What are the special activities for the Spring Festival?

Introduction: The Spring Festival is the China Lunar New Year, the first one hundred festivals. The Spring Festival is the most solemn traditional festival of the Chinese nation. Influenced by China culture, some countries and regions in the world also have the custom of celebrating the Spring Festival. According to incomplete statistics, nearly 20 countries and regions have designated the Spring Festival in China as a legal holiday in all or part of the cities under their jurisdiction. So what are the special activities for the Spring Festival? What are the special activities for the Spring Festival? Let's take a look at Bian Xiao.

What are the holiday customs of the Spring Festival?

1, paste Nian Hong (Spring)

On the 28th, 29th or 30th of each year, every household hangs "Year Red" (Year Red refers to the red festive elements such as Spring Festival couplets, door gods, banners, New Year pictures and blessings). Sticking New Year Red (waving spring) is a traditional Chinese New Year custom in China, which adds a festive atmosphere and places people's good expectations for the new year and new life.

2. Wandering God

Vagrancy is one of the traditional New Year customs. Visiting the gods, also known as the holy procession, the tour master, the camp master, the tour bodhisattva, the contest of visiting the gods, the annual regulations, welcoming the gods, the spring outing, walking incense, visiting the hometown of bodhisattva, carrying idols, and taking idol tours. , refers to people in the New Year or other festive festivals, or the Christmas of the gods, to the temple to invite the distracted gods to the sedan chair, and then carried out of the temple for sightseeing. The main purpose is to repay God, eliminate disasters and pray. Along the way, there will be a variety of artistic performances such as gongs and drums, suona, dolls, lion dances, dragon dances, colorful flags, lanterns, octaves, acrobatics and band performances. It is a traditional folk activity integrating sacrifice, prayer, celebration and banquet.

3, do new year's goods

China's annual custom culture has a long history, and various Chinese New Year customs originate from all parts of the country, with great differences between the north and the south, each with its own characteristics. Although customs vary from place to place, it is almost a "must-have" for Chinese New Year to prepare new year's goods and send new year's gifts all over the country. Buying new year's goods, including food, clothing, clothes, use, stickers (New Year's Eve) and gifts, are collectively called "New Year's Goods", and the process of buying new year's goods is called "Buying New Year's Goods". Celebrating the Spring Festival is an important activity for China people.

What to eat during the Spring Festival?

1, rice cake

Rice cakes are seasonal food for the Lunar New Year. They are red, yellow and white, symbolizing gold and silver. A kind of cake steamed with sticky glutinous rice or rice flour, which is sweet and sticky in the south, symbolizing a sweet and better life in the new year. Eating rice cakes during the Spring Festival, "it is better to take the year to pray for it." It means that every year goes well. The types of rice cakes are: white rice cakes and yellow rice cakes in the north; There are water mill rice cakes in Jiangnan; There is glutinous rice in the southwest; There are red turtle cakes in Taiwan Province province. There are two kinds of rice cakes in the north: steamed and fried. In addition to steaming and frying, there are other methods in the south, such as frying in slices and cooking in soup.

2. jiaozi

Jiaozi and jiaozi were called "jiaozi" in ancient times. There is a tradition of eating jiaozi on New Year's Eve in the north, but the custom of eating jiaozi varies from place to place. Some places eat jiaozi on New Year's Eve, and some places eat jiaozi on New Year's Day. Northerners who don't eat jiaozi for 30 nights will feel that there is no atmosphere for the New Year. Some mountainous areas in the north also have the custom of eating jiaozi every morning from the first day to the fifth day. Eating jiaozi is a unique way for people to express their wish for good luck when they bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new year. From 1 1 in the evening to 1 the next morning, "intersection" is the moment when the new year and the old year intersect. Jiaozi means getting married at an older age, and eating jiaozi during the Spring Festival is considered a great luck.

3. Lantern Festival

The Yuanxiao food in the south of Tangyuan is called Tangyuan, also called Yuanxiao, Tangtuan and Gone with the Wind in Zi Yuan. It is one of the representatives of traditional snacks in China, and it is a spherical food made of glutinous rice flour. There are usually fillings, which are cooked and eaten with soup. At the same time, it is also the most distinctive food of the Lantern Festival. Make stuffing with black sesame and lard, add a little sugar, and knead it with glutinous rice flour outside. Because this glutinous rice dumpling floats and is heavy when cooked in a pot, it was originally called "floating Zi Yuan" and was later renamed as jiaozi in some areas. In Jiangsu, Shanghai and other places, people are used to eating glutinous rice balls on the morning of New Year's Day.

4. Spring pancake

Spring rolls are also called spring cakes. Eating spring cakes at the beginning of spring is an ancient custom in China. In the Jin Dynasty, there was a "five taro plates", that is, "spring plates", which put spring cakes and vegetables in the same plate. During the Tang and Song Dynasties, eating spring cakes became more and more popular, and the emperor gave them to officials. At that time, spring cakes were very particular: "Green HongLing, golden rooster and jade swallow, extremely exquisite production, each dish costs 10 thousand yuan." People also use it to give gifts to each other. Nowadays, spring cakes come in different shapes and at different times. There are baked and steamed; As big as a round fan or as small as a lotus root.