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Detailed information about the Spring Festival

Detailed information about the Spring Festival

Since ancient times, the Spring Festival is one of the grandest and most characteristic traditional festivals in China. The following is the detailed information about the Spring Festival that I have carefully organized, welcome to share with you.

The 23rd day of the Lunar New Year

Commonly known as the "small year", legend has it that this day is the day of "Lord Zao went to heaven".

Lunar New Year's Eve

Dusting and sweeping the house, this is the customary day of sweeping.

Lunar New Year's Eve

Making bean curd. Legend has it that the Jade Emperor would visit the world and eat the dregs of tofu as a sign of purity.

The 26th day of the Lunar New Year

Killing pigs to cut the meat, which people can only eat once a year at the annual festival.

Lunar New Year's Eve

Chicken slaughtering and the big bazaar, where everything needed for the Spring Festival is being organized.

Lunar New Year's Eve

Steamed buns and steamed buns with flowers. The ancient people used mahogany as a wood to ward off evil spirits, which was later replaced by red paper.

Lunar New Year's Eve

Going to the grave to invite ancestors to make offerings. The worship of ancestors has a long history in China.

The 30th day of the Lunar New Year

One night is a double year, and the fifth day is a double day. The cold leaves the winter snow, and the warmth enters the spring breeze.

The first day of the Lunar New Year

The golden pheasant is the first day of the Lunar New Year. The younger generation pays New Year's greetings to their elders, who give them New Year's money to suppress evil spirits.

The Second Day of the Lunar New Year

The Golden Bark reports spring. The family's home is the place where they go to pay their respects, and where the eastern family stays for dinner and the western family has a banquet.

The third day of the Lunar New Year

The fat pig's door. The first day of the Lunar New Year is the first day of the Lunar New Year, and the second day of the Lunar New Year is the first day of the Lunar New Year.

The Fourth Day of the Lunar New Year

Three Sheep. Master Zao wants to check the household accounts and welcome the God of the Zao back to the folklore.

The fifth day of the Lunar New Year

The Burgundy Ox plows the spring. Five ways to receive the God of Fortune, east, west, south, north, and center, five ways to wealth.

The sixth day of the Lunar New Year

Horse to success. The first day of the year is the first day of the year of the Lord of the Rings. The first day of the Chinese New Year, the first day of the Chinese New Year, the first day of the Chinese New Year, the first day of the Chinese New Year.

The seventh day of the Lunar New Year

The year of the man. Spreading pancakes and eating seven treasures soup, settling the body and mind, recuperating.

The eighth day of the Lunar New Year

Release the life of a child for blessings. On the day when the stars come down to the world, make a small lamp and burn it to offer it, an inch of time is an inch of gold.

The ninth day of the Lunar New Year

Jade Emperor. It is the supreme god that rules the universe, and people hold ceremonies to celebrate it.

The tenth day of the Lunar New Year

The stone offering. There is heaven and then there is earth, and people and animals house rice and wheat and all grains are born on the earth.

The eleventh day of the first month

Worship the purple nun. Women who were y oppressed worshipped her as the protector of weak women.

Twelfth day of the first month

Building lantern huts. As the Lantern Festival approaches, start making `preparations' for the Lantern Festival to enjoy the lanterns.

The 13th day of the first month

Lighting lanterns under the stove. The Lantern Festival is held on the 13th day of the first month of the Chinese lunar calendar.

Fourth day of the first month

Linshui Niangniang's birthday, also known as "Shuntian Holy Mother". It is a goddess who saves women in difficult labor.

Fifteenth day of the first lunar month

The Night Shining Silkworm (God). Observe the color to judge the year's abundance and failure, which later evolved into observing the lanterns at the Lantern Festival.

New Year's Eve Customs in the Northeast

Killing the New Year's Eve pig

When the year is coming to an end, the family to raise a New Year's Eve pig will start to plan to kill the pig! And the killing of pigs is not one or two people can complete the thing, usually have to hand over to the village of some young men, experienced "master knife man", etc., in the killing of the pig after the village of the people still have to feast, expressed the harmony of the same village, the scene is lively and extraordinary.

