What are the customs of Chinese New Year in China?

Spring Festival generally refers to New Year's Eve and the first day of the first month. But among the people, the traditional Spring Festival refers to the sacrificial ceremony from the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month 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 many ethnic minorities in our country will hold various activities to celebrate. The main contents of these activities are offering sacrifices to gods and buddhas, paying homage to ancestors, saying goodbye to the old year and welcoming the new year, and praying for a bumper harvest. The activities are rich and colorful, with strong national characteristics.

[Sacrifice the stove] [Sweep the dust] [Eat stove candy]

In China, the Spring Festival usually begins with a ceremony of offering sacrifices to stoves on the 23rd or 24th of the twelfth lunar month. There is a saying that "officials, three people, four boatmen and five people", that is, the government held a ceremony to sacrifice stoves on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, ordinary people on the 24th and houseboats on the 25th. After holding the sacrificial stove, they officially began to prepare for the New Year. Every year from the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month to New Year's Eve, people call it "Spring Festival".

[taking a bath]

In traditional folk customs, we should concentrate on bathing and washing clothes these two days to get rid of the bad luck of the year and prepare for the Spring Festival next year. There is a saying in Beijing that "twenty-seven washes away the root of the disease, and twenty-eight washes away the mess." Taking a bath on the 26th of the twelfth lunar month is "washing Fulu".

[Posting doors] [Posting Spring Festival couplets] [Keeping the Year] [Eating New Year's Eve]

[Setting off firecrackers] [Sacrificing ancestors] [Giving lucky money]

The word "except" in "New Year's Eve" is "go; Easy; "Alternating" means that New Year's Eve means "the month is poor and the old year is exhausted". People want to get rid of the old department and the old year, and the coming year means getting a new year. This is the last night of the Lunar New Year. Therefore, the activities during this period are all around changing the old for the new, eliminating disasters and praying for blessings.

[Sacrificing to the God of Wealth] [Legend of the God of Wealth]

In the north, the god of wealth sacrifices on the second day of the first month. On this day, both commercial shops and ordinary families will hold activities to worship the god of wealth. Families offered sacrifices to the God of Wealth who arrived on New Year's Eve. In fact, the bought rough printed matter was incinerated. I want to eat wonton at noon this day, commonly known as "Yuanbao soup". Fish and mutton were used as sacrifices.

[Sacrifice to the God of Wealth] [Road God] [Send the poor] [Open the market]

The fifth day of the first month is commonly known as the fifth day. It is said that after this day, many taboos can be broken. According to the old custom, you should eat "dumplings", which is called "boiled cakes" in the north. Women no longer taboo, began to visit each other New Year. The bride will go home on this day. It is not appropriate to do things on the day of the break, otherwise something will happen this year.

[ancient] [anterograde]

On the eighth day of the first month, people make small lanterns and burn them for sacrifice, which is called Shunxing, also called "offering sacrifices to stars" and "receiving stars". Some people say that the eighth day is Xiaomi's birthday. If the weather is fine, the rice harvest will be good. If it is cloudy, it will be a hard year.

[Lantern Festival] [Send children lanterns] [Yingzi Valley]

【 Walking all diseases 】【 Stealing vegetables festival 】【 August 5th festival 】

Lantern Festival is also called Lantern Festival, Lantern Festival and Shangyuan Festival, because it is the first full moon night of the New Year. Because this festival has the custom of watching lanterns in past dynasties, it is also called Lantern Festival. The formation of Lantern Festival custom has a long process. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sacrificed "Taiyi" in Ganquan Palace in the first month, which was regarded by later generations as the prelude to offering sacrifices to the gods on the fifteenth day of the first month.

【 Pick up the Jade Emperor 】【 Drive away the chaos 】【 Look after the silkworms in the field 】【 Thousand Lantern Festival 】

It was not until New Year's Eve that Kitchen God was sent to welcome him back. During this period, there is no God's jurisdiction on the earth, and at all times, many people get married, which is called "expelling chaos". Luannian is a special period designed by people to adjust their social life. At the end of the year, people have leisure and savings, which is a good opportunity for those who have little energy to do great things.

[New Year's Eve] [New Year's Eve]

The day before New Year's Eve is called "New Year's Eve", and people call it "Don't be old" when greeting each other. Burning incense outdoors is called "Tianxiang", which usually takes three days.

[Happy New Year] [Open the door and set off firecrackers]

【 Age 】【 Stick a picture of chicken 】【 Gather wealth 】

This day is the first day of the year, the first day of spring and the first day of the first month, so it is called "Sanyuan". This day is still the year dynasty, the month dynasty and the Japanese dynasty, so it is also called the "Three Dynasties". China changed the time of the first day of the first month in different historical periods according to its own cultural traditions and customs.

[Burning doorman's paper] [Xiaomi's birthday] [off-year dynasty]

Off-year, that is, Tianqing Festival. The court festival in the Song Dynasty, the first year of Song Zhenzong Dazhong Xiangfu, was spread all over the world because of the gobbledygook, so Zhenzong issued an imperial edict, which designated the third day of the first month as Tianqing Festival, and officials and others had five days off. Later, it was called Xiaonian Dynasty, which did not sweep the floor, beg for fire or draw water, just like the old dynasty.

