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Amid firecrackers, we ushered in the biggest festival of China people-Spring Festival. Everyone was beaming, hanging red lanterns and pasting red Spring Festival couplets, which was a busy scene. ...

The first day of the first month is another happy day.

I used to be the last person to get up, but today I won the first place, because I really want to smell the firecrackers. Strings of firecrackers are lit in people's hands, and the sound is really loud, splashing everywhere, as if to send every blessing to thousands of households. Firecrackers continued, crackled and were very lively.

After the firecrackers, there is nothing interesting. Let's have breakfast first and then go out to play!

After dinner, I invited some friends to play together. Firecrackers lit in the street produce beautiful flowers on the ground. They are very beautiful. The pocket money given by my parents is in my bag, let alone how happy I am. Today's birds also come out to join in the fun, and probably they are also very happy.

The street is really a street, with everything to play and eat. Most of the people I see are children. I took one look and counted the spicy food stalls as the best:

"I want a string of rice cakes!" A fat child shouted.

How about going somewhere else? I stopped again in front of the booth of a stationery store. There are all kinds of interesting things: airplane models, binoculars, electric cars ... all of them are interesting things. I find the most popular things are those fun things.

In other places, I also saw some selling balloons, pistols, skipping rope, some selling snacks, snacks, fruits, clothes and food. It's amazing.

After playing all morning, I will visit relatives and friends for the Spring Festival in the afternoon, which is undoubtedly a happy thing.

What a wonderful time today! It's really pleasing to the eye. It's delicious, and it's delicious. The luckiest are the vendors, but business is booming today!

I sincerely hope that today's children all over the country will be happy and have no troubles in the new year, but don't "play with things"!

The Spring Festival refers to a festival that begins on the first day of the first lunar month. In many parts of East Asia, this is a traditional festival to celebrate the New Year. It is also one of the most important festivals in Chinese mainland, Macau, Hongkong, Taiwan Province Province, North Korea, South Korea, Mongolia, Vietnam, Laos, Myanmar, Cambodia, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia and "Japan before Meiji Restoration".

The traditional names of Spring Festival are New Year and New Year, but they are usually called China New Year orally. In ancient times, the Spring Festival refers to the beginning of spring in solar terms, while the Lunar New Year is called "New Year", which means the first day of the year.

After the Revolution of 1911 in China, the government of the Republic of China changed the lunar calendar to the solar calendar, and tried to prohibit people from celebrating the Lunar New Year, but it failed because of people's insistence. Later, during Yuan Shikai's reign, 65438+ 10/was designated as New Year's Day, and the first day of the first lunar month was designated as the Spring Festival. However, the people still celebrated New Year's Day, and the writer still wrote New Year's Day. The word "Spring Festival travel rush" really became popular after 1949. The Lunar New Year is now also called the Lunar New Year and the old calendar. In the Asia-Pacific region, Tianbao, a Japanese lunar calendar, ceased to be used in the sixth year of Meiji Restoration (1873)65438+ 10/,and the solar calendar was used to measure the days, so the original lunar calendar was called the old calendar. People's celebrations are only held within three days after the start of the Gregorian calendar. However, there are still celebrations in some areas such as Okinawa Prefecture and the Amami Islands in Kagoshima Prefecture. Korean and Vietnamese, which are also influenced by China culture, still have official and folk activities to celebrate the Lunar New Year even if the official calendar is changed to the western calendar.

Spring Festival is called "T" in Vietnamese? t Nguyên？ σn "(New Year's Day), the Japanese word for" old first month "and"? "In Korean. This is an inherent word, which means New Year.

Local custom

The customs of the Spring Festival are varied. The customs of different periods, regions and nationalities are different.

The eighth day of the twelfth lunar month is a traditional festival of the Han nationality, symbolizing the arrival of the "New Year". Traditionally, Laba porridge is drunk on this day, and Laba garlic is cooked on this day. See Laba Festival.

Sacrificing the kitchen stove is to send the kitchen god to heaven in the coming year.

Worship God, send God, burn incense, light candles and hang lanterns.

Worship ancestors and go to the grave.

Take a bath with grapefruit leaves.

Clean it up It is usually held on the 28th of a year, that is, two to three days before the New Year. On that day, the house should be cleaned to welcome the Spring Festival. As the saying goes in Guangdong, "at the age of 28, you can't be careless."

