Chinese New Year Customs

Chinese New Year customs are to do the New Year's goods, sacrificial stove, dust sweeping, cut New Year's meat, paste New Year's red, New Year's Eve dinner, the New Year's Eve vigil, the New Year's money, the tour of the gods, the New Year's Eve, the temple fair, the New Year's Eve, the distribution of lai see, firecrackers, dragon and lion dances, the worship of the gods, ancestors, praying for blessings and calamities, the tour of the gods, the escort of the boat, the temple fair, tour of gongs and drums, tour of the standard flag, the lanterns on the wine, the lanterns.

What are the customs of the Spring Festival

1, to do the New Year's goods

China's New Year's culture has a long history, and the whole country derived from a wide variety of New Year's customs, the north and south are very different, each with its own characteristics. Although the customs are not the same, but the preparation of New Year's Eve, New Year's gift is almost the whole country's "New Year's Eve must".

2, sacrificial stove

Folk sacrificial stove, originating from the ancient custom of fire worship. Such as the "interpretation of the name" said: "stove. Create also, create food also." The duty of the god of the stove is to control the stove fire and manage the food, which was later expanded to examine the good and evil on earth in order to bring down blessings and disasters. The belief in the god of the stove is a reflection of the Chinese people's dream of having more than enough food and clothing.

3, sweep the dust

In folklore, on the eve of the New Year, there is a "Lunar New Year's Eve, sweep the dust (also known as sweeping the house) custom. The folk proverb says "twenty-four, sweep the house". Folk called "dust day".

4, cut the meat of the year

Folk proverb says, "Lunar month 26, kill the pig cut the meat of the year," said the day of the main preparations for the New Year's meat. The so-called kill the pig, of course, is to kill their own family pig; the so-called cut meat, refers to the poor people who do not have a pig to go to the market to buy New Year's Eve to eat meat. The reason for putting "cut meat" into the rhyme is that the economy of farming society is not well developed, and people can only eat meat in the annual festival, so it is called "year meat".

5, paste the red (spring)

year 28, 29 or 30 days of the year, every family "paste the red" (red is the spring couplets, door god, banner, New Year's paintings, "blessed" characters, etc.), the red festive elements posted on the occasion of New Year's Day, the red, the red, the red and the red. (Nianhong is a collective term for the red festive elements that are put up during the New Year). The traditional Chinese New Year's custom of posting Nianhong (Spring Festival) adds a festive atmosphere and sends people's hopes for the New Year and a new life.

6, New Year's Eve dinner

New Year's Eve dinner, also known as the New Year's Eve dinner, New Year's Eve dinner, etc., refers to the end of the year New Year's Eve of the family dinner. New Year's Eve dinner originated from the ancient year-end rituals, worship gods and ancestors after the reunion dinner. The New Year's Eve dinner is the main event of the year, not only colorful, but also very important to pay attention to the intention.

7, year-end vigil

New Year's Eve is one of the New Year's Eve activities, the custom of the year-end vigil has a long history. The folklore of New Year's Eve is mainly manifested in all the houses are lit fire, family reunion, and guard the "fire" not to extinguish, waiting for the moment of resignation to welcome the new year, to meet the new year to come.

8, the New Year's Eve money

The New Year's Eve money, one of the customs of the New Year's Eve, after dinner, the elders will be prepared to send the New Year's Eve money to the elders, it is said that the New Year's Eve money can be pressed to stop the evil spirits, elders get the New Year's Eve money can be a year of peace and security.

9, the tour of the gods

Tour of the gods, is one of the traditional New Year's Eve customs. Tour of the gods, also known as the holy driving tour, the tour of the master, the camp master, tour of the Bodhisattva, tour of the gods race, the annual routine, welcome the gods, welcome the year, tour of spring, line incense, the Bodhisattva line townships, lifting the statue of God, statue of God out of the tour, etc., refers to the people in the New Year period or other festivals, or the gods of the day of Christmas, to the temple in the body of the statue of the gods in the sedan chair, and then lifted out of the temple tour of the territory to accept the people's incense and worship, the symbol of the gods to land on the people, touring the countryside, and blessing the territory, the god, and the people's worship. This is to symbolize that the god has landed in the countryside and blessed the countryside with peace and prosperity.

