What unique Chinese New Year customs do you know?

Wuxi old customs, open the door on the morning of the first day of the new year, to open the door 3 times. Eat shredded cakes, balls, and noodles for breakfast, and take the meaning of reunion, ascension, longevity, and Changchun. On this day, only eat leftovers from the Chinese New Year's Eve of the following year, which means "surplus".

When eating, you can't pour soup on rice, and you don't eat porridge, for fear of going out and encountering rain. It is also forbidden to beg for fire and draw water from neighbors, and to warn not to scold, not to get angry, not to speak unlucky words, and to pray for peace and auspiciousness throughout the year.

In addition to sticking peach charms, door supplements, and Spring Festival couplets in Wuxi, there are also New Year's wall clocks to avoid sneakiness in the year. Legend has it that Zhong Kui was good at catching ghosts. This custom probably began in the Tang Dynasty. Many folk families in Wuxi also have the custom of hanging red single couplets and paper-cut door-to-door notes on the lintel.

Running Bamboo Horse: This form of folk art performance is popular in various parts of Shanxi Province. The content of this kind of activity, confirmed by relevant data, has a history of at least 600 years, and is a popular form of folk activity in the rural areas of Shanxi City, generally in the center of the city when there is a "fire" in the square activities, or in the streets and alleys of the Lantern Festival, on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

Longxian Shehuo: It is a juggling juggling played by the festival to welcome the gods. The origin of "Shehuo" is in the activity of worshipping the earth god Valley, and gradually increasing other miscellaneous play "opera" entertainment square.

At first, it was a form of sacrifice as a folk sacrifice, and then gradually evolved into a Spring Festival entertainment for the Spring Festival.

On the morning of the first day of the new year of Wujin people, the portrait of the ancestors is hung in the middle hall, and the tea fruit and rice cake are offered. They were not allowed to sweep the floor from the house, but they could only sweep it from the outside to the inside for fear of sweeping away the "wealth" and "wishfulness".

Cutting spring flags: In the area of Nanyang Zhenping, rural women are accustomed to cutting 'spring chickens', "spring swallows", "spring flowers", "spring willows" and so on colored silk cloth on the day of the beginning of spring, and decorate them on the arms of children, with men on the left and women on the right, thinking that they are the symbol of the beginning of spring.

Huaiyin people also have the custom of giving children "roasting their heads" on the sixth day of the first month. At night, I took the child to the open space of the field to light a torch to exorcise the disease for the child, and sang while roasting: "Roast the head, wake up the brain, roast the feet, the steps are correct, the roasted belly is not loose, the whole body is roasted, and the disease will never be seen." ”

Suzhou people put ripe water chestnuts in the meal on Chinese New Year's Eve, dig them out when eating, called "digging yuanbao", relatives and friends come and go, when making tea, put two green olives, called drinking "yuanbao tea", Wishing you prosperity.

Nantong people have the custom of inserting sesame stalks, holly and cypress branches at the door of the house or in front of the hall, which means that the life is blooming and high, and it is verdant all year round.

As the most solemn traditional festival of Chinese people in the world, the Spring Festival must have been very particular from ancient times to the present. As a native of Guanzhong, Shaanxi, I will briefly talk about what are the taboos of the Chinese New Year's Eve and the first day of the new year.

On the day of the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, it is generally necessary to paste the Spring Festival after eating in the morning and before 12 o'clock at noon, hang lanterns, invite the door god, the land father, the king of the stove, worship the ancestors, worship incense, set off firecrackers, and eat reunion dinner. In the afternoon, the whole family will make dumplings, and clean the home and personal hygiene again after the end of the year (before the year-end cleaning), and then the whole family will go to the hot springs, and watch the Spring Festival Gala in the evening. Of course, you can also take a shower and do laundry.

On the first day of the new year, the family will keep the New Year together until 0:00, put on new clothes and go out to set off fireworks, and then rest. At about 8 o'clock in the morning, the dumplings that were wrapped yesterday will be cooked, and the ants will be paid after the New Year's money. At noon and in the afternoon, I usually go to see the local Spring Festival folk activities.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, you are not allowed to wash clothes, sweep the floor and use knives (scissors are not allowed), otherwise it will be unlucky.

This is some of our customs and habits here for the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve and the first day of the new year, to share with the subject. Of course, each place may be different, but what are the customs in your hometown for these two days? Welcome to leave a message to communicate. In the new year, I wish you all good luck and great fortune!

