What are the characteristics of the Spring Festival custom in Hebei?

As the most important traditional festival in China, the Spring Festival has always been valued by thousands of families. The footsteps of the Spring Festival in the Year of the Rooster are getting closer and closer, and the flavor of the year is getting stronger and stronger. There is a saying that "three miles is different from the wind, and ten miles is different from the customs." Do you know all the Chinese New Year customs in Hebei? Let's have a look!

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Infinite paper-cutting began in ancient times and prevailed in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. During festivals and weddings, people use paper-cutting to make snuff, hang paper, cut New Year greetings (symbols) and stick grilles to express their love and feelings for life. Infinite paper-cut is rich in modeling, wide in subject matter and full of life breath. Its style was influenced by the New Year pictures of Yangliuqing in Shanxi and Tianjin, and gradually formed a unique paper-cutting art.

Chengde: The Spring Festival begins with Laba.

"Twenty-three honeydew melons are sticky, twenty-four house cleaning days, twenty-five grinding bean curd, twenty-six pork, twenty-seven chicken, twenty-eight noodles, twenty-nine streets, thirty nights, New Year's Eve, one night." This proverb, which has been circulating in Chengde for a long time, makes people's lives tense and orderly under age.

Chengde also pays attention to sticking "spring strips" (also called kang strips) during the Spring Festival. A long spring strip runs from the beam to the edge of the kang, which reads, "It is appropriate to enter the spring music, the god of wealth sits at home, and there are piles of gold and ingots, and people are prosperous and young and old are happy."

Zhangjiakou: the northernmost primitive annual wind

In Zhangjiakou, the twelfth lunar month is a year. First of all, every household began to clean the house, unpack and clean the bedding. Then, men and women quickly shaved their heads and got haircuts, because there was a taboo that they could not get haircuts in the first month. The next step is to make tofu, press vermicelli, fry dough twists in a dry pot, steam rice cakes and steamed buns. Many people have to buy food for half a month in the twelfth lunar month. On the first day of the first month, especially from the first day to the tenth day of the first month, every household can't eat "no rice", that is, bad rice. Every day, they have to eat the New Year's Eve dinner prepared in the twelfth month, which indicates that there will be good food every day in the coming year.

Hengshui: Worship God, burn incense and stick idols.

In the folk custom of Hengshui, some people start to buy new year's goods as soon as they enter the twelfth lunar month to prepare for the New Year. As the Spring Festival approaches, the "flavor of the year" is getting stronger and stronger. On the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, the prelude to the New Year's Eve will be unveiled. On this day, "New Year's greetings" will be celebrated. In the evening, every household will send a kitchen stove-put a porcelain lamp and a hair clasp that have been glued to the kitchen god Ant Lu for a year, and then invite a new kitchen god to make it on New Year's Eve.

According to Hengshui folk custom, the house should be cleaned on the 24th of the twelfth lunar month, which means to sweep away the dust and filth for one year and greet the arrival of the New Year cleanly. Every household has cleaned the inside and out, changed their accustomed furniture and moved to a new place. Colourful New Year pictures are pasted at appropriate positions in the room, door gods and Spring Festival couplets are pasted on the door, and the word "Fu" is pasted on the screen wall.

Xingtai: The firecrackers kept on the fifth day.

Since ancient times, the fifth day has been an evil day, and the fifth day of the first month is called "breaking the fifth". This day is also a day of hating the poor, so we should set off firecrackers instead of visiting other people's homes to prevent poverty. In some places, we will do some light labor on this day, hoping to make a fortune through symbolic labor on this day. After the fifth day, some people began to prepare for the Lantern Festival, and some shops in the city are about to open.

Handan: Throw a sad hat during the Spring Festival.

There is a strange custom in Handan to throw sad hats on New Year's Eve. Throwing sad hats is always done in the dead of night on New Year's Eve. Before going to bed, every family quietly threw their old hats or headscarves into the street. When cleaning the street the next day, sweep it into the corner and burn it when you are afraid of the spirit fire on the fifteenth night of next month. It is said that one year's old worries are thrown away and one year's new happiness is ushered in.