Customs of the days before the Spring Festival

Customs a few days before the Spring Festival (Selected 6)

Customs a few days before the Spring Festival. The Spring Festival is a very grand festival in our country, the Spring Festival is a day of great reunion, and there are some customs in the days before the Spring Festival. Next, I will take you to understand the customs of the days before the Spring Festival.

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1, Lunar New Year 25, push the mill to make tofu. The "making of bean curd" has a symbolic meaning. The Chinese words "腐" and "福" have a similar pronunciation, and making tofu means "harvesting happiness and good fortune in the New Year".

2. On the twenty-sixth day of the Lunar New Year, pigs are killed and meat is cut. In the past, many people couldn't afford meat, so they looked forward to eating meat at the New Year's Eve dinner. In traditional philosophy, meat represents wealth. The most famous holiday meat is "braised pork".

3. On the 27th day of the Lunar New Year, chickens are slaughtered to catch the big market. The Chinese word "chicken" has a similar pronunciation to the word "ji" for "good luck", and the Chinese will keep a whole chicken (the head, tail, and feet of the chicken), which represents the meaning of reunion.

4, Lunar New Year's Eve, the noodles hair. Twenty-six, twenty-seven two days to prepare the New Year's Eve to eat meat, to the day of 28, it should be prepared for the main food.

5, Lunar New Year's Eve, go to the wine. Since the food has been prepared for the past few days, then the Chinese will prepare some wine for this next day. As you can see, it is written here "to make wine", not "to buy wine". This is because in the old days, many people couldn't afford to buy bottled wine. They used their own bottles or plastic bags, and went to the wine house to buy wine, where the wine would be put in a large container.

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1, stick couplets

The Spring Festival couplets, also known as door pairs, spring stickers, couplets, couplets, peach symbols, etc., which depict the background of the times in neat, couplets, concise, sophisticated text, expressing the best wishes, is a unique form of literature in China. Every Spring Festival, every family will put up couplets to celebrate the arrival of the New Year. This custom began in the Song Dynasty, began to flourish in the Ming Dynasty, to the Qing Dynasty, the Spring Festival couplets of ideology and artistry have greatly improved, Liang Zhangzhu written by the Spring Festival couplets dedicated to the Threshold Lian series of words on the origin of the couplets and various types of works of the characteristics of the discourse.

2, sweep the dust

"Lunar month 24, dust sweep the house", according to the "Lv's Spring and Autumn Annals" records, China in the Yao and Shun era, there is a Spring Festival dust sweeping custom. The significance of dusting is to sweep all the poor luck and bad luck out of the door, hoping that the next year's life will be more beautiful.

3, the New Year

On the first day of the New Year, people get up early, put on the most beautiful clothes, dressed neatly, go out to visit friends and relatives, and pay tribute to each other, wishing good luck in the coming year. Spring Festival when the New Year's greetings, the younger generation should first give the elders to pay tribute to the elders, I wish the elders long life and well-being, the elders can be prepared in advance of the new year's money to the elders, it is said that the new year's money can be pressed against the evil spirits, because the "age" and the "spirit of the" harmonic, the elders get to the new year's money can be safe and sound!

4, year-end

China's folk in the New Year's Eve has the habit of year-end, commonly known as the "boiled year". The New Year's Eve vigil begins with the New Year's Eve dinner, which is eaten slowly, from the time of the lamp, some people have to eat late into the night. According to the record of "Jing Chu Yearly Records", there was a custom of having New Year's Eve dinner at least in the North and South Dynasties. The custom of keeping the New Year's Eve, both for the passing of the years with the feeling of farewell, but also for the coming of the New Year to send a good hope of the meaning.

5, eat New Year's Eve dinner

Eat New Year's Eve dinner, is the Spring Festival families the most lively and enjoyable time. New Year's Eve. Plenty of New Year's dishes on the table, the whole family reunion, sitting around the table, *** eat a reunion dinner, the heart of the fullness is really hard to describe.

