Chinese New Year traditional festival etiquette

Spring Festival traditional festival etiquette

Spring Festival is one of the major festivals handed down from ancient times, is a very meaningful one, the Spring Festival is on behalf of the reunion of the family a good day, lively and lively, the following is the traditional festival etiquette of the Spring Festival that I have carefully prepared the content, I hope it can be helpful to you.

Chinese New Year traditional festival etiquette 1

The Spring Festival is a traditional festival of the Chinese people, and many Asian countries also have this festival. The Spring Festival was originally known as New Year's Day, New Year's Day, the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar every year for this festival, is the first of all Chinese festivals. Chinese New Year's rituals are very complex, a door into the waxing moon, the New Year's atmosphere will be one day thick like a day. There is a folk proverb: waxing drums, spring grass. Villagers to pray for good fortune and luck, to avoid disaster, in the square to beat up the thin waist drums, wearing masks, dressed up as the appearance of Rex King Kong dance country style, to pray for peace.

From the Song Dynasty, the first eight days of Lunar New Year to eat Lapa congee has become the custom of the people. It is said that Lapa congee is from the temple to the folk, Sakyamuni in the Buddha before, traveling around, fainted from hunger, a shepherdess with grains and cereals will be saved, and thus the spirit of a hundred times more, the path to immortality. This day is the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, and so it has become a custom. Lapa congee with yellow rice, river rice, millet, lingzhi rice, corn, red beans, peeled jujube puree, etc., and water to cook, and then add walnuts, almonds, melon seeds, peanuts, ??? Rang, pine nuts and white sugar, brown sugar and raisins in order to make a point of coloring that is made. To date, this custom is not abolished, but only some changes in the ingredients of the congee. Drinking the congee on the day to arrange a good day to sweep the dust, generally in the resignation of the stove before, every family will be inside and outside the house clean, clean, wash the furniture and clothing new and fresh, in order to show that in addition to the old and welcome the new. Send stove, when in the waxing moon twenty-third day. In the old days, the night of this day, the folk have the custom of sending the god of the stove.

In the Yellow River Basin provinces to send the stove with some sugar melons and so on, but also to prepare some water and grass beans, it is said that the sugar melons are for the God of the stove to eat, water and grass beans are for the God of the stove's horses. After the sacrifice, the god of the stove please down, with a thousand Zhang, Yuan Dan together with the incineration, to the New Year's Eve and then into the receiving stove offerings. To send the stove, also known as the New Year in some places, to set off firecrackers, have dumplings and rice cakes 'custom. New Year's Eve, also known as New Year's Eve, when the last day of the twelfth month of the lunar calendar, this day every family should set up heaven and earth table, enshrining the family ancestors and gods, indoors (mostly in the bedroom) sticker New Year's Eve paintings, more than the four beautiful pictures and some of the loyalty and filial piety and righteousness of the story to the best of Shandong Weifang Yangjiabu, Jiangsu Peach Blossom Dock and Tianjin Yangliuqing. Spring Festival couplets should be posted on the main door and door money should be hung on the lintel. On New Year's Eve, families keep the New Year's Eve vigil without sleeping. By zero hour at night, by the parents of the new stove God image posted, in front of the image to put some tribute, meaning that the stove God from the sky next, until now many places still have this custom.

Year-end and New Year's Eve dinner, is an important part of the Spring Festival, the zero hour firecrackers sound, rolling boiling water dumplings or dumplings, steaming up, the family said goodbye to the old and welcome the new, *** celebration of the beginning of the new year. Now our people's Spring Festival families sit in front of the TV to watch the Spring Festival gala, * * * Pin life wine, the formation of a new custom of the Spring Festival. Before and after the Spring Festival, social organizations generally organize Spring Festival parties, reunions, receptions, while visiting elderly comrades. Folk living in the field, people have also put down their work, run back to their parents, *** enjoy the joy of family. After New Year's Eve, people meet to greet each other, commonly known as New Year's Eve.

Traditional Chinese New Year festival etiquette 2

First, the ritual of vigil

vigil: New Year's Eve, the family lamps to stay up all night, resignation of the old year, to welcome the new year, commonly known as the vigil. There are many activities, such as meals, games and so on. New Year's Eve night, with the family old and young to stay up to keep the New Year's Eve, get together and drink soundly, *** enjoy the joy of family, which is still very much valued by the descendants of the Yellow Emperor's New Year's Eve. After the first rooster crow, the new year began, men, women and children are dressed in festive costumes, the first to the family elders to wish the New Year, and then go to friends and relatives, congratulate each other blessings.

At the time of the New Year's Eve, remember to moderate entertainment, the Spring Festival movies and TV programs colorful, New Year's Eve, friends and relatives gathered to celebrate the New Year, playing cards and mahjong its happy, which often breaks the elderly usually established the rule of life, is not good for health, if the overnight entertainment is even more harmful, and tend to over-excitement of the cerebral cortex, resulting in insomnia, nervousness, increased blood pressure;

Secondly, do not say unlucky words, and then go to the family friends to congratulate each other. > Secondly, do not say unlucky words, especially the elderly at home, these are very taboo.