Put up Spring Festival couplets and New Year pictures, and some rural areas even want stick grilles.

Turn the word "Fu" upside down: children who are just literate will say "Fu is lost", adults will say "Not lost", and children will stubbornly say "Lost! The blessing has fallen, so it means that the blessing has arrived, which is very auspicious.

Shousui: It is said that if children keep their age, their parents will get old.

In some places, there is a custom of selling laziness, that is, "selling laziness". For example, putting dough on a chair and letting children sit on it and stick to their buttocks symbolizes that they will not leave their seats when reading.

Set off firecrackers (firecrackers)

Set off fireworks.

Pay New Year greetings to each other. Some traditions in South China are that the younger generation of the first grade will pay New Year greetings to their elders, usually returning to the men's home. On the second day of the second year, I went back to my daughter's house to pay a New Year call. On the third day of the lunar new year, we generally don't go out to pay New Year's greetings. Because my mouth is red, I hope to avoid quarreling with others. If relatives and friends have not paid New Year greetings to each other, they will continue on the fourth day of the first year.

Give out red envelopes (lucky money).

Walking on stilts.

Buy annual flowers.

Beating gongs and drums.

Family reunion. People who go out to study and work should go home to reunite with their parents and celebrate the New Year together. See Spring Festival travel rush, afraid of being homeless.

It is a custom in Hong Kong not to pay New Year greetings on the third day of the Lunar New Year. On the third day of the Lunar New Year, also known as the Spring Festival, people traditionally try not to pay New Year greetings to others to avoid quarrels. In Hong Kong, many good men and women will go to Chegong Temple in Sha Tin to pray and turn windmills, which means turning out good luck and praying for good luck in the new year and peace throughout the year.

Do not buy shoes. Guangdong folk custom means not to buy shoes in January of the lunar calendar (because "shoes" is similar to the sound of "alas" in Cantonese).

During the Spring Festival, people always say congratulations when they meet. For example, congratulations on getting rich, getting richer every year, getting safer every year, rising step by step, and prospering people.

Do not move the knife. In some rural areas and cities in Chinese mainland, it is a habit not to use knives or scissors from the first day to the third day of the Lunar New Year.

No bathing, no cleaning. In some traditions, you can't take a bath, wash your hair or clean up on New Year's Day, so as not to wash away or sweep away your luck.

Eliminate the old and welcome the new. Buy some new clothes.

On the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, the god of wealth is greeted. It is said that the god of wealth will send blessings to the world on this day. This activity is very popular in southern China. Since the 1990s, some big cities have set off fireworks and firecrackers in the early morning of the fifth day of the fifth day as much as New Year's Eve.

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On New Year's Eve, the tradition is to cut jiaozi with good jiaozi noodles to prepare for the first pack of jiaozi, because you can't use a knife on the first day. Since 1980s, it has become a tradition for many families to watch CCTV's Spring Festival Gala on New Year's Eve. Due to the decline in the quality of its programs and the increase in other entertainment programs, many families now go to restaurants for the New Year.

Grade One: jiaozi in the morning. Traditionally, in Beijing (basically a tradition in the northern region), the old people don't go out on New Year's Day, and relatives, friends and colleagues pay New Year greetings to each other.

The next day: Sacrifice to the God of Wealth and eat "Yuanbao Soup" (wonton). The general habit in the north is to go back to my parents' home for New Year's reunion.

Day 3: ancestor worship. Generally, married women whose parents are both dead will go back to their parents' home on this day to pay homage to their ancestors and pay a New Year call. Different from the Qingming "going to the grave", ancestor worship is just a memorial tablet for ancestor worship. But in rural areas such as Hebei, it is also a day of "going to the grave". Generally, they bring snacks, wine and other sacrifices to the deceased ancestors, and set off firecrackers to let the ancestors "pay New Year greetings". Generally speaking, only children are allowed to go to the grave, and people with foreign surnames who marry into their own family do not participate in ancestor worship.

Day 4: Generally, married women who are newly married or whose parents are still alive will return to their parents' home to pay New Year greetings on this day.

