Minnan Spring Festival tradition

Minnan people no longer celebrate the Spring Festival as described in the article. Perhaps many young people in southern Fujian are not familiar with many traditional customs. Many traditional customs of the Spring Festival have gradually withdrawn from the life of Minnan people in the dust of the years. But the advantage of tradition-perhaps it is fresh in people's memory and can always smell the past.

The Spring Festival is the oldest and grandest traditional folk festival of the Chinese nation. Festivals in southern Fujian began on December 16th of the lunar calendar. Every household should worship the landlord, burn gold paper and set off firecrackers, and pray for rich resources and healthy families in the coming year. Bosses who run businesses and factories should hold banquets for their employees to reward their hard work in the past year and add strength to their hard work in the coming year. This is called "eating tail teeth" locally. Every time the "tail tooth" happens, all restaurants and restaurants will attend the wedding. Besides employees, relatives and friends will get together and have a real meal. On the 23 rd of the twelfth lunar month, send the kitchen god. Put on good food and send the kitchen god to heaven. Interestingly, the offering must have "glutinous rice balls", which means that the kitchen god is expected to pick up good things and not say bad things. There is even a saying in Minnan that "good words spread to heaven and bad words are put aside". From this day to the Lunar New Year's Eve, every household should clean up the courtyard, bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new year, which is also commonly known as "Sweeping the Hall Festival". Men stop working and go home, and women start buying new year's goods. During the Spring Festival, women are busier. Before lunch, women will divide the prepared and cooked new year's goods into several bowls, pick them to the "public milk hall" and put them on the table to offer sacrifices to their ancestors. Delicacies and delicacies respect ancestors first. Among them, branches such as "rice spring" and "rice spring" pasted with yellow, red and gold will also be inserted. In Minnan dialect, "spring" and "leftover" are homophonic, meaning to have plenty of food and clothing in the coming year. Then, burn gold paper and set off firecrackers. After lunch, women often clean the bottom of the pot and remove the old ash to welcome the New Year. Men, on the other hand, must wait until after the Chinese New Year to eat water and irrigation boxes. Since iron pots are rarely used now, and every family has running water, these customs have gradually been forgotten. Children and busy parents put up Spring Festival couplets together. Sticking Spring Festival couplets is also a bit particular, not just at home. And the couplets posted in different places are different. Xiaolian is a small square paper cut from red paper, and the book is bigger. On the four corners of the square paper, four small characters are written in the order of "up, down, left and right", and most of them are written with the idiom "good luck". The shelf in the cupboard room should be labeled with "delicacies", the rice jar should be labeled with "abundant grains", the well should be labeled with "Longquan catching water", the pigsty should be labeled with "livestock thriving", the door should be labeled with "safe entry and exit" and the door should be labeled with "health and peace"-the atmosphere of the New Year is getting stronger with the noise. At night, every household piles firewood in front of the door. Light it, when the fire burns, the man jumps over the flame according to his generation, and while jumping into his mouth, he says, "Jump over and get rich every year;" Jump out, carefree * * *; Skip the east, the grain is not empty; Skip the west and money will roll in. " This is called "Fire Jumping", which symbolizes burning the bad luck of the old year and welcoming a beautiful, happy and joyful New Year. On New Year's Eve, farmers will prepare sacrifices to worship the gods and ancestors. During the Spring Festival, the lights are brightly lit every night and the lights are not turned off at night. And in front of the table, kitchen god and room, red candles are lit, which means prosperity and happiness in the coming year. The family happily ate the New Year's Eve dinner around the table. After the New Year's Eve dinner, they kept the old age pass. Every family set off fireworks and firecrackers on the roof to celebrate the arrival of the New Year. As soon as "Handover Time ④" is over, people will worship the gods and parents with red and white rice cakes, and then set off firecrackers to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new in he qing. On New Year's Day, there is an interesting agreement in the farmhouse. Don't clean the floor, don't say bad words and hurt people, you can clean the garbage until after the fourth day. On the first day, after people get up early, they will set off a string of firecrackers to comfort the new year and make them happy. Then, every household visits each other and wishes each other a happy New Year, happiness and peace. On the second day of New Year's Day, it is son-in-law day. Married daughters will take their children and husbands back to their parents' homes, and women can't help but talk enthusiastically and have a good time; Men, on the other hand, treat each other with wine, * * * have fun together, and don't get drunk. On the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, welcoming the Kitchen God is a gift to God. On the ninth day of the Lunar New Year, it is "born in heaven". Farmers prepare delicious food and wine early, burn incense and pray, and celebrate the birthday of "God". At this time, the celebration of the New Year has gradually come to an end. Note: ① Eating tail teeth: December 16th of the lunar calendar, the last 16th of the lunar calendar in a year. Businessmen ask employees to have toothache, so they are called "tail teeth". ② Gongnaitang: Grandma Gong Zu's old house, who lives together, is generally magnificent and looks like an ancestral temple. There is a table in the hall. Only on holidays will someone come to worship, and it is usually put aside. ③ Fire jumping: The more the fire burns, the more prosperous it will be in the coming year. ④ Handover time: midnight 12 o'clock, which is the handover point between New Year's Eve and the first day of junior high school. 5 providence: the birthday of providence. There are many birthdays of such gods in the farmhouse, such as Guanyin's birthday. "Everyone is born"-everyone's birthday.