What do you know about Chinese New Year customs

The Spring Festival is the day to get rid of the old and bring in the new. Although the Spring Festival is scheduled for the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar, the activities of the Spring Festival are not limited to the first day of the first month. From the end of the year, people will begin to "busy year", all these activities, there is a **** the same theme, that is, "out with the old and in with the new".

Of course I know Chinese New Year customs, Chinese New Year customs is the Chinese people in the Spring Festival customs , different parts of China due to the different regional cultures and there are differences in the content or details of the customs, with a strong regional characteristics. Common Spring Festival customs include: preparing for the New Year's Eve, posting the New Year's red, sacrificing to the stove, dusting, posting Spring Festival couplets, hanging New Year's paintings, posting window decorations, washing and bathing, putting up lanterns and decorations, posting lucky charms, New Year's Eve dinners, paying respect to the New Year's Eve, letting off firecrackers, handing out red envelopes, wearing new clothes, eating dumplings, keeping watch for the New Year's Day, dancing with the dragons, hanging lanterns, getting the New Year's money, eating dumplings, opening the door to the firecrackers, paying respects to the New Year's Eve, watching social fires, stepping on stilts, making a scene at the Lantern Festival, and performing the lion dance, among other customs. During the Spring Festival, there are different customs for each day, and there are also different customs for each region.

I think among the many customs of the Spring Festival worthy of mentioning there are 5, here with me to see it:

? One of the Chinese New Year customs: big meat stew?

Stewing big meat is one of the Han Chinese Spring Festival customs. This is the day to kill the pig and cut the meat, and start to buy new year's goods. According to the old saying "Lunar New Year's Eve 26th Stewed Meat", it is believed that this day is a festival for all the children, who can finally eat "New Year's Meat".

On this day, every family prepares pork, beef and mutton for New Year's treats, and people cut the meat into large pieces and slowly stew it in large pots. In ancient times, there was no refrigerator, and the stewed meat could be kept until the 15th day of the first lunar month or so, which was a day of fragrant smells in every house.

In the past, the average citizen was poorer and had more people in their families, so they often ate a lot of food, and the ones who were a little better could only eat a little bit of wild food. It's hard to look forward to the New Year, the family laborers have begun to kill pigs, no pig family, go to the market to cut a piece of meat home,Therefore, Lunar New Year 26 stewed meat is also known as "Lunar New Year 26, kill pigs cut the annual meat".

? The second Chinese New Year custom: slaughtering roosters?

"Chicken" and "auspicious" resonance, meaning good luck. The Chinese New Year is a time to eat a whole chicken, which means to be reunited and to be in perfect harmony. This custom is a good wish for people to pray for all the best in the New Year.

In the waxing moon 27 to kill chicken is also a good idea, kill a good chicken to wait until New Year's Eve to eat, and New Year's Eve can not be eaten, to always stay a little. Because the chicken itself represents great luck, so during the festival, every day to see the chicken on the table, to be considered complete, coupled with the old reasoning that the first day of the year can not move the knife, so these food need to be prepared in advance.

This day people put the family poultry killed spare, because the New Year's table can not only run on the ground animals, but also have to be able to fly, meaning that the coming year to soar, of course, this day is also a good day to catch the fair, families in this day will be prepared for the New Year's goods, such as firecrackers, Spring Festival couplets, God horse, incense and candles, gifts for small children's toys and gifts, the girl's variety of head flowers and jewelry, and so on.

The origin of the custom of "slaughtering the rooster": according to legend, the chicken is the heavenly palace of the You officer, is responsible for reporting the time on earth, the god of auspiciousness, New Year's Day, kill a chicken, in order to give it a vacation, so that it back to the heavenly court of the Jade Emperor to report the auspiciousness of the family a few words of good advice, and thus get the heaven to give the blessing of good luck!

? Chinese New Year custom No. 3: put the noodle hair?

On the twenty-eighth day of the Lunar New Year, it is one of the traditional customs of the Chinese New Year. The Chinese folk songs for the 28th day of the Lunar New Year include "28th day of the Lunar New Year, put the noodle hair" and "28th day of the Lunar New Year, put the cake and steamed buns and paste flowers". Chinese folk customs and traditions to the Lunar New Year on the 28th day of the Lunar New Year whether it is to send the noodle or to make a bun, each family should start to prepare the staple food for the New Year.

