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New Year's Day custom 100 words

Yuan has the meaning of beginning, which refers to the dawn and also refers to the day. New Year's Day is the first day of the year. The word "New Year's Day" originated from Xiao Ziyun's poem "Jieya" in the Southern Dynasties: Four Qi's New Year's Day, the first day of life is Chen Yuan. Traditionally, New Year's Day refers to the first day of the first month of the summer calendar. In Chinese dialects, there are different names, some are called Lunar New Year's Eve, some are called Lunar New Year's Eve, and some are called Lunar New Year's Eve supplement: from the twentieth day of the twelfth lunar month, the custom of the Spring Festival has become very strong, from "posting twenty-three candied fruit, cleaning twenty-four houses, posting twenty-five windows, slaughtering twenty-six meals of meat, making twenty-eight white flour, posting twenty-nine pairs of Spring Festival couplets, and spending the night on the first day". There are many customs during the Spring Festival, and they are different in different regions. Generally speaking, the custom of the Spring Festival is not good or bad, so let's look at it from which angle. For example, many customs of the Spring Festival are related to excitement, which will lead to many people and theft. Therefore, the custom of the Spring Festival has two sides, and it cannot be said that it is good or bad in general. Good or bad depends on your analysis.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year in Wucheng County, a long pole sokcho was placed on it, which was lit and burned, and gongs and drums were played, which was called "Qingtian Silkworm". Light a lantern on the pole until March 3. Ningbo should eat bean porridge after ancestor worship on the first day of New Year's Day, and order a "closing cannon" before closing the door at night. Shaoxing uses a "tea bowl" for Chinese New Year guests, in which olives and kumquat are put, and tea eggs are put at the same time, which is called "holding gold ingots".

Shanxi Province, Shanxi Province, the custom of ancestor worship is rare now, but the rule of eating and not talking at the age of 30 has always been retained. The first meal of the Spring Festival is jiaozi. When cooking jiaozi, set off firecrackers. In order to drive away evil and seek good luck, jiaozi is cooked with sesame stalks in some areas, which means that the new year is like sesame blossoms and the days are getting better and better. Jiaozi wants to cook more, it must be more than enough. When eating, in addition to one bowl per person, one or two more bowls should be served in order to prosper the population.

In Xiamen, Fujian, before going out on New Year's Day, people worship the jade emperor in the sky, which is called "offering sacrifices to the gods". Sacrifice flowers and fruits to God in the morning, and sacrifice and a bowl of spring rice to God at noon. Spring rice is a spring flower made by inserting red paper on white rice. "Spring" and "leftover" are homophonic in Min dialect, and spring rice is a good choice because of its "surplus every year". The fourth day in Zhangzhou is called "Jiegu". In addition to burning incense in the temple, a candy and cake box called "recommendation box" should be prepared to welcome the gods in the main hall.

Many Liaoning people in Liaoning Province have long-lived lanterns on New Year's Eve, which stay on all night. From New Year's Eve to the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month, every family hangs red lanterns, lights are lit on New Year's Eve, and lights are lit all night, which means longevity.

Married daughters can't spend the New Year at their parents' home, otherwise this year will be bad for their brothers. That's what the so-called "don't look at the bride's lamp" means on New Year's Eve. Of course, this custom with feudal superstition has been gradually forgotten with the progress of society and the changes of the times.

In Haifeng, Guangdong, when the younger generation and the elder pay New Year greetings, the elder will give them red envelopes or oranges. Chaozhou's Spring Festival diet includes pickled vegetables, rotten jiaozi, fermented steamed stuffed buns, tube frying and five-fruit soup. On the fourth night, every household should light a lamp and prepare a jar of water, which is called "waiting for water". On the first day of the first month in Dongguan, taro is offered with sugar, which is called "wealth is predestined friends".

On New Year's Day in Jiangning County, Jiangsu Province, a rooster was posted at your door. On New Year's Day, there were more believers in Wuxian than in Tong Yuan Temple. Suzhou people's congress needs three firecrackers to open the door in advance on the first day of the lunar new year, which is called "promotion to the third level" When you go out in the morning, you should follow the direction specified by the Gregorian calendar, that is, the so-called "happy side of God", and go to temples such as the City God Temple and the Land Fair to burn incense. You have to go through ten temples, which is the so-called "ten temples to burn incense". From New Year's Day to Lantern Festival, huge coal is burning in the stove, which is called "Happy Group".

