#Year of the Tiger
Do you know the Spring Festival customs in the Chaoshan region?
In our Chaoshan region, the pre-festival cleaning is a prelude to the Spring Festival. Every household is cleaned up, the home is cleaned, and the old is removed and the new is welcomed.
Inside and outside the house, the lights are colorful, the Spring Festival, the blessing word, and the lantern are hung.
Chinese New Year's Eve night, every family makes a rich meal, and the family sits together, plays the side stove, and eats a reunion meal.
From the first to the fifth day of the Chinese New Year, everyone visits relatives and friends. Give red envelopes to the elders and juniors, and give money to the pressed years. Friends and family gather together, drink kung fu tea, bump melon seeds, and chat. The host cooks sweet ginger potato soup to entertain the guests.
During the Spring Festival, there will be activities such as "greeting the old man", singing English songs, and lion dances in various townships. Unfortunately, due to the impact of the epidemic in the past two years, these lively activities to greet the gods have rarely been held.
During the Spring Festival, there are many worship activities in our Chaoshan area.
Worship the ancestors, greet the god of wealth, and greet the god of the door. Housewives almost revolve around the worship of the gods throughout the Spring Festival.
In order to worship the gods, housewives will be busy making a variety of worship of the gods, used for "worship", such as "vegetable head barley", that is, the white radish is cut into silk and celery glutinous rice flour, etc., after worshiping the gods, these rice can be eaten. Directly steamed and eaten hot. If you cut it into slices and fry it, it is even sweeter and softer.
On the seventh day of the first year, we will cook "seven kinds of vegetables", that is, take seven kinds of vegetables, each mixed together and cooked to eat. As the saying goes, "Eat seven soups, the older you are, the younger you are."
There are many more Spring Festival customs in our Chaoshan region. I'm afraid to go on, I don't have to sleep at night [laugh]
