What are the customs of the Spring Festival

Specific customs before the Spring Festival

Customs of the Spring Festival on the 24th day of the Lunar New Year

Sweeping the dust

The folk proverb says, "On the 24th day of the Lunar New Year, sweep the dust and sweep the house". After the festival, preparations for the New Year begin. Dusting is the end of the year cleaning, the north is called "sweeping house", the south is called "dusting". Sweeping dust before the Spring Festival is a traditional habit of the Chinese people. On the day of the dust, the whole family together, cleaning houses, courtyards, scrubbing pots and pans, dismantling bedding, clean to welcome the New Year. In fact, people use "dust" and "Chen" of the harmonic expression of the will to get rid of Chen, in addition to the old.

History

According to canonical records, there was a custom of sweeping at the end of the year in ancient times. According to Lv's Spring and Autumn Annals, China had the custom of sweeping dust in the Spring Festival during the Yao and Shun Dynasties. According to folklore: because the "dust" and "Chen" homophonic, the New Year dust sweeping has "in addition to the meaning of Chen Bu Xin", the intention is to put all the "poor luck The intention is to sweep all the "poor luck" and "bad luck" out of the door. Qing Jia Record" Volume XII records: "wax will be residual, choose the constitutional book should be swept house Yu day, to go to the court house dust and filth. Or in the twenty-third, twenty-fourth and twenty-seventh day, commonly known as 'playing dust'". Lunar New Year's Eve "sweep the room", inside and outside the courtyard for a thorough cleanup. It can be seen, this custom is entrusted with people's desire to break the old and new and the old to welcome the new prayers, but also the Chinese people in the long history of the accumulation of hygiene in the winter, the traditional virtues of disease prevention.

Customs of the Spring Festival on the 25th day of the 12th lunar month

Making tofu

The folk proverb says: "On the 25th day of the 12th lunar month, grind tofu." Some places also have the custom of eating tofu dregs before New Year's Eve. Folk legend has it that after Zao Wang reported to heaven, the Jade Emperor would visit the world to see if the families were as Zao Wang played, so the families ate bean curd dregs to show that they were suffering, to hide from the Jade Emperor's punishment. Legend to legend, in fact, eating tofu dregs is actually low productivity in ancient times, not so much to eat, (but sometimes people will buy a big basket of tofu in order to eat its hunger, etc.).

Pick up the Jade Emperor

Old customs, new customs are that after the God of the Stove in heaven, the Jade Emperor in the lunar calendar on the 25th day of the 12th lunar month, personally down to check the good and evil on earth, and determine the coming year, so the family sacrifices to pray for blessings, known as the "pick up the Jade Emperor". On this day, we must be careful in our living and speaking, and strive for good performance in order to win the Jade Emperor's favor and bring blessings to the coming year.

Catching up with the chaotic year

Sending the God of the Zaos to the sky until New Year's Eve before welcoming back, during which time there is no god on earth to govern, there are no taboos, and the people marry, which is known as "catching up with the chaotic year". Messy year is the people designed for themselves to regulate the social life of a specific period of time. At the end of the year, people have leisure and savings, for people who usually have the energy to organize big events, this is a good time for leisure and entertainment. Therefore, people according to the real life needs, invented this special time folklore.

Silkworms

Silkworms, also known as "burnt silkworms", "burnt wealth", is popular in the southern part of the folk custom of praying for the New Year. On the 25th day of the lunar month

The torch-bound pole is set up in the field, and the flame is used to divine the New Year, and a strong flame is an omen of a good harvest in the coming year. In some places, this event is held on the 30th day of the New Year.

Thousand Lanterns Festival

The Thousand Lanterns Festival is a religious festival of the Mongolian and Daur ethnic groups. In Mongolian, it is called "Ming Gan Zhuo La", which means "Thousand Lanterns Festival". On the day of the 25th day of the lunar month, do "Ming Gan Zhuo La" to the temple to light, that the more points the more auspicious. This holiday custom, the most prevalent in the Xinjiang Virat Mongolian. Local people

On this day to eat roast beef and mutton, hold traditional sports and games and other activities.

Customs of the Spring Festival on the 26th day of the Lunar New Year

As the saying goes, "on the 26th day of the Lunar New Year, we kill the pig and cut the meat" or "on the 26th day of the Lunar New Year, we cut the head of the knife", which refers to the main preparations for the New Year's meat on this day. The reason for putting "cutting meat" into the New Year's rhymes is that the economy of farming societies was not well developed, and people often ate meat only during the New Year's festivals, which is why it is called "New Year's Meat".

