Customs of the Spring Festival in Guilin

Guilin Spring Festival customs from the first day to the fifteenth 1

Spring Festival stepped on the lunar calendar on December 24, zero hour of the bell, walked into the city and countryside of Guilin.

This day is the "New Year's Eve" of Guilin people, also known as the "New Year's Eve".

On this day, people slaughter dogs and ducks to celebrate the arrival of the Spring Festival.

The sound of firecrackers on this day, with the people to send Zaowang master "to the sky to say good things," the wish crackling and exploding, the sound of the high world.

People believe that the God of the stove is the master of the family, a family of good and evil work by it in charge, so the end of each year, we have to send the God of the stove to the sky to the Jade Emperor to play, for the whole family to lower the blessing of disaster prevention.

The ceremony of sacrificing the stove is mostly done by the elders of the family, they will put sweets on the head of the stove to sacrifice to the God of the stove, praying to the God of the stove "to say good things, down to the earth to descend auspicious.

Sacrificing candies to the god of the stove, the purpose is to let the sugar "sticky" the mouth of the god of the stove, so that his sweet mouth to say good things. After New Year's Eve, firecrackers will be set off to bring down Zao Wang.

This is the ancient custom of the Guilin "New Year's Eve", and now even the firecrackers, but also the ancient custom of the remaining rituals.

From the 24th to the 30th day of the Lunar New Year, people are busy shopping for new year's goods and cleaning up inside and outside their homes to welcome the new year with a clean slate.

There are many kinds of traditional food for the festival, and there are good wishes: steam rice cakes on the 29th day of the Lunar New Year, rice cakes have sweet, Cheng, meat, vegetarian, eat the rice cakes (high), the new year life, work, prosperity, step by step.

New Year's Eve dinner, people like family reunion, the dishes must have "round", "happy", to take its meaning of reunion, happy. On this night, all the people are at home to celebrate the New Year.

When keeping the New Year's Eve, the charcoal fire in the fire pit should be burned red hot to symbolize the prosperity of life year after year. When the zero hour arrives, young and old are filled with joy and welcome the New Year with the sound of firecrackers.

The sound of the firecrackers, one after another, until late at night, people still do not sleep, the fire is still strong, is to go to rest, but also still will not forget the fire pot fire snuggly, leaving kindling, and so on tomorrow morning to burn on a pot of good fire.

The New Year's fire is like a human life, it is a good omen for the New Year's prosperity, family prosperity.

People have such a deep affection for fire, perhaps because fire brings civilization and warmth to mankind.

Love of fire is like love of one's own life, especially in the New Year.

Customs of Guilin Spring Festival from the first day to the fifteenth day 2

On the first day of the first month, you can not move the broom.

On the second day of the first month, married daughters return to their mother's home.

The third day of the first month, also known as the day of the red dog, and "red mouth" homophone, usually do not go out to pay tribute to the New Year.

On the fourth day of the first month, the God of Wealth is worshipped.

The fifth day of the first month, commonly known as broken five, to "catch five poor", including "poor intelligence, poor learning, poor literature, poor life, poor delivery".

On the sixth day of the first month, the stores and restaurants officially opened for business.

On the seventh day of the first month, the Day of Man, the birthday of man. The Day of Man is to honor everyone, even the government cannot execute criminals on this day, and parents cannot teach their children lessons on this day.

The eighth day of the first month, the Valley Day, is said to be the birthday of the Valley, also known as the Shunxing Festival, which is said to be the day when the stars come down to the world.

The ninth day of the first month, folk custom is the birth of the Jade Emperor.

The tenth day of the first month, the birthday of the stone, this day where the mill, milling and other stone tools can not be moved, and even to sacrifice the stone.

The eleventh day of the first month, "son-in-law day", is the father-in-law feast son-in-law day.

On the twelfth day of the first month, we start shopping for lanterns and building lantern sheds. The nursery rhyme goes like this: "Eleven yells and chatters, twelve builds the lantern hut, thirteen turns on the lantern, fourteen lights are bright, fifteen rows of half a moon, sixteen people finish the lantern."

The Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first month, is also the Taoist Christmas of the Heavenly Officials, the Heavenly Officials blessing of the hour, also known as the "Festival of the first yuan".

The 16th night of the first month is the children's festival, all the children take out their own lanterns against others, and then smiled and looked at the other lanterns on fire, this is called "touch the light".

Guilin Spring Festival customs from the first to the fifteenth 3

The first day of the first month, you can not use the broom, otherwise it will sweep away the luck, broke the fortune. If you have to sweep the floor, you must sweep from the outside to the inside.

