Chinese New Year customs are those

Chinese New Year is the oldest and grandest festival of the Chinese nation, cutting and pasting window flowers, New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, and so on ...... Chinese New Year is coming soon, these traditional customs about the Spring Festival, how much do you know? Take a look

1, cut the window

Cutting and pasting the window is one of the many New Year's customs. There are generally two ways to describe the origin of window flowers.

The first theory is that before the Western Han Dynasty, papermaking has not yet been invented before the folk have been cut with a variety of materials for the practice of thin film, the use of hollowing, carving techniques made of handicrafts. People not only posted their own, but also gave their work to friends and relatives. Later, with the invention of paper, people began to use thin and cheap paper instead, until the Song and Yuan Dynasties, people will welcome the spring window decals changed to the Spring Festival posting, this custom is slowly formed.

The second theory comes from a myth. According to legend, during the reign of Yao in ancient times, there was a luan migratory bird similar to the phoenix protecting the people on one side. But in the seventh year, the bird did not fly, causing monsters to rampage. After that, there came a god bird called "Chongming", which quickly fought the fierce beasts in all directions and left a great reputation. The people revered it, but it came only a few times a year, and the people were invaded by ghosts, monsters, and beasts all the time.

Therefore, people carved golden birds or wooden chickens in the image of the "Chongming" bird and put them on the windows. Strangely enough, when they saw it, the ghosts and beasts were scared away and did not dare to attack any more. Subsequently, this gradually evolved into a folk custom. The styles of the window decoration are also getting more and more innovative.

2, write spring couplets

In ancient Chinese mythology, there is a ghostly world, among which there is a mountain, the mountain has a big peach tree covering three thousand miles, and on the top of the tree there is a golden chicken. Whenever the golden rooster crowed in the morning, the ghosts that had gone out to roam at night would be rushed back to the ghost world. The gate of the Ghost Realm was situated in the northeast of the peach tree, and by the gate stood two godmen named Shentan and Yubi. If a ghost did something harmful at night, Shentan and Yubi would immediately find it, catch it, tie it up with a rope made of mango reeds, and feed it to the tiger.

As a result, all the ghosts in the world feared Shentian and Yubi. So the folk used peach wood to carve their likenesses and put them at the entrance of their houses to avoid evil and prevent harm. Later, people simply carve the name of God, Yu Ji on the peach wood board, think this can also suppress the evil evil. This peach wood board was later called "peach charm". After Ming Taizu advocated this, the Spring Festival couplets have become customary, and have been passed down to the present day.

3, sweeping dust

The Spring Festival before the cleaning is a traditional Chinese custom, but also to remove bad luck, a way to welcome the joy. On the day of the sweeping, the whole family will work together to clean the houses and courtyards, scrub the pots and pans, dismantle and wash the bedding, and welcome the New Year in a clean and tidy manner. According to the canonical records, in ancient times, there was the custom of year-end sweeping, and people expressed their will to get rid of the old with the help of the harmonic sound of "dust" and "Chen".

4, New Year's money

Olden times, after the ancestors, held to meet the gods of the ceremony, the whole family to be together, "New Year's Eve", the younger generation to the elders to kowtow to wish the elders longevity, great blessings, big luck, the elders to give the younger generation, that is, "New Year's money", "New Year's money". "New Year's money", New Year's money means "pressure year blessing", which sends the elders on the children's growth of the good wishes, I hope they grow up healthy.

5, ancestor worship

New Year's ancestor worship, not only to the ancestors of the mourning, but also prayed for the ancestors to bless the coming year of peace. Ancestor worship is one of the oldest elements of Chinese New Year customs. Ancestor worship is the inheritance of filial piety culture. Chinese feudal society has been ruled by filial piety for thousands of years, and filial piety is a traditional Chinese virtue; the body's hair and skin are from one's parents, while the human being comes from things, and things come from heaven and earth.

Through the sacrifice we will recollect our ancestry and parents' nurturing grace, so that we can persevere and perfect filial piety throughout our lives in the guidance and teachings of the sages. At the same time, we will also give our children to accumulate virtues and cultivate blessings, which is to be prudent in the end of the pursuit of the future, the people's virtue to the thick. It is because of this kind of benevolence and filial piety that Chinese people are generous in their hearts, and the heart of benevolence and filial piety can be cultivated in ritual activities.

6, New Year's Eve

The ancient times, there is a fierce beast, scattered in the mountains and dense forests, people call them "year". Its appearance is hideous, vicious, specializing in eating birds and animals, a day to change a flavor, from the knocking insects have been eating to the living, so that people talk about the "year" color change. Later, people slowly grasp the "year" of the activities of the law, it is every three hundred and sixty-five days scurrying to the crowd of places to taste a mouthful of food, and the time of the infestation are in the dark, and so on, until the rooster breaks the dawn, they will return to the mountains and forests to go.

Calculating the date of the "year" rampage, the people will be this terrible night as a pass, called "New Year's Eve", and came up with a set of New Year's Eve approach: every night, every family will be done in advance of the evening meal, put out the fire! The first thing you need to do is to make sure that you have a good night's sleep, and that you have a good night's sleep, and that you have a good night's sleep.

Because this dinner has the meaning of uncertainty, so it is very rich, in addition to the whole family around the meal to show harmony and reunion, but also in the meal before the offering ancestors, praying for the blessing of the gods of the ancestors, and safely through the night. After dinner, no one dares to sleep, sitting together in a crowded chat to strengthen the courage. Gradually formed the habit of New Year's Eve to stay up and keep the New Year's Eve.

The year-end vigil, for the older people have the sense of the passing years, there is the intention to cherish the years. For young people, there is a sense of new buds, a sense of hard work and progress. Year-end vigil reflects the family reunion, *** narrative affection, send the old and welcome the new beautiful vision.

7, the New Year

On the first day of the New Year, everyone gets up early, dressed up, go out and visit friends and relatives, pay respect to each other, wishing good luck in the coming year. About the origin of the custom of New Year's Eve, legend has it that in ancient times there was a monster, head long unicorn, mouth like a blood basin, people call it "year". On the night of the 30th day of the Lunar New Year, it would come out of the mountains and forests to prey on and eat people. People had to prepare some meat outside the door, and then closed the door, hiding in the house, until the first morning, "the year" after a full meal to go, people only open the door to see each other, bowed to say goodbye, congratulate each other on not being "the year" eaten. This is the first time that the Chinese people have ever been to a place where they have to pay their respects to the New Year.

The Spring Festival is one of the oldest festivals in China, and one of the most important throughout the year, and in the course of thousands of years of historical development, some of the more fixed celebrations of this festival in China, most of the customs and traditions have been passed down to the present day.