and outside the temple. As soon as the lanterns are hung, people rush up to grab the lanterns. It is said that if you grab the lanterns, you will get rich and the population will flourish.

There is also a lot of emphasis on the emergence of "Lamp Master". Since "Lamp" is homophonic with the "Ding" of human beings, people associate "Lamp" with "Ding", and sending lamps will bring wealth to Ding. It means prosperity, so the "light master" means that there are boys in the village, and villagers with prosperous families take turns to be the "light master". Mainly responsible for preparing funds, contacting actors, dancing, offering sacrifices to the public, delivering official lanterns and other matters. And the family participating in sending lanterns must be a family that has a boy before they have the right to send lanterns.

During the lantern delivery, activities such as cup dance, puppetry and Qiong opera were performed.

Wenchang Lantern Festival lantern sending is a traditional rural project. After the third day of the Lunar New Year, "lantern sending" began in various towns and rural areas according to different auspicious days and days in different places. On this day, every household kills chickens and sheep, prepares many traditional delicacies, holds a big banquet, and invites relatives and friends from all walks of life to their homes.

The villagers hold up lanterns (there are 72 large and small red characters for "happiness" and 36 characters for "longevity" visible in the entire lantern. There is also "Lucky" printed on the front of the lantern, " ("Lian Sheng Gui Zi" and other auspicious words or people and landscapes with nostalgic feelings), led by a "Lamp Master", they lined up in a long line, beat gongs and drums, set off firecrackers and paraded along the village, and then went to the Gongmiao Temple not far from the village. , lanterns are hung inside and outside the temple. As soon as the lanterns are hung, people rush up to grab the lanterns. It is said that if you grab the lanterns, you will get rich and the population will flourish.

There is also a lot of emphasis on the emergence of "Lamp Master". Since "Lamp" is homophonic with the "Ding" of human beings, people associate "Lamp" with "Ding", and sending lamps will bring wealth to Ding. It means prosperity, so the "light master" means that there are boys in the village, and villagers with prosperous families take turns to be the "light master". Mainly responsible for preparing funds, contacting actors, dancing, offering sacrifices to the public, delivering official lanterns and other matters. And the family participating in sending lanterns must be a family that has a boy before they have the right to send lanterns.

During the lantern delivery, activities such as cup dance, puppetry and Qiong opera were performed.

Danzhou has been called "Dan'er" since ancient times. It has a long history, simple folk customs and rich customs.

Yangpu was affiliated with Danzhou before Hainan Province was established in 1988. Its customs also inherit the customs of Danzhou. Here is a brief summary of Chinese New Year customs to share with all inland friends:

Before the 29th of the New Year: prepare New Year’s goods; sweep the yard, tidy up household items; post couplets (Danzhou is known as the “Sea of ??Poetry and Songs”). " Danzhou people are good at singing and couplets, and there are many people who write couplets during festivals);

On the afternoon of New Year's Eve: (Two things to do)

1. Worship ancestors: First worship the ancestors of the family, and then worship the ancestors in the village ancestral hall; the offerings for worship are: fruits, vegetables, fish, pork, whole chickens, home-cooked vegetables, water, rice, white wine, beech leaves dipped in white stone Ashes, etc. (these offerings mean "fish and meat", which expresses the meaning of prosperity); when worshiping, first recite the ancestor's honorific, then blessings, then pour wine into the cup, and burn the newspaper (yellow candle paper) , light firecrackers, bow and bow;

2. Have a reunion dinner: On March 30, the whole family gathers at home, it is not appropriate to go out, and it is forbidden to visit relatives. The family reminisced about old times and had a reunion dinner together. From 7 pm to 9 pm is "lighting up" ("lighting up" lasts from this day to the 16th of the New Year), and the men in the family have to take charge of this matter. Replace the water and rice on the ancestral altar, place fruits (or cut blue sugar cane in half vertically, and place the small sections into a "well" shape on the bowls on both sides of the table), light candles and incense (a pair of red candles, a large Three incense sticks, six small incense sticks), burning newspapers (yellow candle paper) and blowing whips; from 10 to 11 o'clock at night, the villagers gathered in the ancestral hall to "wait for the gods". This ceremony is very solemn. First, the incense is burned, gongs and drums are played, and "Mr. "Reciting the sacrificial draft sincerely invites the gods to come down to earth and sit in the village, and then burn the sounding whip; at 12 o'clock in the night, every household is the most blessed to light incense at home on time and sound the whip. The incense burning ceremony is like the process of "lighting up lanterns";

