1, dust removal: At the end of the year, both rich and poor families will have a general cleaning. Houses, clothes and utensils in the courtyard should be cleaned and washed clean, and they should be completely renewed with dust-removing cloth. This is the so-called "sweeping dust".
2. Next year: The first day of the first lunar month is the biggest festival in Bengbu. On the fifth watch of this day, we burn incense and set off firecrackers to show the arrival of the new year. This is called "Welcome the New Year", also called "Welcome the Spring". Have flat food (jiaozi) and glutinous rice balls (Yuanxiao) for breakfast.
Happy New Year: On the morning of New Year's Day, adults and children should put on new clothes and shoes. After breakfast, adults take their children out to pay New Year greetings. Generally, you should bring four boxes of snacks for New Year's greetings. Snacks are packed in fruit boxes wrapped in thick paper. The fruit box is rectangular, tied with cotton paper rope, and covered with a square piece of red paper with the word "Fu" printed on it and gold sprinkled on it.
This New Year's greeting will last until the fourth day of the Lunar New Year. People are dressed up and ready to go out to pay New Year's greetings or wait at home to receive people who come to pay New Year's greetings.
4. Have a reunion dinner: Before dinner on New Year's Eve, all families have to go to the water to burn incense and shoot guns to show their respect for the well god. This is the old custom of "sealing the well". Eating fish on New Year's Eve means "fish every year" (surplus). In the past, the rice cooker was not empty, and a fish was usually kept. Some people deliberately let their children uncover the rice cooker to see what's inside.
The child ran to see it and came back and said loudly, "There are fish in the pot." The adults said happily, "Well, I have fish (leftover) in my pot, so don't worry about eating it!" " "This is also a custom to win goodwill and luck.
5. Shounian: After the New Year's Eve, the housewife will burn incense in front of the kitchen to meet the kitchen god, and the younger generation will kowtow to the elders and resign. The elder gave the underage children a red paper bag to congratulate them on adding another year. From this night until the first day of New Year's Day, leave the lights on all night and ask the ever-burning lamp to light a pot of fire. A family is chatting around the brazier, eating sweets, melon seeds and peanuts, and staying up all night. This is called Shousui.
6. Temple Fair and Flower Show: During the Spring Festival, temples of all sizes are open to pilgrims and tourists. There are fairs in and in front of the temple, called temple fairs. The flower show in the suburbs is the most active during the Spring Festival, and almost every village has a flower show. There are many performances, such as stilts, dry boats, Taiping drums, yangko, banners, lions, cars, bamboo horses and so on. Some villages have to build greenhouses, hang lanterns and perform various programs.