Customs of Spring Festival and Lantern Festival

Now the Spring Festival in the eyes of children

It is a holiday, eating, drinking and having fun.

Where do you know the traditional Spring Festival customs and related legends?

Now the taste of the year has changed from generation to generation.

Now, I will tell you about the customs of Lantern Festival and Spring Festival.

Fifteen taboos you must know on the first day of Spring Festival custom.

1. The married daughter can't go back to her parents' home.

On the first day of New Year's Day, the married daughter goes back to her family, which means that she has to be poor, so she can only go back to her family on the second or third day of the following year, but the implication is that the married daughter is already the daughter-in-law of someone else's family. During the Chinese New Year, there must be many people from my husband's family coming to pay New Year greetings, and my daughter-in-law has to help bring tea and water, so I can't go back to my family on the first day.

2. Avoid eating porridge, meat and medicine for breakfast.

In the past, poor families only ate porridge, so they had to eat dry rice on the first morning of the new year, which meant that the family would be rich all year round. On the other hand, the morning of the first day of the new year is called the gathering of gods, which means that all the gods come out to pay New Year greetings. Therefore, in order to show respect, first of all, don't eat meat and be vegetarian. In addition, it is best not to eat general tonics and tonics on the first day of the New Year.

3. Avoid calling other people's names to wake people up.

Don't wake up by name on the first morning of the new year, which means that you need to urge each other to do things all year round.

4. Avoid paying New Year greetings to people who are still sleeping.

At the beginning of the year, don't pay New Year greetings to each other while they are still sleeping, wait until they get up, because this will make them lie in bed all year.

Avoid taking medicine

Promise? Take medicine for a whole year in grade one, what disease can't be cured? Therefore, no matter how heavy the patient is, he doesn't take medicine on the first day.

6. Don't touch knives and scissors.

Promise? On the first day with a knife, it is inevitable that there is right or wrong. .

7. Don't touch the needle money

Promise? On the first day, I spent money on needles and chose the eye of a needle with a long dragon rib (the eyes of a child born are as small as needles)? .

8. avoid chopping wood with an axe

Promise? The first axe chopping wood (wealth) is gone forever? .

9. Avoid borrowing money

Promise? Borrowed other people's money on the first day and relied on foreign aid all the year round; Lend money to others on the first day of junior high school, and the property will flow out for a whole year? .

10. Avoid hitting furniture (plates, bowls, wine utensils and other fragile items).

It is considered unlucky to break furniture all year round. However, in today's society, it doesn't matter if children accidentally break furniture, as long as adults say: Good old (broken), good old, safe old? And turn evil into good.

1 1. No siesta during the day.

Taking a nap during the day during the Chinese New Year means being lazy all year round. The implication is that it is impolite for many guests to take a nap when they go home to pay New Year greetings.

12. Avoid dumping sewage, garbage and sweeping the floor.

Don't sweep the floor during the Spring Festival, because it is easy to take away the wealth at home.

13. Don't be taken out of your pocket by others.

Don't let people take things out of their pockets during the Spring Festival, which means that the money will be taken away for a whole year.

14. Avoid collecting debts from others

During the Chinese New Year, no matter who you ask for debts or others, the whole year will be unlucky, so asking others for debts is a taboo.

15. Avoid laundry

There is a water god in the water. The birthday of the water god is on the second day of the first grade. Don't wash clothes these two days.

How much do you know about the customs of Lantern Festival?

eat yuanxiao

Eat yuanxiao on the fifteenth day of the first month. Lantern Festival? As food, it has a long history in China. In the Song Dynasty, a novel Lantern Festival food was popular among the people. This kind of food was originally called. Floating Zi Yuan? Are you done? Lantern Festival? , businessmen also euphemistically called? Yuanbao? . Yuanxiao, or "Tangyuan", contains sugar, roses, sesame seeds, red bean paste, cinnamon bark, walnut kernel, nuts, jujube paste and so on. And wrapped in glutinous rice flour into a circle, you can be vegetarian and have different flavors. It can be boiled, fried and steamed, which means happy reunion. Jiaozi, Shaanxi is not wrapped, but "rolled" in glutinous rice flour, or boiled or fried, warm and round.

the Lantern Festival

What day is the fifteenth day of the first lunar month? Lantern Festival? This festival is also called Lantern Festival, because there are folk customs of hanging lanterns, lighting lanterns and watching lanterns.

Lantern Festival is a traditional festival custom, which began in the Western Han Dynasty and flourished in Sui and Tang Dynasties. After the Sui and Tang Dynasties, lantern style prevailed in all previous dynasties and spread to future generations. The fifteenth day of the first month is the climax of the annual lantern fireworks. So it's also called Lantern Festival? Lantern Festival? In Shanxi's county-level city walls, even towns and villages, these residents are concentrated in busy and lively areas. Before the fifteenth day of the first month, the streets were covered with lanterns, flowers were everywhere and lights were swaying, which reached its climax on the fifteenth night of the first month. The fifteenth day of the first month? Look at the lights? It has become a spontaneous activity of Shanxi people. On the fifteenth night of the first month, red lights are hung high in the streets and alleys, including palace lanterns, animal lanterns, lanterns, lanterns and bird lanterns, which attract people who look at the lights. In Taiyuan area, the lights in Taigu County are very famous. Taikoo lamp is famous for its variety, exquisite production and beautiful appearance.

Solve riddles; solve lantern riddles; guess riddles on hanging lanterns

Solve riddles on the lanterns, also known as playing riddles, is a unique form of traditional folk entertainment with national style in China. It is a characteristic activity of the Lantern Festival that has been circulated since ancient times. On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, traditional folks hang lanterns and set off fireworks. Later, some busybodies wrote riddles on paper and posted them on colorful lanterns for people to guess. Because solve riddles on the lanterns can enlighten wisdom and cater to the festive atmosphere, many people responded. Later, solve riddles on the lanterns gradually became an indispensable program for the Lantern Festival. Lantern riddles add to the festive atmosphere, showing the intelligence and wisdom of ancient working people and their yearning for a better life.

