Fuyang linquan spring festival custom

The customs of Spring Festival in Linquan, Fuyang include: getting a haircut, setting off firecrackers, lighting red candles, sending goose buns and dancing lion lanterns before the festival.

In Fuyang, knives and scissors are forbidden during the Spring Festival, especially haircuts during the Spring Festival. Therefore, after the New Year, it is a haircut that is longer than the queue that grabs the new year's row. On New Year's Day, the old Changsha barber shop can even rest until the fifteenth day of the first month. Because at that time, the number of people who came to get a haircut became very small.

On New Year's Eve, the New Year bell rang, crackling firecrackers came from all directions, and colorful fireworks lit up the night sky. This is the way people greet the New Year, commonly known as "opening the door".

In the rural areas of Fuyang, people celebrate the Lunar New Year with a traditional folk custom handed down from ancient times. From New Year's Eve to New Year's Day, two red candles are lit in the hall (living room), and some tributes, such as chicken, fish and meat, are put in the middle of the red candles. During this period, it is not allowed to put out the red candle.

Married daughters return to their parents' homes, commonly known as Huimen. When her daughter comes back, it is essential to have a gift ... "Goose Steamed Bun"! In Fuyang, every day on the second and sixth day of the first month, daughters, sons-in-law and children go back to their parents' homes with "big-eyed buns", which is a gift instead of filial piety and expresses the respect of the younger generation for their elders.