On the first day of the Lunar New Year: At 10 a.m., all the villagers and fellow villagers are gathered in the ancestral hall for the "opening" ceremony. This ritual is very important. Because you can only leave the village for activities after the "order" is issued, otherwise it will be disadvantageous. Over the years, this custom is still popular among the people. To "issue an order", you need to invite a "comrade" (the "spokesperson" of the wooden carvings of gods and ancestors in the ancestral hall. Because gods and mortals cannot speak to each other in customs, so you can only rely on a male spokesperson who is trusted and possessed by the gods) to issue instructions to the gods. Clear the mortal path, ward off evil spirits and eliminate disasters; after the "order" is completed, you can visit the house.

The second day of the Lunar New Year: friendly visits to relatives in the same village;

The third day to the sixteenth day of the Lunar New Year: it is the time for "New Year greetings". New Year greetings in Danzhou are different from those in the north. In order to welcome good guests, the visiting time should be properly arranged, and the visiting time is determined by local customs. As follows:

The fifth day of the Lunar New Year: Xialan;

The sixth day of the Lunar New Year: Xipu, Qianchong area (Rulan, Donglin, Lingao, Nanfang, etc.);

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The seventh day of the new year: Xinying Bay area (Wushan, Yantian, etc.)

The eighth day of the new year: Yangpu Village;

The sixteenth day of the new year: Baima Well;

During the Chinese New Year, each village will spontaneously organize some folk activities with local characteristics: such as singing, lion racing, dragon dancing, boat racing, ball games, etc., which are all popular among the people.

Sanya - making rice cakes on New Year's Eve and buying firecrackers to pay New Year greetings

Sanya is located in an ethnic minority area, and its New Year customs not only inherit traditional customs, but also incorporate many unique elements. .

Make brown sugar rice cakes on New Year’s Eve. Speaking of Chinese New Year, many cities and counties in Hainan have the custom of making rice cakes, and Sanya is no exception, but Sanya’s brown sugar rice cake is one of the best among many rice cakes.

The main material of Sanya brown sugar rice cake is glutinous rice flour. First put the glutinous rice flour in a basin and mix it with water, then add some coconut powder, peanuts, etc. and mix it thoroughly, then mix the finely chopped brown sugar into the water and dissolve it. Add to the bowl and stir vigorously until the mixture becomes a smooth paste. It is then steamed in a pot for several hours. The steamed rice cake is very elastic and red in color. It tastes like soft candy and tastes great.

In the past, brown sugar rice cake could only be eaten during the Chinese New Year. Every household would set up a pot in front of the door to cook it on New Year's Eve. Nowadays, life is better, and the brown sugar rice cakes that used to be eaten only during the New Year are now available in the market. However, during the Chinese New Year, everyone still makes one to feel the atmosphere of the New Year.

My uncle must buy firecrackers for New Year greetings. The second day of the Lunar New Year is the day when a married woman returns to her natal home to pay New Year greetings. On this day, the husband must accompany the woman to her natal home to pay New Year greetings. Whether it is supplements or snacks, one of the gifts must be special. No - firecrackers.

It is understood that in Sanya, the uncle must buy a firecracker when he goes back to his parents’ home with his wife to pay New Year greetings on the second day of the Lunar New Year. This has been a custom for many years. Every year when I accompany my wife back to my mother-in-law’s home to pay New Year greetings, I must prepare firecrackers. After arriving at the door of my parents-in-law’s house, I hand the firecrackers to other relatives. After setting off the firecrackers, I can go in to pay New Year greetings to the elderly and other relatives. Bringing firecrackers to the father-in-law or mother-in-law’s house to pay New Year greetings is not only a ceremonial need, but also a wish to elders and other relatives

Lingshui - picking up incense, carrying New Year’s goods, and taking betel nuts to pay New Year’s greetings

On the eve of New Year’s Eve, when the New Year’s bell rings, the most important man in the family will respectfully light a few sticks of incense. Local elders said that according to legend, from 12 o'clock on New Year's Eve to dawn on New Year's Day, various gods representing auspiciousness will come to the world one after another during this period to bring good luck and wealth to people. These incense are used to welcome the gods. The man responsible for lighting incense also has a very important task: "taking the incense". From 12 o'clock on New Year's Eve to the fifth day of New Year's Day, the incense in the home must last forever. Because in the concept of Lingshui people, the continuation of incense also represents the prosperity of the family's descendants.

