Jiaozuo new year folk customs?

1, sweeping dust

This custom is based on people's desire to break the old and build the new, and the old and welcome the new prayers. Whenever the Spring Festival is approaching, every household has to clean the environment, wash all kinds of utensils, dismantle and wash the bedding curtains, clean the courtyard, dust and brush the cobwebs, dredge the nullahs and ditches. Everywhere overflowing with joyful health, clean and welcome the new year's atmosphere of joy.

2, posting Spring Festival

Spring Festival couplets, also known as door-to-door, spring stickers, couplets, couplets, peach symbols, etc., it is neat, couplets, simple, sophisticated text depicting the background of the times, expressing the best wishes, is unique to China's form of literature. Every Spring Festival, whether urban or rural, every family should select a large red spring couplets posted on the door, for the festival to increase the festive atmosphere.

This custom began in the Song Dynasty, began to prevail in the Ming Dynasty, to the Qing Dynasty, the Spring Festival couplets of ideology and artistry have been greatly improved, Liang Zhangrui prepared the Spring Festival couplets of monographs, "Threshold Lian series of words," the origins of the couplets and the various types of works of the characteristics of the discourse.

3, window decals and upside down "Fu" character

In the folk people also like to put all kinds of paper cuttings on the window - window flowers. Window flowers not only set a festive atmosphere, but also decorative, appreciative and practical in one.

4, New Year's paintings

The Spring Festival hanging stickers in urban and rural areas is also very common, black and colorful New Year's paintings to thousands of families added a lot of prosperity and joy of the festive atmosphere. New Year's paintings are an ancient folk art in China, reflecting the people's simple customs and beliefs, and holding their hopes for the future.

5, eat dumplings

The first meal on the first day of the Lunar New Year must be dumplings. Dumplings mean "Yuanbao", which is a symbol of wealth and prosperity. Dumplings are also known as reunion rice, heralding a happy family reunion. When the dumplings are wrapped, a coin is wrapped in two dumplings, and whoever eats it will be lucky and will have good luck this year.

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Regional Culture

Jiaozuo is the place where the Shang Tang Revolution began; the front base of King Wu's campaign against the Zhou Zhou Empire; the base camp for the Guangwu revival of the Later Han Dynasty; the source of the "Zhengshi Xuanfeng" and the Taiji culture with the eight seals as its soul. It is the root of water culture and resort culture; it is the root of 46 Chinese surnames and the Japanese surnames of Sakagami, Daizo and Harada.

Shennong's place of sacrificing to the sky, tasting a hundred herbs, and the remains of the activities of Sun Simiao, the king of medicine, show the origins of ancient agriculture and medicine. Numerous ceramic relics unearthed and the ceramic site at Dangyangyu show that Huaichuan is the root of developed ceramic culture.

The Xia Xiaozheng, first issued by Dayu, is the root of China's calendar. Taijiquan, which originated in Chenjiagou, the Eight Levels of Boxing of Yueshan Temple, and the Ape Boxing of Jinyin Temple prove that Huaichuan is the root of Chinese martial arts, and it is also the center of Taoism and a holy place of Buddhism.

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