The customs of the Spring Festival now... Detailed!

The Chinese have been in high esteem for generations since ancient times. People pour their love for "home" and "people" into many etiquette and ritual expressions, and the Spring Festival is one of the most important festivals. Nowadays, although we retain many customs and habits of the Spring Festival, the meaning and origin behind them are often ignored or forgotten.

As descendants with thousands of years of national cultural history, we should not only inherit the traditional behavior, but also carry forward the cultural essence behind it. The Story of Sticking to Fu Every Spring Festival, every household has to paste the word "Fu" on the door, wall and lintel.

On the twenty-third day of the lunar month, the sacrificial stove (sugar melon sticky), on the twenty-fourth day of the lunar month, sweeping the house.

Grinding tofu on the twenty-fifth day of the lunar month, and cutting the meat on the twenty-sixth day of the lunar month.

On the twenty-seventh day of the lunar month, catch up with the big gathering and take a bath.

On the twenty-eighth day of the lunar month, the dough is steamed, and the steamed buns are steamed on the twenty-ninth day of the lunar month.

Chinese New Year's Eve refers to the night of the last day of the lunar month every year, which is connected to the Spring Festival (the first day of the first lunar month). The word "except" in "Chinese New Year's Eve" is "go; Easy; Chinese New Year's Eve means "the end of the month", people have to remove the old and the new, there is the old year to be removed, the next year is the meaning of the new year, is the last night of the lunar year.

The beauty of Chinese New Year's Eve is at sunset. It was night, all parents and children gathered indoors, even those who were far away, should try to return home to celebrate the New Year with their families before that, and eat "Chinese New Year's Eve" together.

Paste 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. This custom began in the Song Dynasty, began to prevail in the Ming Dynasty, to the Qing Dynasty, the ideological and artistic nature of the Spring Festival couplets have been greatly improved, Liang Zhangju compiled the Spring Festival couplet monograph "Threshold Couplet Cong Words" on the origin of the couplets and the characteristics of various works have been discussed.

There are many types of Spring Festival couplets, according to their use place, they can be divided into door hearts, frame pairs, horizontal drapes, spring strips, bucket squares, etc. The "door center" is attached to the center of the upper end of the door panel; The "frame pair" is pasted on the left and right door frames; "Horizontal draped" is pasted on the horizontal wood of the door; "Spring strips" are pasted in the corresponding places according to different contents; "Doujin" is also called "door leaf", which is a square diamond shape, and is mostly pasted in furniture and shadow walls.

It is different from place to place, and Beijing generally does not sleep at night on the Chinese New Year's Eve and keeps the New Year. Eat dumplings on the first day of the new year.

Eat Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, family reunion, and eat dumplings.

Do you know what customs are there during the Spring Festival?

The customs of the Spring Festival are: sacrificing stoves, stove sugar, sweeping dust, receiving the Jade Emperor, sticking to the door god, pasting the Spring Festival couplets, keeping the New Year, greeting the New Year, watching the Spring Festival Gala, and pressing the New Year's money.

Sacrificial Stove: In ancient times, it was believed that the good words spoken by the god of the Stove in front of the Jade Emperor would bring happiness to the family and bless the family for the coming year. Therefore, every year on the 23rd day of the lunar month, every household will worship the god of the stove and ask him to say more beautiful and auspicious words after the last week.

Stove sugar: a kind of maltose, also called hemp sugar, is very sticky. Those that grow into strips are called "Kanto sugar", and those that grow into flat shapes are called "cantaloupe".

Keep it outside the house in winter because it's cold and the melons are firm and have some tiny bubbles inside. It tastes crispy, sweet and crunchy, with a unique flavor.

Sweep the dust, paste the New Year's red, keep the New Year, press the New Year's money, New Year's greetings, etc. 1. Sweep the dust: In the folk, on the eve of the New Year, there is a custom of "the twenty-fourth day of the lunar month, sweeping the dust". The folk proverb is called "twenty-four, sweep the house". Folks call it "Dust Sweeping Day". 2. Paste New Year's Red: New Year's Twentieth.

8. On the 29th or 30th, every household "sticks the New Year's red" (Spring Festival couplets). Chinese New Year's Sticker (Swing Spring) is a traditional Chinese New Year's custom, and it places people's expectations on the New Year and a new life.

The Spring Festival is the most grand traditional festival of Chinese folk, and it is a folk festival that integrates blessings and disasters, celebrations, entertainment and food. The Spring Festival has a long history, which evolved from the first prayer sacrifice in ancient times, and carries a rich historical and cultural heritage in the inheritance and development. The New Year activities revolve around the sacrifice and prayer for the New Year, in the form of removing the old cloth and the new, worshiping the gods and ancestors, driving away evil spirits and disasters, praying for a good year, etc., the content is rich and colorful, lively and festive, and the New Year's flavor is strong, condensing the essence of the traditional culture of Chinese civilization.

