Characteristics of customs and habits of celebrating the Spring Festival in various places

1, Spring Festival Temple Fair in Old Beijing

The official activities of Wuxian God of Wealth Temple are counted from the second day of the first month. In the early morning of the second day of the New Year's Day, except for the rich and dignitaries, the vast majority of people who go to the Temple of Wealth to burn incense are riding bicycles. Most of them wear various satin cotton gowns, coats or vests and thin felt hats. Pilgrims leave Guang 'anmen and go south from downtown. Of course, it is basically downwind (because Beijing is more northwest in winter). But as soon as you get out of Guang 'anmen, you have to go against the wind.

2. Northeast Customs

It is the custom of northerners to eat jiaozi during the Spring Festival. People in Northeast China have the habit of keeping watch on New Year's Eve. You must eat jiaozi on New Year's Eve. Many jiaozi bags only contain a few coins (nowadays people pay attention to hygiene, so they use peanuts or other nuts instead. ), whoever eats such jiaozi indicates good luck and good luck in the new year.

Due to the cold weather in Northeast China, some fruits will have different tastes after freezing. The most common are iced pears and frozen persimmons. It is understood that the purest is frozen autumn pear. There is a kind of pear in the north called Qiuli, which is sour and astringent when it is just picked, so people pick it and put it directly under the tree and cover it with a layer of leaves. The frozen autumn pear is sweet and sour, and rich in juice.

3. Shaanxi Customs

The folk customs of the Spring Festival are similar all over the country. Shaanxi has simple folk customs, and the Spring Festival has strong local flavor and local characteristics. In ancient times, the year was not on the 29th or 30th of the twelfth lunar month, but on the 29th of the twelfth lunar month, that is, Laba. La Worship was moved to the end of the Southern and Northern Dynasties. In the Republic of China, the solar calendar was changed, and the year of the lunar calendar was called the Spring Festival, because the Spring Festival? Generally after "beginning of spring", it is called Spring Festival.

4. Yunnan Customs

Yunnan, like the Han nationality, also puts up couplets for the New Year. But "couplets" are all kinds of patterns cut from red paper. Not only the way of "writing" is different, but also the way of posting is unique. On New Year's Eve, the whole family took homemade Spring Festival couplets and sang "Happy New Year's Songs", which were posted outside the courtyard, in the vegetable garden and in the fields in turn. Because of singing while pasting, the Spring Festival couplets of Bai people are called "song couplets".

5. Henan Customs

It is an important folk festival before the Spring Festival, and people call it "Kitchen Festival". At this time, people can't help but welcome the joy of the New Year, stop all kinds of work in their hands, and are busy with the sacrificial activities of offering sacrifices to the gods years ago.

6. Chongqing Customs

Chongqing has the title of China Mountain City and Fog City. The most obvious sign of celebrating the Spring Festival there is that wintersweet can be seen in the street.

According to the report, locals like to place pale yellow wintersweet at home during the Spring Festival, and their petals have a fragrant taste. Chongqing nanshan is rich in Chimonanthus praecox. From the twelfth lunar month, whether you go to the flower market or on the ordinary street, you can see farmers from the suburbs carrying cages of wintersweet filled with flower buds. On the street, you can often meet citizens with wintersweet. Its price is very cheap, and a bunch (4 pieces) of RMB is two yuan.

7. Wenzhou Customs

China New Year is a very important festival for China people. Every place has its own characteristics, and Wenzhou also has its own unique Chinese New Year culture.

Eat glutinous rice balls on the solstice in winter.

The solstice in winter is called "solstice", commonly known as "winter festival". On this morning, every family will eat glutinous rice balls or sesame seeds. There are sweet sugar or sesame seeds in the dumplings, and there are preserved meat dumplings. However, glutinous rice should be cooked first, mashed into pieces, and then rolled in bean flour to make it stick with bean flour. This is a winter snack, commonly known as "rolling sesame". Eating dumplings symbolizes reunion and celebration. There is a folk saying that "if you take winter solstice pills, you will be one year older".

8. Spring Festival taboos in Chaoshan area

Because the first month is the beginning of a year, Chaoshan people often regard it as a sign of good or bad luck in the New Year, so there are many "taboos" during the New Year.

Unlucky words such as broken, broken, gone, dead, gone, ghost, killed, sick, hurt, lost and poor are all taboo to say.

9. Spring Festival in Zhanjiang

Like other parts of the country, the Spring Festival is the most grand and rich traditional festival among the people, but the Spring Festival in Zhanjiang also has local characteristics. Generally speaking, it takes about a month from preparation to the end of the Spring Festival in rural areas, and preparations begin in the middle of December of the lunar calendar, including decorating houses, purchasing furniture and buying new clothes.

10, Fujian Customs

The Chinese New Year custom in rural areas of southern Fujian is different from that in cities. Rural farmhouses have many houses and doors. In addition to posting Spring Festival couplets, there are two red paper sugarcane trees on both sides of the door, which are called "door sugarcane". The dialect "sugarcane" is similar to "Jia", which means to enter a good environment. In the hall, there are New Year's Eve dinners, long vegetables and cakes on the table, and "spring branches" tied with red and yellow paper are inserted, which means that food is abundant all year round, auspicious and rich.

Extended data:

Spring Festival, one of the four traditional festivals in China, is the traditional Lunar New Year. The Spring Festival is usually called "the festival of the year". Its traditional names are New Year, New Year, God, New Year, and it is also called "Chinese New Year" and "Chinese New Year" verbally. People in China have celebrated the Spring Festival for at least 4000 years. In modern times, people set the Spring Festival on the first day of the first lunar month, but it generally doesn't end until the fifteenth day of the first lunar month (Shangyuan Festival).

During the Spring Festival, the Han nationality and some ethnic minorities in China will hold various celebrations. These activities are mainly to worship the gods, ancestors, bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, and pray for a bumper harvest. Rich and colorful forms, with strong national characteristics. Influenced by China culture, some countries and nationalities belonging to the Chinese character cultural circle also have the custom of Spring Festival.

The Spring Festival is the most solemn traditional festival of the Chinese nation, and it is also an important carrier for China people to release their emotions and satisfy their psychological demands. It is also the annual carnival and eternal spiritual pillar of the Chinese nation. Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival are also called the four traditional festivals in China. The folk custom of "Spring Festival" was approved by the State Council to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list? .

Spring Festival calendar:

1, Spring Festival time

The Spring Festival (the first day of the first lunar month) travels from June 65438+1October 2 1 to February 2 1. The earliest Spring Festival (such as 65438+65438+12 1 in 0966) and the latest Spring Festival (such as February 20th in 1985) are a whole month apart. According to the calendar, if the lunar calendar is not adjusted artificially, February 2 1 and February 23 19 will usher in the "latest Spring Festival in history". Previously, the Spring Festival appeared on February 20th of Gregorian calendar at the latest, which were 1920 and 1985 respectively.

2. Spring Festival

Leap Spring Festival, also known as the first month of leap, began in A.D. 1645 and adopted the calendar leap system. In 2800, leap in the first month of the lunar calendar only happened six times, which was very rare, and its years were 165 1, 2262 and 2357 respectively. ? [ 1 1]?

3. How to celebrate the Spring Festival

If there is a leap in the first month of the year, in principle, the Spring Festival is celebrated in the first month, but it is not a holiday in the first month of the leap. Of course, in a few areas, after the Spring Festival in the first month, the Spring Festival in the leap month should also be celebrated. Because the first month of leap is also called the first month, the first day of the first month of leap is also regarded as the Spring Festival.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Spring Festival