How much do you know about the Spring Festival custom performances all over the country?

For everyone in China, the Spring Festival is definitely the most grand and lively traditional festival of the year. It means the warmth of family reunion, the ease and expectation of saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new.

The customs of the Spring Festival

When it comes to celebrating the Spring Festival, people usually think of eating jiaozi on New Year's Eve, putting up Spring Festival couplets, hanging New Year pictures and setting off firecrackers to celebrate the New Year. How to celebrate this festival, in thousands of years of historical development, has formed some relatively fixed customs and habits, many of which are still handed down today.

sweep the dust

"On the 24th of the twelfth lunar month, dust sweeps the house" is intended to sweep away all bad luck and bad luck. This custom has placed people's desire to break the old and create new ones and their prayers to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new. Whenever the Spring Festival comes, every household should clean the environment, wash all kinds of utensils, remove bedding and curtains, and everywhere is filled with a clean and happy atmosphere to welcome the Spring Festival.

paste up Spring Festival couplets

Spring Festival couplets are also called door couplets and spring stickers. They depict the background of the times and express good wishes with neat and concise words, which are unique literary forms in China. Every Spring Festival, no matter in urban or rural areas, every household should choose a pair of red Spring Festival couplets and stick them on the door to add festive atmosphere to the festival.

Stick grilles, turn the word "Fu" upside down.

In the folk, people also like to stick various paper-cuts on the windows-window grilles. Paper-cutting is a very popular folk art in China, which has been loved by people for thousands of years. Because it is often pasted on the window, it is also called "window grilles".

Sticking the word "Fu" during the Spring Festival is a long-standing folk custom in China. The word "Fu" means good luck. In order to fully reflect this yearning and wish, some people simply put the word "Fu" upside down, indicating that "Fu has arrived" and "Fu has arrived".

New Year picture

Hanging New Year pictures during the Spring Festival is also very common in urban and rural areas. Thick black and colorful New Year pictures add a lot of prosperity and festive atmosphere to thousands of families. New Year pictures are an ancient folk art in China, which reflects people's simple customs and beliefs and places their hopes on the future.

stay up late or all night on New Year's Eve

On New Year's Eve, the whole family get together, eat New Year's Eve, light candles or oil lamps, sit around the stove and chat, wait for the time to bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new year, and keep vigil all night, which symbolizes driving away all evil diseases and epidemics and looking forward to good luck in the New Year.

firecracker

There is a folk saying in China that "open the door and set off firecrackers". That is, when the new year comes, the first thing for every household to open the door is to set off firecrackers to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new.

Pay new year's call

On the first day of the new year, people get up early, put on the most beautiful clothes, dress neatly, go out to visit relatives and friends, and wish each other good luck in the coming year. There are many ways to pay New Year's greetings, some of which are led by the same patriarch from door to door. When paying New Year greetings during the Spring Festival, the younger generation should first pay New Year greetings to their elders and wish them health and longevity. The elders can distribute the lucky money prepared in advance to the younger generation. It is said that lucky money can kill evil spirits, because "old" and "special" are homophonic, and the younger generation can spend a year safely with lucky money.

Different winds in a hundred miles, different customs in a thousand miles.

It is also the Spring Festival, and many places have their own unique Spring Festival customs, many of which continue to this day.

Old Beijing: the most concerned way to eat

Old Beijingers pay special attention to Chinese New Year, especially the way they eat. There used to be a folk song in old Beijing: "Don't be greedy for children. After Laba, it is the Spring Festival. Drinking Laba porridge for a few days is 23 miles. " Twenty-three, cantaloupes are sticky; Twenty-four, sweeping the house; Twenty-five, fried tofu; Twenty-six, stewed mutton; Twenty-seven, kill the rooster; Twenty-eight, send face; Twenty-nine, steamed bread; Stay up 30 nights on New Year's Day? "Laba porridge, fried tofu, stewed mutton, etc. listed in this folk song are all delicious foods in old Beijing for the New Year. Nowadays, these things are commonplace, but in the fifties and sixties of last century, they were only given a banquet during the Chinese New Year.

In the past, some wealthy Beijingers had the custom of eating fish on New Year's Eve. Fish must be carp, originally in the name of offering sacrifices to the gods, and later associated with the auspicious language of "auspicious celebration is more than enough". Fish is both delicious and sacrificial.

As for jiaozi on New Year's Eve, jiaozi, a vegetarian, is used to worship God, while everyone eats meat. People who are not rich are stuffed with meat and vegetables. Even for the poorest families, there is no shortage of formalities to eat jiaozi during the Chinese New Year. Besides jiaozi and rice cakes, old Beijingers also play "bean paste"-a cold dish made of skin, dried bean curd, soybeans, green beans and watercress, which is amber in color and similar to "aspic". In addition, there is "Mustard Dun", which is a cold dish used to accompany wine and appetizer. People eat a lot of greasy food in festivals, which is easy to get angry and produce phlegm. These cold dishes can make up for this defect.

When all kinds of vegetarian dishes are ready, Beijingers also need to prepare sweets, dried fruits, melon seeds and "miscellaneous fruits", which are now assorted preserved fruits. At that time, these snacks were delicious food when people sat around the fire and died.

