The custom of Spring Festival New Year's Eve

New Year's Eve is the last night at the end of the year. The last day of the end of the year is called "year's minute", which means that the old year is divided and replaced by the new year. In addition, it means to remove; Night means night. "New Year's Eve" refers to the eve of New Year, also known as New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve and so on. This is the last night of the year.

There are five popular customs on New Year's Eve. Let's take a look:

One of the Chinese New Year's customs: close the door and eat New Year's Eve.

In some places in the south, it is a long-standing custom to have New Year's Eve dinner behind closed doors, which is said to be related to Tie Guai Li, one of the Eight Immortals.

When I was a child, I heard my grandfather tell such a story, saying that when eating New Year's Eve in many places in the south, the door should be closed, and the door can only be opened after eating and cleaning up. This also has a meaning. Grandpa said that this means "closing the door to make money, opening the door for business".

Grandpa also said, behind closed doors to eat New Year's Eve, folklore is to play tricks on Tie Guai Li. We all know that Tie Guai Li is a famous immortal, and he is one of the Eight Immortals. Although this man is lame, he is a fairy, and the Jade Emperor has arranged a task for him to check the people's feelings on the last day of each year. So every New Year's Eve dinner, Tie Guai Li will become a beggar, and then go door to door begging. Then show the jade emperor the begging things one by one, so that you can see at a glance who is poor and who is rich. The Jade Emperor is also fair. For some wealthy families, the Jade Emperor will make them accept certain punishments, such as disasters, so as not to make them too rich. For poor families, the Jade Emperor will be merciful and let them earn several times more money to avoid being too poor.

Later, the story spread among the people, including a shrewd businessman. He thought of a way, that is, when eating New Year's Eve, close the door and the family will not talk loudly until he finishes eating and cleans up. At this moment, Tie Guai Li came, having eaten clean, and there was nothing on the table. When Tie Guai Li came in, his family was too poor, so he was merciful and gave them more opportunities to get rich. So many people have learned this method one after another, so this method has spread, and everyone has learned it one by one. The custom of closing the door to eat New Year's Eve has been handed down and continues to this day.

However, farmers believe that the reason why there is the custom of eating New Year's Eve in the south is mainly because a lot of meals are cooked on New Year's Eve and the weather is cold in winter. If the door is left open, the food will be easily cooled by the north wind, which will affect the taste and delicacy. Secondly, it will be bad for your health and easy to cause stomach pain!

The second custom of Spring Festival New Year's Eve: Sticking the Year Red.

On the 30th, every household posted "Nian Hong" (Nian Hong is the general name of Spring Festival couplets, door gods, New Year pictures, blessings, banners and window grilles. Because these are all red festive elements posted during the Chinese New Year, they are collectively called "Year Red"). Sticking New Year Red is a traditional New Year custom in China, which reflects people's customs and beliefs, adds festive atmosphere and places people's good expectations for the new year and new life.

Sticking Spring Festival couplets: According to literary works such as Jade Candle Collection and Yanjing Year, the prototype of Spring Festival couplets is what people call "Fu Tao". Another source of Spring Festival couplets is spring stickers. The ancients posted the word "Yichun" every day when they were in beginning of spring, and later they gradually developed into Spring Festival couplets. Sticking Spring Festival couplets is also called sticking couplets, Spring Festival couplets, couplets and peach symbols. It depicts the background of the times and expresses good wishes with neat, dual, concise and exquisite words, which is a unique literary form in China. Every Spring Festival, no matter in urban or rural areas, every household should choose a pair of red Spring Festival couplets and stick them on the door to add festive atmosphere to the festival. ?

New Year pictures: It is also common to hang New Year pictures in urban and rural areas during the Spring Festival. Colorful New Year pictures add a lot of prosperous and happy holiday atmosphere to thousands of families. New Year pictures are an ancient folk art in China, which reflects people's simple customs and beliefs and places their hopes on the future. With the rise of block printing, the content of New Year pictures is not limited to monotonous themes such as door gods, but has become rich and colorful.

Window grilles and the word "Fu": In the folk, people also like to stick various paper-cuts on the windows-window grilles. Window grilles not only set off the festive atmosphere, but also integrate decoration, appreciation and practicality. At the same time, some people have to write "Fu" on doors, walls and lintels. Others elaborate the word "Fu" into various patterns, such as longevity, longevity peach, carp yue longmen, abundant grains, dragons and phoenixes, and so on.