Customs of the Spring Festival Lunar New Year 27

Traditional folk customs in these two days to focus on bathing, laundry, remove the bad luck of the year, in preparation for the coming year's New Year, the capital has "27 wash guilt, 28 wash sloppy" proverb. Lunar month 26 bath for the "wash of the blessing of Lu". [8]

Customs of the Spring Festival Lunar New Year 28

New Year's ballad: "Lunar New Year 28, steamed buns steamed cake sticking flowers" or "28, put the surface of the hair". The so-called sticker flowers, is to post New Year's paintings, Spring Festival couplets, window and all kinds of Spring Festival postings.

The custom of posting Spring Festival couplets originated from the ancient "peach charm". Ancient people to peach wood as a wood to ward off evil, "canonical art" said: "peach, the essence of the five wood, so the pressure of the evil also." To the Five Dynasties, after the Shu monarch Meng Chang elegant literature, he ordered every year to write the peach, become the later generations of spring couplets of the goblet, and written in the peach on the "New Year's Day, Jiajie No. Changchun", will become the first recorded Chinese history of the "Spring Festival couplets". Later, with the introduction of papermaking, the custom of posting spring scrolls on red paper instead of mahogany emerged.

Customs of the Spring Festival, the 29th day of the Lunar New Year

Ancestor worship

The annual ballad says: "On the 29th day of the Lunar New Year, we go to the graves to invite our ancestors to make a big offering". Ancestor worship has a long history in China. Treating the dead as if they were alive is not only an important symbol of filial piety, but also a virtue of honoring the elderly. As the Spring Festival is a big festival, the ceremony of inviting ancestors to their graves is particularly solemn. In most areas, the ancestors are invited on the morning of the 29th. According to Han Dynasty Cui Shi's Four People's Monthly Orders, "The first month of the first month of the first month is the first month of the first month of the first month of the first month of the first month of the first month of the first month of the first month of the first month. On the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar, they would bring their wives and offspring to worship their ancestors. On the day of the sacrifice, they would bring wine to the gods, and then they would list their ancestors in order of precedence, and then their children and great-grandchildren would drink wine in their parents' homes, and then they would goblet their lives, and then they would rejoice in their lives." This shows that as early as the Han Dynasty China's ancestor worship has been a very important activity in the Spring Festival.

What is Little New Year's Eve?

The day before New Year's Eve is called "Little New Year's Eve," and it is also called "Farewell," when people visit each other at home. The day before New Year's Eve is called "Little New Year's Eve," and it usually takes three days to burn all the incense in the open air.

Customs of the Spring Festival Lunar New Year's Eve

New Year's Eve

New Year's Eve refers to the evening of the last day of the month of Lunar New Year in the lunar calendar every year, which is connected to the first day of the first month. The word "除" in "New Year's Eve" means "to go; to change; to alternate", and the meaning of "New Year's Eve" is "the end of the month and the end of the year", which means that people have to get rid of their old age. "People want to get rid of the old and welcome the new, there is the old year to this and removed, the next year for another new year. Therefore, the activities during this period are centered around the old and welcome the new, eliminating disasters and praying for blessings.

Zhou, Qin period every year will end when the palace to hold a "jump Zhong Kui", "Nuo" ceremony, beat the drums to expel the plague of ghosts, known as "by removing", and then Also known as the day before New Year's Eve for the small in addition, that is, the small New Year's Eve; New Year's Eve for the big in addition, that is, the big New Year's Eve.

Posting the Door God

The original Door God was carved from mahogany in the form of a human figure and hung next to a person, and later it was painted as a portrait of the Door God and posted on the door. Legend has it that the two brothers, Shentian and Yubi, specialize in controlling ghosts, and with them guarding the gateway, evil spirits of all sizes would not dare to enter the door to do harm. After the Tang Dynasty, there are painted fierce general Qin Qiong, Yuchi Jingde two people like the door god, there are painted Guan Yu, Zhang Fei like the door god. Door god image of the left and right households each one. Later generations often put a pair of door god painted as a text and a military, sends the Han working people a kind of warding off evils and disasters, and welcome the good wishes of auspiciousness and good fortune.

