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Traditional Festival in China-Spring Festival

The first day of the first lunar month is the Lunar New Year in China. Among the traditional festivals in China, it is the most important and lively one. Because the Lunar New Year is celebrated in late winter and early spring, people also call it the Spring Festival.

China people have many traditional customs to celebrate the Spring Festival. People have been preparing for the Spring Festival since the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month. During this period, every household should clean up, buy new year's goods, stick grilles, hang New Year pictures, write Spring Festival couplets, steam rice cakes, prepare all kinds of food, and prepare to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new.

The eve of the Spring Festival is called "New Year's Eve". New Year's Eve is a time for family reunion. The family sat around, ate a big dinner, and talked and laughed until dawn. It's called shou sui. When the bell rings at 0: 00 on New Year's Eve, people will eat jiaozi. It was called "Zishi" in ancient times, and the time of New Year's Eve was the time when the old and new years alternated. At this time, people eat jiaozi, which is called "making friends when they are young".

New Year's Eve is the first day of the new year. From the first day, people should visit relatives and friends and pay New Year greetings to each other. Paying New Year greetings is an important custom in the Spring Festival. During the New Year's greetings, everyone should say some auspicious words to wish happiness and health.

Spring Festival custom-setting off firecrackers

At midnight, the New Year bell rang and firecrackers shook China. In this "three yuan" moment of "year yuan, month yuan and time yuan", some places have set up "flourishing fires" in the courtyard to show the take-off and prosperity of Wang Qi. Around the fiery red Wang Huo, children set off firecrackers and were alive and kicking happily. At this time, the house

Firecrackers are a sign of saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new, which shows the festive atmosphere. Businessmen have another meaning: they set off firecrackers on New Year's Eve to make a fortune in the new year. However, according to the old custom, they should first respect the god of wealth and set off firecrackers at the back. Legend has it that if they want to get rich, firecrackers must ring at the end to be sincere. In the past, they were sent to the god of wealth since the financial door was opened at midnight during the Spring Festival. At this time, in order to welcome the god of wealth, the owner of this family gave the messenger a bounty and sent it to the mouth of the god of wealth. Of course, it is inevitable to say something auspicious, such as "the treasure is rolling in"! On the left is a pair of golden lions, and on the right is a pair of golden phoenix! And so on. The other is to dress up as the god of wealth, wearing a red robe, a gauze hat, a fake beard on his mouth, carrying a yellow cloth bag to collect money, followed by several drummers, and distributing statues of the god of wealth from door to door in order to ask for remuneration. Every time people go to the door, they sing, "The left compartment is full of gold and silver, and the right compartment is full of treasure." Many auspicious words,

The first thing people do when they go home after setting off firecrackers is to worship heaven and earth, meet God and worship their ancestors. In ancient times, this custom was very popular. Due to different local customs, the forms of ancestor worship are also different. Some people go to the wild to sweep graves, and some people go to the ancestral temple to worship their ancestors. Most of them put their ancestral tablets in the main hall in turn at home, displaying offerings, and then worshippers worship them in order of age. Southerners still worship their ancestors. Holding a pot of wine, burning incense and setting off firecrackers, opening the door to meet the western gods is called "going out to heaven" or "going out", which is called "going out to find" in Zhejiang and "going out to enjoy the gods" in Shanghai. This custom is to get good luck and pray for God to bless everything in a year. On New Year's Eve, people stay up all night. That night, housewives were busy hanging lanterns and making colorful decorations. It adds a rich atmosphere to the festival. Perhaps what children expect most is lucky money. Lucky money is given to the younger generation by the elders. In some families, everyone is not allowed to leave the table after eating. After everyone has finished eating, the elders give it to the younger generation to encourage their children and grandchildren to learn and improve in the new year. In some homes, after the children fall asleep at night, parents put it under the pillow, and more people gather in the main hall to shout. Then he reached for the red envelope. He even went back to his grandparents' bedroom and ran to the bed together, shouting "lucky money, lucky money!" " "The old man is not busy enough, so he is stingy. He groped from bargaining to siege. Finally, he dug up the red envelopes of his ancestors, and everyone looted them before leaving. The old man was overjoyed to see this scene and thought it was a good sign for all the best in the new year.

People's traditional ideas always like to win more prizes during the Chinese New Year, hoping that everything will go well. There are many old customs. For example, it is forbidden to use brooms everywhere, thinking that using brooms in the New Year will sweep away luck and wealth, and it will be difficult to make good luck in the new year. If you must sweep the floor, you must sweep it from the outside to the inside. In order to make this custom popular, the first day of the first month is also designated as "broom birthday". The new year is also called "broom birthday", so you must pay special attention to what you say. If a child accidentally breaks his rice bowl, people will never scold him, but will say that he is "safe all the year round", because the homonym of "broken" and "old" has washed an ominous atmosphere. Chinese New Year is coming, and adults are most afraid of children saying something unlucky. In some places, in addition to taking care of them horizontally and vertically, they also wipe their mouths with a piece of red cloth or toilet paper, that is, they treat their mouths as bottoms. It's also equivalent to farting. Some people put oranges and lychees on pillows, which is called "pressing the old fruit". Oranges and lychees are homophonic, representing good luck in the coming year. There is also a custom in some areas to steal the statue of God of Wealth and hide it in the crotch after stealing it, so as to get the meaning of the idiom "God of Wealth is put in the warehouse (pants)". In these whimsical tastes and customs, there are ancient dynasties buried.

On the morning of the Spring Festival, when you open the door, set off firecrackers first, which is called "opening firecrackers". After the firecrackers, the ground is broken red, which is called "full house". At this time, the streets are full of pride and joy.