Chinese New Year Customs in Deqing

The Chinese New Year customs in Deqing include wrapping flat dumplings and releasing kunlun

In Deqing, there is one food item that must be prepared for the Chinese New Year, but it is not the staple food, it is the flat dumplings of Deqing. There are two kinds of leaves to wrap, the inner layer is winter leaves and the outer layer is mango leaves. The shape is different from the Zhaoqing steamed dumplings.

When the zero point into the first day of the year the whole country will set off firecrackers, but Deqing in the beginning of the second year and the first seven years of the New Year will also set off kunlun (is the local Deqing long strings of firecrackers called). On the 30th and the first day of the New Year, you have to worship heaven and earth, ancestors, and social ruler before you can start the meal.

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The Chinese New Year, the Lunar New Year, is traditionally known as the New Year Festival. The Spring Festival is the grandest and most lively festival of Chinese folklore, evolved from the ancient times of the first year of the year prayers and sacrifices. The ancient stem-and-branch calendar provided the preconditions for the creation of the festival, and primitive beliefs and sacrificial culture were important factors in the formation of the New Year festival.

The New Year's Day is centered around the rituals of praying for the New Year, and is carried out in the form of activities such as getting rid of the old and bringing in the new, welcoming good fortune, worshipping the gods and ancestors, and praying for a good harvest, etc., with a rich and colorful atmosphere of festivity, and cohesive with the essence of Chinese civilization's history and culture.

China's ancient folk custom of the New Year, the New Year in ancient times was specifically referred to the dry calendar "spring". When the festival spring, yin and yang transformation, yang and hibernation, all things spring, means that a new cycle has been opened, the beginning of a new year. Later, due to changes in the calendar, the New Year usually refers to the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar, known as the lunar year.

The New Year has a long history, in the development of inheritance has formed a number of more fixed customs, many of which are still handed down to this day, such as dust sweeping, New Year's goods, sticking the New Year's red, New Year's dinner, the New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve money, pay respects to the New Year, the dragon dance, the lion dance, the tour of the gods, ancestor worship, firecrackers, fireworks, the New Year's Eve, New Year's Day, and other customs.

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