On the second day of the lunar new year, it is commonly known as "opening the year" and "opening (doing)" (commonly known as opening the teeth). People kill more cocks to worship their ancestors and pray for family peace in the new year. Everyone's spirit is refreshing. On this day, the whole family ate meat, which was more abundant than usual. Married women are used to returning to their parents' home on the same day to celebrate the New Year with their husbands and children.
On the third day of the Lunar New Year, people call it Red Mouth Day. Before the founding of the People's Republic of China, people liked to open doors in the morning, splash water, scatter rice and set off firecrackers, praying that there would be no trouble all the year round. This day is generally not a New Year's greeting and rarely goes out. There is no such bad habit today.
On the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, people call it "People's Day", which means people's birthdays. Many people are used to cooking porridge and fried powder at noon that day. Xiaolan residents eat birthday porridge cooked with various meats and vegetables in the morning; There are also birthday sugar teas made of lotus seeds, lilies, peanuts, sesame seeds, olive kernels, vermicelli and dried fruits. Hakka people like to stir shredded radish and rice flour to make radish cake for lunch.
Since 1988, every year on the seventh day of the first lunar month, a new folk custom named "Charity for the People" has appeared in Shi Qi, Zhongshan City. That night, men, women and children from all walks of life inside and outside the city, accompanied by folk art teams such as Gone with the Wind, lion dance, dragon dance and crane dance, formed a huge parade of 10,000 people, starting from the western suburbs and walking along Sun Wen Road to Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall. There are thousands of people along the way, the lights are brilliant, and there is a lively and peaceful holiday atmosphere.
The Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month is commonly known as the Lantern Festival. In the past year, the old custom gave birth to a boy's family. On this day, they hung lanterns on ancestral temples or land altars, calling for turning on the lights or hanging them. Only when they were in Tomb-Sweeping Day did they take them down and burn them, which was called Deng Jie. This custom has been rare since the founding of the People's Republic of China, but it still exists in some rural areas. Before the founding of the People's Republic of China, there was a Lantern Festival in Xiaolan area. That night, some non-governmental organizations held a lantern parade decorated with traditional folk stories. Young men and women held lanterns and sang together, commonly known as singing lantern songs. In the past, Xiaolan had the custom of holding a gun for sixteen times, that is, putting a homemade gun with red bamboo strips in the open space in front of the temple. The villagers are scrambling to hold the red stripes scattered in the air, and what they can get is the mirror screen symbolizing the red "gun", which indicates good luck for a year. There is no such custom today. The Lantern Festival will end on the evening of the next day (the 16th day of the first month), which is called scattered lanterns. At the same time, it also marks the end of the Spring Festival activities.