6, to the new year's money

To the new year's money, the new year's money is sent by the elders to the younger generation, some families are after New Year's Eve dinner, everyone sitting at the table is not allowed to go, and so we all ate, by the elders sent to the elders, and encouraged children and grandchildren in the new year to learn to grow, and do well.

7, ancestor worship

Ancestor worship, ancient times this ritual is very prosperous. Because of the different rituals and customs of different places, the form of ancestor worship is also different, some to the field to visit the ancestral tomb, some to the ancestral ancestral temple worship, and most of the home will be the ancestor of the tablets in the main hall, display offerings, and then worshippers according to the order of the eldest and youngest on the incense and kneeling.

8, burning firecrackers

Firecrackers, Chinese folk "open door firecrackers" said. That is, the arrival of the new year, the first thing that families open the door is to set off firecrackers, to beep, bla bla bla firecrackers in addition to the old and welcome the new. Firecrackers is a Chinese specialty, also known as "firecrackers", "cannonballs", "firecrackers". Its origin is very early, so far has a history of more than two thousand years. Setting off firecrackers can create a festive and lively atmosphere, and is a kind of entertainment activity during festivals, which can bring joy and good fortune to people. Wang Anshi's poem "New Year's Day" reads: "The sound of firecrackers marks the end of the year, and the spring breeze sends warmth to the people. A thousand doors and tens of thousands of houses are filled with tels. Always changing the new peach for the old one." It depicts the grand festive scene of our people celebrating the Spring Festival.

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Origin of Spring Festival

On the origin of the Spring Festival there are a variety of sayings, of which a few more representative sayings, such as the Spring Festival from the La Festival, the Spring Festival from witchcraft rituals that the Spring Festival originated from the Ghost Festival, etc., but one of the generally accepted saying is that the Spring Festival by the Yu Shun period rise.

One day in 2000 BC, Shun, the son of heaven, led his men to worship heaven and earth. Since then, people have taken this day as the first day of the year. This is said to be the origin of the Lunar New Year, later called the Spring Festival.

The Legend of Spring Festival

According to legend, in ancient China, there was a monster called "Nian", which had a long head and horns, and was very fierce. It lived at the bottom of the sea for many years, and only climbed ashore on New Year's Eve to devour livestock and hurt people. Therefore, every New Year's Eve this day, the villages and cottages of the people help the old and the young to flee to the mountains, in order to avoid the harm of the "year" beast.

This New Year's Eve, Peach Blossom Village, people are supporting the old and young to take refuge in the mountains, from outside the village came to a begging old man, only to see his hand on crutches, arm with a bag bag, silver beard flowing, eyes like a star. Folks have sealed the windows and locked the door, some packing, some cattle and sheep, everywhere people shouting and horse neighing, a scene of panic in a hurry. The first thing I want to do is to get the money to pay for it.

Only the east end of the village, an old woman gave the old man some food, and advised him to go to the mountains to avoid the "New Year" beasts, the old man stroked his beard and laughed and said: "Granny, if you let me stay at home for a night, I will definitely "New Year" beasts away.

The old woman looked at him with astonishment, and saw that he had hair, hale and hearty, extraordinary. But she still continued to persuade, begging the old man smiled but did not say. The old woman had no choice but to leave her home behind and go up the mountain to take refuge.

In the middle of the night, the "New Year" beast broke into the village. It realized that the atmosphere in the village was different from that of previous years: the old lady's house at the east end of the village had a big red paper on the door, and the house was brightly lit. The beast shivered and gave a strange cry. Nian" stared angrily at the old lady's house for a moment, and then pounced on her with a wild cry. Near the door, the yard suddenly came "bang bang pop" sound, "year" trembling, and do not dare to come forward.

It turns out that Nian is afraid of red, fire and explosions. At this time, the mother-in-law's door is wide open, only to see the courtyard of an old man wearing a red robe in a laugh. Nian" was shocked and fled.