Day 5: In the poor days, in the north of China, generally no one goes out to pay New Year greetings, because this day is "Mafia Day", and it is generally not until the Spring Festival that the garbage at home can be swept away, and then firecrackers are set off to celebrate; There is a couplet "Kick the poor away and welcome the God of Wealth with both hands", which is a description of this custom. Generally, only some young people will hold a gathering of friends or classmates on this day. Also known as "Breaking Five", it means to eat in jiaozi at home.

Day 6: Open the market

Day 7: Winning Festival.

Day 8: Sacrifice to Heaven. At present, temple fairs in Beijing generally start from the first day and end on the seventh or eighth day.

Central China, South China, East China and Hong Kong

There are "floating colors" activities in rural areas.

Before the first day of junior high school: go to the flower market and the new year market in each district to buy new year flowers or new year goods.

Twenty-eight: cleaning.

New Year's Eve: Have a reunion dinner and go to the temple to inject incense.

The first day: go to the temple to burn incense, float parade, Spring Festival Cup football preliminaries, fireworks party.

The next day: New Year fireworks display in Victoria Harbour.

Day 3: New Year Horse Racing, praying at Chegong Temple in Sha Tin.

Day 4: China New Year Cup Football Match (Final)

Fifteen: Lantern Festival, many parks will have activities such as hanging lanterns and solving riddles on lanterns, attracting many people to wander around. I also eat soup as a sign of reunion.

Other activities: visit the wishing tree in Lin Village, Tai Po and pray; Pray for Chegong Temple; Pray to Wong Tai Sin Temple; Go to Yuanxuan College to worship Tai Sui and see the New Year flowers. (usually on the third day of the year)

As for New Year's greetings, except that the third day is a "red mouth", which traditionally means that it is easy to quarrel, it is generally held at will between the first day and the fifth day. In addition, if the annual Lunar New Year holiday falls on a Sunday, Christians and Catholics will hold religious activities in the auditorium.

Regarding the Spring Festival, there is a folk custom in Chinese mainland: from the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, there are twenty-three honeydew melon sticks; Twenty-four house sweeps; Twenty-five grinding bean curd; Go to cut meat at the age of 26; Twenty-seven kill a chicken; Twenty-eight sides; Twenty-nine steamed buns; The saying of staying up all night on New Year's Eve.

Minority customs

When friends of Bai nationality in Yunnan celebrate the New Year, they will hold a celebration of "soaring into the sky", that is, put gunpowder in the bamboo joints of the whole bamboo, and after lighting it, the whole bamboo can collapse into the air for dozens of feet. Some areas also carry out "throwing hydrangeas" activities.

On the morning of the first day, the Oroqen people in Manzhouli poured wine to each other according to their generations, and the younger generation kowtowed to their elders, and the peers greeted each other. Horse racing is held on the third day of the second grade. On the fifteenth day of the first month, the family tasted delicious food together. On the morning of the 16th day of the first month, the Oroqen people will engage in activities to discredit each other. The younger generation should kowtow before slandering their elders.

Revolutionary Spring Festival

During the Cultural Revolution, the Beijing government asked the masses to "change customs" and "have a revolutionary and effective Spring Festival". On the occasion of the Spring Festival, we should seize the revolution, speed up production, work hard until the 28th of the twelfth lunar month, have dinner on New Year's Eve, and get off work on the morning of the first day.

Customs in other regions

Taiwan Province Province, China

Winter solstice: This is a local custom in Taiwan Province Province. The solstice of winter has begun to have a festive atmosphere. On that day, ancestor worship is called winter worship, and some clan organizations will also gather for dinner on that day. On that day, ancestral tablets can be opened for cleaning, so many families also use this day to check the God and copy data as the basis of genealogy.

Tail: commonly known as "tail tooth", it is a sacrifice to the earth god on December 16 of the lunar calendar. The company took this opportunity to hold a dinner party to reward employees for their hard work. In the early days, there was a custom of avoiding the head of a chicken to avoid the hint of dismissal. In recent years, large enterprises in Taiwan Province Province have hired film and television singers to perform at the Tail Tooth Dinner, and won high bonuses and stock lottery, which has become the focus of media attention in Taiwan Province Province.