Liaoning: unforgettable rural blood sausage

In rural Liaoning, on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, every household began to prepare for the Spring Festival, making rice cakes and steaming sticky bean bags. Many people will kill pigs to treat guests and invite neighbors, relatives and friends to hold banquets. After satiated with food and drink, the enthusiastic host will also bring the blood sausage home to the guests. These days, the children will try their best to help at home, but the married daughter can't spend the New Year at her parents' home, otherwise it will be bad for her parents and brothers this year. That's what the so-called "don't look at the bride's lamp" means on New Year's Eve. Of course, this custom with feudal superstition has been gradually forgotten with the progress of society and the changes of the times.

Many people in Liaoning light the longevity lantern on New Year's Eve and keep it on all night. From New Year's Eve to the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month, every household should hang red lanterns, light lanterns on New Year's Eve and light a night, which means prolonging life.

Jilin: Eat frozen pears after New Year's Eve.

Due to the cold weather in Northeast China, some fruits will have different tastes after freezing. The most common are iced pears and frozen persimmons. It is understood that the purest is frozen autumn pear. In Jilin, there is a kind of pear called Qiuli, which is sour and astringent when it is just picked, so people pick it and put it directly under the tree and cover it with a layer of leaves. The frozen autumn pear is sweet and sour, and the juice is abundant. Frozen pears should be thawed in water before eating. Eating this pear after New Year's Eve can relieve hangover and boredom.

Heilongjiang: Good luck with jiaozi coins.

It is the custom of northerners to eat jiaozi during the Spring Festival. On New Year's Eve, we must eat jiaozi, but people in Heilongjiang have to wrap some coins (usually peanuts or other nuts instead) in the jiaozi. Whoever eats this kind of jiaozi indicates good luck and good luck in the new year. In addition, Heilongjiang must eat jiaozi on the fifth day, also known as "breaking the fifth day", which means biting jiaozi, which means destroying all unlucky things, and it means driving away disasters and evil spirits.

Jiangsu: Don't move the knife on the first day of the New Year.

During the Spring Festival, there are still many taboos in Jiangsu. For example, don't move scissors on the first day of the New Year to avoid disputes with each other. Don't move the kitchen knife to avoid being killed; Do not eat porridge, afraid of going out in the rain; Don't sweep the floor, afraid of sweeping away wealth and so on.

On New Year's Eve, put the boiled water chestnut in the annual meal and dig it out when eating, which is called "digging the ingot"; When friends and relatives come and go, put two green olives when making tea, which means drinking "Yuanbao tea", which means "Congratulations on making a fortune"; You are not allowed to sweep the floor from home during the Spring Festival, for fear of sweeping out "wealth" and "wishful thinking", you can only sweep from the outside to the inside, which means gathering wealth?

Zhejiang: "Qingtian Silkworm" on New Year's Day

Wucheng County, Zhejiang Province, called "Qingtian Silkworm" on New Year's Day, put a long pole sokcho on it, light it and burn it, beating gongs and drums. Light a lantern on the pole until March 3. Ningbo wants to eat bean porridge on the first day of school. Before closing the door at night, let off the "closing gun" again. Shaoxing uses a "tea bowl" for Chinese New Year guests, in which olives and kumquat are put, and tea eggs are put at the same time, which is called "holding gold ingots".

Shandong: Eat wonton in the New Year.

In Ningyang County, Shandong Province, people pay attention to eating wonton on New Year's Day, which is called "filling the position".

In Huangxian and Penglai areas, it should be wasted to get up early on the first day of the first month. The hostess holds a red candle to light up every corner of the room, which means to drive away the darkness with light, and then paste all kinds of window grilles made of flour on the windowsill. After getting up, the children should climb the latch and play on the swing three times. It is said that they grow very fast.

Hubei: Different surnames eat New Year's Eve at different times.

In many rural areas of Hubei, the time for eating New Year's Eve is different because of different surnames. This custom may be beyond your imagination. Wang started family reunion at five o'clock in the morning; If the surname is Gao, the banquet is usually around noon 12; Then the surname is Yu, and the annual dinner time is set at six o'clock when it is getting dark; Yang's name can only be after twelve o'clock at night?

Guangdong: Happy New Year with oranges.

People in Chaoshan area of Guangdong always bring a big bag of oranges before going out to pay a New Year call. Every time I visit my relatives, I will give them big oranges, no matter how many, in the plural, and then say some blessings. After being seated, relatives will treat them with Chaoshan kungfu tea and send back big oranges when they leave. "So, at the end of the day, when you go out in the morning, you will find several Chaozhou oranges." Because it is "good luck" for Cantonese people to send big oranges, it is a courtesy to give them back. At the same time, in the first month, everyone should look after their pockets and avoid letting others dig them out. "Being dug out of your pocket means being hollowed out this year."

Shanxi: Don't talk on New Year's Eve.

There are few customs of worshipping gods and ancestors in Shanxi now, but the rule of eating and not talking at the age of 30 still exists. The first meal of the Spring Festival is jiaozi. When cooking jiaozi, set off firecrackers. In order to drive away evil and seek good luck, jiaozi is cooked with sesame stalks in some areas, which means that the new year is like sesame blossoms and the days are getting better and better. Jiaozi wants to cook more, it must be more than enough. When eating, in addition to one bowl for each person, one or two more bowls are needed to hope that everyone will prosper!