Before the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve, the feet must be washed, and it is said that the first month washes the feet, and the big sauce made smells; You must shave your head or call it a haircut, and you must shave your head in the first month of the year to die your uncle. I can't bring up the bath. Because, in the past, in the countryside, personal hygiene conditions were very limited, there were no baths, and you could only bathe in the small river in the summer.

The room is cold in winter.

Now that the conditions are good, in terms of personal hygiene, you can wash it at any time. This is only one side of the question.

The main reasons are:

First, the question of time. The Spring Festival is also called the New Year, family and relatives want to gather, walk around, pay New Year's greetings, the time is very tight, and there is not much time to engage in personal hygiene. In addition, the head and feet that have just been washed are afraid of cold, and they are easy to feel stuffy.

Guests are coming, and you have to receive them in time. Sometimes there is no time to blow the hot air, and people enter the house. Not polite enough to people.

In the past, there was no family planning, some of the four generations were in the same house, there were hundreds of people, from the first day of the first day of the first month to the fifth day of the first month, and the third uncle, the second uncle, the fifth uncle and the eighth grandfather of the elders' family had to be worshipped, and even had to kowtow and line up, and it was not easy to meet without greeting the New Year.

2. Hygienic requirements. In the past, because of poor conditions, personal hygiene was very unqualified, and there was no change of clothes, and the food was organic agricultural products, which was particularly easy to attract lice, and there were also in the hair.

3. Etiquette requirements. In front of the guests, splashing water and sweeping the floor are all impolite and equivalent to an eviction order. In particular, the ground in rural houses is all ground, and if you splash water, it will become mud, and you will slip and fall when you walk on it.

Sweeping the floor will raise dust. Therefore, there is a saying: splashing water is equal to splashing money.

In fact, it's not superstition, without connections, there will naturally be fewer financial routes, right? It's not all superstition.

In the modern New Year, the smell of the New Year is much less than in the past. There are also a lot fewer programs and rules. Eating and drinking is almost like the New Year. So, it doesn't seem like there are many memories left to pass on.

New Year's customs: buying New Year's goods, sweeping dust, pasting couplets, eating Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, keeping the New Year, paying respects to the New Year, greeting the New Year, dragon and lion dances, worshipping gods and ancestors, praying for blessings and disasters, setting off firecrackers, setting off fireworks, traveling gods, boats, temple fairs, traveling gongs and drums, traveling flags, lighting wine, viewing lanterns, etc.

Extended Materials. The Spring Festival refers to the first day of the first lunar month in a narrow sense, and refers to the first day of the first lunar month to the fifteenth day of the first lunar month in a broad sense. The Spring Festival, also known as the Chinese New Year, has been mixed with a variety of folk customs in many places in the course of historical development, forming some relatively fixed customs and habits.

During the Spring Festival, the main content of the New Year is to remove the old and cloth the new, worship the gods and ancestors, drive away evil spirits and disasters, and pray for a good year, with rich and colorful forms and strong regional characteristics. The Spring Festival is the day of worshipping the ancestors, sacrificing and praying for the New Year, and the sacrificial activities follow the rules of the ancestors, pay tribute to incense, bow and salute, solemn and solemn, meticulous. The custom of worshiping gods and worshiping ancestors prevails in the southern coastal area, inheriting the ancient customs, during the Spring Festival, many places have held a grand and grand sacrifice to the gods of heaven and earth, welcoming the jubilee and praying for blessings and other activities to pray for the New Year, the content is rich and colorful, lively and festive, and the flavor of the year is strong.

There are many Spring Festival customs and activities, such as sticking New Year's red, keeping the New Year, eating group dinners, New Year's greetings, etc., but due to the different customs and customs, the subtleties have their own characteristics. As far as Guangdong is concerned, it can be divided into several major regions, including central Guangdong (Pearl River Delta), western Guangdong, northern Guangdong, and eastern Guangdong (Chaoshan, Hakka), each with its own human charm. There is a saying in Guangdong that "the twenty-eighth year of the year, wash sloppy", which means that on the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month, the whole family should stay at home to clean, remove the old cloth and the new, and paste the New Year's red (Huichun) to welcome 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 the old and the new.

The celebration activities 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, etc., the custom of sacrificing to the gods and worshiping 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, New Year's greetings, etc., all over the place, but because of the different customs, the subtleties 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 condenses the ideological essence of Chinese culture.