What are the customs of New Year's Day?

1, ancient Chinese New Year's Day customs

Ancient New Year's Day is the first day of the first month of the Lunar Calendar, is to commemorate Shun Di sacrificed to heaven and earth and the first emperor Yao's day, the successive dynasties have been held on New Year's Day to celebrate the ceremonies and prayers for the rituals and other activities, such as sacrifices to the gods sacrificed to the ancestors, write the door to hang the Spring Festival couplets, writing the word "blessed", dancing dragons and lanterns, and the folk have gradually formed a sacrifice to the gods and Buddhas, sacrifices to the ancestors, sticking the Spring Festival couplets, firecrackers, year-end vigil, eat reunion meal As well as numerous celebratory activities such as fire piling.

Successive dynasties have been held on New Year's Day to celebrate ceremonial prayers and other activities, such as sacrifices to the gods and ancestors, write the door to hang Spring Festival couplets, writing the word of blessing, dancing dragon lanterns, the folk have gradually formed a sacrifice to the gods and Buddhas, sacrifices to the ancestors, stickers, firecrackers, firecrackers, the year-end vigil, and eat a reunion dinner, as well as many of the "social fire" and other recreational and celebratory activities.

2, modern Chinese New Year's Day customs

After the founding of the new China in 1949, January 1 of the solar calendar as New Year's Day, because New Year's Day was born in China during the Republic of China. The customs and habits of the celebration, of course, mostly similar to the customs of the Spring Festival, or can also be said to be a pocket version of the Spring Festival, after all, New Year's Day is not a traditional holiday in China, although it follows part of the traditional way of celebrating. For example, setting off fireworks, killing the three living things, sacrificing to ghosts and gods, and worshipping ancestors.

New Year's Day in the eyes of the Chinese people do not see heavy, so the celebration of that customary customs are relatively simple. New Year's Day belongs to the international festival, many countries have listed New Year's Day as a legal holiday, the same in China, after the founding of New China, the provisions of the New Year's Day as a legal holiday vacation day, and later changed to the New Year's Day three days off. However, there is no prescribed custom to celebrate New Year's Day across China.

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Legend of New Year's Day

Legend of New Year's Day

Legend is that in ancient times, during the great age of Yao and Shun, the Emperor Yao ruled over the country. The story goes that in the ancient times, when Yao Tianzi was on the throne, he did a lot of good things for the people and was loved by them, but because his son was not talented, he didn't pass the throne to his own son, but passed it on to Shun, who was a man of both character and talent.

Yao said to Shun, "You must pass on the throne well, so that when I die, I can rest in peace. Later, Shun passed the throne to Yu, who had done a great job in curing the flood, and Yu did a lot of good things for the people like Shun did, and he was very popular among the people.

After the death of Yao, Shun Emperor sacrificed to heaven and earth and the ancestor Yao as the beginning of the year, and called the first day of the first month of the year "New Year's Day", or "Yuanzheng", which is the ancient New Year's Day.

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