What are the customs for Beijingers to celebrate the Spring Festival?

(1) The 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month: offering sacrifices to the kitchen.

Kitchen God, commonly known as "Kitchen God". Sacrificing a stove is a signal of the arrival of the old calendar, which is called "celebrating the New Year" by old Beijingers. As the nursery rhyme goes: "Melons offer sacrifices to stoves, New Year's Day offers sacrifices to stoves, and when the New Year comes, girls want flowers and boys want guns ..." People will offer honeydew melons to the kitchen god and grandma, hoping to keep their mouths shut so as not to report them blindly. Then, burn the kitchen god and grandma and send them to heaven.

② twelfth lunar month: sweeping the house

In ancient times, the Spring Festival cleaning was called "Sweeping the Year", which originated from a religious ceremony of the ancient people to drive away the epidemic. Later it gradually evolved into a year-end cleaning. According to early folklore, "dust" is homophonic with the old "Chen". Before the first lunar month, sweeping away all the dust in the house means getting rid of the old things of the old year and sweeping away all the bad "bad luck" and "bad luck" to welcome the new year.

(3) Twenty-five of the twelfth lunar month: making tofu.

As the saying goes, "On the 25th of the twelfth lunar month, grinding bean curd". But why make "tofu"? As far as tofu itself is concerned, it is a good choice to replace meat. In the past, the poor always looked forward to a good meal in the New Year. Tofu is a food between meat and vegetables. It can be used to cook different dishes instead of meat. Of course, "making tofu" also has symbolic significance.

(4)1February 26th: Go to cut the meat.

Folk proverb: "On the 26th of the twelfth lunar month, kill pigs and cut meat for the New Year" means that meat is mainly prepared for the New Year on this day. The so-called killing pigs, of course, is to kill their own pigs; The so-called meat cutting means that poor families who don't raise pigs go to the market to buy meat for the New Year. The reason why "cutting the meat of the year" is put into the folk songs of the year is because the farming society and economy are underdeveloped, and people can only eat meat during the annual traditional folk stew on the 26th of the twelfth lunar month, so it is called "the meat of the year".

(5) Twenty-seventh day of the twelfth lunar month: Killing chickens in the New Year.

On the 27 th day of the twelfth lunar month, the pace of the Spring Festival is getting closer and closer, and we all seem to hear the bell on New Year's Eve. Every household, the street is full of excitement. After eating delicious stew yesterday, an important thing to do today is to "kill the chicken". This is what the folk saying "Twenty-seventh day of the twelfth lunar month, killing chickens to welcome the new year" means.

(6) December 29: Steamed steamed bread.

"Twenty-nine, steamed buns." In the folk custom of Chinese New Year, on this day, the white flour that has been prepared on the 28th of the twelfth lunar month is steamed into steamed bread. Whoever steams steamed bread big and well will have a prosperous business and win a good prize in the new year. Every household also needs steamed jujube cakes, rice cakes and bean bags. They also need to put a red dot on the bean bag, or print a red mark with "Illicium verum". They also like to make bean buns into thorns (use mung beans as eyes and then cut them into thorns with scissors), which means "the way to make money."

(7) New Year's Eve: Eat jiaozi to stay old.

Old Beijingers' New Year's Eve dinner is mainly about jiaozi. Bao jiaozi should have meat and vegetables, and take the homonym of "money". The whole family chopped the stuffing in turn and said, "Chop the villain." On New Year's Eve, there is also the custom of keeping the old age. Shounian begins with New Year's Eve. Everyone ate, chatted and tasted wine slowly until late at night. When the midnight bell of 12 rings, everyone will cheer together and eat jiaozi to welcome the first day of the new year.

(8) New Year's Day: Happy New Year.

The most important thing on the first day of junior high school is to start paying New Year greetings, and the temple fair in Beijing also begins on this day. According to the custom of old Beijing, the son-in-law must see his parents-in-law on New Year's Day. Now it's usually the second day of New Year's Day, and his daughter and son-in-law go back to their parents' home to pay New Year's greetings. Old Beijingers attach great importance to New Year greetings. The host family should prepare a box with all kinds of dried fruits, which is called "auspicious fruit". No matter how many people come to pay a New Year call, the food box must be full to show respect and blessing to the guests.

Extended data:

The Spring Festival refers to the traditional Lunar New Year in the cultural circle of Chinese characters, commonly known as the "New Year Festival". The traditional names are New Year, New Year and New Year, but they are also verbally called New Year, Celebrating New Year and New Year. It is the most solemn traditional festival of the Chinese nation.

The Spring Festival originated from the activities of offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors in the beginning and end of the Shang Dynasty. It is the biggest, most lively and most important ancient traditional festival in China. In China, the traditional Spring Festival refers to the sacrificial ceremony from December 8th or the 23rd or 24th of the twelfth lunar month to the 15th of the first lunar month in La Worship, with New Year's Eve and the first day of the first lunar month as the climax.

During the Spring Festival, Han people and some ethnic minorities in China will hold various activities to celebrate. The main content of these activities is to offer sacrifices to ancestors, pay homage to ancestors, bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new year, and pray for a bumper harvest. The Spring Festival activities are colorful and full of national characteristics. Influenced by China culture, some countries and nations belonging to the circle of Chinese characters also have the custom of celebrating the Spring Festival.