Chinese New Year Customs Inventory Chinese New Year Customs

1, worship

Worship, is one of the ancient New Year's activities. On the morning of the first day of the year to welcome the new year, offering fasting food to worship "the year god". "Years", also known as "Regent", "too old", for the ancient era of star names, but also folk beliefs of the gods. Years to sixty jiazi of the stem and branch chronology for the operation of the cycle, *** sixty, each year there is a year-old god on duty, in the year when the duty of the year-old called "value of the year-old", is a year-old master, in charge of the year on earth's good fortune and bad luck. Such as the "three life" said: "the year-old, is a year of the master, the leader of the gods". Paying homage to the year-old is the oldest traditional New Year's Eve custom, which is still prevalent in Guangdong, especially in the Wuchuan area. On the first day of the new year, the traditional custom of welcoming the new year, worshipping the god of the year and receiving blessings has been passed down from generation to generation since ancient times.

2, the door cannonball

The morning of the Spring Festival, open the door, the first firecrackers, called "open the door cannonball". After the sound of firecrackers, broken red all over the ground, brilliant as a cloud of brocade, known as "full of red". At this time, the street is full of auspicious, joyful. "Open door firecrackers" is an ancient saying. In the coming of the new year, the first thing to open the door of every household is to set off firecrackers, to beeping firecrackers to get rid of the old and welcome the new.

3, Lent

Morning worship, firecrackers. The morning of the first day of the year with fasting dishes to worship the god of the year, breakfast must eat fasting, with vermicelli, bamboo, hairy vegetables, mushrooms, etc., the year to eat vegetarian dishes are eaten in this morning, and then you can eat big fish and meat.