What are the Chinese customs for Chinese New Year

The Spring Festival generally refers to New Year's Eve and the first day of the first month. However, in folklore, the Spring Festival traditionally refers to the period from the Lunar New Year Festival on the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, or the Zaos Festival on the 23rd or 24th day of the Lunar New Year, until the 15th day of the first month of the lunar year, with New Year's Eve and the first day of the first month as the climax. During the Spring Festival, the Han Chinese and many ethnic minorities in China hold various activities to celebrate. These activities are mainly to worship gods and buddhas, pay homage to ancestors, get rid of the old and bring in the new, welcome joy and receive blessings, and pray for a good year. The activities are colorful and have strong ethnic characteristics.

[Stove] [dust] [eat stove sugar]

China's Spring Festival is generally from the beginning of the annual Lunar New Year 23rd or 24th of the sacrificial stove, there is the so-called "official three people four boat family five", that is, the government in the Lunar New Year on the twenty-third day, the general civilian family on the twenty-fourth day, the people on the water in the twenty-fifth day of the ceremony. Stove ceremony. After holding the sacrificial stove, will formally begin to do to meet the New Year's preparations. Every year from the 23rd day of the lunar month to the New Year's Eve of this period of time, the folk called "welcome spring day".

[Bathing]

Traditional folklore is to focus on bathing and washing on these two days to remove the bad luck of the year and prepare for the coming New Year, and there is a proverb in Beijing that says, "Wash the guilt on the twenty-seventh day of the Lunar New Year, and wash the slovenly on the twenty-eighth day of the Lunar New Year". Lunar New Year's Day 26 bath for "wash the blessing of Lu".

[Posting of door gods][Posting of Spring Festival couplets][Keeping of the New Year][Eating of New Year's Eve dinner]

[Setting off of firecrackers][Ancestral worship][Giving of New Year's money]

The word "除" in the Chinese character "除" in the Chinese character "除" means "to go away; to change; to alternate"; The meaning of the word "in addition to" in "New Year's Eve" is "go; change; alternation", the meaning of the New Year's Eve is "the end of the month and the end of the year", people want to get rid of the old part of the new, there is the old year to this year and remove the meaning of the next year another new year, is the last night of the whole year of the Lunar Calendar. Therefore, the activities during this period are centered around the old part of the new, eliminate disasters and pray for blessings as the center.

[Sacrifice to the God of Wealth][Legend of the God of Wealth]

In the north, the second day of the first month of the God of Wealth, this day, whether it is a trade store, or ordinary families, are to be held in sacrifice to the God of Wealth activities. Each family sacrifices the god of wealth that they received on New Year's Eve. In fact, they incinerate the rough prints they bought. On this day, wontons are eaten at noon, commonly known as "Yuanbao soup". Fish and mutton are used as offerings.

[Sacrifice to the god of wealth][Road head god][Send poor][Market]

The fifth day of the first month is commonly known as the fifth. One said that many taboos before the fifth day can be broken on this day. According to the old custom to eat "water dumplings", the north called "cooking meat and potatoes". Women are no longer taboo door, began to visit each other to congratulate the New Year. The new bride in this day to return to peace. One said that the day of the broken five should not do things, otherwise the year meets a failure.

[Valley Day][Shunxing]

Folk to the eighth day of the first month for the stars down to the world, the production of small lamps burned and sacrificed, known as the Shunxing, also known as the "sacrifice star", "catching the star". Legend has it that the eighth day of the month is the birthday of Guzi. This day the weather is sunny, the Lord of the day a good harvest of rice, the day is cloudy, the year is poor.

[Lantern Festival][Send children lamps][Welcome Zigu]

[Walking 100 diseases][Stealing Vegetables Festival][Bawu Festival]

The Lantern Festival is also known as the night of the yuan, the night of the yuan, also known as the festival of the first yuan, because it is the first full moon of the new year. This festival is also known as the Festival of Lights because of the custom of viewing lamps during this festival throughout the ages. Lantern Festival custom of the formation of a longer process, the Han Emperor's first month on the night of Sin in the Ganquan Palace sacrifice "Taiyi" activities, by later generations as the first day of the first month of the fifteenth day of sacrifice to the gods of the first voice of the sky.

