When it comes to new year customs and interesting things, Guangdong new year customs have very regional characteristics and are full of strong Lingnan style.
Annual custom one: shopping in the flower street
Before Chinese New Year's Eve, help the old and the young, the whole family collectively visit the flower street, select flowers and oranges, and celebrate the New Year happily.
Visit the flower market
Guangdong locals, the New Year can be too busy to forget to paste the Spring Festival, but will definitely forget to buy new year flowers, or oranges, or lilies, or phalaenopsis orchids, how much to buy a pot or a bunch, meaning beautiful, auspicious, so that the family has a New Year's flavor.
Phalaenopsis orchid
Cantonese people like to buy phalaenopsis orchids for the New Year
Annual Rule Two: Pyrry is
Cantonese people new year, Chinese New Year's Eve may not necessarily be pressed to pay, but from the first to the fifteenth day of the New Year, it will definitely be a dividend (red packet).
Most of the elders pay dividends to the younger generations, and the neighbors will also send red envelopes to the children, the amount is not large, ranging from 5-20 yuan, and the figure is auspicious.
As long as you are not married, even if you join the work, you can receive red envelopes every year until you get married and start a family. Married people only have a share of the red envelope and no red envelope collection, except in one case, that is, they can collect the red envelope.
Custom 3: Start the sacrifice
In Guangdong, especially in private enterprises, there are customs of setting off firecrackers, burning paper money, and sacrificing heaven and earth on the day of construction.
In some places, firecrackers cannot be set off, but the boss will burn incense to sacrifice, the big business is the boss and the executive to sacrifice together, and the small business is the participation of all the personnel, which is very ceremonial. Sacrifice is not a superstition, but an inner belief, praying for the wind and rain to be smooth, praying for the peace of the country and the people, and praying for the prosperity of the enterprise.
Some large shopping malls, the New Year will also invite Lingnan lion dance, beating gongs and drums, male lions to collect green, implying that business is prosperous and the source of wealth is rolling.
Annual custom four: the starting profit is
In Guangdong, there is also an important annual custom, that is, the Pai Kai Li is.
Whether it is a public institution or a private enterprise, leaders and bosses must distribute red envelopes (profits) to subordinate employees and employees, and there is no hard and fast rule on the amount of red envelopes to express New Year blessings, show the new year's good fortune, and prosperity.
Today is the tenth day of the first month of the first month of the Year of the Tiger in the Lunar Calendar, Guangdong Langneng Electric Appliance Co., Ltd. officially started construction, and each staff member received the starting profit of the BOSS and the department manager.
Finally, on behalf of Guangdong Langneng Electric Appliance Co., Ltd., Xiaobian wishes everyone a good start to work, in the new year, full of spirit, full of energy, prosperous business, and wide financial resources!