What are the customs from the first day to the fifteenth day of the first lunar month?

On the first day of the lunar calendar, this custom is called "Yuan Day". On New Year's Eve, people worship their ancestors and great gods until the temple burns incense on its head. In the evening, everyone got up to fry piles, oil angle, killed chickens, burned incense and set off firecrackers, commonly known as "grabbing spring", and burned the first incense at zero, praying for a smoother next year. On the morning of the tenth day of the first lunar month, elders should prepare lucky money for the younger generation to express their blessings and good luck. On the first morning, everyone in the family should be vegetarian, which is customary. Fasting on New Year's Day is better than not eating for a year. After eating vegetarian food, the younger generation will go to their elders at home to say some greetings and kind words to congratulate them on their arrival in the coming year, and they will receive the "benefits" from their elders. On that day, the younger generation of "Happy New Year" hopes to get the greatest benefit from their elders.

Lunar New Year's Day: Go back to my mother's house for the New Year.

On the second morning of the following year, the women at home should prepare a "New Year's Eve". Eating the Cantonese custom "New Year's Eve" is the most grand meal at the beginning of the new year, and the dishes of the New Year's Eve should be meaningful. Such as; Make a fortune and do good deeds (pig's hand, Nostoc flagelliforme, oyster sauce), good luck (roast pork), smooth sailing (fish like shad), and making money and doing good deeds (lettuce in oyster sauce) are all desirable.

The second day of the first month, also known as "Children's Day". On this day, married women and their husbands take their children back to their parents' home. Children usually bring fruits, rice cakes, mushrooms, bacon and other new year's goods when they return to their parents' home. In some rural areas of Guangdong, there is a custom of "releasing fish" on the second day of the first month. After buying live carp, shad and sparrows, put them into the river and set them free in the mountains.

New Year's Day: Avoid playing in Chikou.

Custom this day is called "Poor People's Day", and every household will "sweep the poor" on the third morning, and sweep out the garbage accumulated for two days from the first day to the second day, meaning to sweep away dirty and unlucky folk customs. Therefore, if you don't go out to pay New Year greetings on this day, you are afraid of being swept out of the house like a "poor ghost". At the same time, on this day, people will not go out to pay New Year greetings. This day is also "Red Dog Day", commonly known as "Red Mouth". It is said among the people that the red dog is the god of anger, and it is easy to cause quarrels with people when going out. Therefore, those who have elders at home will care about this day very much, and they will not let the younger generation go out to pay New Year greetings without leaving home, so they will stay at home to avoid fierce words.

Day 4: Open the door and meet the God of Wealth.

Legend has it that the fourth day of the first lunar month is the "birthday of the god of wealth", and three sacrifices should be prepared, such as fruit, candy and tea. One day in advance. Sacrifice is intended to "welcome the God of Wealth", and at the same time, every household will hold a banquet to congratulate the arrival of the "God of Wealth's Birthday". This custom is the most important sacrificial activity in the first lunar month. A folk saying, usually when the sun goes down in the afternoon and at night, there is a ritual activity; "Send God early and receive God late."

Lunar New Year's Day: Catch Five Poor People

On the fifth day of the first month, commonly known as "breaking the fifth", it is necessary to "drive out the five poor", including "intellectual poverty, academic poverty, literary poverty, life poverty and friendship poverty". People get up at dawn, set off firecrackers and clean up. Firecrackers are set from the inside out, and as soon as they are set, they go outside the door. It is said that anything unlucky will be blown out.

The sixth day of the year: opening.

On the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, shops and restaurants officially opened their doors and set off firecrackers, no less than on New Year's Eve. Legend has it that the most popular boy on this day is the boy who is over 12. Because 12 is twice as much as 6, it is called 666 Dashun. On this day, every household should throw out the garbage accumulated in the festival, which is called sending it to the poor.

On the seventh day of the seventh lunar month: People cook porridge and eat flour and noodles every day.

On the seventh day, the folk custom is "People's Day", which means "everyone's birthday". On this day, every household will celebrate "everyone's birthday" with seven kinds of beans to cook porridge and stir-fried noodles. In ancient folk villages, small temple fairs will be held.

Lunar New Year's Day: Don't go home on the way.

In the old days, there was a folk custom of "not going on July 7th and not coming back on August 8th". Why I didn't go home that day, so I couldn't find the information.

New Year's Day: Three Sacrifices of Fruits to Worship the Jade Emperor

This day is the traditional "Nine Emperors' Birthday", and the jade emperor is sacrificed with three sacrifices and fruits. I hope to have a good harvest in the coming year, and at the same time, I have worshipped the "Nine Emperors' Birthday" to bless my family's health and longevity.

The 10 and 1 1 day of the year: spring harvest.

Twelfth year: light a new lamp in front of the ancestral hall.

In the old agricultural society, boys attached great importance to carrying on the family line. Whenever there is no ancestral temple with the same surname in the village, boys born with the same surname can light new lights and add letters to their families on this day. On the fifteenth day of the first month, the newly born boys in the village lit lamps and decorated them in front of the ancestral hall.

Thirteen or fourteen years: Wang Chicken House

These two days are the time to add three poultry. This is impossible for city residents. )

Year 15: Visit a temple fair to see lanterns.

The fifteenth day of the first month is the Lantern Festival, the first full moon night in a year, and the night when spring returns to the earth, also known as Shangyuan Festival. The custom of burning lanterns on Lantern Festival can be traced back to the Han Dynasty. It is essential to eat Lantern Festival and glutinous rice balls on this day. On this day, handsome men and beautiful women meet to watch lanterns, which is a good opportunity for blind date.

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Detailed explanation of spring festival customs