[People's Day] [Spread pancakes] [Eat Qibao soup]

Legend has it that the mother snail first created the world, and after she created chickens, dogs, pigs, cows, horses and other animals, she created people on the seventh day, so this day is the birthday of mankind. Some people began to observe daily customs in the Han dynasty, and they began to pay attention to it after the Wei and Jin Dynasties. In ancient times, there was a custom of wearing "Man wins". Because it is Human Day, there is a custom in ancient times not to execute people on this day.

[Birthday of Stone] [Congratulations to the mouse for marrying a daughter] [New Year's Day song]

In the old society, people's rat worship activities held in the first month were also called "rat marrying female" and "rat marrying". The specific dates vary from place to place, including the seventh day of the first month, the seventeenth day of the first month and the twenty-fifth day of the first month. In many areas, it is the tenth day of the first month. Different places also have different ways to worship rats.

"Spring in the Eastern Suburb", "Spring Post", "Spring Cattle" and "Bite Spring"

Beginning of spring Spring Festival is an important activity of China ancestors during the Spring Festival. During the Zhou Dynasty, beginning of spring was the emperor. He personally led princes and doctors from three counties and nine counties to the eastern suburbs to welcome the Spring Festival and pray for a bumper harvest. When you come back, you should reward the minister, Bud and benefit the people. Make it a national Spring Festival activity for generations.

Commonly known as "Chinese New Year". People think that the Spring Festival is the most grand festival of all festivals. As soon as we entered the twelfth lunar month, we began to prepare: making rice cakes, sewing new clothes, handling new year's goods, removing dust, sweeping the floor and dredging ditches.

On the morning of the first day of the first month, every household sets off firecrackers and opens the door at auspicious times, which is called "opening the door". After the whole family gets up, they should take candy and cakes and play "early help". Vegetarian breakfast, generally eat rice cakes, glutinous rice balls, rice cakes, oil tofu and so on. Symbolizing "reunion" After breakfast, first go to the ancestral hall in the hall to bow down to the ancestors, and each family is led by the elders to pay a New Year call to each family in the village. In the morning, under the leadership of the elders, the whole village beats gongs and drums and goes to the ancestral temple or temple to worship Buddha, which is called "walking"; Pick evergreen branches and stick them in the door, which is called "taking money". On this day, avoid sweeping the floor and splashing water. The purpose is to avoid the outflow of wealth. At the same time avoid saying unlucky things.

From the second day of junior high school, relatives and friends exchange greetings and pay New Year greetings. Usually pay homage to the Yue family first, and then pay homage to other relatives and friends. As the saying goes, "the first day is a baby, the second day is Jiro, and the third day is the fourth day."

From the third day to the fifteenth day, most rural areas will dance dragon lanterns, lions or perform flower drum operas. There are colorful flag lights in front of the dragon lantern, big gongs and drums clear the way, and then gangs and bands. Villages welcome guests with firecrackers, and some treat them to wine, commonly known as "inviting seats". At this time, the dragon lantern and the lion will perform as rewards. What year? Year is the image of drooping ears of grain and a symbol of bumper harvest. The so-called "bumper harvest year".

What year? Nian is a monster. It stays in the deep sea all year round and only climbs ashore on New Year's Eve. Tay

When you go ashore, wherever you go, there will be floods. Later, people put red paper on their doorsteps and gathered in the yard to burn firewood.

Fire, cutting vegetables and meat with a kitchen knife, making a thunderous sound. Scared nian back and fled back to the sea. So there is an exception.

Put up couplets at night, hang lanterns, wear new clothes, chop jiaozi and wrap jiaozi, and burn firewood at night-

This is this year.

So how did the ancients celebrate the New Year? Let's listen to this "festival song" first—

23 days of furnace sacrifice,

Twenty-four couplets,

25 make tofu,

Twenty-six years of cutting meat,

…………

The second day kowtows,

Play ball in grade three and grade four,

Jumping monkeys on the fifth and sixth days,

…………

"New Year, busy for half a year." The ancients were busy with "Nian" from the twelfth lunar month until Yuan Xiao passed. This year,

It's over. Then we can trace back to the "year step" of the ancients, and come to worship the stove first-

Kitchen God is the most exposed of all the gods worshipped on New Year's Day.

The custom of offering sacrifices to stoves has a long history, which is the gratitude of ancestors to fire and stoves.

A sign of respect. In legend, the Yellow Emperor, Yan Di and Zhu Rong.

They are all kitchen gods. The popular kitchen god's surname is Guo and Long.

Act like a beautiful woman. He has a wife named "Qing Ji" and six children.

A daughter named "Chen Wenjing" and some soldiers. Except him.

In addition to being responsible for fire fighting, we should also examine what the world has done and resort to the court.

Tiandi people also use distiller's grains, maltose, sticky cakes and other "bribes" stoves.

