Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - Traditional festivals - What are the folk customs during the Fengshun Spring Festival?

What are the folk customs during the Fengshun Spring Festival?

1. Sacrifice the stove in the twelfth lunar month, that is, on the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month. On the evening of the 23rd, the stove should be cleaned, the old stove god should be taken down and burned, and on the morning of the 30th, a new image should be put up. One for each

To welcome, wine and meat, candies, sugar cane, rice crackers, etc. must be arranged, incense, candles, and paper cannons must be burned in front of the stove.

2. Entering the Nianjie On December 25th of the lunar calendar, we enter the "Nianjie" and prepare to celebrate the New Year. People who go out have to rush home to celebrate the New Year.

After reaching the age limit, children should be taught not to curse each other or say unlucky words.

Before and after entering the new year, you should choose an auspicious day to sweep and clean the house.

It is necessary to clean the kitchen tables and benches, wash and dry the bedding and mosquito nets, and celebrate the new year cleanly.

3. New Year’s Eve, also known as New Year’s Eve, is the most lively and joyful day during the New Year.

On this morning, every household will worship Bodhisattva and worship gods.

On New Year's Eve, portraits of ancestors should be hung in every hall, bright red Spring Festival couplets should be pasted on the door, and red notes should be pasted on barn doors, in front of poultry stalls, on furniture, beds, and beside water tanks, which is called "Signing the New Year."

", also called "Shanghong".

Both adults and children should take a bath, put on new clothes, and celebrate the New Year cleanly.

Each hall must also display an offering table, an incense table, chickens, fish, meat, fruits, etc. to worship the ancestors.

4. After staying up late for the reunion dinner, the stove should be washed clean in preparation for a vegetarian meal on the morning of the first day of the first lunar month or throughout the day.

In the evening, we must stay up late to bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new year. Every room must be brightly lit all night, which is called "lighting the new year's fire." In some places, cattle pens and pig houses are also lit with lights.

Parents need to give lucky money to their children, and in some places, they also give lucky money to the elderly.

5. Fire dragon makes Lantern Festival. Fire dragon is a folk cultural activity in Meizhou, Guangzhou. It has a history of more than 300 years.

Every New Year's Lantern Festival, both men and women, old and young, are willing to watch the fire dragon performance. People think this is an auspicious event.

Not only were there dragons, but there were also drummers and people holding lobsters, goldfish, etc., making it very lively.