Posting Spring Festival couplets

Spring Festival couplets, also known as "door to", "couplets", "peach symbols", etc., is a kind of couplets, because in the Spring Festival when posted, and named. It is a kind of couplet, which is named because it is posted during the Spring Festival. It depicts the background of the times and expresses the good wishes with neat, pairwise, concise and exquisite words, which is a unique form of literature in our country. Every Spring Festival, no matter in the city or in the countryside, every family has to choose a big red Spring Festival couplet to paste on the door, to increase the festive atmosphere for the festival. This custom began in the song dynasty, in the ming dynasty began to prevail, to the qing dynasty, the spring couplets of ideology and artistry have been greatly improved, liang zhang toru prepared by the spring couplets monograph "sillian series of words" on the origins of the couplets and all kinds of works of the characteristics of the discourse. There are many kinds of spring couplets, according to its use place, can be divided into door heart, frame pair, horizontal phi, spring strip, bucket square and so on. The "door heart" is pasted on the center of the upper part of the door panel; the "frame pair" is pasted on the left and right door frames; the "horizontal phi" is pasted on the horizontal wood of the door winks; the "spring strip" is pasted on the horizontal wood of the door winks; the "spring strip" is pasted on the horizontal wood of the door winks according to different contents. "According to different contents, posted in the corresponding place;" bucket catty "also known as" door leaf "for the square diamond-shaped, mostly posted in the furniture, shadow wall.

Pasted New Year's paintings

The Spring Festival hanging paste New Year's paintings in urban and rural areas is also very common, thick black colorful New Year's paintings to thousands of families added a lot of prosperity and joy of the festive atmosphere. These have the folklore function of praying for blessings and decorating the residence. New Year's paintings are an ancient folk art in China, reflecting the customs and beliefs of the people and holding out hope for the future.

Like the Spring Festival couplets, they originated as "door gods". With the rise of woodblock printing, the content of the New Year's paintings has not only limited to monotonous themes such as the God of the Door, become colorful, in some of the New Year's paintings in the workshop produced the "Three Stars of Fortune and Longevity," "Heavenly Officials Provide Blessings," "Five Valleys of Abundance," "Six Animals Prosperity," "Welcome to the Spring to receive the blessing of" and other classic colorful New Year's paintings, in order to satisfy people's joyful prayers for the year's best wishes. There are three important production areas of Chinese New Year paintings in China: Taohuayu in Suzhou, Yangliuqing in Tianjin and Weifang in Shandong Province; three major schools of Chinese New Year paintings have been formed, each with its own characteristics.

China's earliest collection of Chinese New Year paintings is the Southern Song Dynasty "with the fairness of the country's face" woodcut New Year paintings, the painting is Wang Zhaojun, Zhao Feiyan, Banji and green beads of four ancient beauties. The most widely circulated folk painting is the one of "The Mouse Marrying Her Marriage". It depicts an interesting scene of a mouse marrying a bride in accordance with the customs of the earth. In the early years of the Republic of China, Zheng Mantuo of Shanghai combined the lunar calendar and New Year's paintings. This is a new form of New Year's paintings. This combination of two and one of the New Year's paintings, later developed into a wall calendar, and is still popular throughout the country.

Watch the New Year

Chinese folk have the custom of watching the New Year's Eve, commonly known as "staying awake for the New Year". The New Year's Eve vigil begins with the New Year's Eve dinner, which is eaten slowly, from the time the lanterns are lit to the time the dinner is served, and some people have to eat it late into the night.

New Year's Eve is one of the most important New Year's Eve activities, and the custom of observing the New Year's Eve has a long history. The earliest records are found in the Western Jin Dynasty, Zhou Zhi's "Land and Customs": New Year's Eve, each with the gift, known as "feed the year"; wine and food invited, known as the "other year"; young and old get together to drink, wishing to complete, known as the "sub-year"; all night long, we have to keep the year-keeping activities. "

Since the beginning of the year, the Chinese people have been waiting for the daybreak to come, so it is called "keeping the year-end vigil".

Since the Han Dynasty, the time of the transition between the old and new year is usually the middle of the night.

Customs of the Spring Festival after the year specific customs

Customs of the Spring Festival on the first day of the first month

Early rise

Some people believe that if you do not get up early, Tiankan will collapse. So get up early.

Opening the Door

On the morning of the Spring Festival, the door is opened for good luck and firecrackers are set off first, which is called "opening the door to firecrackers". After the sound of firecrackers, broken red all over the ground, brilliant as a cloud of brocade, known as "full red". At this time, the street is full of gas, joyful.

Welcome to the New Year

An important activity in the Spring Festival is to go to the homes of friends and neighbors to congratulate the New Year, the old name of the New Year. Han

New Year's greetings, Han Dynasty. After the Tang and Song dynasties are very prevalent, some inconvenience to go in person, can be used in the name of the posters to throw congratulations. The Eastern Han Dynasty is known as the "prick", so the business card is also known as the "name prick". After the Ming Dynasty, many people stick a red paper bag in front of the door, specializing in name badges, called "door book".

