The time source and traditional customs of the Spring Festival

1. The Spring Festival lasts from the first day of the first lunar month to the fifteenth day of the first lunar month (Lantern Festival).

Second, the Spring Festival customs:

1, do new year's goods

Buying new year's goods, including food, clothing, clothes, use, stickers (New Year's Eve) and gifts, are collectively called "New Year's Goods", and the process of buying new year's goods is called "Buying New Year's Goods". Celebrating the Spring Festival is an important activity for China people.

Step 2 sacrifice the stove

On the 23rd/24th day of the twelfth lunar month, the kitchen stove should be cleaned after dark, and the old image of the kitchen god should be taken down and burned. In addition to posting new images in the morning and evening, there are also wine, meat, candy, sugar cane and rice fruit. People will place offerings, light incense, light candles and light paper cannons. The folk sacrificial furnace originated from the ancient custom of worshipping fire.

Step 3 clean the dust

In the folk, there is a custom of "sweeping the house on the 24th of the twelfth lunar month" on New Year's Eve. The folk proverb says "Twenty-four, sweep the house". Folk call it "Dust Day". Dust removal is year-end cleaning. Every household should clean the environment, clean all kinds of appliances, remove bedding curtains, clean the courtyard in Liu Lu, dust off cobwebs and dredge culverts in open channels. The purpose of sweeping dust is to sweep away all bad luck and bad luck, so as to pray for a clear and auspicious year in the coming year.

4, paste in red (spring)

On the 28th, 29th or 30th of each year, every household hangs "Year Red" (Year Red refers to the red festive elements such as Spring Festival couplets, door gods, banners, New Year pictures and blessings). Sticking New Year Red (waving spring) is a traditional Chinese New Year custom in China, which adds a festive atmosphere and places people's good expectations for the new year and new life.

5. New Year's Eve dinner

New Year's Eve, also known as New Year's Eve, reunion dinner, reunion dinner and so on. , especially the family dinner on New Year's Eve at the end of the year. The New Year's Eve dinner originated from the ancient ritual vessels at the end of the year, and it is a reunion dinner after offering sacrifices to the gods and ancestors. New Year's Eve is the highlight of the year, which is not only colorful, but also very interesting. Worship the gods and ancestors before the reunion dinner, and eat after the worship ceremony.

China people's New Year's Eve dinner is a family reunion dinner, which is the most abundant and important dinner in a year. ?

6, shou sui

Keeping the new year's eve is one of the activities of the old customs, and the custom of keeping the old age has a long history. The folk custom of observing the new year is mainly manifested in that every household lights a New Year's fire and gets together to keep the "New Year's fire" from going out and wait for the moment to bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new year. On New Year's Eve, the lights are on all night, which means "light up the New Year" or "light a fire for the New Year".

All the houses are lit with candles, which are specially lit under the bed and burned all over. This is called "wasting light". It is said that after such lighting, the family's wealth will be more abundant in the coming year. On New Year's Eve, the whole family get together, eat New Year's Eve, light candles or oil lamps, sit around the fire and chat, and keep vigil all night, which symbolizes driving away all evil diseases and expecting good luck in the new year.

7, lucky money

Lucky money is one of the ancient customs. After dinner in 2008, the elders should distribute the lucky money prepared in advance to the younger generation. It is said that lucky money can kill evil spirits, and the younger generation can spend the first year safely when they get lucky money. Lucky money has the meaning of exorcising evil spirits and keeping peace in folk culture. The original intention of lucky money is to suppress evil and drive away evil. Because people think that children are easy to be invisible, they use lucky money to suppress evil spirits.

8. Wandering God

One of the traditional Chinese New Year customs, worshipping the gods, also known as the holy procession, visiting Old Master Q, camping in Old Master Q, visiting the bodhisattva, visiting the gods, celebrating the New Year, visiting the spring, burning incense, visiting the bodhisattva's hometown, carrying up the idol and worshiping the idol, means that people go to the temple to take the idol to a sedan chair in the New Year or other festive festivals, or the Christmas of the gods, and then.

It means that the gods land among the people, patrol the villages and protect the environment. The main purpose is to repay God, eliminate disasters and pray. Along the way, there will be a variety of artistic performances such as gongs and drums, suona, dolls, lion dances, dragon dances, colorful flags, lanterns, octaves, acrobatics and band performances. It is a traditional folk activity integrating sacrifice, prayer, celebration and banquet.

9. Happy New Year.

Paying New Year's greetings is one of the traditional activities. Welcome the new year on the morning of the first day of the year and worship the "Year God". "Sui", also known as "country" and "Tai Sui", is an ancient star name. Tai sui is also a god of folk beliefs. At the age of 60, with the chronology of cadres and branches of 60 Jiazi as the running cycle, there are 60 people. There are old gods on duty every year. In those days, the traditional duty was called "traditional duty", which was the master of the year and was in charge of good and bad luck in the world.

On the first day of the new year, the traditional customs of greeting the new year, offering sacrifices to God and receiving blessings have been passed down from generation to generation.

10, Temple Fair

Visiting temple fairs is one of the folk activities during the Spring Festival. Guangfu Temple Fair and Beijing ditan temple fair are also called the two major temple fairs in China. Covers the puppet show, China stunt, Wulin Congress, Lantern Festival and other theme activities. It contains rich contents such as blessing culture, folk culture, food culture, business and leisure culture.

1 1, Happy New Year

Paying New Year greetings during the Spring Festival is one of the traditional customs of New Year's festivals, and it is a way for people to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new and express their best wishes to each other. On the third day of the second day of junior high school, I began to visit relatives and friends, pay New Year greetings to each other, congratulate each other, bless each other, and say something like congratulations on getting rich and happy New Year. The significance of New Year's greetings lies in visiting relatives and friends, congratulating each other on the New Year, expressing feelings for relatives and friends and good wishes for the new year's life.

12, set off firecrackers

There is a folk saying in China that "there are firecrackers when you open the door". That is to say, when the new year comes, the first thing for every household to open the door is to set off firecrackers to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new.

Third, the legends and stories of the Spring Festival

Legend of nian beast:

There is a legend about the origin of the Spring Festival. In ancient China, there was a monster called Nian. Its tentacles were very long and fierce. Nian lived on the seabed for many years, and climbed ashore every New Year's Eve, devouring livestock and killing people. Therefore, every New Year's Eve, people in the village fled to the deep mountains to avoid the harm of the "Nian" beast.

Then one year on New Year's Eve, an old beggar came from outside the village and told people how to drive away Nian beast. It turns out that Nian was most afraid of red, fire and explosion. Since then, every year on New Year's Eve, every family has posted red couplets and set off firecrackers. Every household has a bright candlelight, so it is better to wait for the New Year. In the early morning of the first day, I want to say hello to my relatives and friends. This custom has spread more and more widely, and has become the most solemn traditional festival among the people in China.

Fourth, poems related to the Spring Festival:

New Year

Author: Tan Jianfei

On New Year's Day,

I was awakened by my mother's phone call.

Once a year.

I want to pay a New Year call.

On the way, a group of people came.

It's too noisy, I sighed.

"Happy New Year."

They went home,

We, braved the rain and mud, moved on.

In the temple, mother repeated the past.

"Safe and smooth, happy and healthy ..."

I can insert it at any time,

"The immortal is a god, and he knows everything in his heart!"

Beside the temple, a man with unkempt appearance and pale face,

The shriveled old man in rags groaned at the top of his lungs.

"Aunt, grandma, good people, give something to eat ..."

Mother is still praying devoutly.

Everyone around me is blessing.

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