What are the customs of Spring Festival Lantern Festival in Xiamen?

The customs of the Spring Festival Lantern Festival in Xiamen include: greeting the New Year, posting Spring Festival couplets, observing the New Year, hanging New Year pictures, stick grilles, setting off firecrackers, giving out red envelopes, wearing new clothes, eating jiaozi, observing the New Year, dancing lions and dragons and hanging lanterns.

Sticking Spring Festival couplets: Spring Festival couplets, also known as "door couplets", "couplets" and "peach symbols", are a kind of couplets, named after being posted during the Spring Festival. It depicts the background of the times and expresses good wishes with neat, dual, concise and exquisite words, which is a unique literary form in China. Every Spring Festival, no matter in urban or rural areas, every household should choose a pair of red Spring Festival couplets and stick them on the door to add festive atmosphere to the festival.

Keeping the Year: China people have the habit of keeping the Year on New Year's Eve, with the common name "Enduring the Year". Watching the new year begins with eating New Year's Eve dinner. This New Year's Eve dinner should be eaten slowly, starting with lighting lanterns, and some families have to eat it until late at night.