What is the custom of celebrating the Spring Festival all over the country?

Since the twelfth lunar month, there have been literati writing Spring Festival couplets under the eaves of shopping malls in an attempt 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 are 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. Tents are set up and paintings are sold in prosperous areas. Women and children rushed to buy them for fun.

On the first day of the twelfth lunar month, porridge sellers lined up in the market on the street. There are even walnuts, persimmons, dates, chestnuts and dried water chestnuts, which are sold with baskets on their shoulders. Followed by fat pheasant, Guandong fish, wild cats, wild birds, bacon, iron sparrow, fruit cover, giant Buddha flower, bean light thousand pieces, Louzizhuang ingot. After October of the lunar calendar, we sell Wei paintings, door gods, hanging money, gold and silver foil, yellow money, gold coins, burning paper, glass mirrors and windows. After the 20th, honeydew melons, sugar cakes, glutinous rice cakes and kwantung sugar will be sold. When the stove was delivered on the 23rd, Shenma was provided with copied beans with rotten grass.

There are also kiln sellers, porcelain bowls, incense burners and candlesticks in Beijing. Stuffed gourd, children save money; Support the pot tile, and the furnace mouth is used as an aid. After 25th, sesame stalks, pine and cypress branches, atractylodes rhizome and so on are sold for "aging". The price and money in the twelfth lunar month are more expensive than usual, so there is a proverb that "the water and soil in the twelfth lunar month are three points more expensive". At this time, the old man always advised the younger generation to spend money carefully, so there was another proverb, "Twenty-seven or eight, take all the goods and catch them to the end."

On the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, we celebrate Wang Houla and cook fruit porridge. Rice and beans were prepared the day before, and figures were carved with hundreds of fruits. Cooking porridge in the middle of the night, the whole family gets together to eat and feed it to relatives and neighbors, which is Laba porridge. Laba porridge is cooked with yellow rice, white rice, glutinous rice, millet, water chestnut, red cowpea and peeled jujube paste. And dyed with red peach kernels, almonds, melon seeds, peanuts, hazelnuts, pine nuts, sugar, red ponds, grapes, etc. Never use lotus seeds, lentils, coix seed and glutinous rice, which will hurt you. Peel the fruit once every seven days, wash the utensils once, and operate all night until the porridge is cooked at dawn. Afternoon is not allowed except for ancestor worship and Buddha worship. There are also red dates, walnuts and so on. Make it into categories such as lions and children, and you can see smart thinking.

Laba and Yuhe River start from the ice room, water is transported from Tonghe to the inner kiln, and ice is transported from Taiye Pool to the ice kiln, which is very convenient in summer. At the end of 23rd, every family offered sacrifices to stoves, put up posts in the courtyard and hung lanterns. Sacrifice is a soup stove rice, honeydew melon and candied cake, and sacrifice is a fried bean pot with fragrant grains. Luo Bai, male, is willing to suppress evil and promote good. In the back room, women sweep the stove, smear clean mud and burn incense to worship. Every year1February, within 19, 20, 2 1 22, Qin chooses an auspicious day, seals it as usual, announces it to the world, and all of them implement public holidays. Since then, the Liyuan Opera House has closed one day, and eight classes will perform together, and the play will be blessed on the first day of next year. Children who go to school are also given a holiday by the teacher after the "closure", which is called "the year after school".

From 25th to New Year's Eve, it is said to be "Luan Nian Festival". "Twenty-seven, sick, twenty-eight, sloppy." At the end of the year, throw the medicine left over from one year outside the door and burn the collected prescriptions together. This is called "losing all diseases". Burning pine branches, cypress leaves, atractylodes rhizome and auspicious Dan in a furnace is called "simmering year".

The day before New Year's Eve is called "Little New Year's Eve". People in liuxue86.com visit each other and call it "Don't be old". Burning incense outdoors is called "Tianxiang", which usually takes three days.

On New Year's Eve, many old people will put on robes and go out to visit relatives and friends. This is the so-called "farewell to the old and welcome the new". Family members kowtow to their elders, which is also called "resignation". Newlyweds must go to their father-in-law's house to resign, otherwise it is disrespectful. On New Year's Eve, sesame stalks should be sprinkled outside the walkway from home to the gate, which is called "stepping on the year".

