What are the festival customs on the first day of the Lunar New Year?

New Year's greetings are a traditional custom of the Han Chinese people, and it is a way for people to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new year and express their best wishes to each other.

In ancient times, the original meaning of the word "New Year's greeting" was to celebrate the New Year for the elderly. New Year's greetings generally start at home. On the morning of the first day of the new year, after the younger generation gets up, they should first greet the elders and wish them a long and healthy life and all the best.

After the elders are worshipped, the "New Year's money" prepared in advance should be distributed to the younger generations. After greeting the elders in the family, people should also congratulate the New Year with a smile on their faces when they go out, and exchange auspicious words such as "Wishing you prosperity", "Four seasons are happy", "Happy New Year", and neighbors or relatives and friends also visit each other to greet the New Year or invite each other to drink and have fun.

The elder Meng of the Song Dynasty described the Bianjing Shiyun of the Northern Song Dynasty in the sixth volume of "Tokyo Menghualu": "On the first day of October, the Kaifeng Mansion released the customs for three days, and the Shishu congratulated each other since the morning. In the middle of the Ming Dynasty, Lu Rong said in the fifth volume of "Shuyuan Miscellaneous Records": "On the New Year's Day of the Beijing Division, from the court officials to the Shu people, those who cross the road for days are called 'New Year's'."

However, the Shishu people worship their relatives and friends, and they are more solid. When the court officials come and go, they are mostly in love and not ......Gu Tieqing of the Qing Dynasty described in "Qing Jialu", "Men and women worship their parents for the second time, and the master is humble and young, and he goes out to his neighbors and friends, or stops sending his children to congratulate him, which is called 'New Year's greeting'." Until there are those who do not meet for the rest of the year, they also worship each other at the ...... door at this time”

In ancient times, it was customary for high-ranking scholars to congratulate each other with their names. Zhou Hui of the Song Dynasty said in the "Qingbo Magazine": "During the Song Yuanyou period, the New Year's festival often used servants to hold the name of the thorn."

At that time, scholars and doctors traveled extensively, and if they went around to pay New Year's greetings, it would take both time and energy, so some friends who were not close to each other did not go in person, but sent servants to take a kind of card cut from plum blossom paper that was two inches wide and three inches long, with the name, address and congratulatory words of the recipient written on it. In the Ming Dynasty, people used to pay homage instead of paying New Year's greetings. Wen Zhengming, an outstanding painter and poet of the Ming Dynasty, described in the poem "Greeting the New Year":

Don't ask for a meeting, but an encyclical, and the famous paper is full of covers; I also threw a few pieces of paper with others, and the world hated Jane rather than false." The "famous thorns" and "famous confessions" mentioned here are the origins of today's New Year's cards. New Year's cards are convenient and useful for connecting feelings and exchanging greetings, and are still popular today.

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

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.

The Spring Festival customs are:

1. Paste the New Year's red, that is, the collective name of the Spring Festival couplet, door god, New Year's painting, blessing words, horizontal batches, window flowers, etc., because these are the red festive elements pasted during the New Year, so they are collectively referred to as "paste the New Year's red". It reflects the customs and beliefs of the people, adds a festive atmosphere, and sends a message to the beautiful expectations of the new year and new life.

2. Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, is one of the New Year's customs, also known as New Year's dinner, reunion dinner, reunion dinner, etc., specifically refers to the family dinner at the end of the year and Chinese New Year's Eve. The Chinese New Year's Eve meal originated from the ancient year-end sacrifice ceremony, where the gods and ancestors were reunited for a reunion meal. The reunion dinner is the highlight of the year, which is not only colorful, but also very elegant.

Before eating the reunion dinner, worship the gods and ancestors, and wait until the worship ceremony is completed before the meal is opened.

On the banquet, there are generally chickens (meaning a plan), fish (more than every year), oysters (a good city), fat cabbage (a fortune), yuba (a fortune), lotus root (a wisdom), lettuce (a fortune), and garlic (a calculation) to seek good fortune. The Chinese Chinese New Year's Eve dinner is a family reunion meal, and this is the sumniest and most important dinner at the end of the year.

3. Ramadan: worship God in the morning and set off cannons. On the morning of the first day of the new year, worship the Tai Sui God with fasting dishes, you must eat fast for breakfast, use vermicelli, yuba, hair cabbage, mushrooms, etc., the vegetarian dishes that should be eaten this year are eaten in this morning, and you can eat big fish and meat in the future.