At the same time, God murmured prayers and begged him to speak well in heaven. This wind

The custom has been passed down to this day, but the time is the 24th of the twelfth lunar month.

Sacrificial food has also been simplified to "stove candy stove cake", but if you pay attention.

If you do, you will definitely hear grandma and mom say to the kitchen god: go!

Speak well, not ill. ...

Besides firecrackers, the spring breeze also brings warmth to Tu Su.

Thousands of families always trade new peaches for old ones.

-Wang Anshi

Firecrackers were originally a tool of witchcraft, used to drive away monsters. The original firecrackers are not like now.

Firecrackers are real bamboo, that is, they burn bamboo, making a crackling sound and scaring ghosts. Tu Su is a Tu Su wine, which means.

Kill something congenial and awaken people's souls. It is said that drinking this wine in the morning of January can keep you from getting sick for a year, and then drink it during the Chinese New Year.

These wines are collectively called "Tu Su wines".

Fu Tao, also known as "pottery board", is the predecessor of Spring Festival couplets. The ancients thought that mahogany was the essence of five trees and could make hundreds of ghosts, so it was from

Since the Han dynasty, peach has been used as a tool to win, and peach wood has been used as a peach man, peach seal, peach board and peach symbol to ward off evil spirits. Fu Tao

It is said that the emergence of Spring Festival couplets is due to Meng Chang, the master of Shu after the Five Dynasties. Paper Spring Festival couplets were only popular in Ming and Qing Dynasties. today's

Spring Festival couplets are to highlight the atmosphere of the New Year and wish good luck. They have lost the driving role of the old Spring Festival couplets and are rich in content.

Rich and diverse.

I wrote couplets, and then it's time to prepare Chinese New Year's dishes for the Chinese New Year holiday.

There are many kinds of food, such as rice cakes, New Year's Eve dinners and jiaozi. in addition

There are also diets with strong witchcraft flavor, such as peach soup, cypress wine, pepper wine, and five.

Pan Xintao soup is a soup made of peaches, and white wine is a kind of cypress leaves.

Made of wine, pepper wine is made of pepper seeds, and the ancients were on the first day of the first month.

Drinking means exorcising evil spirits and praying. Five coriander is five spices, such as onion and ginger.

Spicy food is put on a plate, also called spring plate. It is said that evil can be eliminated and plague can be eliminated.

Passing through the five internal organs also means wishing the new.

The cold light in the hotel stayed alone and didn't sleep, and the guest turned sad.

My hometown is thinking thousands of miles tonight, and it is another year of the Ming Dynasty.

New Year's Eve is a night of reunion, and China people can't untie a knot of reunion. Even if people are far away, it will be on New Year's Eve.

Go home for New Year's Eve. The home on New Year's Eve is a particularly warm and sweet space, which is very important in history.

Even the prisoners in the prison were released and reunited at home. The whole family sat around the table and started the "reunion dinner" and "Shounian"

Process. The first is the "reunion dinner", and then the whole family will sit together and watch the New Year.

At this time, the younger generation saluted their parents and resigned.

Old people must share the lucky money. Lucky money is also called "old thing"

Money, lucky money and lucky money were originally used to

Many people are tired of exorcising evil spirits and helping their children celebrate the New Year.

Show affection and love.

After the reunion dinner, we will also eat "midnight snack", which will be eaten by the whole family.

Snacks, or laughing, or raining, waiting for a good day.

Ming, this is Shousui. In addition, there is a mirror to listen to on New Year's Eve.

According to the custom of raising silkworms, selling dementia and making ash piles, this is how it came about.

One year divination is good or bad, and the new year is a blessing for children.

Smart, everything is as you wish.

"In the rural New Year, from the twelfth lunar month to the first half of the first month, the sound of gongs and drums for a whole month and a half is monotonous.

But it touched the hearts of every one of us in China. Just then, ... I found that the winter jasmine was in bloom. "

Yes, the winter jasmine is in bloom, and the new year has come!

The ancients compared the first eight days of the new rectification with six kinds of animals, people and valleys respectively. The first day of the first month is the Year of the Rooster, which is an auspicious day.

The ancients used chickens to ward off evil spirits by killing chickens or sticking them on doors. People have been busy since New Year's Day.

Happy new year. In the Han Dynasty, it was popular to pay New Year greetings. On the first day of the first month, the ministers went to the palace to worship, and the monarch and the minister enjoyed each other. reach

In the Ming and Qing dynasties, the official New Year greeting developed into an empty etiquette, which was often "sighing at the door", whether you know it or not.

There are poems as evidence:

I don't want to meet, but I want to talk about it. The famous papers are all us.

I also throw some paper at people. The world is too simple and empty.

In folk beliefs, the first day to the fourth day is the carnival day of the New Year, and it is not until the fifth day that normal life is resumed.

Live. The fifth day is also called "breaking the fifth day", and the custom activity on this day is "sending the poor". For merchants, the fifth day is a business day.

Family opening. The first month's activities did not gradually calm down until 15. ...