The characteristics of the customs and habits of the Spring Festival in various places

1, the Spring Festival temple fair in old Beijing

Wu Xian God of Wealth Temple's official activities from the second day of the first month. Early in the morning on the second day of the first month, those who go to the Temple of God of Wealth to enter the incense, in addition to the rich and famous, the vast majority of them are riding bicycles. They are mostly dressed in a variety of satin cotton robes, covered with a waistcoat or kangshan, wearing a fine felt bowler hat. Incense from the city out of the issue of Guang'anmen to the south, of course, the basic wind, (because Beijing winter more northwest). But once out of Guang'anmen must go against the wind.

2, Northeast customs

New Year's Eve to eat dumplings is the custom of the North. Northeastern folk in the New Year's Eve has the custom of the New Year's Eve. On the night of the New Year's Eve to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new, must eat dumplings, in the many dumplings wrapped only a few with coins (now people pay attention to hygiene, they use peanuts or other nuts instead.) The dumplings are made of peanuts or other nuts, and whoever eats such dumplings will have good luck and good fortune in the new year.

Because of the cold weather in the Northeast, some fruits have a different flavor when they are frozen. The most common are frozen pears and frozen persimmons. It is understood that the purest is frozen autumn pear, in the north there is a kind of pear called autumn pear, this pear just picked and sour and astringent, so people will pick this pear directly under the tree, covered with a layer of leaves, after freezing the autumn pear after sweet and sour, juicy.

3, Shaanxi customs

The Spring Festival folklore, much the same across the country. Shaanxi folk style is simple, the Spring Festival with a strong local flavor and local characteristics. The head of the year. In ancient times, the "year" was not on the 29th or 30th day of the Lunar New Year, but on the "Lunar New Year's Day", which was later called "Lunar New Year's Day". It was only after the Northern and Southern Dynasties that the Lunar New Year festival was moved to the end of the year. In the Republic of China, the solar calendar was changed to the solar calendar, and the lunar "year" was called "Spring Festival", because the Spring Festival was usually held at the "Spring Festival". Generally in the "spring" after the "spring", and therefore called it the Spring Festival.

4, Yunnan customs

Yunnan New Year's Eve with the same Han Chinese also want to stick couplets. But the "couplets" are red paper cut into various patterns. Not only is the "writing" different, but the way it is posted is also unique. On New Year's Eve, the whole family, each holding a homemade spring couplets, chorus of the foot of the point "wishing song", in order in the yard outside, vegetable orchards and field corners for all things posted. Because of the singing while posting, the Bai people's spring couplets are called "song couplets".

5, Henan customs

Send God panicked year busy stove, the lunar calendar, the 23rd of Lunar New Year, is an important folk festival before the Spring Festival, people call it "stove festival". At this time, people can not help but welcome the joy of the New Year mood, stop the hands of a variety of work, busy routine before the stove send God activities.

6, Chongqing customs

Chongqing in China has the title of mountain city and fog capital, where the Spring Festival, the most obvious sign is the streets and alleys can be seen in the plum blossoms.

Reports say locals like to display yellowish Lamei flowers, whose petals carry a refreshing scent, in their homes for the Lunar New Year. Chongqing's Nanshan Mountain is rich in wax plum flowers, and from the beginning of the lunar month, whether you go to the flower market or on ordinary streets, you can see farmers from the suburbs everywhere carrying backpacks filled with budding wax plum flowers. On the streets, you can often meet people holding wax plum flowers, which are very cheap, at two yuan for a bunch (four).

7. Wenzhou New Year's Customs

New Year's Eve is a very important festival for Chinese people. Every place has its own New Year's Eve customs, and Wenzhou also has its own unique New Year's Eve culture.

The winter solstice to eat dumplings

The winter solstice is called "to day", commonly known as the "winter festival". On the morning of this day, every family eats soup dumplings or mochi. Dumplings are filled with sweet sugar or sesame, and there are also salted meat dumplings. And mochi to first cook the glutinous rice, pounded tough into a block shape, and then placed in the sugar in the bean flour rolling so that it sticks full of bean flour, that is, mochi, mochi for the winter solstice snacks, commonly known as "ring mochi". Eat mochi, dumplings, symbolizing reunion and celebration, folk "eat the winter solstice pill, even if a year old" said.