The third custom of New Year's Eve: hanging lanterns.

Every household has the custom of hanging lanterns for 30 years. Hanging red lanterns on New Year's Eve symbolizes reunion and creates a festive atmosphere. Later, lanterns became a symbol of happiness for the people of China. Through the inheritance and development of lantern artists in past dynasties, colorful varieties and exquisite craftsmanship have been formed.

Legend has it that after Jiang Ziya was blocked, there was no post from himself, only a fairy walked in the travel era. On New Year's Eve, the gods returned to their places, but Jiang Ziya had nowhere to go. Seeing his pity, people lit a lamp on the head of a high club and let him spend the night under the lamp. Over time, the custom of hanging lanterns was formed.

The fourth origin of New Year's Eve dinner: observing the new year and enduring the new year.

The custom of "staying to the old age" comes from a legend. This is also a legend that people often hear. On New Year's Eve, in Archaean, there was a fierce monster scattered in the mountains, which people called Nian. Its appearance is ferocious, its nature is ferocious, and it specializes in eating birds, animals and insects. It changes its taste every day, from kowtowing insects to living people, which makes people talk about "Nian". Later, people gradually mastered the activity law of "Nian", that is, every 365 days, people go to places where people live in concentrated communities to taste fresh food. The haunting time is after dark, and when the rooster crows at dawn, they return to the mountains.

After determining the date of the ravages of 2008, people regarded this terrible night as a gateway, and came up with a set of methods to close the New Year's Day: every family prepared dinner in advance, turned off the fire, cleaned the stove, then tied all the cowpeas, sealed the front and back doors of the house, and hid in the house to eat the "New Year's Eve" because this dinner was uncertain. In addition to inviting the whole family to have dinner together to show harmonious reunion, we should also worship our ancestors before eating and pray for their blessing to spend the night safely. After dinner, no one dared to sleep, so they sat together and chatted with courage.

People regard the night of "Nian" as a portal of patience. In order to kill time, the whole family get together and talk about everything, which means praying for a safe night. After a long time, it formed the custom of not sleeping for a year on New Year's Eve.

The fifth origin of New Year's Eve: Setting off firecrackers on New Year's Eve.

The custom of setting off firecrackers on New Year's Eve originated from a folklore. Legend has it that in ancient times, there was an evil beast with four corners and four feet-Xi. When the mountain was closed by heavy snow, Xi gathered around to hurt neighbors and look for food. At the end of the twelfth lunar month, people packed their bags to help the elderly and take care of the young, and went to the nearby bamboo forest to avoid Xi.

This year, when the villagers were preparing to take refuge, a kind mother-in-law rescued the starving child by the roadside and took it to the bamboo forest to escape the dusk. Mother-in-law told the child that she chased here at night and left in a hurry when she saw someone chopping bamboo. As soon as the child thinks about it, he tells everyone that he has a way to get rid of the evening and let everyone cut more bamboo knots with him. When I got home, every door was covered with red cloth.

When Xi attacked again, the children came forward to attract Xi's attention and asked the villagers to throw the broken bamboo joints into the fire, but everyone froze with fear. At this moment, "Xi" picked up the child with his horn and threw it to the ground. The villagers responded to the sound of children falling to the ground and threw bamboo joints into the fire. Because it was cut down not long ago, the wet bamboo joints burst in succession when they met the prosperous fire, and they kept ringing! "Xi" turned and ran away after hearing the sound, and did not destroy anything in the village again.

Scared away at night, the residents' home was saved because of the red bar hanging in front of the door, but the clever child who saved the village died. This day is the first day of the first month. This clever boy, his name is Nian.

Because "Xi" is not dead, everyone is waiting to break the bamboo festival on the thirtieth day of the twelfth lunar month every year, hoping to get rid of "Xi" as soon as possible. However, a year has passed and no one has seen "Xi" again. Only people set off firecrackers to prevent the arrival of "Xi", but the legend of setting off firecrackers was left to us.

New Year's Eve is a time to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, to reunite the whole family and to worship the ancestors. It is also a traditional festival to worship ancestors in China, along with Tomb-Sweeping Day, July 30th and the Double Ninth Festival. New Year's Eve has a special meaning in the hearts of China people. On the most important day at the end of this year, no matter how far away, wanderers have to rush home to reunite with their families. On New Year's Eve, they bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new year.