Send God: Sacrifice to send God in the early morning of the twelfth lunar month, burn Ma Yun paper as a sacred mountain, return to the sky for the New Year, and prepare fruit sweet soup according to the regular meeting. After sending the gods, you can clean the shrines, shrines, statues, ancestral tablets and incense burners, remove the old door gods and prepare to replace them with new ones. The incense ashes in the incense burner must be re-screened on the same day, and the door god will burn the gold paper when he sends it to God. According to an old local legend in Taiwan Province Province, on 25th, the gods will visit the gods instead of reporting their work, so they should not wear obscene clothes on that day.

New Year's Eve: According to the December month of the lunar calendar, it is called twenty-nine or thirty in Taiwanese. A few days before the Chinese New Year, all families began to steam rice cakes, which are divided into sweet and salty, called sweet and salty. Tangyuan is made of glutinous rice, and some people add red beans. As the saying goes, "Eat well and have a good New Year"; Salted rice cakes are made by Millai. If there was a funeral at home the year before, the rice cake would not be made, and it would be presented by relatives and friends. People in Taiwan Province Province usually change Spring Festival couplets and door gods on New Year's Eve or a day or two before. With the development of the times, some people don't post Spring Festival couplets, but only post red short messages to express their congratulations, such as "Congratulations on the New Year", "Congratulations on making a fortune" and "Congratulations on the New Year". On New Year's Eve, we should worship the master of inheritance, also called "door worship", and then worship the gods and ancestors. After offering sacrifices to the gods, spring flowers will be affixed to the gods; After the ancestor worship, a cake and a meal will be placed and red flowers made of paper will be inserted, which is called "rice spring boy". That night, we will sit around the stove and eat vegetables for a long time. The so-called long vegetables are generally spinach with roots and mustard. Traditionally, the debts of agricultural society for one year must be paid off before New Year's Eve. Therefore, in the proverbs of Taiwan Province Province, people who are often in financial difficulties are called "29 days a day".

The first day: going out to pay a New Year call, which is called "going in spring". Generally speaking, the direction of travel and the time to open and close the door will be decided according to the farming history. On that day, people in Taiwan Province Province usually go to temples and Buddhist temples to burn incense and pray for a happy New Year.

The next day: the day of going back to my mother's house is still vulgar. Before the second day of junior high school, married women are not allowed to go back to their parents' home, and it is said that they will share their parents' blessings. However, with the progress of the times, in recent years, women's groups in Taiwan Province Province have made efforts to promote the new concept of their daughters going home for the New Year.

Day 3: On the day of marrying a rat, you need to go to bed early as usual.

The fourth day: the day of receiving God, it is customary to choose near dusk, and there is a saying that "sending God early and receiving God late". After receiving the gods, the people who were offended by the zodiac were fitted with traditional symbols. At present, many temples in Taiwan Province Province also have Tai Sui Dian, offering sacrifices to the King of Stars in those days, so that believers can register for the sacrifice.

Day 5: The market is open and all walks of life are open for business.

Day 9: Legend has it that it is the Christmas of the Taoist Jade Emperor, which is called "Heaven". In the early morning of the same day or after midnight on the eighth day, families began to offer sacrifices, and firecrackers continued all night.

Fifteenth: Lantern Festival, it has become a fashion to hold a sightseeing lantern festival in Taiwan Province Province. Every year, giant lanterns are made according to the zodiac and become the focus. There are still activities all over the country, such as lighting lamps in Pingxi, Taibei County, washing the harbor for the sacrifice of Prince yehliu, jumping dragons in miaoli city, bombing Tan Xuan in Taitung City, and saltwater bee cannons in Tainan County.

Folk Reading Ballads in Taiwan Province Province;

"The first morning, the second morning, the third day sleepy, the fourth day, the fifth day, the sixth day fat, the seventh day in 77 yuan, the eighth day, the ninth day, the tenth day full. Eleven husbands, twelve mouthfuls, thirteen glutinous rice with mustard.

Malaysia, Singapore

Before the first day: buying new year's goods, commonly known as "doing new year's goods."

New Year's Eve: Have a reunion dinner.

The first day: go to the temple to burn incense and go out to pay New Year's greetings.

The next day: the day when I went out to pay New Year greetings and went back to my parents' home.

The third day: generally do not go out to pay New Year's greetings. Because of "red mouth", I hope to avoid quarreling with others. If relatives and friends haven't paid New Year greetings to each other yet, they will continue on the fourth day.

