All the customs of the Spring Festival.

China's Spring Festival has a long history, in the development of inheritance has formed a number of more fixed customs, many of which are still handed down to the present day, such as buying New Year's goods, sweeping the dust, posting the New Year's red, setting off firecrackers, eating New Year's Eve dinner, the New Year's Eve vigil, pay homage to the year, pay respects to the New Year, dragon dance and lion dance, pay homage to the gods, pray for luck and sacrifice to the disaster, swim in the gods, escorting the boat, the temple fair, swim in the gongs and drums, swim in the standard flag, and on the lights of the wine, and so on.

Limited to space, I'll just pick 5 customs and introduce them in detail. If you are interested, please take a look.

1, send lishui

The eighth day of the year is the start of the day, send start lishui, is the first day of work after the New Year in Guangdong bosses first thing to do. "Li is" is also written "Li Shi" or "Li thing". It is also written as "li shi" or "li shi", which means "handing out li shi" and "li shi li shi", implying that the year will be full of profits and great success. The word "Li Shi" has been used in ancient times, as early as in the "I Ching" has been recorded, with the meaning of this little profit. Yuan Dynasty "Proverbs" also mentioned "for good omen, to the host family to ask for a Lixian", which shows that Lixian also has the meaning of good luck.

2, open the door firecrackers

The Spring Festival morning, open the door for good luck, the first release of firecrackers, called "open the door cannonball". After the sound of firecrackers, broken red all over the ground, brilliant as a cloud, known as "full red". At this time, the street is full of auspicious, joyful. "Open door firecrackers" is an ancient saying. The arrival of the new year, the first thing to open the door of every household is to set off firecrackers, to beeping firecrackers to get rid of the old and welcome the new.

3, worship

Worship, is one of the ancient New Year's activities. In the morning of the first day of the year to welcome the new year, offering fasting dishes to worship the "age of God". "Years", also known as "Regent", "Tai Sui", for the ancient era of star names, but also folk beliefs of the gods. Years to sixty jiazi of the stem and branch chronology for the operation of the cycle, ***60, each year there is a year-old god on duty, in the year when the duty of the year-old called "value of the year-old", is a year of the master, in charge of the year on earth's good fortune and bad luck.

Wishing for the New Year is the oldest traditional New Year's custom, which is still prevalent in Guangdong, especially in the Wuchuan area. On the first day of the new year, the traditional custom of welcoming the new year, worshipping the god of the year and receiving blessings has been passed down from generation to generation since ancient times.

4, New Year's Eve night lights can not be turned off

New Year's Eve is also the old and welcome the new a time, this time the lights can not be extinguished, because as long as the lights on the home, then the relatives in heaven to see the way home, in order to find the way to go home to be reunited with the family. So this light is for the deceased family members. Of course, the bright lights also have a red-hot symbol, meaning that the coming year will have good luck.

5, pay tribute to the New Year

On the first day of the year, people get up early, put on their best clothes, dress up neatly, go out to visit friends and relatives, pay tribute to each other, wishing good luck in the coming year.

Chinese people since the Ming and Qing dynasties, on the New Year rituals set the unwritten rules, there is a certain order: the first worship of heaven and earth gods and goddesses, the second worship of the ancestors of the real shadow, and then worship the high hall of honor, and finally the whole family according to the order of the generation to worship each other. The elders were to be honored and the children were to be rewarded. Nowadays, when paying New Year's greetings, the younger generation should pay tribute to the elders first, wishing them a long life and good health.

The above is what I know about the customs of the Spring Festival, what else do you know? Say something in the comment section.