Folk visit the form of New Year's Eve, according to each other's social relations, can be divided into four categories:

One is to go to relatives. On the first day to the home, the second to the father-in-law's home, must bring gifts. After entering the door first to the Buddha statue, ancestral images, tablets each line of three kowtow salute, and then to the elders in turn salute. You can stay to eat and talk.

The second is the first three days to family and friends courtesy visits. Such as to colleagues, friends to pay tribute to the New Year, a door into the house, only to the Buddha three kowtow, such as with the master of the Department of the same generation is only required to arch a bow, such as older than their own, should still take the initiative to kneel down, the host should walk off the seat to do to help the shape of the even said no gift to show humility. This situation is generally not appropriate to sit for a long time, pleasantries two polite words to say goodbye. After the host is worshiped, should choose a day to return to worship.

Third is a thank-you visit. Anyone who owes a favor to others (such as lawyers, doctors, etc.) should buy some gifts and send them to the occasion of the New Year, to express their gratitude.

The fourth is the string of visits. For some of the neighbors of the neighborhood, there is no great deal of interaction, but meet can talk to the Jubilee, just to the yard, meet each other a fist, said: "Congratulations Fat Choy", "a Shun Hundred Shun," in the house to sit for a while only, not very much etiquette.

Anciently, there is a New Year's Eve and New Year's Eve: New Year's Eve is to the elders kowtow; New Year's Eve is to congratulate each other. Nowadays, some organizations, groups, enterprises, schools, we get together to congratulate each other, called "reunion".

With the development of the times, the custom of New Year's Eve is also constantly adding new content and form, people in addition to the inheritance of the past New Year's Eve, and the rise of the ritual telegram New Year's Eve and telephone New Year's Eve and so on.

Giving New Year's money

The New Year's money (in Guangdong is called "Baili is") is sent by the elders to the younger generation, some families are after the New Year's Eve dinner, everyone sits at the table is not allowed to go, and so on everyone finished eating, by the elders sent to the younger generation, and encourage their children and grandchildren in the new year to learn to grow up and do well. Some people are parents at night when their children are asleep, put under their pillows to give the New Year's money, reflecting the elders of the care of the younger generation and the younger generation of respect for the elders, is an integration of ethical relations between the family of folklore activities.

Occupying the New Year

Olden times, people used to occupy themselves with the weather of the first few days of the new year to determine the success of the current year. It began with the Han Dongfang Shuo's "Years of Occupation", which said that after eight days of the year, one day is the day of the chicken, the second day is the dog, the third day is the pig, the fourth day is the goat, the fifth day is the cow, the sixth day is the horse, the seventh day is the person, the eighth day is the valley. If the day is sunny, then the main thing is prosperous, when the day is cloudy, the main day is not prosperous. Later generations followed their custom, that the first day to the tenth, the weather is clear, no wind and no snow for good luck. Later generations from the occupation of the year developed into a series of rituals, celebrations. There is the first one does not kill the chicken, the second does not kill the dog, the third does not kill the pig ...... the seventh does not execute, the eighth does not hit the grain custom.

Painted chickens

In ancient times, the Spring Festival painted chickens on doors and windows to drive away the ghosts and monsters and evil spirits. In "Xuanzhongji", a book written by the Jin Dynasty, it is said that when the sun was just rising and the first ray of sunlight shone on this big tree, the heavenly chicken crowed. When it crowed, all the chickens in the world crowed. So the chicken cut out for the Chinese New Year actually symbolizes the Heavenly Rooster. However, there is also an ancient myth that the chicken is a metamorphosis of the Chongming bird. It is said that during the time of Emperor Yao, the friends from the other side paid tribute to a kind of heavy bright bird that could ward off evil spirits, and everyone welcomed the arrival of the heavy bright bird, but the tribute envoys didn't come every year, so the people carved a wooden heavy bright bird, or casted a heavy bright bird in bronze and put it on the gateway, or painted a heavy bright bird on the windows and doors, to scare off the evil spirits and demons, and make them not dare to come back again. Because of the heavy bright bird like similar to chicken, and then gradually changed to painting chicken or cut window flowers pasted on the doors and windows, that is, become the source of the art of paper-cutting later generations. Ancient China attached special importance to the chicken, calling it "the bird of five virtues". Han Shi Wai Zhuan" said, it has a crown on its head, is Wen De; feet after the distance can fight, is Wu De; enemy in front of the dare to fight, is courageous; food to greet the same kind of benevolence, is benevolent; vigil does not lose time, dawn dawn, is the virtue of faith. So people not only cut chickens at New Year's Eve, but also designate the first day of the New Year as Chicken Day.