The next day was the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar, and the people who came back to the village were very surprised to see that the village was safe and sound. At this point, the old woman realized, rushed to the townspeople to tell the old man's promise of begging. Folks flocked to the old lady's home, only to see the old lady's door with red paper, a pile of unburned bamboo in the yard is still in the "snap" blast, a few red candles inside the house is still glowing with the remaining light ......

The ecstatic townspeople in order to celebrate the arrival of good luck, have to change new clothes and wear new hats to friends and relatives to say goodbye to the house. The story soon spread in the surrounding villages, people know the way to drive away the "New Year" beast.

From then on, every New Year's Eve, home red couplets, firecrackers; household candles brightly lit, to keep the night. Early in the morning on the first day, but also to go to friends and relatives to say goodbye. This custom has spread more and more widely, and has become the grandest traditional festival of Chinese folklore.

The modern folk custom of the Spring Festival is also called the New Year. In fact, the origins of the New Year and the Spring Festival are very different.

So how did the "year" actually come about? There are two main folklore: one says that in ancient times, there was a fierce beast called "year", every Lunar New Year's Eve, will be scurrying from village to village, foraging for human flesh, mutilating living beings. One night on the 30th day of the Lunar New Year, Nian arrived at a village where two shepherd boys were competing with a cow whip. The Year suddenly heard the sound of whips snapping in mid-air and fled in fear. It scurried to another village, and looked head-on to the door of a family sun a big red dress, it does not know what it is, scared and quickly turned around and fled. Later it came to a village, towards a family door to look, only to see the lights inside, stabbing it dizzy, had to slip away again with his tail between his legs. People have thus recognized the weakness of the "New Year", which is afraid of noise, red, and light, and have come up with many ways to defend themselves against it, which has gradually evolved into today's New Year's Eve customs.

Another theory is that the ancient word book of our country put the word "year" in the Ministry of Wo, to show that the wind and rain, the five cereals are plentiful. As the grain is usually cooked once a year. The "year" has been extended to the name of the year.

China's ancient folk although there has long been the custom of the New Year, but then it is not called the Spring Festival. Because then the Spring Festival, referring to the twenty-four seasons in the "spring".

The North and South Dynasties referred to the Spring Festival as the entire spring. It is said that the official name of the Lunar New Year as the Spring Festival was after the Xinhai Revolution. Because of the change to the solar calendar, in order to distinguish between the lunar and solar seasons, the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar had to be renamed "Spring Festival".

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Wearing new clothes, "touring"

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, people in Chengdu began to "go to people's homes", friends and relatives visited each other, and people hosted banquets for each other. More `fancy in the play, the first day of the beginning, people help the old and the young in new clothes to go "tour happy God Fang", which is an old Chengdu people's folklore, has nearly two hundred years of history. In traditional culture, the God of Wealth and the God of Happiness are linked together, the so-called "God of Happiness", refers to bring people good luck, joy, wisdom of the gods, "Happiness God Fang", is where the God of Happiness.

The Great Temple Fair is a collection of folkloric masterpieces in Chengdu

The most popular place for people to visit is the Wuhou Ancestral Hall, which is also the busiest place to visit the Great Temple Fair. The temple fair is both a religious ceremony and a bazaar. Face, spit fire, rolling lamp, hand shadow play, puppetry and other Sichuan opera masterpieces, shadow, clay sculpture, sugar man, sugar painting, paper-cutting and other folk masterpieces can be seen in the temple fair, rolling iron ring, pumping gyroscope, sitting in the chicken bus, pulling the tilting reed, ringing reed ......

Often a few plays are performed at the same time, singing, acrobatics, magic, running horse on the knife mountain, Pulling a piece of the ocean, monkeys playing with snakes, everything; merchants gathered, the three religions and nine streams of people, a hundred kinds of snacks, enjoy a hundred kinds of martial arts, play a hundred games, nationalities, folklore, tradition, modernity, countryside, the city of all kinds of cultural forms composite in one.