Day 9: Born in the sky, in the early morning of that day or after midnight of the eighth day, families began to offer sacrifices.

Fifteen: Lantern Festival. The Lantern Festival in Singapore and Malaysia, like Chinese Valentine's Day, is called "China Valentine's Day" and is celebrated in different ways: unmarried women will throw oranges at the riverside to ask for marriage (men throw bananas) [2], and there is generally no custom of carrying lanterns or enjoying them.

The origin of the custom of off-year

The 24th day of the twelfth lunar month is an important folk festival before the Spring Festival, which is called "Festival of Sacrificing Kitchen Stove". 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.

The custom of offering sacrifices to stoves on the 24th of the twelfth lunar month in Henan is accompanied by a bleak folklore. In ancient times, an old couple had only one son. They regard their son as the apple of their eye and love him very much. But because his family was poor and unable to make a living, he had to bear the pain and let his son dig coal in the coal mine.

The old man has missed his son for a long time. On this day, the old woman told the old man to visit the coal mine. On the way, the old man met a barefoot fellow traveler, and the two became more and more familiar and got along well. During the chat, the old man learned that Barefoot was instructed by Rebecca to find 100 miners in the mine. The old man was in a hurry and begged his son to stay barefoot. Barefoot generously agreed and told him not to tell anyone.

Seeing his son, the old man pretended to be ill, and his son was waiting around and unable to go down the well. Soon, something happened in the coal mine, and the old man hurried home with his son.

Three years passed in a blink of an eye. On the 23rd night of the twelfth lunar month, the old man remembered the risks of that year and couldn't help telling his wife. Who knows, this statement was heard by Chef Jun. On the evening of 24th, Chef Jun went to heaven and told the Jade Emperor about it. The Jade Emperor became angry from embarrassment, and immediately punished the barefoot piece and took away the old man's son.

Because of this, on the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, people respect Zhao Jun for eating sweets, hoping that he will stop gossiping when he arrives in the Heavenly Palace. As time goes by, people sacrifice stoves on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month.

On the 24th of the twelfth lunar month, the first round of firecrackers was set off in urban and rural areas of the Central Plains. City residents are busy buying sesame candy, fire and other food for offering sacrifices to stoves. In the vast rural areas, preparations and grand ceremonies for offering sacrifices to stoves gradually began in the deafening sound of guns.

Ceremonies for offering sacrifices to stoves are mostly held at night. When offering sacrifices to the stove, the people who offer sacrifices to the stove kneel in front of the statue of the stove and hug the rooster. Some people even let children hold chickens and kneel behind adults. It is said that the chicken is the horse on which jujube ascended to heaven, so the chicken is called a horse instead of a chicken. Such as red rooster, commonly known as "red horse" and white cock, commonly known as "white horse". After ordering the incense table, the cigarettes in the room were filled with mysterious colors. The host poured wine and kowtowed, muttering something. After reading it, the burning lamp shouted "collar"! And then pour the chicken head with wine. If a chicken's head flutters, it means that Grandpa Jujube has been ungrateful. If the head of the chicken doesn't move, it needs to be watered again.

After the ceremony, people began to eat food, such as stove, candy and fire. In some places, they also eat sugar cakes, oil cakes and tofu soup.

In Henan, the typical food for offering sacrifices to stoves should be the first stove candy. Kitchen candy is a kind of maltose that sticks to the mouth and teeth. The reason for offering sugar to the stove is to stick the mouth of the stove owner. Legend has it that Lord Zao is a god sent by the Jade Emperor to supervise good and evil. He has the responsibility to communicate with people, contact the feelings between heaven and earth, and convey the information between fairyland and human beings. When it went to heaven, people gave it stove candy, hoping that it would eat sweets and say good things in front of the Jade Emperor. It is also said that the candy used for offering sacrifices to the stove is not stuck on the mouth of the stove owner, but on the mouth of the grandmother who is greedy and loves to gossip.

In addition to eating stove candy, fire is also a very distinctive seasonal food on the day of sacrifice. On the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, the business of biscuit stalls in the city is booming. People gathered together and rushed to buy sacrificial stoves and burn them. Most of the countryside is made by ourselves, made of flour and kang. The home is very lively, with the taste of off-year life.