It was the first time to have sex on New Year's Eve. Outside, treasures and torches win glory, and firecrackers explode. Shoulder cluster, chariots and horses stumble. Hundreds of officials went to North Korea to celebrate New Year's Day. At this time, firecrackers thundered all over the government and stayed up all night. It is even more mixed with the rattle, selling melon seeds to relieve boredom, selling rice wine ice cups, selling sweet-scented osmanthus head oil called Jiao Niang, and selling fine vegetable powder, which is comparable to the sound of firecrackers. It's really good. "Home of the natives, new clothes, Su Dai, worship the gods and ancestors; After burning germanium silk, the family went to worship, offered pepper plates, poured cypress wine, steamed cakes and sipped noodle soup. Going out to greet the relatives, attending the medicine window and the shadow window, there is a Cambodian celebration. " If you meet relatives and friends on the road, you should first pay a New Year call and then wish "Happy New Year". "As for entertainment, flowers will be tea, ten brocade hot pots will be delicious, and the soup will be served with goose oil, pork buns, rice cakes and yellow rice; Wine and vegetables are salted chicken bacon, bad heron and phoenix fish, pheasant feet, deer and rabbit breasts; Fruits include pine, hazelnut, lotus, peach, apricot, melon seed kernel, chestnut, jujube, hawthorn cake, green branch grape, Baizigang durian, Bo Qiu pear, apple, lion orange, orange and bayberry. Mixed with delicacies, home confuses the market. Even if you don't kiss thick, you should offer three glasses of wine. If you forget your feelings, why not get drunk! " As the saying goes, "it's better to take a thousand than one." Four horses are noisy and happy all day, which can be said to be a very temporary victory. " The New Year's Eve dinner is made of gold, silver and rice, with pine and cypress branches inserted on it, and decorated with money, dates, chestnuts, longan, fragrant branches and chopped five pieces before it can be taken out. (called "Chinese New Year's Rice") Take the larger branches of pine and cypress, put them in bottles and decorate them with ancient money, gold ingots and pomegranate flowers. It's a cash cow. Wear it with colored ropes, weave it into the shape of a dragon and put it at the foot of the bed. It is called "lucky money". What elders give to children is also called "lucky money", and the "sticker" used by wealth managers to withdraw money is called "ticket". Every year, except for the rich, anyone who exchanges money with silver is written on the lottery ticket, which is for the "red ticket" Take the meaning of gorgeous and auspicious. Anyone who sells flowers is called Tanghua. "At the feast, give each other gifts. Peony is gorgeous, golden orange, fragrant, warm and fragrant, and it is treated in one room in the third spring, so people call it "Tang Hua". Hanging a thousand pieces of red paper with auspicious words is attached to the door with a long ruler and A Zhi, which embodies the symbol of peach. There are eight immortals hanging in front of the Buddha statue. Hanging thousands of households use more, and aristocratic families use less. Its yellow paper is three inches long and red paper is more than one inch long, which is a "small hanging thousand" and is used by shops.