Second, the New Year's Eve etiquette

Pay attention to the New Year's Eve to dress neatly. Appropriately wear some good clothes to give people a sense of festive beauty. To pay attention to the standardization of address. The time of paying New Year's call should be properly chosen. If necessary, you can first report to the host, to avoid running empty once, if you are not prepared to eat, the best time is between nine and eleven o'clock in the morning.

To have a prior understanding of the elders, peers may encounter the name, so as to avoid embarrassing scenes, so that people feel not polite enough. The words of auspiciousness should be said appropriately. To different people, there should be different congratulatory language. Conversation, to pick both sides of the pleasant topics, do not get involved in the sad and sentimental things, do not talk about, open-mouthed, overly heated arguments, in a relaxed and happy, cordial and natural atmosphere, to the Taohei congratulate the new true feelings expressed. Demeanor, posture should be civilized.

Three, the Spring Festival dining etiquette

Spring Festival we will often visit friends and relatives, then understand the appropriate table manners can let you give others a good impression. First of all, talk at the table to humor, the table can show a person's talent, common sense, cultivation and social style, sometimes a witty and humorous language, will leave a deep impression on others, especially the Spring Festival is a joyful holiday;

Secondly, persuade moderation, some people always like to try to persuade other people to drink a few more cups. "To drink to the hero", on the amount of alcohol is okay, the amount of alcohol is small on the difficult, sometimes too much to persuade, will be the original feelings of friends to destroy. There is also a toast to the time to distinguish between priority, in general, the toast should be the age of the size, the position of the high and low.

Fourth, hospitality etiquette

Hospitality is divided into welcome, cigarette, tea, send customers and other basic links. Spring Festival customers to come before the door should be cleaned in advance to welcome the guests, and prepared tea, smoking, drinks, etc., but also according to their own family conditions, ready to fruit, sugar, coffee, etc.. Guests arrive at the appointed time, should go out early to meet.

Guests come to the home, to be warmly received. First of all, invite the guests to sit down, and then tea, cigarettes, candy. Tea to send candy dishes with both hands, and on behalf of the guests peeling sugar paper, peeling fruit. Toasting cigarettes is a custom of modern family hospitality in China, and it is an etiquette that should not be ignored when treating guests. In addition, generally not to female guests to smoke. Tea is also one of the important etiquette of hospitality.

The tea should be cleaned before the tea. In the pouring of tea, to grasp the amount of tea. It is often said that hospitality should be "shallow tea full of wine". The so-called shallow tea, tea will be poured into the cup two-thirds of the best. Tea time on the ear of the cup, usually with one hand to grasp the ear, the other hand to hold the bottom of the cup, the tea to the guests.

The guest said goodbye, generally should be politely stay. Guests want to go, should wait for the guests to get up, in the rise to send, not the guests say go, the host will stand up. Some guests often bring gifts, which should be sent to the guests to react, such as to express gratitude, or request guests to visit in the future do not carry gifts, or corresponding thanks to some of the gifts, never deserved as if nothing happened.

Fifth, the Spring Festival gift etiquette

Spring Festival gift, has become a major headache of the workplace. Gifts, gifts too expensive, is undoubtedly aggravated by their own economic burden, the gift is too cheap, and afraid to get out of hand; do not send gifts, others are sending, they do not send, the next year's pay rise promotion is afraid of not their turn. In fact, gift giving is also a discipline, the fire is not a good grasp, not only the people hurt money, but also counterproductive.

1, to colleagues to send gifts

colleagues to send gifts is very simple, to the gluttony of his hometown to bring some souvenirs, to the beauty of her to send a beautiful hair card, to her family's baby girl to prepare a beautiful scarf. In short, the high emotional intelligence of your heart to prepare each gift, will help you win the office of the highest popularity award.

2, to the boss gift

To the boss gift, usually divided into three situations, one is a sincere thanks to the boss, deepen the relationship; two is to slip the suspicion, to please the boss; three is something to ask, the intention is obvious. Regardless of which of the above motives, if you have decided to give your boss a gift, it should be based on the needs of the boss and personal preferences, choose an unusual gift. For example: the female BOSS, you can send a beauty salon card, or a yoga class fitness card.

3, to the customer gift

Gifts to customers to have a bright spot, if the gift is the customer can buy anywhere, it is difficult to reflect the company's unique focus on the customer, should be as far as possible to send their own business exclusive gifts. For example, printed with the company's name and blessings of the Pu'er tea gift box, with local characteristics of the paper-cutting artwork or have a commemorative value of the collector's edition of the philatelic album. Always give a gift to the customer, must let the customer feel that the giver is not only attentive, and taste extraordinary, thus winning the customer's goodwill towards the enterprise.