Customs and habits during the Spring Festival in Tongchuan, Shaanxi
The first day of the first lunar month, commonly known as "New Year". This is the biggest festival in urban and rural areas of this county. In the old society, people began to buy new year's goods, clean the courtyard and decorate the inner room from the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, which is called "sweeping the house". On the 30th, all industries except pharmacies were closed, and all families posted Spring Festival couplets. This day was called "New Year's Eve". At that time, the family will be reunited and jiaozi will be included. At the same time, provide meals for ancestors and burn incense to "sacrifice to God". At the dawn of the first day, men, women and children put on new clothes and fired guns to welcome the spring; Burn incense for ancestors first, and then "kowtow" to elders; In order to show concern, the elders gave lucky money to the younger generation. There are few people in the neighborhood. Visit your elders to "pay New Year greetings" (commonly known as kowtowing). Then, everyone eats jiaozi. Since then, gongs and drums have been loud, social fires have been played and yangko has been danced until the fifteenth day of the first month.