Poly wealth

The first day of the first month for the broomstick birthday, this day can not move the broom, otherwise it will sweep away the luck, broke the fortune, and the "broomstick star" attracted, incurring bad luck. If you have to sweep the floor can not be, must be swept from the outside to the inside. This day also can not pour water out of the garbage, for fear of breaking the wealth. Today, many places still save this custom, the New Year's Eve clean sweep, the first day of the year, not out of the broom, not pouring garbage, a large bucket, to Sheng wastewater, the day is not outside the splash.

Reunion dinner

Annual reunion dinner fully demonstrates the mutual respect and love of the members of the Chinese family, and this mutual respect and love makes the relationship between the family closer. Family reunion often makes the "head of the family" in the spirit of comfort and satisfaction, the elderly look at the children and grandchildren, the family size *** to talk about family life, the past care and raising children to pay the effort and not in vain, this is how happy, and the younger generation can also take this opportunity to parents to express gratitude for their parental upbringing.

Customs of the Spring Festival on the second day of the first month

Sacrifice to the God of Wealth (Eid day)

North on the second day of the first month of the God of Wealth, whether it's a trade store, or an ordinary family, will be held to sacrifice to the God of Wealth. Each family sacrifices the god of wealth that they received on New Year's Eve. In fact, they incinerate the rough prints they bought. On this day, wontons are eaten at noon, commonly known as "Yuanbao soup". Fish and mutton were used as offerings. Old Beijing's big business, this day are large-scale sacrificial activities, offerings to use the "five offerings", that is, the whole pig, the whole sheep, the whole chicken, the whole duck, red live carp, etc., and pray for the coming year to make a fortune.

Guzhi Festival

The second day of the first month is the traditional Guzhi Festival, and the Guzhi should go to their father-in-law's house and mother-in-law to pay respect to the New Year. The Chaoshan people call the second day of the month when the masters go back to their parents-in-law's house for dinner "食日昼", which means lunch, and the masters and their daughters must be back to their own homes before dinner (in some areas they may stay and finish the meal because of the road). [17]

Customs of the Chinese New Year on the third day of the first month

Burning the door god paper

On the third day and night of the olden days, the pine and cypress branches of the New Year festival and the door god paper hung during the festival were incinerated to show that the year was over and that it was time to start making a living again. Proverbs have "burned the door god paper, personal search physiology".

Gu Zi birthday

Folk thought that the third day of the first month of the Gu Zi birthday, this day to pray for the year, and forbidden to eat rice.

Small Year's Day

Tianqing Festival. Song dynasty court festival, Song Zhenzong Dazhong Xiangfu first year, because of rumors of heavenly books down to earth, Zhenzong issued an imperial edict, the first three days of the first month of the day for the Tianqing Festival, officials and other leave for five days. Later, it was called the Small New Year's Day, which is the same as the Annual Day without sweeping the ground, begging for fire or drawing water.

Customs of the Spring Festival on the fourth day of the first month

Sheep Day

The fourth day of the first month of the first month of the day of Nuwa's creation of the sheep, so it is known as "Sheep Day". On this day, people are not allowed to kill sheep, and if the weather is good, it means that the sheep will be raised well during the year, and the people who raise them will have a good harvest. Sheep Day is a day for Han Chinese folk to welcome the gods. In the old almanac accounted for sheep, so often said "three sheep (Yang) Kaitai" is a symbol of good luck, but also to welcome the God of the stove back to the folk days. On the fourth day of the year, the whole family ate together folding Luo, the so-called folding Luo, that is, a few days of leftovers of the meal together with the hodgepodge, cleaning the New Year's goods. Clean up the interior, the garbage collection pile to a place, which is also said in Han Chinese folklore "throw poor". Some rural customs in the north is the fourth day of the year, tied fire god, with corn stalks or wheat stalks to help in the stick, lit from their own homes to the river, on behalf of a year without fire at home. In Fujian's Putian region people's custom is to re-round the stove over the New Year, which is the country's only, unique local customs, reflecting the Han Chinese working people generally hope that the old and welcome the new, to send away the old poverty and hardship, to meet the new year's good life of the traditional mentality.

Customs of the Spring Festival on the fifth day of the first month

The fifth day of the first month is commonly known as the fifth. Folklore said before the fifth many taboos over this day can be broken. According to the old custom to eat "dumplings" five days, the north called "cooking meat and potatoes". Nowadays, some people only eat three, two days, some every other day, however, no not eat. From the princely mansion to the streets and alleys of small households are so, even for guests. Women are no longer jealous of the door, began to visit each other to pay tribute to the New Year, congratulations. Newly married women in this day to return to peace. A said broken five this day should not do things, or come to the year in the event of failure. Broken five customs in addition to the above taboos, mainly to send poor, welcome the God of Fortune, the opening of the market trade.

