Are there any customs related to the Spring Festival?

First of all, you should not move the needle on the fifteenth day of the first month, but move it to the Buddha's heart. On the third day, the fifth day, the sixth day, the eighth day, the tenth day, the thirteenth day, the sixteenth day, the twentieth day and the twenty-third day, you will get sick if you move the needle.

Throughout the Spring Festival, there is only one day to do needlework, and that is the fourteenth day of the first month. Sewing on this day is equivalent to pruning the roots of grains. The roots of millet will be firmly rooted, and millet is an important food crop in my hometown.

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The Spring Festival is the most solemn and lively traditional festival among the people in China. Spring Festival is the first day of the year, the first day of the first lunar month, also known as the Lunar New Year, commonly known as "Chinese New Year". In the development and inheritance of history, some relatively fixed customs and habits have been formed, many of which have been passed down to this day, such as sweeping dust, posting Spring Festival couplets, offering sacrifices to ancestors, paying New Year greetings, setting off firecrackers and paying New Year greetings.

There is a folk proverb in China that every household will set off firecrackers when the New Year comes. On the first day of the new year, people get up early, put on the most beautiful clothes, dress up neatly, go out to visit relatives and friends and wish good luck in the coming year.

The Spring Festival, also known as China New Year, is the most solemn traditional festival among the people, generally from the last day of the twelfth lunar month (New Year's Eve) to the fifteenth day of the first month. Sticking Spring Festival couplets, paying New Year greetings, having family reunion dinners and paying New Year greetings are everywhere, but due to different local conditions and customs, the nuances have their own characteristics.

As far as Guangdong is concerned, it can be divided into four regions: Pearl River Delta, Chaoshan, Hakka and western Guangdong, each with its own charm. There is a saying in Guangdong that "twenty-eight-year-old is sloppy", which means that on December 28th of the lunar calendar, the whole family should stay at home and clean up to welcome the New Year. On New Year's Eve, eating New Year's Eve, watching the Spring Festival and visiting the flower market are three major events in old Guangzhou.

Cantonese people's "New Year's greetings" began on the first day of New Year's Day. Of course, visiting relatives and friends is bound to be a gift package representing the mind. In addition to the red element of prosperity, the gift package also means that oranges and profits are good intentions.

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' house must bring some gifts and red envelopes to her children and have lunch at her parents' house, but she must get back to her husband's house before dinner.

New Year's Day, also known as Red Dog Day, is homophonic with "red mouth" and usually does not go out to pay New Year's greetings. It is said that it is easy to quarrel with people on this day. However, this custom has long been out of date, because few people get together in the Spring Festival now, and it has faded a lot.

The fourth day of the fourth lunar month is the day of offering sacrifices to the god of wealth. It is said that the kitchen god will check his household registration on this day, so he should not go far.

On the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, shops and restaurants officially opened their doors and set off firecrackers, no less than on New Year's Eve. On this day, every household should throw out the garbage accumulated in the festival, which is called sending it to the poor.

The seventh day is people's day, which is people's birthday. According to the "gauntlet", from the first day, the order of God's creation was "one chicken, three pigs, four sheep, five cows, six horses, seven people and eight valleys", so the seventh day was a human day. Distributing door-opening benefits is the first thing Guangdong bosses do on their first day of work after the New Year. Profit is profit, which means that it can be profitable all year round.

After the eleventh day of the first month, people began to prepare for the Lantern Festival. From the twelfth day of the first month, they began to buy lanterns and set up light sheds. Lantern Festival is the night of the first full moon in a year, and it is also the night of spring return, also known as "Shangyuan Festival". The custom of burning lanterns in the Lantern Festival began in the Han Dynasty. On this day, jiaozi is indispensable for the Lantern Festival.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Spring Festival Customs