8, Chaoshan Spring Festival taboos

Because the first month of the year is the beginning of the year, the Chaoshan people tend to regard it as a new year of good or bad luck signs period, so the New Year's Eve "taboos" are especially many.

"Broken", "bad", "no", "dead", "light", "ghost", "kill", "disease", "pain ", "lose", "poor" and other unlucky words, are forbidden to say.

9, the Spring Festival in Zhanjiang

With the rest of the country, the Spring Festival is the most grand and rich in traditional folk festivals, but the Spring Festival in Zhanjiang also has local characteristics. The Spring Festival in the countryside usually takes about a month to prepare and ends in mid-December of the lunar calendar, when preparations begin, including the renovation of the house, the purchase of furniture, and the addition of new clothes.

10, Fujian New Year customs

South Fujian around the countryside New Year's customs appear to be different from the city. Rural farms, many rooms, many doors, in addition to posting the Spring Festival couplets, the door on both sides of the room should be set aside two circles of red paper stickers of the root sugar cane, called "door cane", the dialect "cane" and "good" near the sound, which means It means to enter a good place. In the hall, the table is decorated with the next year's rice, long year's vegetables, hair cake, and inserted with red and yellow paper "spring branch", which implies that the rice will be plentiful for many years to come, and good luck and wealth.

Expanded:

The Spring Festival, one of the four major traditional Chinese festivals, is traditionally the Lunar New Year. The Spring Festival is commonly known as the "New Year's Day", and is traditionally known as the New Year, the Great Year, the Heavenly Lunar New Year, and the New Year, orally also known as the New Year's Day, the New Year Celebration, and the New Year's Day. Chinese people have been celebrating the Spring Festival for at least 4,000 years. In modern times, people set the Spring Festival on the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar, but the New Year is usually not over until at least the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar (Shangyuan Festival).

During the Spring Festival, the Han Chinese and some ethnic minorities in China hold various celebrations. These activities, which focus on worshipping gods and spirits, paying tribute to ancestors, getting rid of the old and bringing in the new, welcoming good fortune, and praying for a good year, take colorful forms and are characterized by a strong sense of ethnicity. Influenced by Chinese culture, some countries and nations belonging to the Chinese cultural circle also have the custom of celebrating the Spring Festival.

The Spring Festival is the grandest traditional festival of the Chinese nation, and it is also an important carrier for the release of Chinese people's emotions and the fulfillment of their psychological demands, as well as the annual carnival and the eternal spiritual pillar of the Chinese nation. The Spring Festival, together with the Qingming Festival, the Dragon Boat Festival and the Mid-Autumn Festival, are known as the four major traditional festivals in China. "Spring Festival" folklore approved by the State Council included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list?

Calendar of the Spring Festival:

1, the time of the Spring Festival

The time of the Spring Festival (the first day of the first month of the Lunar Calendar) swims between January 21 and February 21 on the Gregorian calendar. The difference between the "earliest Spring Festival" (e.g., Jan. 21, 1966) and the "latest Spring Festival" (e.g., Feb. 20, 1985) is one full month. According to the calendar, if the lunar calendar is not adjusted artificially, February 21, 2319 will usher in the "latest Spring Festival", after the Spring Festival appeared on February 20, 1920 and 1985, the latest in the Gregorian calendar.

2, leap Spring Festival

Leap Spring Festival, also known as the leap month, from 1645 AD using the calendar to set the leap system, to 2800 AD in 1155 years, the lunar calendar leap month only 6 times, very rare, the years are 1651, 2262, 2357, 2520, 2539, 2634.? [11]?

3, the leap Spring Festival method

If there is a leap first month of the year, in principle, the Spring Festival is over the first first month, to the time of the leap first month is not a festival. Of course, there are a few areas after the first month of the Spring Festival, to the leap month of the Spring Festival, because the leap month is also called the first month, so also the first day of the leap month is also regarded as the Spring Festival to pass.

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