Today, many places are still preserved a custom, before New Year's Eve, clean sweep, the first day of the year, not out of the broom, do not pour the garbage, prepare a large bucket of wastewater, the day does not splash.

On the second day of the Lunar New Year, married daughters return to their parents' homes, to be accompanied by their husbands and sons-in-law, so commonly known as "son-in-law day".

On this day, daughters returning to their mother's home must carry some gifts and red envelopes to distribute to the children in their mother's home, and have lunch at their mother's home, but must return to their in-laws before dinner. In the past, the family would also choose this day to take a family photo.

On the third day of the Lunar New Year, also known as Red Dog Day, which is synonymous with "Red Mouth," people usually do not go out to pay respects to the New Year, and it is said that they are prone to verbal disputes with others.

But this custom has long been obsolete, because now people rarely get together in the Spring Festival, which has been diluted a lot.

The fourth day of the Lunar New Year, is the day of sacrifice to the God of Wealth, in the past, the boss wants to "fire" someone, this day will not invite him to worship God, the other side will know, since the person pack up and leave.

There is also a legend that says that Zao Wang Wang on this day to check the account, so it is not advisable to go far away.

The fifth day of the first month, commonly known as broken five, to "catch five poor", including "poor intelligence, poor learning, poor literature, poor life, poor delivery.

People get up at dawn, firecrackers, cleaning.

The firecrackers are set off from the inside out, and the firecrackers are set off as they go out the door.

It is said that all the unlucky things will be blasted out.

On this day, the prevailing folk custom is to eat dumplings, commonly known as "pinch the mouth of the little man".

On the sixth day of the year, stores and restaurants officially opened for business, and firecrackers were set off, no less than the situation on New Year's Eve.

Legend has it that the most popular person on this day is the boy who turned 12 that year. The most popular is the boy who turned 12 that year, because 12 is the double of 6, which is called the six six big luck.

On this day, every household is required to throw out the garbage accumulated during the festival, which is called sending out the poor.

The seventh day of the month is the Day of Man, which is the birthday of man.

According to the Book of Cham, from the first day of the year, the order of the creation of all things in heaven is "one chicken, two dogs, three pigs, four sheep, five oxen, six horses, seven people and eight valleys", so the seventh day of the year is the Day of Man. On this day, the public like to eat and the first congee, the so-called and the first, is to hope that the scientific examination scholar high school.

The eighth is the Valley Day, the legend is the birthday of the Valley, also known as the Shunxing Festival, the legend is that the stars of the day, the sky stars out of the most complete, if the weather is clear, it is predicted that this year's rice harvest, the sky is cloudy, then the year is poor.

The ninth day of the Lunar New Year, the folk custom is the Jade Emperor's birthday, to hold a grand festival. Many believers in Hsinchu, Taiwan, go to the 200-year-old Tien Kung Altar, where the Jade Emperor is worshiped, to wish Tien Kung a happy birthday and to pray for good weather, peace and health in the new year.

The tenth day of the month, is the birthday of the stone, the day where the mill, milling and other stone tools can not be moved, and even to sacrifice the stone.

In Shandong Yuncheng and other places to lift the stone God's saying.

The first nine nights, people will be a tile jar frozen in a smooth boulder, the first ten mornings, with a rope tied to the nose of the tile jar, by the ten lads take turns to carry away, the stone does not fall to the ground is a prediction of the year's harvest.

The eleventh day of the first month, is the "son-in-law day", is the father-in-law feast son-in-law day.

The food left over from the first nine days of the month to celebrate the "birthday of the God of Heaven", in addition to the first ten days of eating, there are still a lot left, so the mother's family do not have to break the bank to use these leftover treats to entertain their son-in-laws and their daughters, the folk song is called "eleven son-in-laws please".

After the eleventh day of the first lunar month, people began to prepare to celebrate the Lantern Festival, from the twelfth day of the first lunar month to buy lanterns and build lanterns. The nursery rhyme goes like this: "Eleven yells and chatters, twelve builds the lantern hut, thirteen turns on the lanterns, fourteen lights are bright, fifteen rows of half-moon, sixteen people finish the lanterns."

The 15th day of the first month is the "Lantern Festival", it is the first full moon of the year, but also the night of spring, also known as the "Festival of the first yuan". Lantern burning custom from the Han Dynasty, this day is also eaten without a Lantern, dumplings. The 16th night of the first month is the children's festival, all the children take out their own lanterns against others, and then smiled and looked at others' lanterns on fire, this is called "touch the light". Speaking of this year's lanterns can not be left until next year, must be "touch the lantern" way to destroy.