The various customs and characteristics of the Spring Festival and related knowledge?

What are the customs during the Spring Festival?

The customs of the Spring Festival are characterized by:

A set of customs and festivals that have been passed down are mainly based on the excitement of people and the enhancement of the feelings of relatives and friends, and the main celebration content is to remove the old cloth and the new, welcome the jubilee and receive blessings, worship the gods and ancestors, and pray for a good year, with rich and colorful forms and strong regional characteristics. The activities during the festival are also rich and colorful, with strong ethnic characteristics.

Spring Festival customs: During the Spring Festival, the common people call the New Year, to paste red couplets, hang red lights, set off firecrackers, beat gongs and drums, the lights are bright on the night of the first night, keep the New Year, eat dumplings, etc. Festival activities include dusting, keeping the New Year, greeting the New Year, pasting Spring Festival couplets, firecrackers, and pressing New Year's money, etc., and the festival diet includes Laba porridge, rice cakes, dumplings, spring rolls, Lantern Festival (glutinous rice balls), etc.

Inheriting the ancient customs, during the Spring Festival, many places hold grand and grand sacrifices to the gods of heaven and earth, and pray for the New Year. On Chinese New Year's Eve at the end of the year, ancestor worship, eating New Year's dinner, observing the New Year and visiting the flower market are several major events for Lao Guang to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new.

Spring Festival customs: sweeping dust.

On the twenty-fourth day of the lunar month, dust and sweep the house. That is, on the occasion of the Spring Festival, every household should clean the furniture, dismantle and wash the bedding, and welcome the New Year cleanly. This custom has originated from the custom of sweeping dust during the Spring Festival in the Yaoshun era.

In the Book of Rites, there is "inside and outside, the rooster crows for the first time,......Sprinkle the room and the court".

The Book of Zhou's "Secret Mystery of Building a House" has a record that "the ditch is dredged, the house is clean, there is no filth, and there is no plague", which shows that people in ancient times have long known that filth and dust are related to the spread of diseases.

Lü's Spring and Autumn Period" contains: "In addition to the New Year, beating the drum to drive away the plague ghosts, it is said to be expelled, and it is also said that it is difficult to wood." Later, it gradually evolved into the year-end cleaning, which is called "sweeping the year". In the Tang Dynasty, the trend of "sweeping the year" prevailed.

Dinner. 1. The characteristics of the Chinese New Year.

1. Family reunion.

Everyone will struggle for their dreams, so some families have no chance to see each other in different places, some are close to the end of the world, and some are in a hurry and difficult to stay together, it is difficult to stay together for a long time, have a reunion dinner, say some confidant words, and drink some happy wine. Therefore, the first feature of the Spring Festival is that people want to take this opportunity to have a family reunion, be happy, and be able to sit down and talk well.

2. Visit relatives and friends.

In normal times, everyone is busy because of their own affairs, so the Spring Festival is the day of people's leisure, relatives and friends have not seen each other for a while, and they want to see each other to relieve their longing. Therefore, it is generally empty at the beginning of the first month of the first month, until the Lantern Festival, this time is the best time for people to visit relatives and friends.

During this time, people often prepare a small gift, go to relatives' houses, go to friends' places, visit relatives and friends, and spend happy time with friends.

2. What are the customs and characteristics of the Spring Festival?

1. Dust sweeping in the New Year.

According to the record of "Lu's Spring and Autumn Bridge", as early as the Yaoshun era, China already had the custom of sweeping dust during the Spring Festival. Because "dust and ruler fierce" and "Chen" homonym, so the New Year dust has been given a new meaning, with the meaning of "except for Chen Buxin", hoping to sweep all the bad luck and bad luck out of the house.

2. Paste couplets, blessing words, and door gods.

On the afternoon of the day before the Chinese New Year, the children would step on a stool, hold paste and brushes, and paste couplets on the door, and then let the adults below see if they were properly pasted. Some are also horizontally pasted on the horizontal head of the lintel, and the couplets are pasted on the left and right sides of the door. There are also the blessing characters on the doors, walls, and lintels of the house to express people's yearning for a happy life.

Others put a picture of the door god on the door panel to pray for a safe and prosperous year, adding to the festive atmosphere.

3. Worship ancestors and gods.

The Spring Festival sacrifice to the gods is a custom that spreads throughout our country. The customs of worshipping the gods are similar all over the country, but the purpose is basically the same, which is to pray for good weather in the coming year, good harvest, good fortune and so on.

Paste window flowers, join the New Year's dinner, and set off firecrackers for family reunions.