Welcome the God of Fortune

Southern people on the fifth day of the first month to welcome the God of Fortune. According to folklore, the God of Wealth is the God of the Five Roads. The so-called five roads, referring to the east, west, south, north and center, meaning that out of the five roads, all can get money.

Qing Dynasty Gu Lu "Qing Jia Lu" cloud: "the fifth day of the first month, for the road head god birthday. Gong firecrackers, livestock sweet Bi Chen, in order to compete for the first for the benefit of the market, will get up early to meet, called the head of the road." Also said: "Today, the road head, is the five rituals in the line of God. The so-called five roads, when the east-west, south-north ear." Shanghai has the custom of grabbing the head of the road in the old calendar year. On the fourth day of the first month of the night, ready to sacrifice animals, cakes and fruits, incense and candles and other things, and sounding gongs and drums burning incense worship, piety and respect for the God of Wealth. The fifth is rumored to be the God of Fortune's birthday, in order to compete for the market, so the first in the fourth to pick up, called "grab the head of the road", also known as "receiving the God of Fortune", "sacrifices to the God of Fortune".

Five sacrifices that is to welcome the God of the Household, the God of the stove, the God of the soil, the God of the door, the God of the line, the so-called "road head", that is, five sacrifices in the God. Where to receive the God of Fortune shall be for the sheep's head and carp, for the sheep's head has "auspicious" meaning, for carp is the figure "fish" and "Yu" resonance, poetry a lucky. People are convinced that as long as you can get the God of Fortune, you can get rich.

So, every New Year's Eve, people are in the first five zero hours and zero minutes (after 24:00 on the fourth day of the first month), open the door and windows, burning incense and firecrackers, fireworks, to the God of Fortune to welcome. Received 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 make them rich in the new year.

The God of Wealth

The God of Wealth is a god of wealth worshipped in the Wu region. This day is regarded as his birthday, and it is a spectacular event to welcome him with a festival.

The common thought to receive the road head, the earlier the better, the earliest received is the true God, especially spiritual, so called "grab the road head". Some places, really in the first four days of the first day of the "rush to grab the head of the road", and has become a custom. Since the God of the road is no longer the protector of the travelers, people will no longer in the travel to worship it.

As for the people in the first five days of the first month of the road to worship God, and this day for its birthday, is the five road god in the "five" and the first five of the "five" implicated in the reason. In the north on this day to sacrifice "five poor" is the same. In the first month rather than other months, is to take the new year new weather, figure a year of good luck, prosperity, east and west, south and north, wealth, five roads and progress.

Send poor

The first five days of the first month of the "send poor", is a very distinctive ancient Chinese folk customs of the year. On this day, each family made of paper woman, known as "Sweeping Qing Niang", "five poor women", "five poor women", carrying a paper bag, the house will be swept to the bag of dirt, sent to the door outside the firecrackers to blow up. This custom is also known as "send poor soil", "send poor daughter-in-law out".

Opening

Old custom during the Spring Festival, the size of the store from the first day of the year closed, and in the first five days of the market. Common to the fifth day of the first month for the sacred day of wealth, that the choice of this day to open the market will attract wealth and treasure.

Customs of the Spring Festival on the sixth day of the first month

The sixth day of the first month of the lunar calendar, also known as the day of the horse, in this day to send poor, is a very distinctive Han Chinese folk customs of the year. All over China, there are also their own ways to send poor, different. But the moral is basically the same, are in sending away the poor. Reflects the general hope of the Han Chinese people to welcome the new, send away the old poverty and misery, to meet the new year's good life of the traditional psychology.

Stone Birthday: On this day is the birthday of the stone, all stone products can not be used.

Customs of the Spring Festival on the seventh day of the first month

People

Chinese New Year food (3)

Also known as the "People Sheng Festival", "People Celebration Festival", "Population Day Legend has it that Nuwa first created the world, after making animals such as chickens, dogs, pigs, cows and horses, he made people on the seventh day, so this day is the birthday of mankind. The Han Dynasty started the human day festival custom, after the Wei and Jin Dynasties began to emphasize. Ancient people day have to wear "people win" custom, people win is a kind of headdress, from the Jin Dynasty began to cut color for the flowers, cut color for the people, or openwork gold foil for people to paste the screen, but also wear in the hair.