[Receiving the Jade Emperor][Catching up with the chaotic year][Illuminating the silkworms][Thousand Lanterns Festival]

After sending the God of the Zaos to heaven, the God of the Zaos was welcomed back on New Year's Eve, and in the meantime there was no god on earth to govern the people, and there were no taboos, and people got married, which is known as the "Catching up with the chaotic year". Messy year is the people designed for themselves to regulate the social life of a specific period of time. At the end of the year, people have leisure and savings, and it is a good time for people who usually have little energy to organize big events.

[Small New Year's Eve] [New Year's Eve]

The day before New Year's Eve is called "Small New Year's Eve," when families set up banquets and people visit each other. The day before New Year's Eve is called Tianxiang, and it usually takes three days to burn incense in the open air.

[New Year's][Open Door Cannonball]

[Occupy the year][Poster Chicken][Gathering of Wealth]

This day is the first day of the year, the first day of spring, the first day of the first month, and so it is known as the "Sanyuan"; this day is also the dynasty of the year, the dynasty of the month, the dynasty of the day, and so it is called the "Three Dynasties". "Three Dynasties". Different periods of Chinese history had changed the time of the first day of the first month according to their own cultural traditions and customs.

[Burning the paper of the door god][Guzi's birthday][Xiaonianzhao]

Xiaonianzhao, or Tianqing Festival. Song dynasty court festival, Song Zhenzong Dazhong Xiangfu first year, because of rumors of heavenly books descending to earth, Zhenzong issued an imperial edict, set the first three days of the first month for the day of the festival, officials and other leave for five days. Later, it was called the Small New Year's Day, and it was the same as the Yearly Day without sweeping the ground, begging for fire, or drawing water.

[Man Day][Pancake][Eat Seven Treasures Soup]

Legend has it that the female snail first created the world, and after making animals such as chickens, dogs, pigs, cows, and horses, she made man on the seventh day, so this day is the birthday of mankind. Han Dynasty began to human day festival custom, Wei Jin began to pay attention to. In ancient times, there was the custom of wearing a "human victory" on the human day. Because it is the day of man, so in ancient times this day is not the custom of execution.

[Stone birthday][He rat married daughter][New Year ten days song]

In the old days, the folk held in the first month of the ritual rat activities, also known as "rat married daughter" "rat married". The specific date varies from place to place, there is the seventh of January, there is the seventeenth of January, there is the twenty-fifth of January, many areas are the tenth of January. The way to worship rats also varies from place to place.

[Eastern suburb to welcome spring][Spring post][Spring cow][Bite spring]

Spring day to welcome spring, is the Chinese ancestors in the first spring day of an important activity. In the Zhou Dynasty, when the spring, the son of heaven personally led the three dukes and nine ministers of the vassals to go to the eastern suburbs to welcome the spring, praying for a good harvest. After returning, he rewarded his ministers and gave them the favor of the people. It became a universal spring festival for generations to come.

Commonly known as the "New Year". People regarded the New Year as the grandest of all festivals. Preparations began as soon as the month of Lunar New Year began: making New Year's cakes, sewing new clothes, shopping for New Year's goods, dusting, sweeping, and dredging.

On the morning of the first day of the first month of the year, families choose the auspicious time to firecrackers to open the door, so-called "open the door of wealth". The whole family get up, to take candy and cakes, playing "morning people". Breakfast vegetarian, generally eat rice cakes, dumplings, rice poi, oil tofu, etc., symbolizing "reunion". After breakfast, people first go to the Ancestors' Hall, where they kneel down and pay homage to their ancestors, and then the elders of each family lead them to pay homage to all the families in the village. In the morning, the whole village, led by the elders, beat gongs and drums to the ancestral hall to pay homage to their ancestors or temples to the Buddha, known as the "trip"; picking back evergreen branches to insert them in the door, known as "Nacai". On this day, avoid sweeping and pouring water outside, the will is to avoid the outflow of wealth. At the same time, do not speak unlucky words.