Play with dragon lanterns

Playing dragon lanterns, also known as dragon lanterns or dragon dancing. Its origin can be traced back to ancient times. Legend has it that as early as the Yellow Emperor, in a large-scale song and dance in the suburbs of Qing Dynasty, there was a leading bird image played by a man, and then a dance scene with six dragons interspersed with each other was arranged. The dragon dance recorded in writing is Zhang Heng's Xijing Fu in Han Dynasty. The author vividly described the dragon dance in the descriptions of hundreds of plays. According to Sui Shu? According to music records, Huanglongbian, similar to the dragon dance performances in hundreds of plays during the reign of Yang Di, is also very wonderful. Dragon dancing is very popular in many places in China. The Chinese nation advocates dragons and regards them as auspicious symbols.

walk on stilts

Walking on stilts is a popular folk performance. Stilts, originally one of the hundred plays in ancient China, appeared as early as the Spring and Autumn Period. China first introduced stilts in Liezi? Narrator:? In the Song Dynasty, there were Zilan people who used their skills to do the Song and Yuan Dynasties. Summoned in the Song and Yuan Dynasties to see their skills.

lion dance

Lion dance is an excellent folk art in China. Whenever the Lantern Festival or the celebration of the General Assembly, people always come to the lion dance to entertain. This custom originated in the Three Kingdoms period and was popular in the Southern and Northern Dynasties. It has a history of 1000 years.

? Lion dance? It began in Wei and Jin Dynasties and flourished in Tang Dynasty. Lion dance? 、? Taiping Le? It is usually done by three people. Two people dressed as lions, one as the lion's head, one as the lion's body and hind feet, and one as the lion's head. Dance is divided into civilian and military. The artistic dance shows the gentleness of the lion, such as shaking hair and rolling, while the martial lion shows the fierceness of the lion, such as prancing, pushing high and rolling colored balls.

Dry boating

Rowing a dry boat, folklore is to commemorate Dayu who has made great contributions to water control. Rowing a dry boat, also known as running a dry boat, is an imitation of a boat on land, and the performers are mostly girls. Dry boat is not a real boat. It is made of two thin wooden boards, sawed into a boat shape, tied with bamboo and wood, covered with colored cloth and tied around the girl's waist, just like sitting on a boat, rowing with paddles in hand, singing and jumping while running. This is a dry ship. Sometimes, another man dressed as a boatman performs with his partners, mostly dressed as a clown, and amuses the audience with various funny actions. Dry boats are very popular in many areas of China.

eat yuanxiao

? Lantern Festival? As food, it has a long history in China. In the Song Dynasty, a novel Lantern Festival food was popular among the people. This kind of food was originally called. Floating Zi Yuan? Are you done? Lantern Festival? , businessmen also euphemistically called? Yuanbao? . Ancient times? Lantern Festival? The price is more expensive, and there is a poem saying: guests look at the imperial street with a hook curtain, and the treasures in the city come for a while. There is no way out in front of the curtain, and the money can't be returned. ?

North? Get out? Lantern Festival, South? Bags? Tangyuan, these are two foods with different practices and tastes.

Sacrifice the door and family

In ancient times? Seven sacrifices? These are two of them. The method of sacrifice is to insert poplar branches above the door, insert a pair of chopsticks in a bowl filled with bean porridge, or put wine and meat directly in front of the door.

Mouse chase

Chasing rats is a traditional folk activity of Lantern Festival, which began in Wei and Jin Dynasties. Mainly for sericulture families. Because mice often eat silkworms in large areas at night, it is said that they can stop eating silkworms by feeding them rice porridge on the fifteenth day of the first month.

According to the Chronicle of Jingchu, on the fifteenth day of the first month, a fairy descended to a family named Chen and said to them: If you can sacrifice to me, let your silkworm have a good harvest. Later, a custom was formed.

Send a children's lamp.

Abbreviation? Send a light? , also called what? Send lanterns? Wait, just before the Lantern Festival, the bride's family sends lanterns to the newly-married daughter's family, or ordinary relatives and friends send them to the newly-married infertile family, in order to increase good luck, because? Lights? With what? Ding? Homophonic. This custom exists in many places. In Xi city, Shaanxi province, lanterns are put on from the eighth to the fifteenth day of the first month. In the first year, a pair of palace lanterns and a pair of stained glass lamps were presented. I hope my daughter will be lucky after marriage and have children early. If the daughter is pregnant, in addition to the big palace lantern, one or two pairs of small lanterns should be sent to wish her a safe pregnancy.

Yingzigu

Zigu is also called Gucci, and in the north she is called toilet aunt and pit aunt. The ancient folk custom is to offer sacrifices to Ce Shen Zigu on the 15th day of the first month, and to offer sacrifices to silkworm and mulberry, which shows many things. Legend has it that Zi Guyuan was a concubine and was envied by her eldest daughter. On the fifteenth day of the first month, he was killed in the toilet and turned into Ce Shen. On the night of welcoming the daughter-in-law, people tie the portrait of the daughter-in-law with straw and cloth, and greet her in the toilet with pigsty at night. This custom is popular in the north and south, and it was recorded as early as the Northern and Southern Dynasties.

Walking sickness

? Stay away from all diseases? Also known as swimming, scattering, roasting and crossing the bridge, it is an activity to eliminate disasters and pray for blessings. On the Lantern Festival night, women meet and go out together. When they see the bridge, they will cross it, thinking that this can cure diseases and prolong life.