During the Spring Festival, various New Year's celebrations are held all over the country, and there are differences in the content or details of customs due to different regional cultures

China has a long history of celebrating the New Year, and some relatively fixed customs have been formed in the inheritance and development, many of which are still passed down to this day, such as buying New Year's goods, sweeping dust, pasting couplets, eating Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, keeping the New Year, worshipping the New Year, greeting the New Year, dragon and lion dances, worshipping gods and ancestors, praying for blessings and disasters, traveling gods, boats, temple fairs, gongs and drums, traveling flags, lighting wine, viewing flower lanterns, etc. Traditional festival ceremonies and related customs are an important part of the festival elements, carrying a rich and colorful festival cultural heritage.

Chinese New Year customs. The Spring Festival is an ancient festival in China, and it is also the most important festival of the year, faith, sacrifice and family ethics are the spiritual core of the Spring Festival, in the historical development, mixed with a variety of folk customs in many places as a whole, forming some relatively fixed customs and habits, many of which have been passed down to this day.

The celebrations during the Spring Festival are extremely rich, there are lion dances, floating colors, playing dragons, wandering gods, holding boats, annual examples, visiting temple fairs, shopping flower streets, burning fireworks, there are also stepping on stilts, running dry boats, twisting Yangge to start shooting, etc., the custom of sacrificing to the gods and worshipping ancestors prevails in the southern coastal area, inheriting the ancient customs, during the Spring Festival, there are grand sacrifices and prayers for the New Year, and the flavor of the year is strong.

During the Spring Festival, paste the Spring Festival couplets, keep the New Year, eat the New Year's dinner, pay New Year's greetings, etc., all over the place, but because of the different customs, quietly congratulate the subtleties and have their own characteristics, the Spring Festival folk customs are diverse, the content is rich is the concentrated display of the essence of the life culture of the Chinese nation, and the ideological essence of Chinese culture is condensed.

The traditional festival customs of the Spring Festival include: sweeping the dust in the New Year; Paste couplets, blessing words, door gods; worship ancestors and gods; Eat dumplings, rice balls, and rice cakes; Keep the New Year's and give the New Year's money.

First, the New Year sweeping.

According to the record of "Lü's Spring and Autumn Period", as early as the Yao Shun era, China already had the habit of sweeping the dust during the Spring Festival. Because "dust" and "Chen" are homophonic, the New Year dust sweep has been given a new meaning, with the meaning of "removing Chen Buxin", hoping to sweep away all the bad luck and bad luck.

Second, paste couplets, blessing words, 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. New Year's greetings.

New Year's greetings are one of the most important events and customs of the Spring Festival. On the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, adults and children put on new clothes and hats, visit relatives and friends, greet each other, and wish the New Year a prosperous and prosperous New Year. New Year's greetings generally start from one's own home, and after the juniors have finished greeting their elders, people greet each other with smiles on their faces when they go out to meet each other.

Fourth, eat dumplings, eat glutinous rice balls, and eat rice cakes.

In most parts of the north, there is a custom of eating dumplings in the morning during the Spring Festival, and a coin is often put in the dumplings. In Huai'an, Jiangsu, there is the custom of eating glutinous rice balls in the morning, and in Kaifeng, Henan, both dumplings and glutinous rice balls are eaten on the day of the Spring Festival. There is also the habit of eating rice cakes during the Spring Festival, and the taste of rice cakes varies from place to place.

Fifth, keep the New Year's and give New Year's money.

Chinese New Year's Eve is also one of the most important Spring Festival activities, neighbors and friends get together, or a family together, some play cards, some watch the Spring Festival Gala, everyone sleeps all day, waiting for the dawn together, to welcome the arrival of the New Year.

New Year's money is the favorite custom of children and younger generations. After Chinese New Year's Eve have eaten Chinese New Year's Eve meal, the elders will give the younger ones money and limbs to the younger ones, and use red threads to weave copper coins into strings and hang them on the children's chests. This custom has been popular since the Han Dynasty, of course, there are no copper coins anymore, and it is generally a red package of cash.

1. Sacrifice farmers in spring.

The beginning of spring is between the first day of January and the fifteenth day of January, it is the ancient traditional festival of sacrificing farmers, this festival is actually the real spring, the beginning of spring sacrificing farmers, implying that next year's wind and rain will be smooth, and the five grains will be abundant. There is also the custom of wearing "spring chicken" to children in the beginning of spring, which means abundant food and clothing, strong growth, and auspiciousness.

2. Lantern Festival lighting.

In ancient times, in order to expel the fear of darkness, people would light lanterns on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, which had the meaning of exorcism and blessing, and prayed for light in the morning, so the lantern of the Lantern Festival was also called "prayer lantern" or "plain bird lantern". In Hokkien language, the pronunciation of "lamp" and "ding" is similar, and the lantern is also used to seek a son to add a ding, to seek fame, and to seek peace from evil.