What are the customs of Hainan Spring Festival?

As soon as Hainan people celebrated the Mid-Autumn Festival, the countryside began to prepare for the New Year. Raise chickens, fill fat ducks, raise pigs, and prepare money for the New Year ... By the end of December of the lunar calendar, the atmosphere of "running the year" is getting stronger and stronger! Of course, these are the hard work of parents at home, and the elderly are particularly looking forward to the Spring Festival. In order to give children a happy and healthy Spring Festival, they never feel tired, because the busy life takes up the time to get along with each other, and the children after work belong to them. For them, this is the warmest time of the year. So ... so ... boy, be good, go home and play less mahjong-

Keep the chicken in the pen ▲

Second, the mine room

To "pick a house" before New Year's Eve is simply to clean the house. With a broom tied with bamboo branches and leaves, clean the front and back of the house, indoor and outdoor, eaves, walls, floors, courtyards, ancestral halls and even the dead leaves on the roof! Mosquito net bedding, pots and pans, a laundry list of furniture, all washed and brushed. I can't wait to tear down all the brick rafters and wash them, haha ... I really want to avoid this occasion with such a large amount of labor, hehe, but the elders are not happy, so everyone will arrange an area. ...

Third, buy new year's goods.

Every household is preparing for the Spring Festival before the New Year, and there is a great demand for new year's goods. There are a lot of dazzling goods on a street during the Spring Festival, and it is difficult to choose when you are sick! Fruit candy, biscuits and cakes, gold and silver incense sticks, orange vegetarian dishes, couplets and firecrackers, public sacrifices and other Spring Festival customs necessities, as well as household appliances and kitchen utensils, clothes and shoes, chopsticks and pottery pots. , which is needed for life renewal. I can't wait to move the whole street back!

Fourth, paste Spring Festival couplets.

Sticking Spring Festival couplets is a traditional cultural custom in China, which means to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, exorcise evil spirits and increase festivals. Every Spring Festival, wedding, housewarming and other festive occasions, red couplets will be posted in front of the door, depicting the future with neat, beautiful and auspicious words, and the majestic god of Shenwumen will guard good luck and express good wishes for the New Year. I remember when I was a child, I also did this job in a hurry. I have never been so active. I can learn more words easily. Relatives and friends came to pay New Year greetings and praised it as my contribution! So, all the homes, pig houses, chicken and duck cages, rice jars, earthen stoves, landlords and the god of wealth ... are released for you! Isn't that a little too much, quack? ...

Verb (short for verb) sacrifice

1, offering sacrifices to the gods.

Sacrifice is a traditional ceremony in China, with New Year's Eve, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Double Ninth Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival being the most grand. All local towns and villages in Hainan have deities, such as "Guanyin Bodhisattva", "Mrs. Sendai" and "Guan Sheng Di Jun", which can be said to be a feudal superstition custom or a belief. Thank you for your blessings in the past year and make a New Year's resolution.

2. ancestor worship.

Sacrificing ancestors is the first thing in every festival. Every household chooses an auspicious time, and there are roast chicken, rice wine and fruit on the Eight Immortals table in front of the hall. And light incense sticks and burn paper money to pay homage to our ancestors. In the sound of firecrackers, elders and children and grandchildren worship their ancestors together, express their thoughts and pray for their peace every year. This is a special way of visiting. Only after the ancestors have eaten the New Year's Eve dinner will the children and grandchildren begin to prepare the New Year's Eve dinner. Sacrificing ancestors should wait until the whole family arrives. Very lively! I am a person with no sense of ceremony, but I don't want to miss this link every year. I feel that I have missed this year and I am incomplete.

Sixth, New Year's Eve.

1, New Year's Eve.

New Year's Eve is the real reunion. A family, big and small, is surrounded by a table, and one table is not enough for two tables ... The dishes are very rich, and boiled chicken, braised pork, fish, pig's trotters and celery are essential. Children discuss new clothes, lucky money and firecrackers this year, and have no intention of sitting at the dinner table; The adults talked about the ups and downs of the year, and drank all the tears of the New Year after pushing a cup for a change.

When I was a child, I always looked forward to the New Year ▲

2. New Year's Eve.

Hainan people's New Year's Eve is a sleepless night. After the New Year's Eve dinner, the children began various recreational activities. Children put on new clothes and set off firecrackers, adults watch the Spring Festival Evening, or get together to play cards. Mahjong, poker, colored balls ... Leisure chess and lottery tickets are all part of Hainan people's life, not to mention holding a villagers' meeting at home during the Spring Festival. It is inevitable that they eat and drink enough to kill time. As long as they are not addicted to gambling, how to define leisure and gambling? Personally, I think that "stop when you shout, whether you win or lose" is leisure.

30 entertainment activities on New Year's Eve ▲

This is my master. Don't play cards with me.

