Customs of Spring Festival in Qing Palace

It may not satisfy you, but it can be used as a reference.

Spring Festival is a national holiday, and it is the same for different social classes. The upper and lower classes of society celebrate the Spring Festival as well. In the past, there was a misunderstanding that folk customs were just the culture of the lower class, but in fact, there were folk customs in the daily life of the upper class. For example, the Spring Festival activities in the Ming and Qing palaces are almost the same as the folk Spring Festival customs. Eunuch Liu Ruoyu recorded the situation of the Ming Palace. His "First Month" said: "On the fifteenth day of the first month, you burn incense, put paper guns ... and all the snacks are eaten, which is' flat food'." Or one or two dollars of hidden money, the person who gets it is lucky to be one year old. "Is the New Year's Day/kloc-get up at 0/5, set off firecrackers and eat jiaozi. Besides, there are coins hidden in the jiaozi, and whoever eats them will have good luck for a year. Just like today's folks. I have a painting by Lang Shining, a court painter in the Qing Dynasty, entitled "Li Hong Snow Scene Joy", which was painted on 1738. It depicts the Spring Festival activities of Emperor Qianlong's home. On the pillar of the hall, there is a pair of Spring Festival couplets, "Spring is beautiful in five-color clouds, and it will last forever." "Some princes are setting off firecrackers, and some princes are offering birthday peaches to Emperor Qianlong. This is birthday worship. Some people are making a snowman. A man took a bundle of sesame stalks and put them into the ground one by one-why? This is stepping on sesame stalks, which is called "stepping on the old". Usually it's thirty nights, sesame stalks are scattered all over the floor, and everyone steps on them. It means "sesame blossoms are getting higher and higher".

In some places, "stepping on the old" is called "stepping on the special", which means doing everything except evil. There are also photos of "selling sesame stalks" and "stepping on sesame stalks" during the Republic of China. It can be seen that the folk customs of the Spring Festival inside and outside the palace are the same, even the same.