Fish life

Some areas in the South, people have in the People's Day Festival "fish life" custom, fish life, often many people surrounded by a full, the fish, ingredients and sauces poured in a large plate, everyone stood up, waving chopsticks, the fish material to fish, the mouth must also continue to shout to: "Fish! Fish! Fatten it up!"

The more you fish, the higher it goes, to signify the step up in the ladder.

Spreading pancakes

Folk this day to eat "spring rolls", "box vegetables" (cooked meat food), and in the courtyard spread pancakes, "smoked day".

Trekking

Trekking on the seventh day of the first month of the green excursion, originated in the Song Dynasty Kui State (now Fengjie County, Chongqing City, step moraine (qi). Moraine (commonly known as moraine dam), the Three Kingdoms period Zhu Geliang on the moraine in the array of troops to retreat from the Wu soldiers, the name of the "eight array map". Jingzhou Tujing Ji": "Kui Fu people heavy Zhuge Wuhou, to the day of the people out of the eight positions on the moraine, called 'moraine tour', women pick up the small stone can be worn, tied to a hairpin, as a year of Switzerland". Song Lu You in Fengjie when he was an official, made "step on the moraine" poem: "ghost gate outside the people day, step on the moraine thousands of families out." Scholar Wang Shipeng in the Southern Song Dynasty in Fengjie as an official, more often with the people with the people, the seventh day of the first month to take the lead in the moraine, men, women, children, young and old, out of the city, bustling with excitement. Its "people day tour moraine" poem said: "Today's day for the people, the city out of Jianggao." Climbing

People's Day Festival is also the literati and writers to climb the day of poetry. Tang Gao Shi's poem "Sending Du Erliang on the Day of Humanity" reads, "Sending poems to the Cao Tang on the Day of Humanity is a pity for the old people who are thinking of their hometowns."

Customs of the Spring FestivalThe eighth day of the first month

Grain Day

Legend has it that the eighth day is the birthday of the grain. If the weather is sunny on this day, then the Lord will have a good harvest of rice on this day, while a cloudy day will result in a poor year.

Shunxing

Folk to the eighth day of the first month for the stars down to the world, the production of small lamps burned and sacrificed, known as the Shunxing, also known as the "sacrifice star", "catching the star". Sacrifice with two god code, the first printed with the star section, jujiao, xuanwu, etc., the second is "the life of the life of the star king". The two sheets are put together before and after, clamped on a paper clip, and placed in the center of the back of the table in the courtyard. In front of the God's code, there are yellow and white paper twisted with incense oil, put into the "lamp bowl" with a diameter of about an inch, or 49 lamps, or 108 lamps, and light them up. Cooked Lanterns and tea are then served. After dusk, the Big Dipper is used as the target for worship. After the sacrifice, when the remaining lamps will be extinguished, the sacred code, incense root and sesame straw, pine and cypress branches together with the incineration, the ritual is completed.

Customs of the Spring Festival on the ninth day of the first month

The day

The ninth day of the first month of the first day of the first day of the month of the day, commonly known as "Tian Gongsheng", legend has it that this day for the Jade Emperor's birthday. The main customs are sacrifices to the Jade Emperor, Taoist temple fasting, etc., some places, the day of the day, women prepared incense and candles, fasting bowls, placed in the Tianjing alleyway in the open air to worship the heavens, and ask for blessings from the God of Heaven.

Customs of the Spring Festival on the tenth day of the first month

Stone does not

This day, where the mill, milling and other stone tools can not be moved, and even set up sacrifices to enjoy the stone, fear of injury to crops. Also known as "stone does not move" "ten does not move". Henan custom this day, the family to the stone incense to pay tribute. Lunch must eat bun cake, that eating cake within a year will be prosperous. In Shandong Yuncheng and other places to lift the stone God's move. The first nine nights, people will be a tile jar frozen in a smooth stone, by ten young men or ten young girls take turns carrying the tile jar away. If the stone doesn't fall to the ground, it predicts a good harvest that year.

Helping rats marry their daughters

Old folk beliefs. In the first month of the ritual rat activities, also known as the "rat married daughter" "rat married". The specific date varies from place to place, some in the first month of the seventh, some in the first month of the twenty-fifth, many areas are the first ten. Pingyao County, Shanxi, the tenth day of the cake will be placed at the root of the wall, the name is "congratulations on the rat marriage". Ningyuan, Hunan Province, the seventeenth for the "mouse wedding" this day to avoid opening the cabinet, for fear of alarming the rats. The night before, children will be candy, peanuts, etc. placed in a dark place, and will be pots and pans and other big things knocking and beating, for the rat Cui makeup, the next morning, will be closed to the rat's hole, that from now on, rats can be forever extinct. There are still areas in the rat to marry a woman day very early to go to bed, but also not to disturb the rats, it is said that you disturb it a day, it disturbed you a year.

