What is the custom of New Year in Chengdu?

1, dust

Also known as dust removal, year sweeping, slag removal, dust removal and dust removal. You need two sets of clothes to "dust". One set is a long broom. Immediately cut a new bamboo from the mountain, cut it into a bamboo pole, remove the branches, bundle it into a super-long bamboo broom, and sweep away the "sun dust" in a higher place.

Dust and cobwebs from the roof beams, rafters, purlins and tile surfaces to the floor, floor pillows, house columns and board walls shall be cleaned. Chengdu proverb "sunny in winter, no epidemic in spring" shows its scientific nature. At the same time, never cook snake meat at home.

2. Ring the New Year bell

After the reunion dinner, Chengdu people like to help the old and take care of the young. The whole family went to Daci Temple to ring the New Year bell to make the children enjoy it. On New Year's Eve, monks from Daci Temple gathered in the Ursa Major Hall to hold a grand New Year blessing ceremony. At midnight, with the shouts of tens of thousands of citizens counting down, the abbot of Daci Temple personally rang the 108 New Year prayer bell.

Legend has it that when the old and the new turn, Yin Qi is the most prosperous time of the year. When the bell rings 108, it means that the mysterious Lao Yang Qi wakes up from the depressed place, which makes the whole city full of shock. When I bumped into the New Year bell, it was the incense on the child. People are used to scrambling to burn incense in temples in the first hour of the new year to get God's first favor.

3. On the first day of the first month, visit "Happy God"

XiShen is the auspicious god, and "Xifang" is the seat of XiShen. Chengdu people think that the south of the city is the location of the west deep. In addition, the Wuhou Temple in the south of the city is dedicated to the heroes of Zhuge Liang, Liu Bei, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei worshipped by the people of Shu, and has become a real "happy party".

According to the folk custom of Chengdu, if you touch the western gods on the first day of the first month, you will have good luck and all the best. So every morning on the first day of the first month, people bring their families and mouths to the "Happy God" in Wuhou Temple, scrambling to touch the western gods and feel happy, praying for a peaceful and auspicious year, all the best, family prosperity and prosperity.

4. "Full Day" Caotang Sacrifices Du Fu

The custom of visiting the thatched cottage on People's Day (the seventh day of the first month) originated in the Tang Dynasty. In the second year of Tang Suzong's reign (76 1), the poet Gao Shi wrote "An Addendum to Toure every day" as a gift to Du Fu. The poem said: "People send poems to the thatched cottage every day, pity their old friends and miss their hometown." Thus, the annual "People's Day" has become a special day for Chengdu people to visit the thatched cottage and remember the poet Du Fu.

5. On the fifteenth day of the first month, couples "steal youth"

According to the traditional Chinese New Year custom in Chengdu, in the past, when a young man fell in love with a girl next door, he could steal some vegetables from his aunt's vegetable field on the fifteenth night of the first month to show his love. When a girl discovers that her vegetables have been stolen, she knows that a young man has fallen in love with her, and her heart will be filled with joy and longing.