What are the customs of the festival?

Festive customs include: king, sweeping dust, cutting window grilles, putting up Spring Festival couplets, taking a bath and getting married. Off-year, also known as Kitchen God Festival, Kitchen God Festival and Cleaning Day, is a traditional festival in China. The date varies from region to region, with the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month in the north and the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month in most parts of the south.

Off-year folk activities include sweeping dust, offering sacrifices to stoves and eating stove candy. It also means that people should start preparing for the new year, which indicates that the new year will have a new atmosphere and expresses the good wishes of the working people in our country to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new.

The customs of the festival mainly include the following:

1, king of men

Off-year is also a day of folk sacrifice. According to folklore, every year on the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, Kitchen God will tell the Jade Emperor about the good and evil of this family and let the Jade Emperor reward and punish them. Therefore, when sending stoves, people put candy, water, beans and grass on the console table in front of the kitchen god statue; Among them, the last three are the mounts of the kitchen god ascending to heaven. When offering sacrifices to the stove, you should melt the Guandong sugar with fire and put it on the mouth of the kitchen god. In this way, he can't speak ill of the jade emperor In addition, on New Year's Eve, the Kitchen God will bring the gods to the world for the New Year, and there will be a ceremony to pick up the kitchen and pick up the gods on that day. Every family burns sedan chairs and horses, sprinkles three glasses of wine, and sends away the kitchen god, so it's their turn to worship their ancestors.

Step 2 clean the dust

After twenty-three, there are only six or seven days left before the Spring Festival, and the preparations for the Spring Festival are even more enthusiastic. To thoroughly clean the room, commonly known as sweeping the dust, sweeping the dust is to go to the old and welcome the new, and remove the ominous. Every household should be carefully and thoroughly cleaned to make the windows bright and clean. Paint walls, scrub glass, put up windows, put up New Year pictures and so on. In the twelfth lunar month, every household is ready for the New Year. In Beijing, December 24th of the lunar calendar is usually designated as House Sweeping Day.

Step 3 cut the window grilles

In all the preparatory work, window cutting and stick grilles are the most popular folk activities. There are all kinds of animal and plant stories here, such as plum blossoms of magpies, peach willows of swallows, peony of peacocks, rolling hydrangeas of lions, playing pearls of three sheep (Yang), playing pearls of two dragons, Toona sinensis of deer cranes (Liuhe Tongchun), longevity of five bats (Fu), moon-gazing of rhinoceros, Nianyu of Lotus (Lian) (the rest) and swimming of Yuanyang.

4. Post Spring Festival couplets

After the New Year, every household should write Spring Festival couplets. People pay attention to it, and God will stick it, and doors will stick it, and things will stick it, so Spring Festival couplets have the largest number and the most complete content. The couplets in front of the statues are particularly particular, and they are mostly words of admiration and blessing. The couplets on the gate are the facade of a family, which is particularly particular, lyrical or scenic.

5. Take a bath

Adults and children should take a bath and have their hair cut. There is a folk saying that people who have money but no money shave their heads for the New Year.

Step 6 get married

After the age of 23, people think that the gods have gone to heaven and everything has been forgiven. You don't have to choose a date to marry a daughter-in-law and prostitution. This is called rushing to get married. Until the end of the year, there will be many wedding ceremonies. Folk songs are busy marrying hometown, and Yichun posts tease spring. Sisters whispering in front of the lamp, this year is the bridal chamber.