Questionnaire survey on Chinese New Year customs and habits in various places

1. Guangdong. In some areas, the first meal of the Spring Festival should be eaten "10,000 years of grain", that is, enough meals for the family to eat on the three rough days of the Spring Festival, which means "not worrying about eating and drinking". In the Spring Festival in Chaoshan area, you will eat vegetable cake, fermented balls, fermented buns, tube frying, and Wuguo soup on the stool, which means "life is sweet and has a long history".

On the night of the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, every family lights a lamp and prepares a jar of water, which is called "waiting for the divine water".

2. Guangxi. According to the unique Spring Festival customs of the Zhuang family, it is necessary to carry out activities such as picking new water, drinking smart water, lion dance, chicken dance, and spring cow dance.

3. Gansu. There is the custom of New Year's dance Shehuo, which is a kind of comprehensive performing art with singing and dancing, diverse genres and variety.

4. Liaoning. The Chinese New Year's Eve points longevity lanterns, which are bright all night, and from the Chinese New Year's Eve to the 15th Lantern Festival of the first month, every family must hang red lanterns.

5. Heilongjiang.

On the night of the Chinese New Year's Eve, you must eat dumplings and wrap a few with coins. On the fifth day of the new year, you must also eat dumplings, also known as "breaking five".

6. Fujian. On both sides of the door of the rural farmhouse, two root sugarcane with red paper should be placed on both sides, which is called "door cane"; In the hall, the desk is equipped with alternate year's dinner, long-term vegetables, and hair cakes, and inserts "spring branches" tied with red and yellow paper.

7. Shanxi. On the night of Chinese New Year's Eve, families stay up all night, commonly known as "Nian Sui". When the rooster crows, they begin to burn incense, light lamps, place offerings, set off fireworks, receive gods, worship ancestors, and then join the family to greet each other.

Guangzhou's annual Spring Festival Flower Market Guangzhou is known as the flower city, with a history of more than 1,000 years. Nowadays, the annual Spring Festival Flower Market has attracted the attention of the world and has become a major folk custom in Guangzhou. Every year on the eve of the Spring Festival, the streets and alleys of Guangzhou are full of flowers, bonsai, major parks are holding spring flower exhibitions, especially three days before Chinese New Year's Eve, the main streets of each district set up colorful buildings, erect flower stands, four township flower farmers have flocked to the flower market, selling flowers and enjoying flowers, crowds of people, ten miles long street, full of flowers, crowds, until the early morning of the first day of the new year, before dispersing, this is Guangzhou's unique spring flower market.

Guangzhou New Year distribution"Laisee"Guangzhou's New Year customs are essential in interpersonal communication"Laisee"。Of course, the so-called"Laisee", that is, red envelopes, relatives and friends meet, adults to children"Laisee"。Among the citizens of Guangzhou, the citizen class is very particular about giving double envelopes, and there is no restriction on the number of banknotes inside, but there is none"Laisee"That is, it is rude, so during the Spring Festival, when you visit the home of Guangzhou people, it is better to bring a few more red envelopes to avoid trouble.

Even at the entrance of the mall, kumquat trees will be hung all over it"Laisee", to be picked by others, in order to seek good fortune.

Heng Chong said that as early as the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month, before the stove was delivered, the people of Fuzhou began to be busy for the New Year. According to the tradition of Fuzhou people, no killing is done after the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month, so the meat to be eaten in the first month must be prepared before this. The women of the family hung the slaughtered chickens and pigs from the ceiling, dried them, stewed them, and placed them in urns to marinate them with wine and various ingredients.

Hou Hengchong said that such an urn of food is not only a delicacy on the reunion table, but can often be eaten until the end of the first month.

Now we generally think that setting off firecrackers can create a festive atmosphere, it is a kind of entertainment for the festival, and it can bring joy and good fortune to people. However, if we trace the origin of firecrackers, we will understand the original meaning of firecrackers and the history of their evolution in ancient times.

Jing Chu's Chronicles" contains: "On the first day of the first lunar month, the rooster crows and firecrackers in front of the court to avoid evil spirits. This record shows that firecrackers were an acoustic tool to drive away plague and evil spirits in ancient times, which made the custom of setting off firecrackers have a certain superstitious color from the beginning.

In fact, this is entirely due to the misunderstanding of the ancients. According to the Sutra of Divine Vision, in ancient times, people passed through the mountains to sleep in the open and lit bonfires at night, one to cook and keep warm, and the other to prevent wild beasts from attacking. However, there is an animal in the mountains that is neither afraid of people nor fire, and often steals food when people are not prepared.

In order to deal with this animal, people think of the method of lighting firecrackers in the fire and using the crackling sound of the bamboo to keep it away. The animal mentioned here is called "Yamaji". The ancients said that it can make people cold and hot, and it is the ghost that makes people get cold and fever, scaring away the mountain, that is, expelling the plague, so as to obtain auspicious peace.

Lesson 6 of Unit 2 of the second volume of the Sixth Grade People's Education Edition: The Spring Festival in Beijing. There are a lot of old Beijing customs in there.

The Spring Festival customs in Guangzhou are: cleaning, making horseshoe cakes, radish cakes, pasting Spring Festival couplets, buying New Year's oranges and peach blossoms!

In the north, on the day of the Spring Festival, we will eat dumplings, to press the New Year's money, and to worship the gods.

How is it the same as our homework in No. 1 Middle School.