Speaking of killing the New Year's Eve pig have to mention pig dishes, which is a specialty of the Northeast, pig dishes do not pay much attention to what ingredients, seasonings, just kill the pork chopped into large pieces into the pot, add water, put salt, and then boil the side of the sauerkraut cut into the inside, and wait until the meat is rotten vegetables cooked, and then pour the blood sausage into the pot to cook. When serving, a plate of meat, a plate of sauerkraut, a plate of blood sausage, or a combination of all three, a large pot to the table. It's a perfect example of the passion and boldness of the Northeastern people!

Sticky Bean Buns

Sticky Bean Buns almost take up the winter staple of the Northeast people, after the winter when the weather fell to the point of freezing food, a pot of pots and pots of sticky bean buns on the steaming, put in the warehouse just to be able to freeze, and when you want to eat it, you can use it to "teng teng". "Steaming strong, frying sweet, is always a staple in the hearts of northeastern people can not be replaced.

New Year's market, do New Year's goods

New Year's goods generally include firecrackers, pairs (spring couplets), lanterns, frozen pears, frozen persimmons and so on. If you have a child at home, you have to buy a new dress for the child, which is the rule. In the countryside to buy new year's goods more choose to catch the set, the annual set is the largest in the year the largest number of people involved in a large set of incense and wax, paper yards, firecrackers, New Year's paintings, red paper, sugar, tobacco tea, candy, spices and so on to buy home.

Posting Spring Festival couplets, hanging New Year's paintings

Every family will be in the morning of New Year's Eve posting Spring Festival couplets, not to mention, in the rural areas of the most distinctive is the yard where you can see the flavor of the year, the entrance to the pigsty to be posted "full of fat pigs", grain hoarders to be posted on the "grain full of". "grain full warehouse", horse-drawn carriages and tractors should be posted on the words "in and out of peace", and a variety of "look up to see joy, go out to see joy", etc., basically the time to post these is the most happy children. The first thing you need to do is to make sure that you have a good understanding of what you are doing and how you are doing it.

New Year's Eve dinner, dumplings

On New Year's Eve, a large family will be gathered around the New Year's Eve dinner, a plate of authentic pot out, New Year's Eve gnawed pig's claw, will be "scratched" out of the fortune. A big fish, chicken, fish ...... It seems that a New Year's Eve dinner will eliminate the hustle and bustle of the entire year. After eating the meal it is the turn of frozen pear frozen persimmons on the field, juicy and unctuous, better than the fruit of the drink, better than the fruit of the ice-cream, in the Northeast worth having!

Thirty nights of resignation, must be less dumplings, dumplings wrapped and boiled, eat before the fireworks and firecrackers, which is the children's favorite program. After that, the first, fifth, fifteenth morning before the meal should also want to set off firecrackers. New Year's Eve dinner after eating the child to the elders to pay tribute to the New Year, to mom and dad, grandparents, uncles and uncles kowtow, and then is to take the red envelope red envelope.

Thirty do not turn off the lights, the first two do not sweep

In the Northeast, thirty nights to light up all night, to the first month of the fifteenth to hang red lanterns, a night does not turn off, implying that longevity, the incense continues. The first two are not sweeping, good luck and wealth are retained. "The first five" must eat dumplings, also known as "broken five", meaning that the destruction of bad luck, to drive away disasters and evil spirits. On the sixth day of the first month, "send poor", is a very distinctive ancient Chinese folk custom of the year. Its meaning is to offer to send poor ghosts (poor God).

First month does not cut the head

Northeastern people are generally in the New Year's Day to the first day of the second month of the lunar calendar can not be cut before the folklore if you cut the head of the (dead) uncle, so Northeastern people are very taboo, no one will be in the first month of the cut head. "February 2, the dragon head" which means that the second day of February, people cut the head will be very lucky, so in this day many people will compete to cut the head, to discuss auspicious.

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