Composition of New Year Customs in China

Spring Festival is the most traditional and grand festival in China, and it also lasts for the longest time. From the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month to the 15th day of the first lunar month, people were busy for a month. Old Beijing loves to talk about Lazy and Bala, freezing to death in western Western jackdaw. In the Lama Temple in Qing Dynasty, there was a tradition of cooking Laba porridge to worship Buddha and courtiers, which was called Buddha porridge. The purpose is to become attached to the Buddha, which means that, like the Buddha, he drank the miscellaneous bean porridge given by the shepherdess and became a Buddha. On the 23rd day of the lunar calendar, it is said that the Kitchen God told the Jade Emperor the good and evil on earth the next day, and the Jade Emperor benefited from it. Every household was busy offering sacrifices to the Kitchen God. On this evening, my parents presented Guandong sugar, honeydew melon (meaning sticking to the mouth of the kitchen god) and so on. And then even put the niche of the kitchen god on the branches of pine and cypress and the stems of sesame, which is called sacrifice. On this night, firecrackers exploded, and Beijingers said that it was New Year's Eve, the carnival night in China, and everything was to bid farewell to the old year, welcome the new year and pray for good luck. The whole family sits around, holds a family dinner and wishes each other family happiness. This is the so-called stove. After dinner, children will scatter sesame stalks in the yard and walk on them. This is called stepping on the year. Old Beijing set off firecrackers to pay New Year greetings to each other in the middle of the night, and the younger generation kowtowed to their elders to pay New Year's greetings and ask for lucky money. The whole family was vegetarian in jiaozi, which was called "Even jiaozi, jiaozi Reunion". Only one of hundreds of jiaozi has coins, which means that people who eat this kind of jiaozi have a good year. Nowadays, Beijingers still retain many ancient traditional customs during the Spring Festival, and colorful cultural programs make the festive atmosphere more intense. From 65438 to 0994, after Beijing banned fireworks and firecrackers, Beijingers could only go to a few designated places in the suburbs to watch the festive New Year fireworks, but more and more Beijingers are trying to spend the Spring Festival in an increasingly fresh way. The Spring Festival in Chengde actually started on the twentieth day of the twelfth lunar month. On the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, every temple and every household has to cook porridge, which is called Laba porridge. On the one hand, it commemorates the day when Buddha Sakyamuni became a monk, and on the other hand, it celebrates the prosperity of Wuguan Valley. On this day, New Year pictures, firecrackers and meat began to appear in the market. On the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, every household should sweep the yard. This day is called off-year, and generally every family has to hold a banquet to worship the kitchen god. Spring Festival couplets began to be posted on the 25th of the twelfth lunar month, and the festive atmosphere became stronger and stronger. On New Year's Eve, the whole family, old and young, had a family reunion dinner and bought jiaozi, ready to fight the cold war. In the early morning 12, firecrackers exploded to welcome the new year. On New Year's Day, we pay New Year greetings to each other and have fun together. The next day, we invite our children and girls home, the third day, we will meet our in-laws, and the fourth day, we will meet our friends. The climax of the fifth day in Spring Festival travel rush is over. On the fifteenth day of the first month, the Lantern Festival, also known as the Lantern Festival, people play dragon lanterns, dance yangko, walk on stilts, play with lions and play around the clock.