What are the traditional customs of the Spring Festival

The Spring Festival has a long history, in the development of inheritance has formed a number of more fixed customs, many of which are still handed down to the present day, let's look at the Spring Festival what are the traditional customs.

1. Posting red

Posting red, that is, the posting of the Spring Festival couplets, door god, New Year's paintings, Fukuzi, cross, window, etc., because these are the red festive elements posted on New Year's Eve, so collectively referred to as the "posting of red". The red is a traditional Chinese New Year's custom, which reflects the customs and beliefs of the people, adds to the festive atmosphere, and sends people to the New Year of the new life of the good hope.

The Chinese New Year saying, "stick three things in the New Year, the next year is not poor," referring to the New Year's Day to stick three kinds of festive colors of the year red, the three said that the "Spring Festival couplets," "Fu Fu" and "Luck". ", "Fuzi" and "You word", so that the new year will be prosperous, wealth rolling.

2. New Year's Eve Dinner

New Year's Eve dinner refers to the family meal at the end of the year on New Year's Eve. On New Year's Eve, it is a happy time for families to get together and have a reunion dinner, with sumptuous dishes laid out on the table for the whole family to get together. In the north and south of China, the reunion dinner has its own specialties, dumplings are the must-eat food in the northern region, while the southern region will eat all kinds of round rice made of glutinous rice, heralding the new year's reunion.

The New Year's Eve dinner originated from the ancient end-of-year rituals, worshiping the gods and ancestors after the reunion dinner, is the main event of the year before, not only colorful, but also pay attention to the meaning. Before eating the New Year's Eve dinner to worship the gods and ancestors, to be worship rituals are completed before the meal. On the table, there are usually chicken (which means to have a plan), fish (which means to have more money every year), oysters and black beans (which means to have a good market), hairy vegetables (which means to be rich), bean curd bamboo (which means to be rich), lotus root (which means to be smart), lettuce (which means to have a good fortune), and garlic (which means to be able to calculate), and so on, in order to seek good fortune. The Chinese New Year's Eve dinner is a family reunion dinner, and this is the most sumptuous and important dinner at the end of the year.

3. Worshipping

Worshipping is one of the New Year's festivals, which means worshipping the god of the year (tai tao) at the beginning of the year when the old is out and the new is in sight, and the tai tao is also a deity of folk belief. The god of the year to sixty jiazi of the stem and branch chronology for the operation of the cycle, *** sixty, each year there is a year-old god on duty, in the year when the duty of the year-old is called "value of the year-old", is the master of the year. Worship is one of the oldest traditional customs of the Chinese people, this traditional custom has been passed down from generation to generation, people in the beginning of the year to hold a sacrificial ceremony to welcome the new year, pray for the New Year, to receive the blessing.

4.Catch the God of Fortune

Because the fifth day is the birth of the God of Fortune of the Five Roads, in order to levy a profit, people have to meet the first four days of the year ahead of time, the earlier, the better, the earliest to receive the real God, especially the spirit of the so-called "grab the head of the road! "

The God of Wealth is the God of Wealth, the God of Fortune.

Every New Year's Eve, people are in the first five zero hour zero minutes, open the door and windows, burning incense and firecrackers point fireworks, to the God of Fortune to welcome. After receiving the God of Fortune, we also have to eat road head wine, often eat until dawn. Everyone is full of hope for wealth, wishing that the God of Wealth will bring gold and silver treasures to their homes and send them in the new year.

5. Human Day Festival

The seventh day of the first month of the lunar calendar is known as the "Human Day". Legend has it that when Nvwa created the world, she made chickens, dogs, pigs, goats, cows and horses out of clay on the first six days, and only on the seventh day did she make human beings, which means that human beings began to come into being on the seventh day of the first month of the lunar calendar, and therefore, the seventh day of the first month of the lunar calendar is called the "Day of the Human Being", which signifies the birthday of all people. It is said that as early as in the Han Dynasty there has been the custom of celebrating the Day of Man, and in the Wei and Jin Dynasties began to pay attention to it, and in the Tang Dynasty it was even more important!

People in the "People's Day" on the head to wear "people win", people win is a colorful paper, gold foil cut into flowers or human headdresses, or "people win" posted on the screen, a symbol of peace of mind, in and out of the smooth, so this day is also known as the "people win day". People also give each other "flower wins", is to make the pattern for the flowers of the ornaments, each other to express their feelings.

The Spring Festival is a festival of reunion that carries so much for the Chinese. Since then, it has become a culture that needs no explanation and has been integrated into people's bloodstream. Even if you are uprooted from your home town for many years, you are still haunted by it.