Spring Festival customs and habits

The Spring Festival has a long history, evolved from the ancient times of the first year of praying for the year sacrifice, in the inheritance of the development of carrying a rich historical and cultural heritage. So do you know what are the customs of the Spring Festival? The small partners interested in a little bit to understand.

1, waxing twenty-four: sweeping the house

Ancient Spring Festival sweeping known as "sweeping the year", originated in the ancient people to drive out the disease of a religious ceremony. Later gradually evolved into the end of the year cleaning. According to early folklore, "dust" and old "Chen" is a harmonic. Now in the first month of the lunar new year, sweep away all the dust in the home, meaning that the removal of the old year's old things, the bad "poor luck", "bad luck" are swept out, in order to meet the new year.

2, Lunar New Year's Eve: Make Tofu

As the saying goes, "Lunar New Year's Eve, push the mill to make tofu". But why "tofu"? As far as the tofu itself is concerned, it is a good alternative to meat, and in the past, poor people always looked forward to a good meal in the New Year. Tofu is a cross between meat and vegetables, and can be used in a variety of dishes instead of meat. Of course, "making tofu" also has a symbolic meaning. The Chinese words "腐" and "福" have a similar pronunciation, and making tofu means "harvesting happiness and good fortune in the New Year".

3, Lunar New Year 26: to cut meat

Lunar New Year 26, is the New Year's Eve during the important day of shopping for goods, in the old society, the people's standard of living is not high, and often difficult to see a few times a year on the dinner table meat, and only on New Year's Eve when you can not afford to eat a back to meat, so the people will be the New Year's Eve to prepare the meat, known as the "year of the meat! So the people called the meat prepared for the New Year "Nianmei". Until today, in the countryside all over China, many places in this day have a big market, the people in this day to catch the market, to buy after the New Year's gifts to relatives, New Year's firecrackers, cigarettes, wine, fish, meat and so on need to go to this day to buy. Folk proverb tube this day called: "Lunar month 26, kill the pig cut the meat."

4, Lunar New Year's Eve 27: Zai Niancheng

Zai Niancheng, one of the traditional customs in northern China. "Chicken" with "auspicious", there is auspicious, auspicious and lucky meaning, Lunar New Year's Day 27 to kill the chicken is also a good idea. The chicken is not eaten on the same day, but only on New Year's Eve, and the chicken is not eaten on New Year's Eve, but is kept a little bit. Because, in itself, represents great luck, so during the festival, every day to see chicken on the table, so as to be complete.

5, Lunar New Year's Eve: playing rice cake

Niancao is sticky rice flour or corn flour with large dates or beans steamed food. Cake made for the Spring Festival is called rice cake. Because of the cake and high harmonized, New Year's Eve eating rice cake contains the good wishes of the year high. According to Han Chinese folk customs and traditions to the lunar calendar on the twenty-eighth day of the Lunar New Year, there are playing rice cakes to prepare the staple food for the New Year's custom.

The above is what I know about the customs of the Spring Festival, partners you know what else? Leave a message in the comments section.