The north
BTW: worship heaven and earth NianChuEr: dogs birthday junior 4: visit friends and relatives, daughter-in-law discotheque early PoWu "offering five:" in the arrest of wealth, go out exercise: baiwujinji NianChuQi: eat noodles, wish longevity early morning 8: worship god NianChuJiu: jade emperor debut 10th day, 11th, 12, 13: eating and finally remember back light years fourteen: ready to make dumplings in fifteen: yuanxiao see lamp
Many places after midnight on New Year's eve at all the people rose up bride god. Rural will set off firecrackers, placing a piece of courtyard in blate table, put on incense tributes, limited, people call it "hair paper". There are certainly other like using the mat pitched "heaven and earth floor", the parties to worship the devas. In shandong province rural many places remains the lunar New Year, happy New Year customs early chogye day still not bright, family all men will give clan old elder kowtow New Year, happy New Year will give children "lucky money". At breakfast, after all her to family clan elders kowtow happy New Year. Annual lunar calendar, some places have whole clan man arrive on the custom, 'ancestor-worship ancestor-worship to bring the abundance of tribute, paper money, sweet, and also took a platinum firecrackers to comfort ancestral spirit. Grade 4 is the day of relatives.
south
Rural new custom has its own characteristics. In the countryside, the farmer room than many, besides Spring Festival couplet outside, door both sides still aside two strains circle of putting up red paper roots sugarcane, called "door", dialect "sugarcane planting" and "good" nearly sound, meaning into something mean. Hall is desirably every year in table elder dish, FaGao, and inserted with red, HuangLiang lubricious paper pierced "spring branches", meaning meal longyear fullness, propitious to become rich. Each will put potato vine branches stacking wood outside, lit it to smoke around the fire, the man in degress skip this pile of flame, and dances while read aloud: "jumped to get rich, every year; tiao4, 51job altogether secure; skip east, grain eat not empty; skip west, QianYin rolling to." This call "incendiary burn, the symbol of the old group" of evil, disaster after shipment, usher in clean, prosperous New Year. "Jump fire after group", you'll have to use the new broom sweeps clean hall, after BenDou put together, broom garbage dumps the door, hoping that wish again from trash &advanced come in and help orin rich. At the same time to jump out of the fire not more than ash to collect some add in foods, called "add prosperous", the symbol of the more buoyant. Parents, children sat beside the rate of furnace called "surround furnace ShouSui," best keep working all night for parents, which are said to add cheer. At this time, the elder give junior points, called "lucky money cyclotomic". With the social progress, speed up the pace of life and minnan country some trival custom has gradually fade, but peasant enchancing good year customs still keeping.北方
年初一：祭拜天地 年初二：狗狗过生日 年初三初四：走亲访友,媳妇回娘家 年初五：“破五”祭财神 年初六：百无禁忌,出门活动筋骨 年初七：吃面条,祝长寿 年初八：凌晨拜天公 年初九：玉皇大帝登场 初十、十一、十二、十三：大吃大喝,最后记得回归清淡 年十四：准备闹元宵 年十五：吃元宵看灯火
很多地方除夕夜午夜过后所有的人起来拜天地神.农村还要放鞭炮、在上房院子摆一张桌子,桌子上放上贡品,烧香烧纸,人们称之为“发纸”.当然还有其他的如用席子搭起“天地楼”,祭拜各方天神.在山东农村很多地方保留了在大年初一磕头拜年的习俗,一大早天还未亮,家族中所有男子都要给族中年老的长辈磕头拜年,小孩拜年还要给“压岁钱”.在吃过早饭之后,家族中所有女子给族中长辈磕头拜年.大年初二,有些地方有全族男子到祖坟上祭祖的习俗,祭祖要带上丰盛的贡品、纸钱、香铂,并且还要带上很多鞭炮,以告慰祖先神灵.初三初四则是走亲戚的日子.
南方
农村的过年习俗有着自己的特色.在农村,农户房多门多,除了贴春联外,房门两侧还要搁置两株圈贴红纸的连根甘蔗,叫“门蔗”,方言“蔗”与“佳”近音,寓意进入佳境的意思.厅堂中案桌摆有隔年饭、长年菜、发糕,并插上用红、黄两色纸扎的“春枝”,寓意饭菜长年丰足,吉祥发财.每家要把薯藤柴枝堆垛大门外,点燃待其烟绕火旺,男人依辈分跳过这堆火焰,边跳边念：“跳入来,年年大发财；跳出去,无忧共无虑；跳过东,五谷吃不空；跳过西,钱银滚滚来.”这叫“过火群”,象征烧掉旧岁的邪气,消灾过运,迎来干干净净、大吉大利的新年.“跳火群”后,就要用新扫帚打扫厅堂,扫完后扫帚畚斗搁在一起,垃圾堆放门边,希望如愿再从畚帚中走出来,帮助发家致富.同时要把跳火群未熄的余灰收集一些添于炭炉中,叫“添旺”,象征更加兴旺.家长率子女围坐炉旁,叫“围炉守岁”,最好通宵达旦守着,据说这是为父母添寿.此时,长辈给晚辈分压岁钱,叫“分圆”.随着社会进步,生活节奏加快,闽南乡村一些繁琐的习俗已逐渐淡化了,但农家企盼好年景的风俗仍保留下来.
