<h1>Welcome new guests</h1>
On the second day of the first lunar month, we are still counting the new year here.
On this day, some families have to welcome an important guest - a new son-in-law. This is an important thing, sloppy.
On the first day of the first lunar month, the home cannot be cleaned, saying that it will break the money. The second day of the first year to welcome new customers, must be cleaned. This sweeping floor is also exquisite: the yard starts from the gate, the living is swept, and the main house is also swept in from the door, so that the "wealth" cannot run and can hold it.
The host will invite a special chef, a large table to set the table, dishes, generally to more than 12. The main dish is chicken, fish, pork belly, and other picks and others can be combined. Competent chefs also make silk yam and glass lotus on the table, which wins a lot of glory for the host.
The new son-in-law will come to the door around eleven o'clock in the morning, of course, the girl who marries from her own family will also return to her mother's house, plus a basket from the son-in-law's family, that is, a special gift - by the new son-in-law's brother or nephew.
The family of the guest, to find a good companion in advance, is generally the brother or old son-in-law of the same generation as the son-in-law. Elders are not allowed to come to the table, and women and children are even more not allowed.
Before the new son-in-law enters the door, there will be people looking outside the courtyard, seeing the shadows of the new son-in-law and the three people in the group, they will stretch out their heads and shout "guests" to the courtyard, and the host and the people who should accompany the guests will welcome them out of the courtyard, shake hands with the new son-in-law, and let them enter the house.
When he arrived at the Detang House, the new son-in-law had to kowtow to the old man and to the ancestors and the ancestors on the eight immortals table before he could sit down.
Tea, cigarettes, candy, and melon seeds should be sent to the new son-in-law by the accompanying guests, and the tea should be poured to make the smoke, respectfully, without losing dignity.
After drinking tea, the new son-in-law also wants to go to the near door of the father-in-law to visit the New Year. Led by the accompanying guests, one by one, the worship is no different from the form of the first year of worship.
At the end of the New Year, the feast began. The main seat is the new son-in-law, and the second seat is a brother of the same generation or a son-in-law who is not the son-in-law of the first year of the father-in-law's family, and no matter how old they are, the main seat is not allowed to sit. Because today is a feast for the new son-in-law.
Drinking and making wine is extremely courteous here. As long as you drink, there is no shortage of drinking, no matter how large the amount of alcohol, there are ways to satisfy you - the host is looking for these guests, the amount of alcohol is large, the eloquence is good. Therefore, this time, the new son-in-law is drunk, and there are no young and old people who are out of the country.
The new son-in-law generally brings eight color gifts, a piece of pork, two carps, a chicken, a pound of tea leaves, two pounds of sugar, two spears with a yam (Yu two sticky paste), two branches of lotus with a tail (Yu two families break the silk connection), that color ceremony, generally two bottles of wine.
The gift of leaving the son-in-law is also exquisite, the pork is left, in addition to the chicken, the other can leave three things at will, and the new son-in-law should be escorted back to four things, which is called coming and going. Live chickens cannot be left behind, because chickens are legs, and the two families will have to move around in the future, leaving people's legs, which is equivalent to coming and going.
The new son-in-law finished eating and drinking, the father-in-law's family did not eat before eating, exquisite, the chef fried a few more greens, or pick a few years ago to do fried vegetables, plus leftovers, eat and drink things.
<h1>Send the old</h1>
After everyone has finished eating and drinking, the new son-in-law is not allowed to return to his home, because there is still an important ceremony to be carried out: sending the old man.
The ancestors and patriarchs who invited them to their homes for the New Year a few years ago are going to be sent away today - the Year is over.
At this time, the master took the dustpan, loaded the ancestral tablet, incense, the son took the fire whip in front of the road, to the gate, the door stick was removed, leading everyone to the intersection, at this time the intersection has gathered a lot of people to send the elderly, everyone burned incense, burned paper, prostrated, hung firecrackers, the leader shouted a loud "Ancestors, Liezong, eat enough, drink enough, please come back!" Point cannon! The sound of "crackling" firecrackers was deafening, and streams of green smoke flew into the sky.
I sometimes think, this old man, but also set off firecrackers, probably the old one runs slowly, right?
After the ceremony, the new son-in-law can return to his home.
In some places, the new son-in-law goes to relatives on the third day of the first lunar month, and we are here on the second day of the first year, because there is a ceremony to send the elderly.