What are the specialties of Hunan New Year? What are the specialties and customs of the New Year in Hunan?

In our Hunan province, the New Year must be over half a month, from the first year Lunar New Year on the twenty-fourth to the second year the first month of the fifteenth Lantern Festival until. This custom has continued for thousands of years. The following is an introduction to a series of Hunan New Year's Eve customs.

(1) On the 30th day of the Lunar New Year, every family cuts colorful paper, puts up spring couplets, and the whole family gathers and drinks and eats the Lunar New Year's dinner. In the evening, burning incense and firing cannons, worshiping ancestors and family gods, and picking up the God of the Stove for sacrifice. Children go in groups to their neighbors' homes to pay their respects. Each family will warmly welcome these children, holding out snacks, stuffing the children's pockets full, and some children go home and unload their pockets, and then quickly join the queue of the New Year's Eve, a night can get a lot of food, happy and happy, and thus there is a proverb: "children look forward to New Year's Eve".　(2) On the night of the New Year's Eve, a maple root and stem (or pine or chestnut root and stem) is burned in the fireplace of every house in Changsha's countryside, which is called "New Year's Cai Luo". Men, women and children sit by the charcoal stove to keep watch, the elders give children New Year's money, and the whole family eats pig's feet and radish stew to "keep watch". This is called "money or no money, turnip New Year's Eve".

(3) the first day of the Lunar New Year, the family in the chicken call when the Hou got up, men, women and children put on new clothes, by the seniority of the highest male master of the incense to open the door, sounding firecrackers, called "out of the sky line", or said open the door to wealth. Then people hall, lighting incense and candles to worship the ancestors, and then out to worship the gods of heaven and earth, choose the auspicious time to the auspicious side of the three bow, or to the four sides of the bow, praying for the New Year Fangfang profit. Then the younger generation pays homage to the elders in turn, and goes to the well to pick the first water. The leftovers are eaten for breakfast, which is called "food for the next year", implying that there is plenty of food and clothing. Vegetables mainly vegetarian, can not be separated from bok choy, taro, tofu, etc., implying that people Qingji, everything meets the head, the family of innocence. After the meal, the late generation to the family elders to pay tribute to the New Year. The first day of the year generally do not go out to pay respects. After the family to pay tribute to each other, go to the neighbor's house to pay tribute to the New Year, but if people have not yet got up, it is taboo to pay tribute to the New Year in front of the bed.

(4) the first day of the Lunar New Year, some people on New Year's Eve in the door at the joints of the red paper "wealth" word, or "open the door for good luck", "on my wealth" and so on the auspicious words, open the door! When you open the door, you will recite it aloud, which is called "Open the door and see happiness, see wealth". Piling up a lot of firewood under the steps is a sign of good fortune. On the first day of the lunar calendar, the person who carries the firewood to the door means "entering wealth". The first day of not dumping garbage, not sweeping, really have to sweep when the broom is not outward, but to sweep inside. Some people write "longevity and prosperity", "grains" and other auspicious words, called "New Year's pen, great luck". (5) the first day of the New Year, especially taboo vulgarity and indecent speech, that today was scolded, will be scolded for a year. Adults always have to advise children in advance: the first day of the year to say good things! In case a child misspeaks, adults immediately explained: "children's words, no taboos". Such as accidentally broke something, to say "send send"; if the wine glass fell, to say "wine splash red ground".

(6) on the second day of the New Year, the son-in-law will go to the house of the New Year, there is a proverb called: "the first cub, the first two Lang, the first three, the first four to worship the neighborhood". After the eighth, acquaintances meet, each other said "please pay a late year!" To the fifteenth day, generally do not mention the New Year.

The above are some of the customs of Hunan New Year, and the rest of the country's customs have a lot of **** the same, but also some of their own characteristics of things. Regardless of the form, the essence is to seek good luck in the coming year, which is also an essential part of Chinese folk culture, implying the wish of the Chinese people to pray for peace and success.