What are the customs of the Spring Festival in Chongqing?

The customs of the Spring Festival in Chongqing are:

1, have New Year's Eve dinner

Chongqing has the custom of eating New Year's Eve. On New Year's Eve, the whole family get together to enjoy the New Year's Eve. There must be jiaozi in the New Year's Eve, which has a beautiful meaning of reunion. Students generally eat three jiaozi's, which represents the three steps of college entrance examination, while the working population will eat four jiaozi's, which represents peace in the four seasons.

Step 2 clean the dust

Chongqing has the custom of sweeping dust during the Spring Festival. Dust and Chen Tongyin have a new meaning of dusting cloth. Dust sweeping is usually carried out five days before the Spring Festival. All the bedding, carpets, curtains, tableware and other supplies in the house are cleaned, and the dust and cobwebs on the windows, handrails and tables are wiped clean with rags.

3. Happy New Year

Chongqing has the custom of welcoming the new year. On the first day of New Year's Day, people will go out, visit relatives and friends, and pay New Year greetings to each other, wishing everyone all the best in the new year. Moreover, generally, the younger generation pays New Year greetings to their elders, wishing them good luck, and then the elders give the younger generation lucky money to bless peace.

The origin of festivals

The origin of ancient traditional festivals is related to ancient primitive beliefs, sacrificial culture, astrology, calendar and other humanistic and natural cultural contents. According to the research results of modern anthropology and archaeology, the two most primitive beliefs of human beings are the belief in heaven and earth and the belief in ancestors. Most of the traditional festivals in ancient times were formed in the activities of the ancients choosing a day to offer sacrifices to thank the gods of heaven and earth, the grace of their ancestors and pray for evil spirits.

The early festival culture embodies the ancient people's humanistic spirit of advocating nature, the unity of man and nature, cautiously pursuing the future, and firmly thinking about the source; A series of sacrificial activities contain profound cultural connotations, such as respecting morality, ritual and music civilization, etc. The origin and development of New Year's Day covers humanistic philosophy and natural laws.