A brief description of 3 traditional folk programs

China's Spring Festival, generally from the opening of the sacrificial stove. The folk song "twenty-three, sugar melon sticky" refers to the annual lunar month 23 or 24 days of the sacrificial stove, the so-called "government three people four boat family five", that is, the government in the lunar month 23rd, the general people in the twenty-fourth, the people on the water for the twenty-fifth day of the sacrificial stove.

Two, sweeping dust

Having held the stove festival, will formally begin to do to meet the New Year's preparations. Every year from the twenty-third day of the lunar month to New Year's Eve, China's folk called this period of time "to welcome the spring day", also known as "dust sweeping day". Sweeping is the end of the year cleaning, the north called "sweeping room", the south called "dusting". Sweeping dust before the Spring Festival is a traditional habit of our people. Whenever the Spring Festival comes, every household has to clean up the environment, cleaning all kinds of appliances, unwashing bedding curtains, sweeping the courtyard, dusting dust cobwebs, dredge the nullahs and ditches. The whole country is filled with the atmosphere of joyful sanitation and cleanliness to welcome the New Year.

New Year's Eve dinner

Three. New Year's Eve is an extremely important day for Chinese people. On this day people prepare to get rid of the old and welcome the new by having a reunion dinner. In ancient China, some prison officials even let prisoners go home to spend New Year's Eve with their families, which shows how important the "New Year's Eve dinner" was to the ancient Chinese people