The customs and habits of Zoucheng

Pay New Year greetings at home first, and pay New Year greetings to elders and seniors in turn according to seniority and age. If there are three generations in a family, the grandson (female) should pay New Year greetings to his grandparents first, and then to his parents. Worshipers give the younger generation "lucky money", also called "lucky money"

2. New Year's Eve dinner

The family sat together to have a New Year's Eve dinner, good wine and good food, and a reunion dinner, commonly known as "steamed stuffed bun" and "flat food". Jiaozi is usually filled with vegetarian food, which means "plain and quiet". After the New Year's Eve, except for the elders who stayed at home to take care of those who came to pay New Year's greetings, everyone else put on new clothes and went out to pay New Year's greetings.

You can't clean the yard in the new year.

In addition, you can't draw water from the well on the morning of New Year's Day, you can't clean the courtyard and room (even if you sweep at the door during the day, you can't take out the garbage), and you don't wash the dishes after dinner.

4. Worship ancestors first

Every family pays homage to their ancestors first (some places call it "sending the old", that is, sending the ancestors invited from the ancestral graves back on New Year's Eve, while others send the "old" away on New Year's Eve).

May, the first day of June

The first day of the sixth lunar month is commonly known as "half a year". People in Zoudongshan District eat jiaozi with new wheat bread; Zou Xiping primitive people steamed steamed steamed bread (steamed buns) with new wheat flour, and offered sacrifices to heaven first.