What are the other customs of the Spring Festival

Year is the concentration of Chinese culture, Chinese New Year customs have endless stories, endless flavors, for each Chinese, the Spring Festival is definitely the most grand, the most lively of the year, a traditional festival, then the traditional Chinese Spring Festival customs are what?

Customs of the Spring Festival:

1, sticking Spring Festival

On the origin of the Spring Festival there are different sayings, there is a saying that the Spring Festival originated in the peach symbol. Ancient people in the old and welcome the new year, will be in the peach wood board respectively painted "Shentan" "Yubi" two immortals or write their names, hanging, posted on the door, to pray for blessings and avoid disaster.

From the Song Dynasty onwards, peach charms with the following lines became popular. The Song poem, "Always changing the new peach for the old one," is a testament to this. Then when did paper spring scrolls rise in popularity? It was during the Ming and Qing Dynasties. After a thousand years of evolution, the Spring Festival couplets have changed forms and names, but what remains unchanged is the good wishes it carries.

2, posting Fu

Pasted on the Spring Festival couplets can not be enough, people will also post the word "Fu", some places there is a lot to pay attention to it.

The time to post the word "Fu" should be in the afternoon of New Year's Eve, before the sun completely down, using the first outside the house after posting the order of the house, meaning that the year's blessings from the outside flow in. In ancient times, people would also be in the rice noodle tank on the sticker "rice noodles like mountains", in the carriage at the sticker what? "The day travels a thousand miles"!

3, welcome Zao Wang Wang

According to folklore, on the fourth day of the first month, Zao Wang Wang points to check the household, so every family should be guarded in the home, ready to prepare a wealth of fruits, burning incense and candles and firecrackers, to show that the welcome. Chen Jing said that although many folk say no basis, but its own carries the good wishes of people praying for happiness and avoiding disaster, which is also the reason why it has been passed down.

There is also a hodgepodge of leftover meals combined over several days to clean up the year's goods. Indoor dusting, house sweeping, garbage piled up in the yard in preparation for the "throw poor".

4, hanging lanterns

Lanterns, also known as "lantern color", it has a long history. According to archaeologists, the Chinese lantern is the world's earliest invention of portable lighting tools. Later, the lantern became a symbol of festivity in the hearts of the Chinese people, with good omens of family reunion, prosperity, red-hot, happiness and light.

5, the old age

The old age is also known as the light of the virtual consumption, point of the year fire, stay up, stay up all night and so on. The main folklore for the New Year's Eve lamps and lanterns all night long, the year-end vigil is called "burning lamps and candles", that is, the New Year's Eve all burning lamps and candles, it is said that so after the light, it will make the next year's wealth at home. Vigilance also refers to a family reunion on New Year's Eve, staying up all night to welcome the arrival of the Lunar New Year.

7, the new year's money

Elders send the new year's money is the favorite part of the children! It is said that during the Song Dynasty, people would use a tray box with fruit and food as a New Year's Eve plate to give to the younger generation. Later on, the New Year's money basically replaced the New Year's plate. I'm sure we've all heard the legend of the New Year's Beast, and it's believed that if the beast attacks on New Year's Eve, the New Year's money can be used to "bribe" it and keep the children safe.

8, welcome the God of Wealth

The fifth day of the first year of the year is commonly known as the fifth, to "catch the five poor", including "poor intelligence, poor learning, poor literature, poor life, poor, poor". People get up at dawn, firecrackers, cleaning. The firecrackers are set off from the inside out, and the firecrackers are set off while walking out the door. It is said that all unlucky things are blasted out. On this day, the prevailing folk custom is to eat dumplings, commonly known as "pinch the mouth of small people.

9, the Lantern Festival

New Year's Eve to eat Lantern Festival, "Lantern Festival" as a food, in China has a long history. Song Dynasty, the folk that is popular a Lantern Festival to eat novelty food. This food, the earliest called "floating Yuanzi" after the "Lantern", the businessman also beautifully called "Yuanbao".

Yuanxiao that "dumplings" to sugar, rose, sesame, bean paste, yellow cinnamon, walnuts, nuts, jujube paste, etc. for the filling, wrapped in glutinous rice flour into a round, meat can be vegetarian, with different flavors. It can be boiled in soup, deep-fried or steamed, and has the meaning of reunion and happiness.

Our country is so vast that people will make different foods to welcome the New Year, such as pounding rice cakes in the south and steaming flower buns in the north....... What's different are the customs and the foods, but what's the same is that people are enjoying the joys of working together to welcome the New Year. From the thousands of households floating out of the boiling hot air, but also on the next year of life is flourishing, red-hot wish ah.