What is the custom of the Spring Festival?

The Spring Festival can be said to be the biggest festival in China. With the passage of time, the taste of the year has faded, all because some customs of the Spring Festival have been forgotten by us. What are the customs during the Spring Festival?

1, offering sacrifices to the kitchen god means offering honeydew melons to the kitchen god posted in the kitchen on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month. As the saying goes, honeydew melon is sticky, so in this off-year day, honeydew melon is a must for us Beijingers. Why do you want to eat honeydew melon on this day of off-year? It's like having to mention a character-Kitchen God. I have paid attention to King No.23 before, so I bought some sacrifice candy made of maltose, such as honeydew melon and kwantung candy. It is said that every year in the off-year period, the Kitchen God will visit the Jade Emperor and report everyone's merits and demerits this year. Therefore, in order to please the Kitchen God and prevent him from sticking to the Kitchen God's mouth and saying more, honeydew melons and Guandong sugar were used to worship him on this day. Therefore, there is also such a two-part allegorical saying: "The kitchen god ascended to heaven-say more good things."

2. When posting New Year pictures to update the Lunar New Year, people pay attention to posting New Year pictures to increase the atmosphere of celebrating the New Year in the room, beautify the living environment and symbolize the happiness of life. In the old society, near the Spring Festival, in addition to some bookstores or stationery stores selling New Year pictures, Beijing often saw some individual vendors carrying heavy burdens walking the streets to sell New Year pictures. They will wrap the New Year pictures in a big piece of cloth, choose a crowded place and open the big bag on the spot to sell. Many citizens heard the shouts and bought them. At that time, the main contents of New Year pictures were "butterfly lovers", "Liu Hai chopping firewood", "Fat doll holding goldfish" and four screens, among which the woodblock New Year pictures of Yangliuqing in Tianjin and Weifang in Shandong were the most popular.

3, sesame stalks "step on the year" December 30 of the lunar calendar is New Year's Eve, commonly known as "New Year's Eve". Before noon on New Year's Eve, some large families will sprinkle sesame stalks at the gate from Yonglu at the gates of the courtyard. Family members come in and out, step on them, and so on. It is said that this move was originally to guard against theft, and later it evolved into the custom of "stepping on the old year", which means stepping on the old year to welcome the new year. "Old" and "special" are homophonic, so when we bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, it also means stepping on and crushing evil spirits. In addition, sesame stalks are also auspicious things. As the saying goes, "sesame blossoms are getting higher and higher." Step on it, and there is a sense of rising in taking stability.

The most important thing on the first day of New Year's greetings is to start New Year's greetings, and the temple fair also begins on this day. According to the old custom, the son-in-law should meet his parents-in-law on the first day of the lunar new year. Now it's usually the second day of New Year's Day, and his daughter and son-in-law go back to their parents' home to pay New Year's greetings. Old Beijingers attach great importance to New Year greetings. The host family should prepare a box with all kinds of dried fruits, which is called "auspicious fruit". No matter how many people come to pay New Year greetings, the food box must be filled to show respect and blessing to the guests.

5, paste Spring Festival couplets, commonly known as door couplets, also known as "spring stickers" and "couplets". Every Spring Festival, every household sticks red couplets on their doors, which adds a festive atmosphere and is a unique literary form in China. Spring Festival couplets originated from ancient peach symbols. Fu Tao is a rectangular red board hanging on both sides of the gate. Write the names "Shen Tu", "Lei Yu" and "Er Shen" on it to ward off evil spirits. During the Spring Festival, people always replace the old ones with new ones, which also expresses the good wishes of the working people in China to ward off evil spirits and avoid disasters and welcome good luck.

The above is my understanding of the customs of the Spring Festival. What else do you know, my friend?