From the second day of the year, friends and relatives to congratulate the New Year. Usually the first worship Yuejia, the second worship other friends and relatives, as the saying goes: "the first cub, the second Lang, the third and fourth random line.

The third to fifteenth, most of the countryside dance dragon lanterns, lions, or perform flower-drum plays. Dragon lanterns before the colorful flags and lanterns, gongs and drums to open the way, after the help team, the band, the vast and mighty. Each to a village, to firecrackers to welcome, some invited to eat the door wine, commonly known as "invite seat". At this time, dragon lanterns, lions have to perform a show of appreciation. What is the year? Nian is the image of the ears of grain sagging, is a symbol of the harvest, the so-called "grain is ripe said Nian".

What is Nian? The year is a monster that spends all year round in the deep sea, only coming ashore on New Year's Eve. Once it

came ashore, it flooded wherever it went. Later, people put up red paper in front of their homes, burned firewood in the yard, gathered

fire, chopped vegetables and meat with kitchen knives, and made a thunderous sound. The "year" was scared back into the sea.

New Year's Eve is a time for putting up couplets, hanging lanterns, wearing new clothes, and chopping dumplings and making dumplings, and then at night you have to gather the fire and burn the firewood, and that's the year.

So how did the ancient people celebrate the New Year? Let's listen to this "New Year's Day Song"----

Twenty-three sacrifices to Zaotian,

Twenty-four writing couplets,

Twenty-five making bean curd,

Twenty-six cutting New Year's meat,

Twenty-five making tofu, and twenty-six cutting the meat. Meat,

............

Kowtow on the first and second days of the year,

Juggle balls on the third and fourth days of the year,

Dance with monkeys on the fifth and sixth days of the year,

... .........

"Have a big year, busy half a year", the ancients from the waxing of the month began to busy "New Year's Eve", until after the New Year's Eve, this year < /p>

It is finished. Then we trace the ancients of the "year step", the first to sacrifice the stove -

The stove is a year of worship of the gods in the most exposed one,

The custom of sacrificing the stove is very early, is the ancestors of the fire, the stove of gratitude,

The expression of reverence.

The custom of sacrificing to the stove has been around for a long time, and is an expression of the ancestors' gratitude and reverence for the fire and stove. In the legend, the Yellow Emperor, Yan Di, Zhu Rong

were all Zao deities. In later times, the popular Zaoshen, surnamed Zhang List, had the character Ziguo, and was

long

like a beautiful woman. He had a wife named "Qing Ji", six daughters all named "Cha Qiao", and several generals. In addition to being in charge of the stove fire, he was also responsible for investigating what was being done on earth and reporting it to the Heavenly Emperor. People also used wine lees, caramelized sugar and sticky cakes to bribe the god of the stove

and prayed and begged him to speak good words in heaven. This

property has been passed down to the present day, but the time is on the 24th day of the Lunar New Year,

sacrificial food has also been simplified into the "stove sugar stove cake", but if you pay attention

if you will still hear grandma, mom in the instructions of the king of the stove: on the

heaven to say good things, not good can not say! ......

The firecracker sound of a new year, the spring breeze sends warmth into the tusu,

Thousands of households pupil day, always put the new peach for the old symbols.

--Wang Anshi

The firecracker was initially a tool of witchcraft to drive away demons and ghosts. The first firecrackers were not firecrackers like today's

but real bamboo, which was burned to make a crackling sound to frighten ghosts and monsters. Tusu is Tusu wine, which means

to kill ghosts and wake up human souls. It is said that drinking this wine on the morning of the first day of the year can keep you from getting sick for a year, and then the wine drunk in the Spring Festival will be collectively known as "Tusu Wine".

