What are the customs of the Spring Festival?

As the saying goes, "ten miles are different." Because of the differences in climate and diet, the Chinese New Year customs in the north and the south will be slightly different. Let's see what the Chinese New Year custom is and what's the difference between the north and the south.

Regarding the folk custom of the Spring Festival, there is a ballad that says: "Children, don't be greedy, it will be the New Year after Laba;" Boil eight porridge, drink it for a few days, and it will be twenty-three miles; Twenty-three, honeydew melon is sticky; Twenty-four, sweeping the house; Twenty-five, frozen tofu; Twenty-six, go to buy meat; Twenty-seven, slaughter the rooster; Twenty-eight, send face; Twenty-nine, steamed bread; Stay up for 30 nights; Take you all over the street on the first day. "

Off-year custom: offering sacrifices to the stove to sweep the dust.

North-South differences: the twelfth lunar month in the north and the twenty-fourth twelfth lunar month in the south.

Legend has it that the middle and small years are the days when the kitchen god goes to heaven. On this day, every household will take off the old image of Kitchen God that has been smoked for a year, and at the same time "please" bring back a new one, put it on the altar and put it on the offering.

Off-year has different concepts and dates in different places. The northern part is the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, and the southern part is the 24th of the twelfth lunar month. No matter on the 23rd or 24th, people should start sweeping dust, washing clothes, washing pots and pans, cleaning thoroughly, making windows bright and clean, and preparing for a clean New Year, which also means that the New Year should have a new atmosphere.

New year's eve custom: new year's eve, keep the year.

North-South Difference: North Shousui South Wai Furnace

On New Year's Eve, the whole family get together for New Year's Eve dinner. The elders gave the children lucky money, and the family sat silently. At midnight, firecrackers exploded and the activities to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new reached a climax. Each family pays New Year greetings to elders of different generations in turn, and then congratulates each other with relatives and friends. On New Year's Eve, no matter adults or children, they should say auspicious words, not unlucky ones. In addition, the lights are generally not turned off all night at home, especially in the room where ancestors are supported.

In the south, there is a custom to surround the stove on New Year's Eve. After New Year's Eve, the family will sit around the fire, eat melon seeds, watch TV and chat while eating, and tell the ups and downs of the year. In the north, on New Year's Eve, the whole family will sit around and watch the Spring Festival Gala while wrapping jiaozi. For good luck, northerners often wrap coins, sugar, peanuts, dates, chestnuts and minced meat together in New Year's jiaozi.

Customs on the first day: open the door, set off firecrackers and pay a New Year call.

Differences between North and South: The North eats rice cakes made by South Jiaozi.

Setting off firecrackers in the morning of the first day of junior high school is called "setting off firecrackers", which indicates that the new year will be smooth and prosperous. The younger generation should first pay New Year greetings to their elders. When people go out to meet, they should also congratulate the New Year with a smile and say "Congratulations on making a fortune" to each other. In addition, according to legend, the first day of the first month is the broom birthday, so you can't use a broom on this day, otherwise you will sweep away your luck and break your money. If you must sweep the floor, you must sweep it from the outside to the inside.

In the north, people pay attention to eating jiaozi on the first day of school, which means "alternating the old with the new and making friends when young". Because the shape of jiaozi is quite like an ingot, after cooking, the pots on the table symbolize the good omen of "making a fortune in the New Year, and the ingot is rolling"; In the south, most people make rice cakes and glutinous rice balls. The homonym of rice cakes is "Gao nian", which means good luck. Tangyuan is also called "jiaozi" and "Tangyuan", which means "family reunion".

The custom of the next day: go back to your mother's house.

The difference between north and south: the north eats noodles and the south eats New Year's dinner.

On the second day of New Year's Day, the married daughter goes back to her parents' house and asks her husband to go with her, so it is commonly known as "husband-welcoming day". On this day, the daughter who goes back to her parents' home must bring some gifts and red envelopes to her children and have lunch at her parents' home. In the past, my family would choose this day to take a family photo.

As the saying goes, "jiaozi had two faces on the first day". The picture is smooth, which means smooth and smooth. There are many studies on the face. Jiaozi noodles should be cooked on the first day, and the noodles must be cold soup, that is, the noodles are cooked and soaked in cold water, which is called cold soup. In the south, Guangdong, Macao and other regions have to have a New Year's Eve dinner on the second day of junior high school, especially business people. In addition to the well-meaning first dish that must be eaten at the New Year's Eve, some families will chop some barbecue and take red skin as a symbol of health. Some people will put Flammulina velutipes and lettuce together, which means "wealth" and "money everywhere".

The custom of the fifth day: chop the villain to meet the god of wealth

Difference between North and South: Setting off firecrackers in the north and delivering profits in the south are

It is commonly said that to break the five-year plan, people want to see the God of Wealth and "catch up with the five-year plan", including "poor in intelligence, poor in learning, poor in literature, poor in life and poor in communication". People get up at dawn, set off firecrackers and clean up. Firecrackers were set off from the inside out, and as soon as they were set off, they went outside the door, blowing out all the unlucky things. On this day, the popular folk food custom is to eat jiaozi, commonly known as "squeezing people's mouths".

In some areas in the north, when shops open after the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, they will set off firecrackers, which is called "ghost collapse" and take away the bad luck of the past. In the south, people who do business on the fifth day of the fifth year should worship God to open a shop, and the big faction is to give employees a start.

Besides, there will be performances such as yangko dancing and stilt walking in the north, and dragon and lion dancing in the south, but no matter what kind of celebration, it is to make us have a happier and more peaceful Spring Festival!