4. Burning the door god paper: In the old days, the pine and cypress branches during the New Year's festival and the door god paper hung during the festival were burned together on the third day and night of the first day of the new year, so as to show that the year has passed and they are going to start making a living. As the saying goes, "If you burn the door god paper, you will find your physiology".

5. Send poor ghosts: The sixth day of the first lunar month is also known as the horse day, and it is a very distinctive custom of the Han people to send the poor on this day. There are also their own ways of sending the poor in different parts of China.

But the implication is basically the same, all of them are to send away the poor ghosts. It reflects the traditional psychology of the ancient people's general hope to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new, send away the poverty and hardship of the past, and welcome a better life in the new year.

The ancient customs included in the Han Dynasty Dongfang Shuo's "Sui Zhan" believe that the first day of the first month is the day of the chicken, the second day of the first month is the day of the dog, the third day of the first month is the day of the pig, the fourth day of the first month is the day of the sheep, the fifth day of the first month is the day of the cow, the sixth day of the first month is the day of the horse, and the seventh day of the first month is the day of the man. Chinese folklore says that when Nuwa created all creatures, she created six animals first, and then created people, so the first to the sixth day of the new year are the days of the six animals.

1. Open the door and fight the gun.

On the morning of the Spring Festival, the door is opened, and the firecrackers are set off first, which is called the "opening gunner". Put three pieces called "Lianzhong Sanyuan"; Put four pieces called "Fulu Birthday Jubilee"; Put five pieces called "Five Blessings"; Put six pieces called "six six Shun".After the sound of firecrackers, the broken red is everywhere, like a cloud brocade, and it is called "full of red".

2. Worship God. The first day of the first lunar month is also a life of worshipping God, and friends of ethnic religion can go to the temple to offer incense and pray to ensure the success and safety of the year. On the first day of the first lunar month, some areas will worship their ancestors and worship God in the morning, wake up to burn incense and set off cannons, which means "robbing spring".

In some areas, it is also very important to worship the gods and ancestors on the first day of the new year, first place the wine and tea, prepare the chicken, hot blood, squid, raw pork and other ingredients in advance, and the blood should be placed on the chicken's body. After putting three incense sticks on the statue of the ancestors, you can start to worship the ancestors. After worshipping the ancestors, the new year begins.

3. Eat fasting. After eating chicken, duck and fish meat in Chinese New Year's Eve, the first meal on the first day of the new year, the family had to eat vegetarian meals. "Zhai" is homophonic to "disaster", and eating fast also means "eating disaster", "swallowing" all kinds of disasters in the new year, and bless the health and safety of the family.

Eat fast at lunch on the first day of the new year, cook a pot of "Luohan Zhai" with powder, tofu skin, hair cabbage, oyster mushrooms, etc., which means that the meat dishes that should be eaten this year will be eaten on this day, and you can eat chicken, duck and fish meat in the back, and pray for success next year, so there is a name of "eating fast on the first day of the new year is better than eating a year of fasting".

4. Drink Tusu wine.

Tusu wine is a type of bee wine. In ancient customs, the whole family drank Tusu wine to dispel the crooked atmosphere. In ancient times, the way of drinking Tusu wine was very unique.

Ordinary people drink alcohol, starting with the elderly; However, drinking Tusu wine is just the opposite, starting with the youngest drink. When they grow up day by day, they drink alcohol first to celebrate, and the elderly drink a year less than a year, and then drink to redeem themselves.

New Year's greetings: New Year's greetings are a traditional Chinese folk custom, which is a way for people to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new and express their good wishes to each other. On the afternoon of the first day of the Lunar New Year, after the younger generation gets up, they should first greet the elders and wish them a long and healthy life and all the best.

After the elders are worshipped, the "New Year's money" prepared in advance should be distributed to the younger generations.

2. Open the door to the firecracker: On the morning of the Spring Festival, the door to the door is opened, and the firecrackers are set off first, which is called"Open the door"。After the sound of firecrackers, the broken red is all over the ground, bright as a cloud brocade, called "full of red". At this time, the streets were full of vigor and joy;

3. Divination: In the old days, the folk used to enter the new year with cloudy and sunny weather for the first few days of the new year. It is said that it began in the Han Dynasty Dongfang Shuo's "Sui Zhan", which means that the first day is the day of the chicken, the second day is the dog, the third day is the pig, the fourth day is the sheep, the fifth day is the cow, the sixth day is the horse, the seventh day is the person, and the eighth day is the grain.

