What are the traditional New Year's Day customs?

1. Eating Dumplings

Eating dumplings on New Year's Day flourished in the north during the Ming and Qing dynasties. For example, in the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, Shen Bang "Wan Department of Miscellany" said that the Wanping County in the suburbs of Beijing on New Year's Day to pay tribute to the "flat food, served on the long for the birthday". New Year's Day rice cake was popular in the Ming and Qing dynasties, especially in the south. In the late Ming Dynasty, it was recorded in Volume 2 of "The Scenery of Imperial Capital" that on New Year's Day of the first month of the lunar calendar, "people ate jujube cake and rice cake on the first day of the lunar calendar". North Hebei Jiajing "Wei County Zhi" said the local eat "steamed sheep cake".

2. Drink pepper cypress wine

In the Eastern Han Dynasty, "four people in the month order" has appeared. Pepper is pepper, the ancients said pepper is the essence of the star of the Yu Heng, smell fragrant, served to make people light and resistant to old age; cypress is cypress leaves, the ancients regarded as medicine, can be free of all diseases. Pepper, cypress can be separately immersed in wine, can also be put into the wine together to drink. Drinking pepper and cypress wine can help you get rid of diseases and live a long life. Drinking pepper and cypress wine has been passed down in the folklore, and in the Ming Dynasty, this custom was practiced in Richeng, Shandong Province and Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province.

3. Drink peach soup

that is, take the peach leaves, branches, stems, three boiled and drink, the ancients to peach for the essence of the five elements, can be averse to ambush the evil spirit. System hundred ghosts, so drink. Eat soup cake: ancient where wheat flour products boiled in water food. Soup cake is noodles. Song Dynasty New Year's Day is popular to eat noodles and other food.

Methods of celebrating New Year's Day:

One, vacation

All of China and even the world knows, many countries have designated New Year's Day as a legal holiday, and on the day of New Year's Day, a holiday. After the founding of New China, it is also stipulated that New Year's Day is a legal holiday to take a day off.

Two, the gala

Now more common is organized by the group activities, such as New Year's Day gala, hanging celebration of New Year's Day slogans, or held a collective activity, etc., before there is an organization to beat the gong and drums, the collective dance of the nationalities, and now in the television documentaries can be seen to the technological development of today, it evolved into the gala! What's more.

In recent years, there are travel, party and other programs, anyway, New Year's Day is not much tradition, in this day of vacation on the people to play. Even for the younger generation, New Year's Day only means a day of vacation.

Three, eat a meal

The traditional Chinese way of celebrating is in the folk, especially in the countryside. Every New Year's Day, families will burn firecrackers, kill chickens and geese, worship the gods of all parties is a family reunion meal.