10, temple fair

Temple fair is one of the folk activities during the Spring Festival. Guangfu Temple Fair and Beijing Temple Fair is known as the two major temple fairs in China. It covers thematic activities such as puppet gathers, Chinese masterpieces, martial arts competitions, Lantern Festival, etc. It contains a rich content of praying for blessings culture, folk culture, food culture, trade and leisure culture and so on.

The origin of the Spring Festival

The origin of the ancient traditional festivals is related to the ancient primitive beliefs, sacrificial culture, and astrology, calendars, and other humanistic and natural cultural contents. According to the research results of modern anthropology and archaeology, the two most primitive beliefs of human beings are the belief in heaven and earth and the belief in ancestors. Most of the ancient traditional festivals were formed when ancient people chose a day to offer sacrifices to thank the gods of heaven and earth and the ancestors for their kindness, as well as to pray for blessings and ward off evil spirits. Early festival culture, reflecting the ancient nature worship, the unity of man and nature, prudence, the humanistic spirit of the origin; a series of sacrificial activities, contains a deep cultural connotation of respect for virtue, rituals and civilization. The origin and development of the festival covers humanistic philosophy and the laws of nature, etc.

In the early years of the Chinese New Year, there was a great deal of interest in the festival.

In the early era of observing the time, "the handle of the bucket back to the Yin" for the spring (the first of the year), the spring is the beginning of everything, the meaning of all the more alive, meaning that a new year has begun. The concept of "year" comes from the ancient calendar, "year" is "regent" (the original stem), also known as "year star", "too much", "too much", "too much", "too much", "too much", "too much". The concept of "year" comes from the ancient calendar, "year" is "regent" (the original stem), also known as "year star", "too year". In the development of the inheritance of later generations will be this set of multi-syllabic Regnum (years) terminology simplified to a word, and its simplified stem and branch in the "Er Ya" and the "Historical Records" have a cross-reference to the relationship between the records. For example: the Tai Sui in the Yin said Regent Tigue, in the d said single block, ... in the son said sleepy Dun, in the ugly said Chi Fen Ruo (language from the "Er Ya - interpretation of the sky"). Stem and Branch (years) Era to the Big Dipper's handle points due east of the north position of the "Jian Yin" month for the beginning, and then clockwise rotation, the cycle repeats. In traditional culture, the stem and branch and orientation and gossip is linked together, Yin position is the Burgundy position of the eight trigrams, is the end of the year the first year of the end of the orientation, on behalf of the end and the beginning, such as the "Yi - Gua Chuan" said: "Burgundy, the northeast of the trigrams are also, the end of the end of the world into the beginning of the beginning also." December run, week after week, the end of December refers to the ugly side, the first month and back to the c position. Doo handle back to the c, spring back to the earth, the end and the beginning of the end, the renewal of all things, the new year thus began.

In the traditional farming society, the beginning of spring has an important significance, derived from a large number of festival culture related to the beginning of the year. Although festivals and holidays have been separated since then due to the promotion of the yin-yang calendar system in historical development, many festival folklore has been preserved. The Spring Festival evolved from the ritual of praying for the year at the beginning of the year. In the ancient times, people held rituals at the beginning of the year, when spring returned to the earth, when the end came back to the beginning, and when everything was renewed, in order to pay tribute to the gods of the heavens and the earth, and to the benevolence of ancestors, to drive away evils, to ward off calamities, and to pray for the year's blessings. Although the ancient rituals are not known, it is still possible to find some remnants of ancient customs in the festival rituals of later generations. Such as Lingnan part of the inheritance in the first day of the new year to pay homage to the new year and the new year during the grand and grand worship of the gods and ancestors, drive away evil spirits Nafu festival ritual activities, which can be seen in the ancient times of the first year of the festival of the clues and clues. The origin and development of the Spring Festival is a process of gradual formation, refinement and popularization. As an important part of traditional Chinese culture, the Spring Festival culture carries the profound Chinese cultural heritage and records the rich and colorful social life of ancient people.