Every new year's eve, put a long case in the atrium. Percentage is the sacred picture of heaven. Before "100%", it is called "full supply" to provide display honey for the first floor. Cao Tong's Eight Immortals, Pomegranate and Yuanbao are called "flowers for Buddha". When it's time to pick up the gods, they will burn incense at 100%, and then burn incense until the Lantern Festival. This is what people often call "the table of heaven and earth". On the first day of the first month, every household gets up at five o'clock, burns incense and sets off paper cannons. On this day, we visited each other, regardless of grades, and ran for several days, which was called "Happy New Year". Foods to eat, such as Pepsi-Cola boxes, are made of persimmons, lychees, longan, chestnuts and ripe dates. On the first day of the lunar calendar, gods and ancestors are worshipped, and paper-cutting continues to reach the height of ancestors, which is called "zhangqian" and burning. On the tenth day of the first month, I visited the door during the New Year, clamoring for posting, throwing a business card and leaving in a hurry. Most of them don't need to talk to their master. From the first day of the first month to the fifth day of the first month, it is commonly known as "Breaking Five". According to the old custom, you should eat "dumplings" for five days, which is called "boiled cakes" in the north. Now some families only eat it for three or two days, and some eat it every other day. However, there is no one who does not eat. This is true from the royal residence to the small houses in the streets, even for entertaining guests. The lights in the first month have always been concentrated in the "six lights" at the front door, which are called "six lights", among which the lights in the "Ministry of Industry" are the most praised. Ice lanterns, birds and animals, and all kinds of things in the world are made very skillfully. The lantern market used to focus on the East and West archways, but later it moved to the gallery headlines. From New Year's Day to 16 in Xinzheng, Liulichang is full of department stores, lights, glass screens, tents for thousands of people, jade toothpicks, contacts for thousands of people, books and treasures. There is also "Qin Lou Chu Guan is partial to songs, and BMW is a guest." It is also a scene of the Old Beijing New Year Festival. Eating wonton on New Year's Day in Yangxian 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. In the old days, there was a custom of "sending the poor on the fifth day". Firecrackers should be set off on that day to show "driving the five poor". Qufu held the "Wenqu Star Club" on the fifth day. On the evening of the fifth day, the students will go to the teacher's house to burn incense and worship Confucius. Then the teacher will write an article, and after writing it, the teacher will burn it, which is called "Wenqu Star Club".

Spring Festival in Shaanxi Province

All the clans in Fuping County 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"

Spring Festival in Sichuan Province

People in Chengdu don't eat during the New Year, because "rice" and "sin" are homonyms. 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-level candles" to respect heaven and earth. In the Spring Festival of Anhui Province, Anhui Province began to pay New Year greetings at noon 12 o'clock on New Year's Eve, and it didn't finish until noon 12 o'clock on New Year's Day. And compete with each other who puts the thickest firecracker paper, which means who has the grandest New Year. Young people play the game of "beating the old nest". After New Year's greetings, he dug a hole in the ground and put in copper coins. Everyone threw out his own copper coins, and the money outside the hole belonged to him. On the fourth day of the fourth lunar month, Shouchun welcomed the God of Wealth. Merchants must offer offerings such as fish heads, mushrooms, taro, etc. The homonyms are "fish head", "time to arrive" and "luck", which are considered as good omen for making a fortune.

Spring Festival in Guangdong Province

In Haifeng area, young people and elders pay New Year greetings, and elders 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".

Spring Festival in Fujian Province

Before going out on New Year's Day, Xiamen people should 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 "surplus" are homophonic in Fujian, and spring rice is a good choice for its "annual surplus". 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 for the audience to meet the gods in the main hall.

Spring Festival in Zhejiang Province

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 will eat bean porridge after ancestor worship on New Year's Day. Before closing at night, have another "closing gun". 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". On the first day of New Year's Day in Jiangning County, Jiangsu Province, a picture of a rooster was posted at your door. On New Year's Day, there were more believers in Wuxian than in Tong Yuan Temple. Suzhou custom: On New Year's Day, three firecrackers should be set off to open the door, which is called "promotion to the third level". When you go out in the morning, you should follow the direction specified in the yellow calendar, which is called "Happy God". In order to burn incense in temples such as the City God Temple and the Land Temple, you must 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". Legend has it that people in Zhuan 'an eat jiaozi, so they eat jiaozi every day from the early morning of the New Year's Day to the Lantern Festival. Women in Wujin County cut off pine and cypress branches on New Year's Day, wrapped them in red silk and put them on a bun. It is said that they can live longer. In Wuchang, Hubei Province, the New Year is celebrated on the fourth day of the first month. When the new son-in-law returns to the Yue family, he must endure the teasing of the Yue family and not get angry. The order of Huang Bei's New Year greetings is "family worship on the first day, mother-in-law worship on the second day and family worship on the third day". Those who lose their loved ones at home will write a dress on a wastebasket and stick it at the door, refusing to celebrate the New Year. On the first day of the Spring Festival in Hunan Province, an extremely rich breakfast must be prepared. It is believed that the richer the first meal in the New Year, the richer the year will be. Setting off firecrackers to welcome the New Year is a custom in Changsha. After taking a seat, send two betel nuts, called Yuanbao, and wish them a fortune.