If the day is fine, then the things of the lord will multiply, and the day of the lord will be cloudy, and the day of the lord will not be prosperous. Later generations follow his habits and believe that from the first day to the tenth day of the new year, the weather is clear, and there is no wind or snow as auspicious;

4. Sticker chicken: Painting chickens In ancient times, chickens were painted on doors and windows during the Spring Festival to drive away ghosts and evil spirits.

The first day of the Lunar New Year is the first day of the traditional Chinese New Year, and it is also one of the most important days. Here are some of the customs that follow on the first day of the Lunar New Year::

Chinese New Year's Eve: At night, families gather to celebrate the New Year and welcome the arrival of the New Year. People usually have a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, and family and friends gather to spend time together until 12 o'clock in the middle of the night to welcome the new year.

New Year's greetings: In the morning, people put on new clothes, and relatives and friends greet each other to express blessings and greetings. The elders also give red envelopes to the juniors, which symbolizes bringing them good luck and blessings.

Burning incense to worship ancestors: Many families will go to their ancestors' graves or shrines at home on the morning of the first day of the new year to burn incense and worship their ancestors to express their respect and gratitude to their ancestors.

Firecrackers: This custom is designed to ward off bad luck and usher in good luck. People light firecrackers and firecrackers on Chinese New Year's Eve and New Year's Day mornings to ward off evil spirits and bring good luck.

Traditional dragon and lion dance: On the first day of the new year, dragon and lion dances and other folk art performances appear in the streets and alleys of Huizhou, bringing a festive and peaceful atmosphere.

Chinese New Year Dishes: On the first day of the Lunar New Year, people prepare a sumptuous table of New Year's dishes, which include some traditional good luck foods such as fish, rice cakes, dumplings, etc., which symbolize good luck.

These customs reflect the Chinese people's expectations for New Year's wishes, reunions, ancestor worship and auspiciousness, and are also an important way to inherit and promote Chinese culture. It is important to note that there may be some subtle differences and special customs in different regions and families.

The first day of the Lunar New Year is an important day during the Chinese New Year and one of the most important traditional festivals for Chinese people. On the first day of the Lunar New Year, there are many folk customs that are widely followed and celebrated. Here are some of the folk customs on the first day of the Lunar New Year:

New Year's greetings: On the first day of the Lunar New Year, people greet each other and wish their elders, relatives, friends, neighbors, etc., wishing them a happy, healthy and prosperous New Year. When relatives are buried, the elders will also give the children red envelopes as a symbol of blessings and blessings.

Wear new clothes: On the first day of the Lunar New Year, people will wear new clothes, symbolizing a new beginning and a bright future. Especially for children, it is a symbol of anticipation and joy.

Lighting firecrackers and setting off fireworks: On the first day of the Lunar New Year, people light firecrackers and set off fireworks to ward off evil spirits and bad luck and welcome the arrival of the new year. The sound and brilliance of firecrackers and fireworks also create a festive and lively atmosphere.

Have a reunion dinner: On the night of the first day of the Lunar New Year, families gather together for a sumptuous reunion dinner. It is a tradition of family reunion that symbolizes affection and solidarity between family members.

Go to the temple to pray for blessings: Some people go to the temple on the first day of the Lunar New Year to pray for peace, health and happiness in the coming year. They would burn incense, offer incense, and worship the gods to express their respect and blessings to the gods.

Watch the Spring Festival Gala: On the night of the first day of the Lunar New Year, a grand Spring Festival Gala will be held in various places across the country, and people will gather in front of the TV to enjoy the joyful atmosphere and welcome the arrival of the New Year.

Don'ts: On the first day of the Lunar New Year, there are some traditional taboos, such as not cleaning the room (so as not to sweep away good luck), not discussing unlucky topics, not borrowing money, etc. It is believed that following these taboos can avoid misfortune and disaster.

These folk customs and activities are all aimed at welcoming the New Year and praying for good luck and happiness, while also reflecting the yearning and cherishing of family reunion, family care and a better future for the Chinese people.