"Moving New Year's goods". Many places in Hainan will eat a vegetarian meal on the morning of New Year's Day, and Lingshui also has the same custom. But what is different from other places is that Lingshui people have given new meaning to vegetarian dishes. In Lingshui, people call eating vegetarian food "moving new year's goods." Early in the morning on the first day of the Lunar New Year, hard-working housewives begin to be busy "moving New Year's goods". Various vegetarian ingredients such as enoki mushrooms, vermicelli, eggplant, and yuba are cooked with the skillful hands of housewives, adding a warm aroma to the morning. When the whole family gets up, they sit together, each with a bowl of rice, and eat delicious vegetarian food together. Adults always ask their children to "eat more" and "move" all kinds of rich "New Year's goods" into their bellies. This year they will have abundant financial resources and a prosperous life.

Take betel nuts to celebrate the New Year. Lingshui people love to eat betel nut. Betel nut has a special meaning in the hearts of Lingshui people. Betel nut is indispensable on important days like the Spring Festival. Before the Chinese New Year, every household in Lingshui will prepare a lot of betel nuts. Cut the betel nut into four pieces, then coat a special betel nut leaf (commonly known as betel leaf) with some special sauce and fold it into a small triangle. On the first day of the new year, when it’s time to pay New Year greetings to the elders, it’s best to bring a handful of betel nuts to “act”. Whenever they see an elder, the younger generation will take out two small petals of betel nut and a "little triangle" and put them in the palm of their hands, then hold them in both hands and hand them over respectfully while saying "Happy New Year". When the elder takes the betel nut with a smile, it is equivalent to accepting the most sincere blessing from the younger generation.

The Li people in Wuzhi Mountain - rice jars, new water for face washing, and cattle wine

When talking about central Hainan, it is natural to think of Wuzhi Mountain and the Li people at the foot of Wuzhi Mountain. The festival customs of the Li people are one of the most important contents in the Wuzhishan annual customs. What specific contents and characteristics does it include? Recently, our reporter interviewed Huang Xuekui, the former deputy director of the Provincial Museum of Ethnology.

Huang Xuekui, a member of the Li ethnic group, has worked at the Provincial Museum of Ethnology (located in Wuzhishan) for 20 years and has been engaged in research on Hainan ethnic culture and other related topics. Huang Xuekui said that the Li people attach great importance to the Spring Festival and have a unique annual custom: sealing rice jars. The rice jar sealing ceremony is the prelude to the Spring Festival. In the middle of the twelfth lunar month, the hostess of every household in the village holds a rice jar sealing ceremony. The method is to choose an odd-numbered auspicious night. After the cock crows three times in the middle of the night, she fills her own special rice jar with good rice, and then uses Seal the mouth of the cylinder with a piece of red paper and tie it tightly. On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, a ceremony is held to unveil the vat, and the rice in the vat is used to cook rice for the whole family.

Make Spring Festival glutinous rice cakes. On the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month, every household will make glutinous rice cakes for the Spring Festival. That is, use a steamer to steam the soaked Shanlan glutinous rice, pound it in a wooden mortar, and then knead it into glutinous rice cakes. There are two types of glutinous rice cakes made during the Spring Festival: one is an ordinary round glutinous rice cake, the size of a bowl, which is mainly eaten during the Spring Festival.

Wash your face with new water. In the early morning of the first day of the first lunar month, every household will empty out the water in their own tanks, and then fill the tanks with water from the well, which is called "replacing new water." The water is then heated for the whole family to wash their faces, called "new water for face washing", to pray for bright eyes and smooth work in the new year.