Customs of the Spring Festival on the eleventh day of the first month

Son-in-law day

Folk songs have "eleven son-in-law," that is, on the eleventh day of the first month is ''son-in-law day," fathers-in-law in the day of the feast. The son-in-law day", the fathers-in-law feasted on this day. Legend has it that this is because the food celebrated on the ninth day of the first month to celebrate the birth of the "sky male" to the tenth day of the first month can not be eaten, so, on the eleventh day of the day used to invite the son-in-law to eat, the mother's family does not have to break the bank.

Customs of the Spring Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month

Lantern Festival

Lantern Festival is the main traditional festival in China, also known as Yuansi, Yuanyi, also known as the Festival of the New Year, because it is the first full moon of the New Year. This festival is also known as the Festival of Lights because of the custom of viewing lanterns throughout the ages. The formation of the Lantern Festival has a long process, according to general information and folklore, the fifteenth day of the first month in the Western Han Dynasty has been attached importance to the first month of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty on the night of the Sin in the Ganquan Palace to sacrifice "too one" activities, was seen as the first day of the first month of the fifteenth day of the sacrifice of the God of heaven's first voice. However, the fifteenth day of the first month of the year was really a folk festival after the Han Dynasty and Wei Dynasty. The introduction of Buddhist culture in the Eastern Han Dynasty was an important impetus to the formation of the Lantern Festival.

During the reign of Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty (58-75 A.D.), when Emperor Ming advocated Buddhism, Cai Chuan, who had returned from India with the Buddhist teachings, claimed that on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month in the country of Magadha, the monks would gather to venerate the relics of the Buddha, which was an auspicious time to attend the Buddha's service. Han Mingdi in order to promote Buddhism, ordered the night of the 15th of the first month in the palace and the temple "lighted table Buddha". Therefore, the custom of burning lanterns on the night of the 15th day of the first lunar month gradually expanded in China with the expansion of the influence of Buddhist culture and the addition of Taoist culture. The real impetus for the Lantern Festival is that it is at a new point in time, and people take full advantage of this special time period to express their aspirations for life.

Lantern Festival

The custom of releasing lanterns at the Lantern Festival developed into an unprecedented lantern market during the Tang Dynasty, and after the Middle Tang Dynasty, it has developed into a national carnival. Tang Xuanzong (A.D. 685-762), the beginning of the heyday, Chang'an lantern market is very large, burning lamps 50,000, lanterns, lanterns, the emperor ordered to make a giant lantern building, as wide as 20 rooms, 150 feet high, golden light, extremely spectacular.

Following generations of Lantern Festival continues to develop, the time of the festival is also longer and longer. Tang Dynasty lantern festival is "one day before and after the first yuan", the Song Dynasty and in the sixteen days after the addition of two days, the Ming Dynasty is extended to the eight to eighteen by the whole ten days.

To the Qing Dynasty, the Manchus dominated the Central Plains, the court no longer run the lanterns, but the folk lanterns are still spectacular. The date was shortened to five days.

Eating Lanterns

The 15th day of the first month to eat Lanterns, "Lanterns" as a food, has a long history in China. Song Dynasty, the folk that is popular a Lantern Festival to eat novelty food. This kind of food, the earliest called "floating yuanzi" and then called "Lantern", the businessman also beautifully called "Yuanbao". Lantern that is "dumplings" to sugar, rose, sesame, bean paste, yellow cinnamon, walnuts, nuts, jujube paste, etc. for the filling, wrapped in glutinous rice flour into a round, meat can be vegetarian, different flavors. It can be boiled in soup, deep-fried or steamed, and has the meaning of reunion. Shaanxi dumplings are not wrapped, but in the glutinous rice flour "roll" into, or cook Division or deep-fried, hot, hot, reunion.

Performing social fires

In some places in the north, several villages gather on the 15th day of the first month to perform social fires. In some places in the north, several villages come together to perform social fires on the 15th day of the first month. The social fires include stilt walkers, Zhong Kui jumpers and floats.

Changes in Chinese New Year customs

Nowadays, there are many ways to pay tribute to the New Year, some of which are led by the head of the same clan to pay tribute to a number of people from door to door; some of which are invited by colleagues to pay tribute to the New Year; and some of which are gathered together to congratulate each other, known as the "reunion worship". Because of the time-consuming and laborious door-to-door New Year's greetings, and then some of the upper-class people and the scholarly community will use the stickers to throw congratulations to each other, which developed out of the later "New Year's card".