What are the Folk Customs of Lunar New Year

There are six folk customs in the month of Lunar New Year, which are: sacrificing to the stove, eating dumplings, eating sugar melons, putting up window decorations, putting up spring couplets and preparing New Year's goods.

One, the sacrificial stove

Lunar New Year is a traditional festival in China, also known as Xiezao, Zao Festival, Zao Wang Festival, Zao Festival. Xiao Nian time varies from region to region, the same is regarded as the beginning of the New Year, said the New Year to have a new atmosphere.

Two, eat dumplings

One to the waxing moon in the north began to eat a variety of dumplings. The winter solstice to eat, the small year to eat, and the New Year's Eve, the first day, the first five, the first seven also have to eat dumplings. Probably also because the dumplings can put a lot of dishes, making up to save time, and the family sitting together eating hot dumplings, the happy look more New Year's some of it.

Three, eat sugar melons

Small New Year's Eve love to eat stove sugar, so people in order to small New Year's Eve and Master Zao can "say good things to the sky", the formation of the Chinese people eat small New Year's Eve stove sugar folklore.

Four, window decals

Over the Lunar New Year 23, will be very close to the Spring Festival, door to door began to decorate their homes busy. Window decorations are usually cut in rural areas, and the elderly with grandchildren cut beautiful window decorations and stick them on, while in the city most of them go to buy window decorations.

Five, sticking spring couplets

Some areas are the New Year's Eve before sticking spring couplets, but many places on the New Year's Eve began, it is relatively early into the Spring Festival. Rural villages will generally ask the village writing better to write the Spring Festival, there are also their own home to write the Spring Festival, with the most common red paper and black brush, simple but not lack of flavor of the year.

Sixth, the preparation of New Year's goods

Small year from the New Year is less than ten days, people have long been in advance to buy good New Year's goods. Now online shopping is convenient, and the logistics before the Spring Festival is basically not harvested, will inevitably buy a long time in advance. But a lot of things such as vegetables, drinks and so on still have to start stocking up for the small year.

The twelfth month of the lunar calendar is the "month of wax", also known as the "wax month" in ancient times. This designation does not have much to do with the natural seasons, but is mainly related to the rituals of the year. The so-called "wax" was originally the name of the end-of-the-year festival. Han Ying Shao "Customs" that "summer is said to be Ka Ping, Yin is said to be the clear sacrifice, the week with a big wax, Han changed to wax. Waxing, hunting, said field hunting for animals and birds, to sacrifice their ancestors." Or said: "the wax, also, the new and the old handover, so the big sacrifice to report the work also." What is said here, whether it is after hunting to animal sacrifices to ancestors, or because of the intersection of the old and the new and sacrifices to the gods, anyway, is to engage in sacrificial activities, so that the waxing moon is a "month of sacrifices".