Pour wine into the cows. This is a traditional custom of the Li people. On the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, every household will pour special cow wine to their cows. Generally, each cow drinks a small barrel of wine. The Li people believe that cattle are also the main labor force. During the Spring Festival, cattle should also stop working and rest, drink alcohol to replenish their bodies, so as to increase their energy and work more effectively in the coming year. Therefore, all the oxen that pull the ploughs during the Chinese New Year have the opportunity to get drunk at this time. The oxen wine is mixed with several kinds of herbal juices that can dispel injuries caused by bruises and dispel wind. After the cow drinks, it has to lie down drunk for two or three days before waking up. In the past, wealthy families owned dozens or hundreds of cattle, and they often used dozens of jars of wine every Spring Festival.

Happy New Year.

New Year greetings are the most lively and interesting part of the New Year. New Year greetings can be made on any day within ten days from the second to the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. There are many forms of New Year greetings, and the etiquette of New Year greetings is also very particular. There are people of the same clan paying New Year greetings, there are relatives and friends paying New Year greetings, and there are sons-in-law paying New Year greetings to their father-in-law’s family. Among them, the son-in-law's New Year's greetings to his father-in-law's family are the most grand. At that time, the son-in-law will lead his wife and dozens of brothers from the same family to pay New Year's greetings to all families, including his father-in-law's family, one by one. During the Spring Festival, people should set off firecrackers, exchange betel nuts and cigarettes, drink Shanlan liqueur and sing folk songs at the banquet. Before the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, relatives and friends visit each other. If the visitors set off firecrackers, the host will regard it as a New Year greeting, and treat the guests with New Year greetings

Chengmai and Lingao - Worshiping the Grandfather and Sleeping Blessings ·Eating cuttlefish

In some places in Chengmai, pigs are slaughtered on the afternoon of New Year’s Eve, and several families often kill one pig together. On the 30th day, people began to use pork, offal, rice balls, etc. to worship the "Gongzu" and ask the "Gongzu" to bless the whole family with good health, safe travels, abundant grains, and prosperity of livestock. If you make a wish at the beginning of the year, you must fulfill it on that day. This process is called "encircling the furnace". After the "fire" is over, you can start killing chickens, ducks, etc. At midnight and 12 o'clock in the morning, every family would place two small piles of small pieces of sugar cane with the skin scraped off, a grapefruit, three oranges, pig offal, etc. in the main hall where the incense burner of their ancestors was placed, and then light incense candles and burn them. Firecrackers welcome the New Year. This process is called "burning incense". After lighting the incense, the adults began to cook the New Year and the first meal, and invited the whole family to eat. The first bowl of rice must be eaten, and the second bowl of rice must be served, no matter how much, as much as can be eaten.

In Lingao, which is adjacent to Chengmai, the family dinner on New Year's Eve is called "Wailu" (this is actually what is commonly known as the reunion dinner and New Year's Eve dinner). After "circling the fire", the adults ask the children to put on new clothes and socks to go to bed. This is called "sleeping blessing". The longer you sleep, the happier you are. When it's time to burn incense, the whole family wakes up, and the children give New Year greetings to their parents, while the younger generation pays New Year greetings to their elders, with the latter giving red envelopes to the former. After the incense burning, the whole family eats. They can only eat vegetarian vegetables and not meat vegetables, such as celery, green vegetables, garlic, lentils, tofu, etc. When cooking, they can only stir-fry with peanut oil, and they can only be eaten after 12 noon on the first day of the Lunar New Year. chicken. After eating, I go to bed and sleep until around 9 a.m. or longer on the first day of the Lunar New Year. Anyway, I can’t visit and pay New Year greetings on the first day of the Lunar New Year.

The choice of time for New Year greetings varies from place to place. For example, in Lingao, New Year greetings begin on the second day of the Lunar New Year. Generally, the most important family goes first, such as a daughter and son-in-law going to their natal family, subordinates going to their superiors' family, juniors going to their elders' family, etc. When you go there, buy citrus fruits and firecrackers, which symbolize good luck. When they meet, they shout "congratulations" and then set off firecrackers to symbolize peace and prosperity. From the second to the fifteenth day of the Lunar New Year, as long as you hear the sound of firecrackers, you will know whose family someone is coming to pay New Year's greetings. At the New Year's dinner table, there is one dish that is indispensable for wealthy families, and that is cuttlefish. In Lingao dialect, cuttlefish is called "hong", which is pronounced like "tong". If you eat "tong" in the New Year, you will have access to everything throughout the year and everything will go smoothly. Therefore, in the first month, cuttlefish in Lingao are very expensive and easy to sell.