Eating customs in the north and south during the Chinese New Year;

The Spring Festival is the most grand festival for everyone in China, and what to eat during the Spring Festival is the most important part of the festival. However, due to China's vast territory, the dietary customs of the North and the South are also different. During the Spring Festival, jiaozi is generally eaten in the north, and there are many kinds of New Year's Eve dinners in the south. Below, the author will take you to see what the north and the south eat during the Spring Festival.

Since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the eating customs of New Year's Eve are obviously different in the south and the north. On New Year's Eve in the north, jiaozi eats more, which means "making friends when young" in homophonic. On New Year's Eve in the south, people usually eat Yuanxiao and rice cakes. Yuanxiao is also called "Tangyuan", "Tuanzi" and "Zi Yuan", with more sugar in the middle, which means a happy and sweet family reunion. The rice cake is made of glutinous rice, which is homophonic "high every year". However, in different parts of the south, the answer to what to eat during the Spring Festival is different.

The day before the Spring Festival is called New Year's Eve. In ancient times, it was called "year's minute" or "gradual minute". The eating customs of New Year's Eve are different in the north and the south. Northerners regard jiaozi as delicious food, including jiaozi and steamed dumplings. This is for a party, which means "making friends when you are young". In order to get lucky, some jiaozi put some candy bars, which means that life will be sweet next year; Some put a "money-making" in jiaozi and eat in jiaozi. There are places to make money, and one family is prosperous.

In the south, people regard rice cakes, Yuanxiao, muffins, zongzi, fish, meat and vegetables as delicious. Eat more rice cakes and Yuanxiao on New Year's Eve. Yuanxiao is also called "Tuanzi" or "Zi Yuan", which means "family reunion". Rice cakes are mostly made of glutinous rice, which means that production and life are "high every year". Before having a New Year's Eve dinner, in the old society, ancestors were usually worshipped and given some food as a souvenir. As soon as the midnight bell rang, the resignation ceremony began. The whole family pays homage to the ancestors' spirits, and the children pay homage to their elders in the order of generations. Younger students can receive "lucky money" from their elders, which means restraining "evil worship"

Southerners make tea for Chinese New Year and put two olives on a tea tray or bowl cover, which is called "treasure-free tea". When eating in the New Year, there must be cooking, saying that eating "kissing hot"; Be sure to eat bean sprouts, because the shape of bean sprouts is like "Ruyi"; You must eat fish heads for every meal, but you can't eat them all. This is the so-called "leftover fish".

There is a tradition of eating jiaozi at the Northern New Year's Eve. Although jiaozi has long been a popular daily snack, the custom of eating jiaozi varies from place to place. Some places eat jiaozi on New Year's Eve, some places eat jiaozi on the first day, and some mountainous areas in the north have the custom of eating jiaozi every morning from the first day to the fifth day. Eating jiaozi is a unique way for people to express their wish for good luck when they bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new year. According to the method of punctuality in ancient China, the time is from 1 1 in the evening to 1 the next morning.

"Intersection" is the moment when the new year and the old year intersect. Jiaozi means getting married at an older age, and eating jiaozi during the Spring Festival is considered a great luck. In addition, jiaozi is shaped like an ingot, wrapping jiaozi means wrapping good luck, while eating jiaozi symbolizes prosperity. Different from the north, the New Year's Eve dinner in the south usually has hot pot and fish. Hot pot boiling, steaming, warm and sultry, thriving; "Fish" and "fish" are homophonic, symbolizing "good luck and wishful thinking", and also implying happiness in life and "having more than one year". There are also some places in the south that pay attention to eating rice cakes during the Spring Festival, which is high every year, symbolizing a bumper harvest year by year and a higher realm.

On the first day of the first month, people get up early and wish each other well. For breakfast, northerners eat jiaozi and southerners eat glutinous rice balls. After breakfast, people put on new clothes and go to relatives, friends and neighbors to pay New Year greetings and wish all the best in the new year. Every household will entertain guests with snacks such as melon seeds, peanuts and candy. On this day, people mostly eat food prepared before the festival, which means "more than enough". Most northerners eat steamed bread, while southerners mainly eat rice. The food eaten in the north during the New Year is not the same as that in the south, but it is also somewhat similar. They are all passed down from history, but regional differences have caused the current diversification.

The same thing between the north and the south is that you must eat rice cakes during the New Year. Eat rice cakes and wish your life a "high year after year". Suzhou's sweet-scented osmanthus rice cakes, Ningbo's Shuimo rice cakes, Beijing's red jujube rice cakes and Baiguo rice cakes are all good New Year's cakes. "Deserve the righteousness, win the year, and pray for the year." It means that every year goes well. The types of rice cakes are: white rice cakes and yellow rice cakes in the north; There are water mill rice cakes in Jiangnan; There is glutinous rice in the southwest; There are red turtle cakes in Taiwan Province province. "Gao" has been called in Han dialect, which was popular in Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties. Although there is a habit of eating rice cakes in the south, the taste of rice cakes varies from place to place. In the north, rice cakes are mainly sweet, steamed or fried, and some people simply eat them with sugar. Almost all parts of the country eat rice cakes, and the word "sticky" is homophonic with the word "year", which originally means that the grain is ripe. Eating sticky cakes means that the harvest is better and higher every year. Now it is called rice cake.

Although there are differences between the north and the south during the Spring Festival, the theme is to welcome the New Year. In my opinion, the difference between North and South in what to eat during the Spring Festival is a profound reflection of China's cultural tradition and a long-term continuation of China's culture.