How did chaozhou people spend the Spring Festival?

When the "gods" go to heaven to "report on their work". From that day on, every household should be thoroughly cleaned, from lampshade doors and windows to things to be used. This is called "picking".

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Every household makes all kinds of products for the Spring Festival. Red turtle shell, peach shell, vegetable head shell (radish cake), sweet shell, rice shell, shrimp and jujube. Generally speaking, everyone will buy raw materials and make them at home.

3. New Year's Eve: ancestor worship and reunion

From around three o'clock in the afternoon, the whole family will be busy preparing to "worship their husbands" (worship their ancestors). In the old tradition, ancestors should be enshrined with the correct square table. It is only one square meter in size. Seven cups of tea, seven cups of wine, seven pairs of chopsticks and seven bowls of rice are placed at the front end, followed by various sacrifices, followed by incense burners and gold foil. Sacrifice generally requires three animals, fruits, sweets, cooked food and other things.

Then please go to the incense burner and worship your ancestors in order of age, and give them a New Year's Eve dinner first. Then burn the prepared gold foil to the ancestors. Therefore, every New Year's Eve, someone can always be heard shouting on the street: "Daikin sells!" It is a person who specializes in recovering the residue left after burning gold foil and then going back to refine and purify it.

4. The first day of the year

Most families will be vegetarian on the first day, at least for breakfast. Generally, there are spinach, mushrooms, rice noodles, Nostoc flagelliforme and tremella, which are both nutritious and attentive materials.

New Year greetings, also known as "worship". In the early morning of the first day of junior high school, people get up and put on new clothes. The first thing they do is to pay homage to themselves. It is often the younger generation who wishes the elders first, and then the elders give their expectations to the younger generation. After breakfast, each of them pays a New Year call to relatives and friends. As the Chaoshan saying goes, "the first day and the second day have the meaning of New Year's greetings, and the third day and the fourth day have no intention of New Year's greetings." It is said that the sooner you pay a New Year call, the more you can see its sincerity. Therefore, some people go to pay New Year greetings to relatives and friends immediately after getting up, and then eat after coming back.

No matter how many gifts people bring, oranges (Chaozhou oranges) are indispensable. Big orange takes its homonym "Daji". It doesn't matter if you take more and less, but it can't be odd. After being seated, the host will make famous Chaoshan congou tea to entertain the guests. Before leaving, the host will leave two oranges in the gift of the recipient, and then exchange his oranges in order to bring good luck to the other party.

Humorous people often only put two oranges in their trouser pockets when they go out to pay New Year's greetings. After the New Year call, the two oranges are still in his trouser pocket. Therefore, good-hearted people call the New Year's greetings at the beginning of the year "orange-changing movement".

5, the second day of the year

On the day when the daughters return to their parents' home, the married daughters will take their husbands and children back to their parents' home to celebrate the New Year. When a daughter returns to her mother's house, there must be a big bag of biscuits and sweets distributed by her mother to her neighbors, just like the scene of the New Year. But it's just lunch, and then you need to get back to your husband's house before dinner, so Chaoshan people are also called "eating midnight snack".

Many Chaoshan people who do business outside will also take advantage of the Chinese New Year to go home, go to the temples with strong incense, pray for a sign, put incense on the pillars, cheer and make wishes, hoping that the new year will be better.

Extended data taboo

Because the first month is the beginning of a year, Chaoshan people often regard it as a sign of good or bad luck in the New Year, so there are many "taboos" during the New Year. In terms of language, all unlucky words such as "broken", "bad", "nothing", "death", "light", "ghost", "killing", "illness", "pain" and "poverty" are taboo. It is also necessary to avoid crying of babies, because crying is "not winning the first prize", which indicates illness and disaster. Therefore, even if the child is in trouble on this day, don't fight or reprimand him, lest he cry endlessly. Behavior, end cup, end plate, end bowl, end plate should be extra careful not to break. When you accidentally break them, taking water is just a form.

The custom of prohibiting sweeping the floor is gradually being eliminated, because firecrackers are set off during the Spring Festival, people come and go, and there are a lot of scraps of paper and garbage on the ground. It's really harmful not to clean. Therefore, starting from paying attention to hygiene, many young people are not very particular about these traditional taboo customs.

Creditors are not allowed to collect debts on this day, because it is considered unlucky for both borrowers and borrowers. Also avoid taking things from other people's pockets. People think that pulling out a pocket on the first day of the first month may lead to the danger of being "hollowed out" for one year.

Avoid dead people and funerals, because it will bring bad luck to the family. At the same time, don't have a haircut on this day, because people always associate a haircut with a funeral on this day. Killing is even forbidden on this day. Killing is considered to lead to disasters such as knife disaster, soldier disaster and blood disaster. But now people's living standards have improved, and they have no qualms about eating fresh food for quick appetite.

In terms of diet, taking medicine is strictly prohibited on this day. Otherwise, I think it will lead to illness all the year round and take medicine constantly. There are several ways to avoid eating meat for breakfast on the first day of junior high school: one is to eat this meal quickly, and the effect is equal to one year; Another metaphor is frugality, not extravagance and waste.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Chaoshan Spring Festival