It is the custom of northerners to eat jiaozi in Heilongjiang during the Spring Festival. On New Year's Eve, we must eat jiaozi, but people in Heilongjiang have to wrap some coins (usually peanuts or other nuts instead) in the jiaozi. Whoever eats this kind of jiaozi indicates good luck and good luck in the new year. In addition, Heilongjiang must eat jiaozi on the fifth day, also known as "breaking the fifth day", which means biting jiaozi, which means destroying all unlucky things, and it means driving away disasters and evil spirits.

People in Chengdu, Sichuan don't eat during the New Year because "rice" and "sin" are homophonic. In order to avoid taboos, they eat glutinous rice balls or dried noodles to pray for family reunion and longevity. Liu Ge and other places will celebrate the "off-year" on the seventh day of the first month. Besides worshipping God and ancestors, they will also have a family reunion dinner. Chengdu people visit Du Fu Caotang in the western suburbs every day. On the first day of the Lunar New Year in Changshou County, nine candles are lit outside the door, which are called "nine-product candles" to respect heaven and earth.

All clans in Fuping County, Shaanxi Province are portraits of their ancestors. On the first day, they called their children and grandchildren to worship. After the sacrifice, they were given a golden banquet called "Sacrifice Sitting". On the second day of the following year, relatives and friends give each other pasta and pork, which is called "Worship Festival". On the first day of New Year's Day in Gaoling County, yellow paper is hung on a bamboo pole at dawn to worship heaven, which is called "welcoming the gods". It is said that charcoal can be hung on the door, and it can kill the plague. Shiquan County takes yellow paper as money and hangs it on the door on New Year's Day, named "Bao Gai Qian". Lintong county regards the fifth day as "send the poor festival". After cutting the paper, every household takes it to the door and throws it away. Everyone must eat enough on that day, which is called "filling the five poor"

Due to the cold weather in the northeast of Jilin Province, some fruits will have different tastes after freezing. The most common are iced pears and frozen persimmons. It is understood that the purest is frozen autumn pear. In Jilin, there is a kind of pear called Qiuli, which is sour and astringent when it is just picked, so people pick it and put it directly under the tree and cover it with a layer of leaves. The frozen autumn pear is sweet and sour, and the juice is abundant. Frozen pears should be thawed in water before eating. Eating this pear after New Year's Eve can relieve hangover and boredom.

Eating wonton on New Year's Day in Ningyang County, Shandong Province is called "filling the warehouse". In Huangxian County and Penglai area, it is wasteful to get up early on New Year's Day. The hostess holds a red candle to light up every corner of the room, which means to drive away the darkness with light, and then paste all kinds of window grilles made of flour on the windowsill. After getting up, the child has to climb the door and play three swings. It is said that they grow very fast. In some areas, cooking jiaozi with sesame stems means that the New Year rises like sesame blossoms, and steamed bread should be put in the pot after meals, which means there are "leftover heads". In the first year, the new wife in Jiaodong will go to her husband's grandparents' house to pay a New Year call, which is called "Zagen". It is said that when you get to your grandparents' house, you can take root, and there will be no divorce and early widowhood.

Since Beijing entered the twelfth lunar month, some scholars have written Spring Festival couplets under the eaves of shops in order to earn some money for the New Year. After the sacrifice, the new Spring Festival couplets were gradually posted, and thousands of families took on a new look. Some people use James Zhu, others use red paper, and only the imperial court and imperial clan princes use white paper with red and blue edges as the rules. Those who are not imperial clan shall not use them at will.

In the twelfth lunar month, plum blossoms will be tied in a big-bellied and small-mouthed utensil and placed about five feet underground. When the fire warms the ground slightly, the plum blossoms will gradually turn white, put in paper cages and sell in the city. Momo, plum blossom and Spring Festival are also acceptable. In busy areas, stalls are set up to sell pictures, and women and children compete to buy them for fun.