What is a short Spring Festival customs, about the customs of the Spring Festival

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. With the passage of time, the application of firecrackers is more and more extensive, and the varieties and colors are also becoming more and more numerous, every major festival and happy event celebration, and marriage, building a house, opening a business, etc., firecrackers are set off to celebrate, and the picture is auspicious.

Now, Liuyang in Hunan, Foshan and Dongyao in Guangdong, Yichun and Pingxiang in Jiangxi, Wenzhou in Zhejiang and other regions are the famous hometown of fireworks in China, the production of firecrackers is colorful, high quality, not only best-selling throughout the country, but also exported to the world.

Shrine (Twenty-three of the Lunar Month) Sweeping Dust (Twenty-three to Chinese New Year's Eve) Spring Festival (30) New Year Painting (30) Chinese New Year's Eve Dinner (Chinese New Year's Eve).

Shou New Year (Chinese New Year's Eve) Firecrackers (Chinese New Year's Eve) New Year's Greeting (the first day of the first lunar month) New Year's money (the first day of the first lunar month) Return to the mother's home (the first day.

Second, the third day of the first month) to receive the God of Wealth (the fifth day of the first month) to send the poor (the sixth day of the first month).

With the development of the times, the custom of New Year's greetings has been constantly added with new contents and forms. Now in addition to following the previous way of greeting the New Year, people have also risen up ceremonial telegram New Year's greetings and ** New Year's greetings.

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 New Year's goods, dusting, sticking New Year's red, Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, keeping the New Year, worshipping the New Year, worshipping the New Year, worshipping the dragon and lion, worshipping the gods and worshipping the ancestors, praying for blessings and disasters, setting off firecrackers, setting off fireworks, traveling gods, escorting boats, temple fairs, traveling gongs and drums, vermier flags, lighting wine, viewing lanterns and other customs.

1. Paste Spring Festival couplets.

Spring couplets are also called door pairs, spring stickers, couplets, pairs, peach symbols, etc., which are dual sentences written on paper, cloth or engraved on bamboo, wood, and pillars. Every Spring Festival, every household should select Spring Festival couplets and paste them on the door to add a festive atmosphere to the festival. There are many types of spring couplets, according to their use place, they can be divided into door center, frame pair, horizontal drape, spring strip, bucket catty, 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 drape" is attached to the horizontal wood of the lintel; "Spring strips" are pasted in 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.

2. Twenty-nine Little Chinese New Year's Eve.

The day before Chinese New Year's Eve, it is called "Little Chinese New Year's Eve", and the family has a wine banquet, and people visit back and forth called "Farewell Year". Incense is burned outdoors, called "heavenly incense", and usually takes three days. The New Year is also called the "New Year's Meeting".

The customs of the Spring Festival are as follows:

New Year Dust Sweeping: According to the record of "Lü's Spring and Autumn Period", as early as the Yao Shun era, China already had the custom of Spring Festival dust sweeping. 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.

According to the record of "Lü's Spring and Autumn Period", as early as the Yaoshun era, China already had the custom of sweeping 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.

Paste couplets: On the afternoon of the day before the Spring Festival, the children will step on the stool, hold paste and brushes, paste the couplet on the door, and then let the adults below look at the yellow batch, paste it on the horizontal head of the lintel, on both sides. 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.

Ancestor worship and worship to gods: Spring Festival worship to 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.

Ancestor worship is generally after the worship of the gods, the customs are not the same in various places, in our hometown is every day before the noon meal, each family sends a representative, serve food, offerings to the ancestral hall to pay tribute to the ancestors, until the fifteenth day of the first month, the ancestral hall will be closed.

Eating dumplings: 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 a custom of eating dumplings in the morning, and in Kaifeng, Henan, both dumplings and dumplings 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.

Give New Year's greetings to the elders and give New Year's money to the younger generations. Go to relatives and friends to exchange feelings.