Tour Dufu Cao Tang

The first seven days of the day is the day of the people, Chengdu, the day of the people have a unique custom to go to the Cao Tang and Dufu together; to the eighth and ninth night, the temples, guild halls, neighborhoods, light up the "sky lanterns"; the first fifteen days of the first month, every family ate Lantern Festival, honoring the gods to send the New Year, and then again a lot of noise and heat.

On the fifteenth day of the first month, lovers "steal green"

In recent years, the QQ farm "steal vegetables" game is popular all over the country. However, in Chengdu, since the end of the Qing Dynasty, the popularity of such a realistic version of the game of stealing vegetables, called "stealing green". According to traditional Chengdu custom, a young man who fell in love with a neighboring girl could express his love by stealing a few handfuls of greens from the girl's vegetable field on the night of the 15th day of the first lunar month. And the girl found their own green vegetables were stolen, they will know that a young man in love with their own, the heart will be full of joy and longing.

The young man to "steal" back to the vegetables to the mother and tell whose family, mother if also satisfied with this "future daughter-in-law", will use these vegetables to cook a bowl of spring noodles for the son to eat, in order to seek the son of good luck, evergreen, and wish to succeed. After the year, the man's parents will entrust the matchmaker on the girl's home to matchmaking.

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Anhui Spring Festival customs: the most important annual festival of the Spring Festival has come, the people of the country to rejoice in the New Year, are beginning to busy, the following is the "Anhui Spring Festival customs", I hope to be able to help you!

Anhui Spring Festival customs

Chizhou Spring Festival customs: drums and drums dance Nuo opera

Chizhou streets are filled with Nuo culture, Nuo's art itself and the cultural connotation of the people.

Reporters in Mei Street Town, Yao Street Village to see the first of the month, the village family shrine, firecrackers, drums and gongs, bird cannons. The fields work a year of honest farmers, wipe clean Nuo dance masks, invited on the clan master of the skills of fellow townspeople, sound and colorful style performances open, this implies that the gods of ancestor worship, exorcism for the purpose of the ancient folk culture, time and time again, renewed the vitality of the long-lost.

Chizhou Nuo opera has "Nuo Yi", "Nuo dance" and "Nuo opera" and other forms of expression. Most of the dance accompanied by gongs and drums, fast-paced, the natural beauty of this oriental classical sculpture art has attracted many foreign citizens to, this pray for blessings and good luck Nuo opera is highly praised.

Huainan Spring Festival customs: the first day of the New Year to listen to stories

The morning of the first day of the New Year, in Huainan City, Tianjiaan District, Caoan Town, Peach Blossom Garden theater under the teahouse, inside and outside the surrounded by hundreds of residents, we listen to the story together with great interest. The storyteller is the town's celebrity - 78-year-old "folk storyteller" Xuan Chuanlin.

"The following guests, please drink a cup of tea, rest a foot, listen to me to give you a story. What is the story? Play up that bamboo board spirit fresh, all guests listen to the details. Show guards strong martial arts, jianghu road reputation, but just someone does not buy, this person is too crazy ah, do you know who this person is? He is the jianghu people called brocade fur rat that Bai Yu Tang." Xuan Chuanlin attracted the attention of the audience on the stage in three or two sentences of language, and his colorful performance won everyone's applause.

Yang Jiakang, 81, sitting on the stage, proudly told reporters that Huainan has a rich cultural deposit of Chinese opera, "the story is told in every household, the man speaks, the woman speaks, the child can also speak."

Yingshang Spring Festival custom: eat to the coin dumplings will be auspicious

In the rural areas of Yingshang, northern Anhui Province, the lunch on the thirtieth of the year is the reunion of the year, the meal are in their own homes to eat.

