What are the customs of Chinese New Year in different places?

The winter weather in northern China is cold, with short days and long nights. Since New Year's Day, people who are idle in farming have been killing pigs and sheep, sitting cross-legged on the heatable adobe sleeping platform, talking about their homes and mouths, and not working until the 15th day of the first month. Due to the cold weather, frozen products, pickles and stews are the main Chinese New Year in Northeast China. Frozen jiaozi, stewed vermicelli with sauerkraut, preserved sherbet, etc. are all essential foods for Chinese New Year.

Children in Beijing want to eat candied haws in the New Year, which symbolizes the prosperity of the New Year. Folklore: Yangko, stilt walking and Errenzhuan in the northeast will be performed at the temple fair one after another. Tianjin is full of paper-cuts, couplets and entertainment activities. On New Year's Day, students in Shandong Province burn incense and worship the statue of Confucius, hoping to be the first in the coming year.

New Year's Day Customs in South China

Compared with the vulgarity of New Year's Day customs in the north, the New Year's Day customs in the south are more elegant. In Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, bamboo poles are tied to grass and lit on the first day of New Year's Day, which is called "Qingtian silkworm". Shaoxing will entertain guests with "tea bowls" on the first day of the Lunar New Year, and some even add olives and kumquat, which is called "holding gold ingots".

In Fujian, the Fujian pronunciation of "spring" is the same as that of "leftover". When eating on New Year's Day, flowers made of red paper should be inserted into the rice, commonly known as "spring rice". Spring rice is a symbol of "more than one year". In Guangdong, on New Year's Day, the elders will reward the younger generation with red envelopes or oranges, which is also a symbol of good luck and balance in the coming year.