3. Light the oil lamp.

On New Year's Eve, no matter who can't live in it, every household lights an oil lamp until dawn and continues to light the Lantern Festival, commonly known as "lighting", which means "adding more money" (but now it is changed to electric light). A very impressive and meaningful custom, I would like to participate. Lighting the lights with the elders, you can hear many customs and stories about the Chinese New Year, as well as the changing history of each room and even the whole village. ...

Seventh, New Year's Day.

1, shou sui.

Why is New Year's Eve a sleepless night? Because you will be one year older after twelve o'clock, you must keep it until twelve o'clock in the morning, and then go to bed or continue to entertain after firing the gun to welcome the new. This is to keep the age. The timing of setting off firecrackers and fireworks is very particular, and each family has its own choice. They carefully studied Feng Shui books and gossip books and chose auspicious days. So, after twelve o'clock, firecrackers began to ring in the streets and alleys, and "scratching" continued until the early hours of the morning. ...

After the early hours of the morning, guns were heard everywhere.

2. Eat vegetarian food.

Fasting is a Buddhist culture. Influenced by Buddhist culture, many places in China have the custom of fasting, visiting temples and having an outing on New Year's Day. In order to win good prizes, people are vegetarian on New Year's Day. The significance lies in: the first day is quiet, and the whole year is quiet, which reflects people's psychological appeal for peace. It is said that vegetarianism is quite rich, including yuba, vermicelli, spinach, tofu, day lily, mushrooms, fungus, bean sprouts, cress and so on. After a big meal on New Year's Eve, vegetarianism is just right. Hey ... Eat, drink and be merry. It's good to celebrate the new year.

In fact, all kinds of vegetarian dishes also have meanings. Lettuce is homophonic "making money", garlic can write and calculate, onion is smart, leek is long and long, celery is hardworking and hardworking ... I didn't understand it when I was a child, and I didn't like it, but I ate it every New Year. I thought: What did I do wrong to let me eat this?

There are many taboos on New Year's Day: no swearing, no swearing, no unlucky words and no going out to work. ...

Eighth, New Year's Day.

1, go back to your mother's house.

On New Year's Day, accompanied by a married female husband, she returned to her family with gifts and red envelopes. Parents will share their joy with their neighbors and then have a happy home-cooked meal at her parents' house, which means that we will be a family in the future, commonly known as "wedding day". This is just a routine custom of newlyweds years ago. Later, it evolved into a routine custom for newlyweds to visit relatives, which increased the workload, but also received more red envelopes, haha ... Later, all married women agreed to go back to their parents' home together on the second day of the second year, which was quite lively.

It's time for son-in-law to perform ▲

2. Happy New Year.

Paying New Year greetings is an indispensable custom in China during the Spring Festival. Relatives and friends greet each other and send each other New Year greetings. Hainan people are very keen on New Year's greetings. Get together with friends and relatives, bring gifts and firecrackers, have a lively dinner at your house, and then come to my house another day. Moreover, Hainan people are very tolerant and casual. As long as they come to my house within the fifteenth day of the first month, they will be treated warmly. However, firecrackers must be brought. The louder the noise, the better It's best to hear them announce our arrival in Fiona Fang 10! ! ! You don't have to eat, but let you know I'm here, that's all. ...

3. Sacrifice the God of Wealth.

On the second and sixteenth days of the lunar calendar, merchants and ordinary families will hold activities to worship the god of wealth. Welcome the god of wealth in the new year. When you welcome the God of Wealth, you should have a good communication with him. Only when you are in a good mood can you make a fortune this year.

Nine. Other customs

The first day to the fifteenth day is almost an "extraordinary period". On the third day, people worship God and walk in robes. On the fourth day, they greet the Kitchen God. On the fifth day, they opened the market to send the poor to celebrate the Spring Festival. On the fifth day, they began to celebrate the Slope Festival in various villages one after another ... Towns and villages have big folk customs, small family styles and local people's feelings, so people are often overwhelmed by various "days" and their work cannot enter the normal state. This year, the fifteenth day of the first month was not finished, and the ancestor worship and Lantern Festival passed, so many people didn't open the market until the fifteenth day.

Different regions have different customs. China has a vast territory, and 56 ethnic groups have their own magnificent and unique customs. There are Han nationality, Li nationality and Miao nationality in Hainan province, so the holiday customs in Hainan are traditional, regional and national, and the colorful folk customs show people's meaning and prayers for a better life. For example, Danzhou Folk Song Festival and the custom of tuning songs, Li people brew New Year's wine and make lanterns and leaves, Miao people's Hundred Lions Congress, Li Miao's grand "March 3", Qiongju New Year's Eve in northern and eastern Hainan, volleyball competition, visiting temple fairs to dance dragons and lions for the Spring Festival, flower parties derived from Lantern Festival, and the day of offering sacrifices to the gods is a military slope festival (also a "public holiday"). ...