After the reunion dinner, the women of the family began to open the most important activity of the year - dumplings. The first is to prepare the dumpling filling, dumplings, meat, vegetarian two kinds of dumplings, the night of the New Year's Eve to eat meat filling, the first day of the year to eat vegetarian filling. According to the old folks, you can't eat meat at home on the first day of the New Year. Therefore, enough vegetarian dumplings should be prepared for three meals a day. At this time, the housewives will show their skills, the vegetarian dumplings into a variety of packages, the most popular is the Yuanbao (that is, a kind of two dumplings skin together to wrap the round dumplings), and some around the pinch on the lace, the number of Yuanbao and the number of people in the family is generally consistent with the number of people in the family, that is to say, the number of people in the family, we must pack a few Yuanbao, which ensures that everyone in the family's bowl will be filled with a Yuanbao. One of the Yuanbao will have a cleaned coin in the center, and it is said that the person who eats the Yuanbao wrapped with the coin will have good fortune in the year.

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On the 24th day of the year, Zaojun is sent

In the north, there is the Lapa Festival, but not in Guangdong, but Zaojun is sent. Legend has it that on this day, Zaojun has to go back to heaven to report to the Jade Emperor about all the things that the family has done in the past year, so it is necessary to offer food and especially put sweet food to bribe him, such as sugar, sugarcane, mandarin oranges, and red dates, so that Zaojun can say more good things.

The 25th day of the New Year

After sending off Zaojun, families started to make New Year's goods. In the past, housewives used to make New Year's cakes and foods, such as oil horns, fried piles, and rice cakes, and they were very careful not to say anything unlucky during the process, so children were generally not allowed to participate. But now more and more are buying New Year's goods.

The 28th day of the Chinese New Year is the day to clean the house

The Chinese New Year is approaching, and this is the day to clean the house thoroughly.

The 29th day of the Lunar New Year

The Lunar New Year is a time to buy hardy food to be enjoyed during the Lunar New Year period, usually choosing foods that sound good and auspicious, such as green onions, celery, garlic and pangasius. Onions, celery and garlic should be left rooted, symbolizing the head and the tail. These three vegetables all have the connotations of "cleverness", "diligence", and "careful planning", while the fish is meant to bring "surplus". The fish takes the meaning of "yearly surplus".

On the 30th day of the year, the family celebrates the reunion

This is New Year's Eve, and the family eats the "reunion dinner". After the meal, the family stays up and watches the New Year together. For Cantonese people, this day is the most important, the family must be dressed up, dishes should have good luck dishes. In the old days, Cantonese children used to go out on the streets after the meal to "sell their laziness", holding small red lanterns in one hand and bowls of steamed eggs and mushrooms in the other, and then walking in groups, shouting: "Sell your laziness, sell your laziness, buy it until the end of the New Year, and I will not be lazy if I am lazy". The meaning is to sell the laziness and become hardworking in the coming year.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, pay respects to the New Year

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, the Cantonese have the custom of fasting, this day do not eat meat, avoid breaking things, avoid going out of the water and soil (until the fourth day of the Lunar New Year are not sweeping the floor), avoid the use of sharp objects, and so on. Friends and relatives to come to pay homage to the New Year to come up with a variety of snacks to entertain. Worship after the New Year, married elders will give the younger generation to send lai see.

The second day of the New Year

In the morning of this day, the elders are responsible for cutting rice cakes and distributing them to everyone in the family to symbolize the beginning of the New Year. The married daughters can also return to their mother's house for the New Year's Eve dinner, which features a variety of dishes with ingredients for good luck.

The third day of the Lunar New Year, Chikou

The third day of the Lunar New Year, Chikou, also known as Chikou Day, is a day when people stay at home without leaving their homes.

The fourth day of the Lunar New Year is the day to pray for children to be smart and have a bright future. When worshipping Wenchang, children should remember to bring green onions, celery and garlic, and only remember that they should have a head, which means that they are smart, hardworking and good at arithmetic.

The seventh day of the year, People's Day

This day is called "People's Day", traditionally eat congee, meaning "good food". Cantonese people eat "He Di congee" to take its good luck, meaning that the scholar and the first.