In Chengmai, visiting relatives and friends’ homes for New Year greetings usually starts on the fourth day of the Lunar New Year. Of course, the fourth day of the Lunar New Year should be an auspicious day. When paying New Year greetings, you only need to buy gifts, not firecrackers to set off.

Qionghai - Giving to the poor, preparing for the new year, and making bride wine

People in Qionghai do not call the Chinese New Year "Celebrating the New Year" but "making the New Year". They regard the Chinese New Year as a big event Do it, full of deep expectations. Qionghai people have many customs during the New Year.

"Send the poor". As soon as the 22nd and 23rd day of the lunar calendar arrives, every household is busy cleaning indoors and outdoors, cleaning mosquito nets and bedding, and even washing baskets of furniture, making everything clean inside and outside. Then they take a few shabby things to the entrance of the village and set them on fire, which is called "send the poor", which means to bury all the bad things in exchange for good luck in the new year.

"Prepare for the new year". After giving away the "poor", go to the market to buy new year's goods. Buy new clothes, shoes and socks for the whole family, old and young, furniture and agricultural tools, oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, Spring Festival couplets and New Year pictures, paper money, incense candles, etc. In the northern region, rice is ground to make rice cakes, called "sweet cakes", which means that they will be able to plant a big field next year and live a sweet life. The southern region makes peanut popcorn candy, which means that the next year will be hot and sweet. Before New Year's Eve, the New Year pictures are put up on the door, and a paper symbol called "Liqi Qian" is also posted on the lintel.

"Surrounding the stove" is also called "keeping the year old". On New Year's Eve, chickens, ducks and geese are slaughtered and various dishes are prepared. After worshiping the ancestors, the whole family sits together at night. Parents give "lunar New Year money" to their children and grandchildren, and children give "filial piety money" to their parents. Families used to drink tea and talk. Parents would tell their children and grandchildren about production, life and life in the coming year, and children would give their parents blessings and New Year greetings. Now we are watching the Spring Festival Gala program. Until midnight, parents replace the old ashes in the incense burner with new ashes made from burning grass, sand, rice grains, etc. Then put out three teas and five wines, biscuits and candies, and vegetarian meals to worship the ancestors.

There are many details about this sacrifice. "Three teas and five wines" means three cups of tea or five cups of wine. Vegetarian dishes are generally cress, eggplant, peas, vermicelli, fish, etc. After "circling the fire", everyone goes to sleep and lies in the warm quilt to "incubate the new year". It means that I hope that next year will be a year of food and clothing.

There are also taboos from the first to the third day of the lunar month. You cannot kill animals on the first day of the lunar month, but you can kill chickens and geese on the second day of the lunar month.

Don't sweep away the ashes of firecrackers set off on New Year's Eve on the first and second day of the lunar month, as that will sweep away money.

In Futian, Shangyong, Tanmen and other places in the south, there is also a popular habit of "making bride wine". During the year, a daughter will get married. On the first day of the Lunar New Year, she will go back to her parents’ home to pay New Year greetings, and she will have to visit every household of her uncles and brothers. Every household sets up a banquet and waits for their daughter and son-in-law to visit to pay New Year greetings. Just move your chopsticks and take one or two bites of food. The head of the family also has to give red envelopes to his daughter and son-in-law. Daughters and sons-in-law only send firecrackers, usually a "firecracker", which they set off as soon as they enter the house to tell everyone that their children have come back to pay New Year greetings. Of course, everyone who pays New Year greetings must bring firecracker gifts. Therefore, in the village, there are constant sounds of cannons and laughter during the New Year's Day.

"Fried Gukou" is held on the morning of the third day of the lunar new year. The food for this lunch is all fried. The rice cakes from the northern region are cut into small pieces and fried until soft before eating. "Chao Gukou" means hoping for a good harvest this year, prosperous livestock, and people having enough food and clothing.