Chinese New Year Customs and Morals

Customs of the Spring Festival and moral:

1, dust

Busy year before the main theme of the activity is to get rid of the old and new, dust is one of the New Year's Day to get rid of the old and new customs. The folk proverb says, "On the 24th day of the Lunar New Year, dust and sweep the house". At the end of the year, on the twenty-third/twenty-fourth day of the lunar month, preparations for the New Year officially begin. Dusting is the year-end cleaning, known as "house sweeping" in the north and "house sweeping" in the south.

Whenever the Spring Festival is approaching, every household has to clean the environment, wash all kinds of appliances, dismantle and wash the bedding curtains, sprinkle the six capitals of the courtyard, dusting dust cobwebs, dredge the nullahs and ditches. Everywhere overflowing with joy to engage in health, clean and welcome the new year's happy atmosphere.

According to folklore: because the "dust" and "Chen" consonant, dust sweeping in the New Year, "in addition to the meaning of Chen Bu Xin". Sweeping the dust is intended to be all "poor luck", "bad luck" all sweep out the door to pray for the next year, clear and auspicious; this custom is entrusted with the people to ward off evils in addition to disasters, the old to welcome the new, and welcome the prayers and aspirations of the auspicious and blessed.

2, in addition to the old and welcome the new

"The last day of the year", known as "year-end", the night called "New Year's Eve". It and the New Year's first and last together, said "by the end of the year, the year is poor, the end of the month", is the eve of the new year, is an important time to get rid of the old and welcome the new junction point. "New Year's Eve" is the year in addition to the meaning of the night, also known as New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, etc., when the end of the last night of the year.

This period of time is characterized by the theme of getting rid of the old and bringing in the new, and since ancient times there have been customs such as posting New Year's reds, offering sacrifices to ancestors, having New Year's dinners, and observing the New Year's Eve, which have been passed down to the present day and are still unceasingly practiced. New Year's Eve is a day to get rid of the old and bring in the new, reunite families and worship ancestors, and is known as one of the four major traditional ancestor worship festivals of Chinese folklore, along with the Ching Ming Festival, the half of the seventh lunar month, and the Chung Yeung Festival.

Customs of ethnic minorities:

1, Tibetan customs

Tibetan New Year's Eve, people dressed in colorful costumes, wearing strange masks, with oboe, conch, drums, music, held a grand and grand "Jumping God". The young men dance and sing wildly, indicating that the old and welcome the new, to drive away evil spirits and bring down blessings. In the morning of the New Year, women go to carry "auspicious water", wishing for a new year of good luck.

2, Yi customs

Yi people according to the Yi calendar to select the annual festival. Some of them celebrate the Spring Festival with the local Han Chinese. In some areas, Yi compatriots set up pines in front of their doors and pave the ground with pine needles, indicating that they are free from disasters and calamities.

There are other areas where pigs and goats are killed and lumps of meat are eaten during the festival, and people visit each other and give each other meat and buns. On the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, the first thing they do when they get up is to carry water home. They compare the weight of a bowl of water with that of the day before, and if the water is heavy on the New Year's Day, it means that there will be plenty of rain in the coming year.

3, Zhuang customs

New Year's Eve, to do a good job on the day of the festival to eat rice, known as the "pressure of the New Year's rice", some areas of the masses known as the "eat Li Festival", the Zhuang language for the "over the evening" meaning. The Zhuang language means "to celebrate the new year". It is an omen of a good agricultural harvest in the coming year.

Some also packaged with more than a foot long, five or six pounds of heavy alkali, a family with a small population a meal is not finished! Early in the morning on the first day of the New Year, before dawn, people get up, put on new clothes, firecrackers to welcome the new, women are scrambling to the river or wells, "draw new water", to start a new year of boiling life.