About 800-word senior high school composition introducing the folk customs of the Spring Festival.

Among the colorful traditional festivals of the Chinese nation, the Spring Festival is the most important and grand festival.

Folk proverb: the first in a hundred years. People in China are also called "Chinese New Year". In the whole folk festival activities. It's just halfway through the twelfth lunar month, and there is a year-end atmosphere. On1February 23rd (the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month), offering sacrifices to stoves marks the beginning of the New Year in China (the 23rd day is called "Little Chinese New Year"), and there are a series of activities to preserve the customs. Among them, activities related to religious beliefs include: sending the kitchen god on the evening of the 23 rd; 24 cleaning; 25 pick up Luan to pick up the car; Change the door god at the age of 30 and meet the god at midnight; New Year's Day, Explosion Festival; Sacrifice to the god of wealth the next day; The fifth day is connected with the God of Wealth (Wu Ying Road God of Wealth); On the eighth day of the eighth week, Shunxing (the core monument of life); The ninth day of the Jade Emperor's Christmas; Article 13 General Liu Meng (Devil Worm); Fourteen Yingzi Valley; 15, the official Christmas of Shangyuan, namely Shangyuan Festival (commonly known as "Lantern Festival" among the people). These folk beliefs are integrated with other folk customs in the Spring Festival, and they are rich and colorful, and they have pinned people's longing for a better life, the elimination of diseases and disasters, the wishes of their loved ones for a long life, and the wishes of getting rid of bad luck and hoping to get rich. At the same time, with the pace of the times and the development of society, these traditional folk beliefs have gradually merged into new content and served the society, which undoubtedly has positive practical significance. This paper attempts to summarize folk beliefs and explain their positive significance after evolution.

God of offering sacrifices to the kitchen: the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month is called "off-year". People worship the kitchen god day and night here, which is called "offering the kitchen stove" or "sending the kitchen stove". The kitchen god he worships, also known as the kitchen king, or the kitchen god, is called "Mother Kunlun" and "Yuan Jun, the mother of fire" in Taoism. Its belief seems to be related to the worship of clan fire in primitive society, or it may be to repay the virtue of cooking first and worshiping later. It turns out that in matriarchal clan society, stoves are managed by the most prestigious old women in the clan. Yuan Jun, the kitchen god called by Taoism, is the mother of Kunlun or the mother of planting fire, and is also the Vulcan. The invention and use of fire is of epoch-making significance in the history of human civilization. Ancestors lived together and burned piles of long open flames to keep warm, light, bake food, cook utensils and defend wild animals. Today, people in China have the custom of keeping vigil around the fire (stove) on New Year's Eve. Who can say that this is not a remnant? ! In my opinion, people's worship of the kitchen god includes the memory of their ancestors (the most prestigious old mother in the matriarchal clan). The belief in the kitchen god has a long history. "Li" in the Book of Rites means that there is a sacrifice for "kitchen", while ordinary people, ordinary people, "either set up a household or set up a kitchen". Inherit ancient customs. Taoism in later generations naturally absorbed folk beliefs and regarded the old mother in matriarchal clan as "the kitchen god" according to the theological thought of "making meritorious deeds and sacrificing sacrifices", and honored her as "Yuan Jun, the mother of planting fire" or "the mother of Kunlun". This "mother who planted fire" was originally the personification or deification of God. There is no need for discussion or argument.

Kitchen God is the god in charge of diet. After the Jin Dynasty, he was honored as an inspector of heaven and earth, mastering the duty of heaven to tell people about good and evil. Therefore, the world also calls Kitchen God "the head of the family". Most of the people are stoves, and there are many books on the altar, "Dong Zao Zao Jun". It is said that every year on the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, the Kitchen God will report the good and evil of this family, so people will hold a ceremony of "sending the kitchen stove" and present gifts to it. Pray that "Heaven speaks well and descent is auspicious." Except for seven days a year (from the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month to the New Year's Eve), Kitchen God stays in other people's kitchens all the time to observe people's words and deeds. In addition, the world has the religious concept of "worshipping gods as gods" and "holding one's head three feet high with gods", which is of positive significance to the world to abandon evil and do good, and always behave yourself.

Sweeping in the twelfth lunar month: Sweeping is also called "sweeping dust" or "sweeping houses". From the "Laba", people began to clean up and didn't finish cleaning until around the third day of the twelfth lunar month. There is a folk saying called "the 24th of the twelfth lunar month, dusting the house". People believe that ghosts and gods will die in the twelfth lunar month, and some will return to the world. If people don't go to the house from their bodies, rummage through everything and clean it thoroughly, there will be dust left behind, and there will be places where ghosts and gods hide, so they must be cleaned up. And cleaning must also be based on the almanac, choose a good day to prevent ghosts.

This religious ceremony, which originated from ancient people's exorcism, later evolved into a year-end cleaning. Every Spring Festival, every household has to rummage through everything, carry out a thorough cleaning and greet the New Year cleanly. Carried forward the fine habit of paying attention to hygiene in the ancient custom of sweeping sacrifices.

Meet the Jade Emperor: Gan San sends the Kitchen God, Gan Si cleans, and 25 greets the Jade Emperor. One activity after another is really orderly.

Jade Emperor, Taoism is known as "the Jade Emperor God of the Golden Que in Five Fields". For Taoism, it is the god who presides over the heaven, manages the three realms of heaven, earth and man, and is the god of ten realms, four lives and six Tao, and is a lucky god. Taoism regards the fifth day of the twelfth lunar month as the day when the Jade Emperor worships God, inspects the good and evil of all beings and commends punishment. In order to pray for protection, people have the act of "welcoming the Jade Emperor". During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, there were many records of welcoming the Jade Emperor. "A Brief Introduction to the Scenery of the Imperial Capital" Volume II: "On the 25th day of the twelfth lunar month, Wu Geng burned Chu and received the Jade Emperor, saying: The Jade Emperor came to the world. On this day, there is no woman's voice. "

Half a month after the jade emperor visited the lower world, his birthday (the ninth day of the first month) returned to heaven in the afternoon. On this day, people will sacrifice to the Jade Emperor, commonly known as "Shangyuan Festival".

Gatekeeper: In the past, on the last day of New Year's Eve, people would tear down the old gatekeeper and replace it with a new one. The purpose of the door-sticking god is to exorcise ghosts and evil spirits and welcome happiness. The belief in door gods began in the pre-Qin period. Later, Taoism brought the door god into its own immortal pedigree, belonging to the Taoist vulgar god. In Han Dynasty, it refers to Shen Tu and Lei Yu; After the Tang Dynasty, it refers to Uncle Bao and Weichi Gong. According to legend, Li Shimin, Emperor Taizong of Tang Dynasty, was still ill, crying ghosts and throwing bricks at night, and couldn't sleep at night. When Emperor Taizong informed his ministers of this matter, Qin Qiong went to the temple and said, I would like to stand outside the door with Jingde in military uniform to protect your majesty. Taizong agreed, and this night was really not disturbing. So he ordered the painter to draw the heroic shapes of the two men and hang them around the palace gate, so that the evil spirits would stop. Later, it gradually spread to the people and became a door god.