Jan. 1^st in lunar calendar is usually called as “Spring Festival”, and New Year Day also as “Spring Festival Day”, blissful time.  “Opening the gate”, a custom in New Year, includes firing firecrackers, igniting incenses, and opening doors to take coming year at the auspicious hours.  All in new or clean dress stay welcome to visitors with cookies and candies, and pay special attentions on behaviors to expect good in coming year, such as saying of “safe cracking” for broken wares, sweeping dusts to corners of rooms to mean fortunes kept inside, and opening mouths with “congratulation” rather than any inauspicious words about death, bad, broken, and failure.  Spring Festival lasts from Jan. 1^st to 4^th, and on Jan 5^th , the “open day”, workers of all occupations are back to positions, and business and craft stores stick red paper written with “Open Fortune” in work places to expect prosperity and good lucks.

On Jan. 1^st, all families open doors at auspicious hours after firing firecrackers, and below Heaven God censer set a dedication table completed with censer, offering box, red candles, left and right-side flower sets, five kinds of meats, four kinds of fruits, tea, red rice balls, cookies and candies, paper money, and luck bill.  Firing incenses to expel evils and stink, family members pray respectively by genders and ages, and male and elderly first.  All hold three incenses to sincerely pray for God’s blessing on health, fortune, and business, plug them in the censer, knee down for three times and knock head for nine times, refill tea for three times, burn paper money, pour tea or alcohol on burned ash for one circle, and finally fire firework.

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