What are the customs of the New Year 30, what are the customs of the New Year

Eat Lantern Festival. On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the Lantern Festival has been eaten for a long time in China as a food. In the Song Dynasty, a novel food eaten during the Lantern Festival was popular.

This kind of food was first called "floating yuanzi" and later called "Lantern Festival", and it was also called "ingot" by the people. Lantern Festival, that is"Glutinous rice balls"With sugar, rose, sesame, bean paste, yellow cinnamon, walnut kernel, nut, jujube paste and so on as the filling, with glutinous rice flour wrapped into a circle, can be meat or vegetarian, the flavor is different. It can be boiled, fried, and steamed, with the meaning of reunion.

Shaanxi's rice balls are not wrapped, but in glutinous rice flour""into it, or boiled or fried, hot and hot, and reunited. Watching the lights.

During the Yongping period of Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty (58-75 AD), because Emperor Ming advocated Buddhism, it coincided with Cai Su's return from India to seek Buddhism, and said that on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month in the country of Madha in India, monks gather to pay homage to the Buddha's relics, which is an auspicious day to visit the Buddha. In order to promote Buddhism, Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty ordered the fifteenth night of the first lunar month to be in the palace and the temple"Lighting the lamp to show the Buddha"。Since then, the custom of putting lanterns on the Lantern Festival has spread to the people from the original only held in the court.

That is, on the 15th day of the first lunar month, both the scholars and the common people have to hang lanterns, and the lights in the urban and rural areas are brilliant all night.

The custom of putting lanterns on the Lantern Festival developed into an unprecedented lantern market in the Tang Dynasty, when the capital Chang'an was already the world's largest city with a population of one million and a wealthy society. Under the personal initiative of the emperor, the Lantern Festival became more and more luxurious. After the Tang Dynasty, it has developed into a national carnival.

Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty (685-762 AD) when the Kaiyuan Dynasty was prosperous, the scale of the lamp market in Chang'an was very large, 50,000 lamps were burned, the lanterns were varied, the emperor ordered people to make a huge lantern tower, 20 rooms wide, 150 feet high, the golden light was brilliant, extremely magnificent.

In the Song Dynasty, the Lantern Festival surpassed the Tang Dynasty in terms of scale and fantasy and exquisiteness of the lanterns, and the activities were more folk and the national characteristics were stronger. In the future, the Lantern Festival will continue to develop, and the Lantern Festival will become longer and longer. The lantern festival of the Tang Dynasty was"One day before and after the first yuan"In the Song Dynasty, two days were added after the 16th, and in the Ming Dynasty, it was extended to 10 days from the 8th to the 18th day of the first month.

In the Qing Dynasty, the Manchus entered the Central Plains, and the court no longer held lantern festivals, but the folk lantern festivals were still spectacular. The period was shortened to five days, which continues to this day.

The lantern has the meaning of light and tim ding in Taiwanese folk, lighting the lamp has the meaning of illuminating the future, and the Taiwanese lamp and Ding homonym represent the birth of a boy, so in the past, women during the Lantern Festival would deliberately walk under the lamp, hoping to "drill the lamp foot to lay eggs" (that is, to drill into the lamp to walk, so as to give birth to a boy).

Burn incense and paper to worship the gods, including the god of the stove, the earth, and the sky; Respect the deceased elderly, including the elderly who have passed away from the man and the woman, grandparents, great-grandparents, etc., and hope that they will bless ......Go to the grave after the fifteenth day of the lunar calendar.

Setting off fireworks and firecrackers is the most primitive way to knock pots and bowls to drive away the giant beast of "Nian".

Sacrifice to the god of the stove and sweep the dust.

Paste the couplets. Paste New Year's pictures.

Upside down Fu character Chinese New Year's Eve to keep the year and step on the year.

Dinner. New Year's money, also known as winning money.

Set off firecrackers. New Year's greetings, visit temple fairs.

Chinese knot. Eat dumplings.

Fifteen eat Lantern Festival, and the year will pass.

That's pretty much it.

Dust sweeping ; Paste the couplets. Paste the window grille and paste the word "Fu" upside down; Paste New Year's pictures. Keeping the New Year; Set off firecrackers. New Year's greetings ; Money given to children as a gift during lunar New Year; Steamed rice cake ; Eat a reunion dinner; burn incense and paper to worship God; dragon and lion dances; Honor the deceased (e.g., ask the soul of the deceased to go home).

That's all. The watchtower owner.

It is different from place to place, and there are the same ones (burning incense and burning paper to worship God, setting off firecrackers, greeting the New Year, playing dragon and lion dances, and giving red envelopes).

The Spring Festival is an ancient festival in our country, and it is also the most important festival of the whole year, how to celebrate this festival, in the historical development of thousands of years, some relatively fixed customs and habits have been formed, and many of them have been passed down to this day.

Sweeping the dust "Twenty-fourth of the lunar month, dusting and sweeping the house", according to the record of "Lu's Spring and Autumn", China has the custom of sweeping dust during the Spring Festival in the Yaoshun era.

On the first day of the new year, people get up early, put on the most beautiful clothes, dress up neatly, go out to visit relatives and friends, greet each other, and wish good luck in the coming year.

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.

Chinese New Year's Eve is one of the most important annual activities, and the elderly observe the New Year as "saying goodbye to the old year", which means cherishing time; Young people observe the age of their parents to prolong their parents' lives. Since the Han Dynasty, the time of alternation between the old and the new year is generally in the middle of the night.

New Year's Pictures Spring Festival hanging New Year's pictures are also common in urban and rural areas, and the black and colorful New Year's pictures have added a lot of prosperity and joy to thousands of households. Paste the couplets.