The customs of the Spring Festival in our city, the customs of the Spring Festival

I am from Zhoushan City, I don't know what city you are, our Spring Festival customs here are like eating dumplings, rice balls, and eating Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, that is, reunion dinner, and the customs that make me most happy are fireworks.

The customs of the Spring Festival include: sacrificing stoves, sweeping dust, pasting Spring Festival couplets, setting off firecrackers, and keeping the New Year's foundation.

1. Sacrificial stove. During the Spring Festival, every twenty-third day of the lunar month, commonly known as the small year, legend has it that this day is the day when the king of the stove goes to heaven. Therefore, on the twenty-third day of the lunar month every year, the old people usually ask the stove king, that is, to buy a picture of the stove king, the stove king's grandmother, and hang it in the kitchen, which means to pray for blessings, hoping to have more food and clothing every year.

2. Sweep the dust. Everyone is certainly familiar with the custom of sweeping dust during the Spring Festival, after all, it has become the most headache for everyone. During the Spring Festival, every household must be cleaned inside and out, so as to welcome the arrival of the Spring Festival with the latest look.

This custom has been passed down to this day, and it is a prayer for people to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new.

3. Paste Spring Festival couplets.

Spring Festival couplets are a unique literary form in our country, also called door pairs, spring stickers, couplets, peach charms, etc., concise and clear, neat and tidy, regardless of rich and poor, paste Spring Festival couplets are the most popular Spring Festival traditional customs. Similar customs to the Spring Festival couplets include cutting window flowers, pasting blessing characters and New Year paintings.

Fourth, set off firecrackers.

Firecrackers are a custom during the Spring Festival since ancient times, at first there was a legend to drive away the New Year beasts, but now it is to add auspiciousness, so that the sound of firecrackers to remove the old and welcome the new year. However, most cities now prohibit residents from setting off firecrackers at will, so people have come up with many ways to simulate the sound of firecrackers for the New Year, which is quite interesting.

Fifth, keep the year. The Chinese New Year's Eve Celebration is one of the most important celebrations, on Chinese New Year's Eve, the whole family gathers together, eats Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, lights candles or oil bush lamps, sits around the fireside and chats, and keeps vigil all night, symbolizing the exorcism of all evil plagues. In fact, it is also very meaningful to celebrate the New Year, which is to welcome the arrival of the Spring Festival and make good wishes for the new year.

1. Youshen. Wandering God, one of the traditional Chinese New Year customs. Wandering God, also known as the Holy Driving Parade, Traveling Lord, Camp Lord, Traveling Bodhisattva, Wandering God Competition, Year, Welcoming God, Welcoming the New Year, Traveling Spring, Incense, Bodhisattva Traveling, Carrying the Statue, Idol Tour, etc.

During the New Year or other festive festivals, or on the day of Christmas of the gods, people go to the temple to invite the statue of the god into the portable shrine, and then carry it out of the temple to accept the people's incense worship, implying that the gods descend to the people, inspect the village, and bless the peace of the realm.

2. New Year's greetings. New Year's greetings, one of the traditional activities. Welcome the new year on the morning of the first day of the year and worship the "god of the year".

"Sui" is also known as "Seti" and "Tai Sui", the name of the star of the ancient era. Tai Sui is also a deity of folk belief. The year to sixty Jiazi Ganzhi chronology for the operation cycle, a total of sixty, every year there is a year of God on duty, in the year of the Tai Sui called "the year of Tai Sui", is the year of the master, in charge of the year of the world of good fortune and misfortune.

Stick to the door god, set off firecrackers, paste Spring Festival couplets, paste blessing words, and eat dumplings.

Sticking to the door god: There is a custom of sticking the door god during the Chinese New Year all over China. The original door god was carved in the shape of a person in mahogany wood and hung next to the person, and later the door god was painted and posted on the door.

The legendary Shen Tu and Yu Lei brothers specialize in managing ghosts, and they guard the portal, and the big and small evil ghosts dare not enter the door. Firecrackers: Chinese folk have a saying of "open the door and firecrackers".

That is, when the new year arrives, the first thing every household does when they open the door is to set off firecrackers to remove the old and welcome the new with the sound of beeping firecrackers. Firecrackers are a Chinese specialty, also known as "firecrackers", "firecrackers", and "firecrackers". Its origins are very early, with a history of more than 2,000 years.

Firecrackers can create a festive and lively atmosphere, and it is a kind of entertainment activity of the festival, which can bring joy and good luck to people. Paste Spring Festival couplets: Spring Festival couplets are also called door pairs, spring stickers, couplets, pairs, peach symbols, etc., it depicts the background of the times with neat, dual, concise and exquisite words, expresses good wishes, and is a unique literary form in our country.

Every Spring Festival, whether in the city or in the countryside, every household should select a big red Spring Festival couplet and paste it on the door to add a festive atmosphere to the festival. Paste the word Fu: At the same time as pasting the Spring Festival couplets, some people want to paste the word "Fu" on the door, wall and lintel.

Sticking the word "Fu" during the Spring Festival is a long-standing folk custom in China. The word "Fu" refers to good fortune and good fortune, which entrusts people's yearning for a happy life and wishes for a better future.

There is a tradition of eating dumplings at the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner in the north, but the customs of eating dumplings are different in various places, some places eat dumplings on Chinese New Year's Eve, some places eat dumplings on the first day of the new year, and some mountainous areas in the north still have the custom of eating dumplings every morning from the first to the fifth day of the new year. Eating dumplings is a unique way to express people's wishes for good fortune as they say goodbye to the old and welcome the new. According to China's ancient timekeeping method, 11 p.m. to 1 a.m. the next day is the sub-time.

Jiaozi is the moment when the new year intersects with the old year. Dumplings mean more age, and eating dumplings during the Spring Festival is considered to be auspicious. In addition, dumplings are shaped like ingots, making dumplings means wrapping good luck, and eating dumplings symbolizes a rich life.

Unlike the north, Chinese New Year's Eve meals in the south usually have hot pot and fish. The hot pot is boiling, steaming, warm and sultry, and red-hot; "Fish" and "Yu" are homophonic, symbolizing "auspicious celebrations have an open letter and more", and also symbolizes a happy life, "more than every year". There are also some places in the south that pay attention to eating rice cakes during the Spring Festival, which are high every year (cakes), symbolizing that the harvest is getting higher and higher year by year, and the realm is getting higher and higher year by year.