Lunar month 27 to prepare meat, lunar month 28 this day to prepare the main food. Because stores used to be closed from the first day of the first month to the fifteenth day of the first month, people had to prepare enough meals before the year.

Traditionally, on the 26th and 27th of the Lunar New Year, the meat to be eaten on New Year's Day should be prepared, and on the 28th of the month, it is time to prepare the pasta. In the past, low social development, there is no modern more convenient baking powder, ordinary noodles a few days in advance to do a good job easy to bad, only the hair of the noodles do not love bad, so twenty-eight this day on the hair of the noodles, ready for the first day of the first month of the first five staples, at the same time, this is also because of the old custom of the first day of the first five can not be moved to the fire during the steaming of steamed buns for the sake of the cause.

? Spring Festival custom No. 4: steamed buns?

Twenty-eight good flour, twenty-nine will start steaming steamed buns is the traditional Chinese New Year customs . Steaming steamed buns is not to do casually, but to be carefully prepared, because the steamed buns are made to exchange with the neighbors, must be done and good-looking and delicious, which is face, but also auspicious.

This day every family will Lunar New Year's Eve that day of flour steamed into steamed buns, the more the better, this is in order to give the year after the guests to come to the preparation of the staple food, some big family guests, may be in the Lunar New Year's Eve the day of the beginning of the steamed buns.

The steamed buns should have five red dots on them to show that they are "lucky". Point red dot is first a small piece of red paper dipped in a little water, and then five sorghum stalks bundled together, and then dipped in the water-soaked red paper, and then finally point to the top of the steamed buns.

The New Year's steamed buns can be pinched into a variety of shapes, the Buddha's hand-shaped cake for the "blessing", peach-shaped beanbags for the "life", and there are a variety of names, fine carvings of the surface of the mold can be made out of the five sons of the doll cake, the joy of the harvest of the two fish cake, the wealth of the garden blessing cake, etc. The cake can be made into a variety of shapes, including the "Bao", the "Bao" and the "Bao". It is a process full of joy, hope and creativity.

? Chinese New Year Custom No. 5: Posting FuZi upside down?

Upside down posting of Fu (also called Fu to), a traditional Chinese custom. Every Spring Festival, every family will be in the house door, wall, lintel upside down on the "Fu" character, meaning that the blessing has come. This is a long-standing custom of the Han Chinese folklore to post the Chinese character "福".

The Spring Festival, in many family compounds on the windows and doors, often see some of the upside down red "Fu" word, which can be regarded as a traditional custom of the Chinese people. According to "Dream sorghum record" records: "the common people regardless of the size of the family, all sprinkled clean the door, to dust, net family, change the door god, hanging Zhong Kui, nail peach charm, paste spring card, worship ancestors." The text of the "sticker" is written on red paper "Fu" character.

There is also a legend in Chinese folklore about the word "Fu" being posted upside down. Zhu Yuanzhang, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, used the word "Fu" as a secret mark to prepare for murder. In order to eliminate this disaster, the kind-hearted Empress Ma ordered all the people in the city to put a "Fu" character on their doors before dawn.

Naturally, no one dared to disobey Empress Ma's order, so every house had the word "Fu" posted on its door. One of the families was illiterate and posted the word upside down. The next day, the emperor sent people on the street to check, and found that all the families have posted the word "Fu", and there is a family to put the word "Fu" upside down. The emperor was furious at the report and immediately ordered the imperial guards to decapitate that family. Queen Ma saw that things are not good, busy to Zhu Yuanzhang said: "that family knows that you visit today, deliberately put the word of blessing upside down, this is not the meaning of 'blessed to'?" When the emperor heard that it made sense, he ordered the release of the people, and a big disaster was finally eliminated. From then on, people will be "Fu" word upside down, one for good luck, the second to commemorate Queen Ma.


This is the custom of posting the word "Fu" upside down.

The Spring Festival is the grandest traditional festival of the Chinese nation. Influenced by Chinese culture, some countries and regions in the world also have the custom of celebrating the New Year. The significance of Spring Festival customs is reunion, set of prayers for the avoidance of disasters, celebrations and entertainment.