People in the north and south of the small year, the small year of some of the main customs?

China's vast territory, the vastness of China's excellent traditional culture is profound, with the Spring Festival, the Mid-Autumn Festival, the Chongyang Festival, Qingming Festival and other traditional festivals, the New Year in our country in the lunar month is an important traditional festivals.

As the saying goes, after the Lunar New Year is the year. In the small year this day, China's people in the north and south of the home have added a lot of new year's flavor, began to live on the small year. The small year is also divided into the north and south, the north of the small year is in the lunar calendar on the twenty-third of the lunar month, the south of the small year is in the lunar calendar on the twenty-fourth of the lunar month. Different environments and climates, not the same habits, but also created the difference between the north and south of the small year, the formation of many folk customs on the small year. So, what are some of the main customs of the New Year? Next, follow my footsteps to start? Pan? up.

Pasted window couplets: in the small year this day, the people have taken up scissors cut up the paper, a square piece of paper in the hands of the people turned up, a circle of a circle of cut, and then unfolded to form a window. The patterns of the window flowers are very rich in content, most of them are about plants and animals, such as the three goats, lions rolling embroidered balls, peacocks and peonies play and so on. Every family also buys or writes their own couplets, which contain the people's good wishes for the new year. After cutting the window flowers and writing the couplets, they are pasted with glue on the top of the transparent window panes and in front of the front door, adding much joy to the red couplets and window flowers.

Zen Duan: On the day of the New Year, the people would do a big cleaning and clean up their homes. Dust? with? Chan? It means to get rid of the old and welcome the new, and to pray for the removal of the unknown.

Eating Dumplings: As the saying goes? The dumplings will be used as a means of sending off the old and welcoming the new.

Eating Dumplings: As the saying goes, "Send off the dumplings to welcome the wind," on this day, people in the north will make dumplings and eat them to transport out the previous year's mold and pray for good luck in the coming year. In some mountainous areas will also eat cake and buckwheat, Southeast Jin will eat fried corn, there are? Twenty-three, do not eat fried, the first day of the year a pot down? A said.

Sacrifice King Zaobao: the day of the small year, folk sacrifice stove. Legend has it that on this day of the Lunar New Year, the king of the stove will go to heaven to report to the Jade Emperor on the good and bad of every household on earth. The people, on the other hand, will worship Zao Wang on this day, put a lot of tributes in front of the statue of Zao Wang, ask Zao Wang to say more good words, and also use honey to paste Zao Wang's mouth, so that Zao Wang's Jade Emperor to say more good words, and pray for peace and security in the coming year.

Besides the above mentioned small year customs, the main small year customs are also eating fire, eating sugar melons, bathing and haircutting and so on. In modern society, the development of transportation, the flow of information to promote frequent exchanges between different regions, the formation of the Chinese people's New Year customs and activities are generally the same, but also retained part of the regional characteristics of different folk culture. Whether the same or not, the Chinese people's good wishes for the New Year are similar.