The busiest flower street in Guangzhou is New Year's Eve. It is essential to visit the flower market, walk the flower street, and then buy some flowers, oranges (homophonic with gold) and oranges (homophonic with auspicious) to go home for the New Year. Bringing colorful flowers home means a year of prosperity. Oranges or oranges placed at home should be hung with red envelopes.
2. On the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, the Spring Festival is approaching. During this period, every household has to clean and decorate the house. The custom of cleaning before the Spring Festival is called "dust removal" or "house selection" in some folk places. It is said that I want to wash away the fine dust and dirt for a year and hope that the new year will have a new atmosphere. In fact, it is necessary to do personal and family hygiene well before the Spring Festival. For this important festival, the whole family moved to work together and cleaned the house inside and outside. In fact, it is not limited to the 28th of 2008, but we should do a good job of cleaning up before the Chinese New Year. Men want their hair cut and women want their hair washed. The cleaning before the Spring Festival was different from that in peacetime. You can do surface work at ordinary times. After the Spring Festival, it is the custom of China people not to bring old and dirty things into the New Year. Therefore, the edges and corners that can't be taken care of when cleaning at ordinary times should also be turned out and thoroughly cleaned.
3, the reunion dinner, as the name implies, is that families get together for dinner on New Year's Eve. People in China pay special attention to the affectionate reunion dinner. Eating New Year's Eve requires the whole family to be neat and round, and pay special attention to the dishes. The reunion dinner pays special attention to "good intentions", and the dishes represent deep meaning. Such as fish (symbolizing "having enough money every year"), oyster lion (pronounced as "good things" and "good market"), Nostoc flagelliforme, lettuce (pronounced as "getting rich" and "making money"), chicken-claw mushroom (meaning "the way to make money"), arrowhead (meaning adding men later) and celery (meaning "getting rich"
4, the fun of lucky money for the New Year is everywhere, let's not talk about it. "Congratulations on making a fortune and having fun" has also become the most frequently used sentence in Cantonese New Year greetings.
5. Post Spring Festival couplets and New Year pictures and set off fireworks. Every household likes to paste Spring Festival couplets and New Year pictures, which adds a strong flavor of the year to the festival. This is quite common, so I won't say much. However, in Guangdong, there are fewer and fewer New Year pictures. At present, it is generally forbidden to set off fireworks and firecrackers privately. There are no firecrackers set off during the Chinese New Year, and fireworks are often organized by the government. Nowadays, fireworks can only be set off in rural areas.
6. New Year greetings between relatives and friends are usually after the New Year. But now, before the New Year in China, people pay New Year greetings in advance.
7. Make crispy corners, make fried dumplings and wrap jiaozi. A few days before the Chinese New Year, I made a wish, made crispy corners, fried dumplings, made a wish (similar to cakes) and some famous cakes, as well as jiaozi. Compared with the custom of making rice cakes in some places during the Spring Festival. But in recent 10 years, brittle corners have been rarely made. Few people buy fried piles in supermarkets and shops, and fried piles are the characteristics of the Pearl River Delta. Zongzi and stone continue to be made. People in the city rarely do it, and they all use things bought in other shopping malls instead.
8. Eating glutinous rice balls on New Year's Eve, the family eats glutinous rice balls together, which means that the family is round, harmonious and happy. Now there are jiaozi in supermarkets and shopping malls, with many varieties, which is more convenient for people.
9, lion dance, dragon dance Guangdong also dances lions and dragons to celebrate the New Year. Lion dance and dragon dance are strong in action and appreciation. Lion dance began after the Han Dynasty, and it is also a traditional performance of China folk festivals, especially the Spring Festival and Lantern Festival. China doesn't produce lions. The Book of the Later Han Dynasty recorded that when Emperor Gaozu was Zhang, the State of Yue (a small country in the western regions) paid tribute to lions, which was then called "Sister-in-law". Since then, people regard the majestic lion as a symbol of good luck and courage, and imitate the image and movements of the lion, gradually forming a lion dance. People celebrate the lion dance and expect to exorcise evil spirits, so they call it "the lion to ward off evil spirits". Dragon dance, its predecessor is the "Dragon Dance" drama in the Han Dynasty. Dragon dancing is very popular in many areas of our country now. The images of dragons have their own characteristics. Generally speaking, they are made of bamboo, wood, paper and cloth. Every energy-saving person who lights candles is called "Dragon Lantern", and those who don't light candles are called "Bulong". The number of sections varies, and most of them are singular. Generally, each long queue consists of 1 1 person or 13 person, and the longest one is 100 person. Each dancer holds a stick to hold up a section, and one person plays the dragon with an hydrangea in front to lure the dragon to jump up and play, trying to imitate the dragon's various postures such as playing with a treasure ball, shaking its head and wagging its tail, prancing, rolling, standing upright or hovering. Perform different specifications of movements in different sizes of venues. The performance was accompanied by gongs and drums, and dragons danced to the music.