Peach symbols, also known as "peach plate", is the predecessor of the Spring Festival couplets. Ancient people believe that peach wood is the essence of the five wood, can control the ghosts, so from the

Han Dynasty, it is useful to use the peach for the aversion to victory of the custom of peach wood for peach people, peach seal, peach plate, peach symbols to ward off evil spirits. Peach symbols

Converted into spring scrolls are said to have originated from Meng Chang, the lord of Shu in the Five Dynasties. Paper-based spring scrolls flourished only in the Ming and Qing dynasties. Today's

Chinese New Year's couplets are meant to render the atmosphere of the New Year's festivals, wishing good luck and seeking good fortune, and have already lost the role of the old Spring Festival couplets to drive away, but also rich in content

rich, diverse forms.

Writing the couplets, the next preparation for the New Year's food, New Year's Day

diet, such as rice cakes, New Year's Eve dinner, the year-end dumplings, and so on. There are also

highly witchcraft-flavored foods, such as peach soup, cypress wine, pepper wine, and five

sin plates. Peach soup is a soup made from peaches, cypress wine is a kind of wine made from cypress leaves, and pepper wine is wine made from pepper seeds, which the ancients drank on the first day of the first lunar month to ward off evil spirits and pray for good luck. Five Xin plate that is to onion, ginger and other five kinds of spicy

spicy food on a plate, also known as the spring plate. It is said to ward off evil, get rid of the plague,

Through the five viscera, but also has the meaning of congratulations on the new.

The hotel cold light alone do not sleep, the guest heart what to turn miserable.

This is the first time I've thought about my hometown, and I'll be there tomorrow.

New Year's Eve is the night of reunion, the Chinese people are difficult to solve a reunion knot, even if the people at the end of the world, but also in the New Year's Eve

night to rush home to eat New Year's Eve dinner, the year-end vigil. New Year's Eve home is an extraordinarily warm and sweet space, and in history even

even prisoners in jail were released to go home for a reunion. The whole family sits at the table and begins the process of "reunion" and "observance of the New Year"

. First, there is a "New Year's dinner", after which the whole family sits together to observe the New Year.

At this time, the youngest children salute their fathers and grandfathers and parents to say goodbye,

and the oldest people have to share the New Year's money. Pressing the new year's money, also known as "bet on the year

money," "on behalf of the year-old money," "year-old money," originally used to

aversion to drive away evil spirits, to help small children in the New Year, the later generations are more

This is a way to show affection and love.

After the New Year's Eve dinner, there will be "night", the family ate

snacks, or laughing and playing, or words of rain, waiting for the day

Ming, which is the old age vigil. In addition to New Year's Eve, there is a mirror to listen to,

Shine field silkworms, selling dementia, playing ash heap and other customs, as a way to

Divine the year's good and bad luck and blame, and pray for a new year of children

Clever, all things are as you wish.

"In the countryside New Year's Eve, from Lunar New Year until the first half of the first month, a full month and a half of gongs and drums, the sound monotonous,

but touched us every Chinese people's heart. It was at this time that ...... found the spring flowers blooming."

Yes, the spring flowers are blooming, and a new year has come!

The ancients called the first eight days of the new positive with six animals and people and valleys respectively. The first day of the first month of the new year was the day of the rooster, the auspicious day.

The ancients used chickens to ward off evil spirits by killing chickens at the door or posting paintings of chickens at the door. Starting from New Year's Day, people began to be busy

Paying homage to the New Year and celebrating the festival. In the Han Dynasty, it was popular to pay homage to the emperor and his subjects on the first day of the first month of the Chinese New Year. By the

Ming and Qing dynasties, the official New Year's visit has developed into a virtual ritual, often "looking at the door to throw thorns", regardless of recognition.

There is a poem for proof:

Not seeking to meet but through the visit, the famous paper towards the full my hut.

I also cast a number of paper with people, the world is too simple not too false.

In the folk belief, the first to the fourth, is the new year's carnival days, to the fifth to resume the usual life

Life. The customary activity on the fifth day of the month, also known as the "fifth day of the month", is to "send the poor", and for merchants, the fifth day of the month is the day of business

opening of the business. The activities of the first month until the fifteenth, and only gradually calm ......