What are the customs of celebrating the Spring Festival in northwest China?

Lanzhou social fire can be said to be a unique custom in the northwest. During the New Year in China, people in Northwest China often like to get together to sing and dance to celebrate the New Year. These people often hold bright torches in their hands, representing the expectations for the coming year and the summary of the past year. When people get together to sing and dance, it also represents the expectation for the future.

On this day, almost everyone will go to the streets to play social fire with the big team. If boys and girls look at each other on this day, they can express themselves directly and get the blessing of the public.

Step 2 clean the house

Northwest China, especially most parts of Gansu, likes to clean the house during the New Year. On New Year's Eve, everyone will clean their house to welcome the new year. People in Gansu often think that New Year's Day is the beginning of a new year, so they will leave the cleaning work on New Year's Day.

If you visit someone's house on New Year's Day, you will find that most people are cleaning, and they will not come to welcome the New Year until the house is cleaned. In fact, some Gansu people may not have good family conditions, but they will still do a family cleaning.

Step 3 send the god of wealth

In many rural areas in northwest China, there has always been the custom of sending the god of wealth. When you get up and go out on the first day, you must look at the position of the God of Wealth, choose the direction, and determine the position of the Western God, the God of Wealth and your God according to heavenly stems and earthly branches. It is said that when you go out on the first day of the first month of the first month and go in the direction of the God of Wealth and the Western God, you can make a fortune, and every year is auspicious.

4. Zhouqu welcomes her mother-in-law

On the 19th day of the first month, Zhouqu greeted her mother-in-law (Zhouqu is called Mother-in-law), which is a folk activity with strong local color left over from Zhouqu County. It is the climax of the whole first month activities, just like the carnival in Zhouqu County.

It has a history of 500 years. In the process of its development and evolution, it absorbed the essence of Tibetan Buddhism and Taoism, and the functions of clergy continued to expand, from simply welcoming children and begging children to today's folk activities to pray for peace and disaster relief.

5, the fifth day: breaking the fifth day-the Chinese New Year culture in central Shanxi [Qixian Spring Festival folk custom]?

Today is the fifth day of junior high school, that is to say, after the Chinese New Year, all taboos have been broken, production has started to be normal, and shooting is celebrated in the morning, but this day is also the most taboo day. You can't go out without doing anything at home. Today is also the last day to give incense to the gods in the New Year. Gunshots are fired every morning, at noon and at night.

Breaking Five is not only a custom in Qixian and Jinzhong, but also a similar custom in most parts of Shanxi, which has a profound traditional culture and is a bright spot of Chinese culture.