Customs from the 30th to the 7th day of the Lunar New Year

The customs from the 30th day of the Lunar New Year to the 7th day of the Lunar New Year are as follows:

1. New Year's Eve

The last day and night of the Lunar New Year. The last day of the end of the year is called "the year in addition", meaning that the old year to the end of this, another new year. New Year's Eve is to get rid of the old cloth new, family reunion, ancestor worship days, with the Qingming Festival, July 30th, Chung Yeung Festival is a traditional Chinese folk ancestor worship festival.

Traditional customs: setting the heaven and earth table, offering sacrifices to ancestors, burning firecrackers, eating New Year's Eve dinner, receiving the gods, stepping on the spirits, and receiving the god of wealth.

2, the first day of the first month of the year

begins to enter the welcome Jubilee and receive blessings, worship the gods and ancestors, praying for a good year theme. The first day of the year when the time to turn over the New Year, firecrackers, fireworks in the sky, the resignation of the old year, welcome the New Year and other activities to celebrate the New Year reached a climax. Firecrackers in the sound of the old year, fireworks in the sky to welcome the New Year. Chinese New Year morning open the door, the first burning firecrackers, called "open the door cannonballs", to send the old and welcome the new.

After the sound of firecrackers, broken red all over the ground, brilliant as a cloud of brocade, known as the "full red". The first day of the first month to welcome the new year, worship. In the morning, each family burned incense to salute, honoring heaven and earth, sacrificing ancestors, worshipping the god of the year. Then pay respects to their elders in turn, followed by congratulations from friends and relatives of the same clan. On the first day of the new year, people get up early, put on their prettiest clothes, dress up neatly and go out, wishing for a prosperous new year.

Traditional customs: opening the door with cannonballs, worshipping the New Year, praying for the New Year, worshipping the New Year, occupying the New Year, and gathering wealth.

3, the second day of the first month of the year

New Year's Day, the morning of worship to the gods of heaven and earth, rituals, burning guns, burning paper treasure, and then eat "New Year's Day". This meal "New Year's dinner" is generally prepared hairy vegetables, lettuce, fish, etc., is intended to take the meaning of its wealth and road. This day the married daughter back to her mother's home, to husband and son-in-law to go, so commonly known as "son-in-law day". Daughters returning to their mother's home must carry some gifts and red envelopes to distribute to the children in their mother's home, and have lunch in their mother's home, but must be back in-laws before dinner.

Traditional customs: worshipping the gods, going back to the mother's home, and starting the New Year's dinner.

4, the third day of the first month of the lunar calendar

Also known as the Red Dog Day, the "Red Mouth" usually does not go out to pay homage to the New Year, and legend has it that this day is prone to verbal disputes with people. Ancient folk in southern China, the morning of the third day of the Lunar New Year to stick "red mouth" (forbidden mouth), that this day is prone to quarrels, it is not suitable for New Year's. The so-called "red mouth", "red mouth", "red mouth", "red mouth", "red mouth". The so-called "red mouth", generally about seven or eight inches long and one inch wide strip of red paper, written on some of the words of peace and good fortune. In short, the sticker "red mouth", is to make people psychologically feel safe in and out of the year, not with people or various unfortunate disasters, home more wealth into the treasure, all the best.

Traditional custom: burn the paper of the door god.

5, the fourth day of the first month of the year

The day of sacrifice to the God of Wealth, to welcome the God and receive the God. In the Book of Chan, it is said that the fourth day of the first month of the lunar calendar is the day when Nuwa made sheep, so it is called "Sheep Day". On this day, people should not kill sheep, and if the weather is good, it means that the sheep will be raised well during the year, and people who raise sheep will have a good harvest.

Traditional customs: welcoming the gods and receiving the gods, receiving the five roads, eating folding Luo, throwing poor.

6, the fifth day of the first month of the year

According to folk custom is the birthday of the god of wealth of the five roads, so we should welcome the god of wealth into the home, blessing their new year of wealth, year after year. At the same time, it is also natural to send away the "poor" day, so there is a "send poor out of the door," said. This day is also commonly known as "broken five", meaning that the previous days of many taboos to this end. Broken five customs in addition to the above taboos, mainly to send poor, welcome the God of Fortune, the opening of the market trade. Northern folk have the custom of eating dumplings, which means to attract wealth and treasure. Legend has it that the fifth day of the first month of the lunar calendar is the "Day of the Ox".

Traditional customs: offering sacrifices to the God of Wealth (in the south), sending the poor and opening the market.

7, the sixth day of the first month of the year

"Horse Day", called the Sixth Day of the Sixth Month. On this day, every household should throw out the garbage accumulated during the festival, which is called sending the poor. The sixth day of the New Year is also the day of the opening of the market, stores and restaurants are officially open for business, and to set off firecrackers, no less than the situation on New Year's Eve.?

Traditional customs: send poor, Kai Shi.

8, the seventh day of the first month

People's day, that is, the person's birthday, usually do not go out to pay homage. Cham Shu said, from the first day of the first day, the order of the creation of all things in heaven is "a chicken, two dogs, three pigs, four sheep, five oxen, six horses, seven people and eight grains", so the seventh day of the first day of the first month is the day of man. From the Han Dynasty literature began to human day festival custom written records, Wei and Jin began to pay attention to. Ancient people day have to wear "people win" custom, people win is a kind of headdress, also known as color win, Huasheng.

Traditional customs: smoked sky, eat seven jewels soup, send fire god.