Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - Traditional festivals - Spring Festival is a traditional festival in China. People celebrate this festival in different ways, such as setting off firecrackers and posting Spring Festival couplets. What other customs do you k

Spring Festival is a traditional festival in China. People celebrate this festival in different ways, such as setting off firecrackers and posting Spring Festival couplets. What other customs do you k

Spring Festival is a traditional festival in China. People celebrate this festival in different ways, such as setting off firecrackers and posting Spring Festival couplets. What other customs do you know? 1, sacrifice the stove. On December 23/24 of the lunar calendar, the stove is sacrificed. The folk sacrificial furnace originated from the ancient custom of worshipping fire. "Ming Shi": "Kitchen. Make it, create food. " Kitchen God's duty is to take charge of the kitchen fire and manage the diet. Later, it was expanded to investigate human good and evil to reduce good and evil. Sacrificing to the Kitchen God has a history of thousands of years in China, and the belief in the Kitchen God is a reflection of China people's dream of "adequate food and clothing".

2. New Year's Eve. New Year's Eve, also known as New Year's Eve, reunion dinner, reunion dinner and so on. , especially the family dinner on New Year's Eve at the end of the year. The New Year's Eve dinner originated from the ancient ritual vessels at the end of the year, and it is a reunion dinner after offering sacrifices to the gods and ancestors. New Year's Eve is the highlight of the year, which is not only colorful, but also very interesting. Worship the gods and ancestors before the reunion dinner, and eat after the worship ceremony.

3. keep the age. Keeping the new year's eve is one of the activities of the old customs, and the custom of keeping the old age has a long history. The folk custom of observing the new year is mainly manifested in that every household lights a New Year's fire and gets together to keep the "New Year's fire" from going out and wait for the moment to bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new year. On New Year's Eve, the lights were on all night. It is said that all houses light candles, especially under the bed, which is called "wasting light". It is said that after such lighting, the family's wealth will be more abundant in the coming year.