What are the customs and etiquette of New Year's Eve in different places?

"Chinese New Year" is the tradition of the Chinese nation, but also folk local customs, is a traditional culture, is the people's life rhythmic warmth, reflecting the communication and exchange of affection, friendship and ideas and feelings between people.

With the progress of society and the improvement of people's living standards, evolved people remove the dregs and save the essence, inherit and improve the traditional customs to make life better.

"Better year by year" is the beautiful aspiration of Evolution people nowadays, and it is also the deepening of the traditional custom of "New Year's Eve" in Evolution. Let's share the traditional custom of "New Year's Eve" with the evolved people.

New Year's Eve is a big festival at the end of the year, when relatives outside must rush home to reunite with their loved ones and eat the New Year's Eve meal. After the New Year's Eve, which is the beginning of the year, all relatives and friends must visit each other - paying New Year's greetings. Evolutionary people have the custom of being busy with the New Year. Almost New Year's Eve, every family whisks dust early, washes bedding, makes new clothes, new shoes, packs dumplings, Tsubaki rice cakes, kills poultry and slaughters animals, buys peanuts, melons, and wraps reunions 馃鈪鈪鈪鈪鈪媝 busy with New Year.

The twentieth day of the twelfth month of the lunar calendar, evolution of local villagers called night. There is "twenty night, even night night, wearing bus shoes to worship grandpa", housewives rush to make new shoes. Twenty-three night, with dumplings, rice cakes, incense and candles, Yuanbao, to send Zaojun Niangniang on the sky. There is a prayer that says, "Doing good deeds in heaven and keeping peace on earth". The 30th night is the eve of the year, the family must return home to reunite, eat reunion 馃. In the old days, the cold family, usually no good food and clothing, to the year Eve, to eat a good meal, in the local "thirty nights to eat a meal, the first day of the year to wear a body," the saying.

Twenty nights later, every family should sacrifice heaven and earth, burning candles, sounding cannons to pray for future peace. Normally, the Bodhisattva is worshipped facing outward. The New Year's Bodhisattva must be worshipped facing inward and is not allowed to be worshipped facing outward. This is also a local custom. The idea is to keep the inside out. On the eve of New Year's Eve, incense and candles are used to receive the god of the stove to its place. Before eating the New Year's Eve meal, the god of the stove and the god of the five grains should be sacrificed, and the ancestors should be worshipped, and then the New Year's Eve meal should be eaten. You need to close the door when you eat the meal, so that no one will come to your door to collect your debt. You are not allowed to stand up during the meal to show that you can hatch good chickens. You should eat Reunion馃 first to show that you are united. Some lotus root is eaten to show that the "Lu Lu Tong" can run away. After everyone has finished eating, the elders will distribute the "New Year's money" before they can get up and leave the table. Today, with the progress of the times, this rule has changed. After the meal, fried peanuts, melon seeds, red paper on the door and jar, bowl, to show good luck. Now after the meal is to play cards and set off fireworks to show joy. Red candles were left burning, called "long bright night". Nowadays, electric lights are used instead.

The New Year is the end of the year. All of the family's incoming and outgoing accounts have to come to an end. Those who should collect and those who should pay should pay. If you don't have the money to pay, there is an explanation. In the old days, the poor family, there is a "New Year's Eve as the customs" feeling. Some also have to go to the temple to avoid debt to "avoid debt". After the New Year's Eve, there is "the first five days before the first month of the first five are not allowed to collect debts" rule.

China is the deepest of a nation, with thousands of years of long history and culture. Once upon a time, the ancients paid attention to "respect for the sky, respect for the earth", so there are a lot of taboos in folklore, passed down from generation to generation, even the most lively New Year's festivals, the old man often reminds the offspring do not violate taboos, in order to good luck in the coming year, it is said that indeed has its spirituality.

The Chinese New Year refers to the first five days of the lunar calendar, of course, we usually count the days before and after the celebration, until after the fifteenth festival atmosphere slowly fade down.

1. To say good words, avoid scolding the child: the traditional view that the child on the first day of the year, if scolded, will be scolded for a whole year. In particular, the requirements of the first day to say good words, can not say foul-mouthed indecent words, some areas in case the child said slipped out of the mouth, adults will immediately follow the words: "children's words, no taboos"; if it is accidentally broken something, will say "send send send" (the meaning of wealth). ).

2. Avoid cleaning, avoid sweeping the garbage out of the door: New Year's Day before to worship "Zao Wang", send away after "Zao Wang", the New Year's Eve 30 years ago to clean up, called "sweeping the dust! ", there is the meaning of the old and welcome the new, to the New Year's days are taboo cleaning. The first to the fifth taboo on dumping garbage, can not sweep the garbage out the door or pouring sewage, fear of sweeping away the wealth of the home.

3. The first, the second taboo laundry: the water god's birthday in the first, the second, so taboo in the two days to wash clothes.

4. The first day of the taboo rush people out of bed: the morning of the first day of the year do not rush people out of bed, it is believed that this will make the other person will be rushed to do things throughout the year.

5. Married women avoid the first, fourth and fifth back to their families: during the New Year, married women and son-in-law can only be in the second or third back to the woman's maiden home, it is said that this will not be the mother's family to eat poor.

6. Avoid with people still sleeping to pay homage: the first of the year with people still sleeping to pay homage, have to wait until the other side to get up and then pay homage, otherwise it will make the other side of the whole year are in a sick bed.

7. Avoid eating fish head, tail: fish during the New Year is a necessary dish, said "surplus". Eat fish, you should leave the head and tail do not eat, so that the next year, not only food and clothing, there is a surplus.

8. Jealous of debt collection: traditionally, the New Year's period, whether it is being asked for debt or to ask for debt this whole year will be very unlucky, and therefore taboo to ask for debt.

There are also a number of different customs and taboos during the New Year in different parts of China, which are very interesting and meaningful, and which are part of our national culture and traditions, and which should be passed on from generation to generation.

The Spring Festival, which is celebrated on New Year's Day of the lunar calendar, is the most important traditional festival in China and Guangzhou. The Spring Festival in Guangzhou has both the basic elements of the Chinese New Year and its own local characteristics. From the middle of December of the lunar calendar, people start to buy new year's goods; before New Year's Eve, the character "福" or New Year's paintings are hung on the main door or in the hall, and some families hang the character "福" upside down, which means "good fortune". On New Year's Eve, some families go to hotels and restaurants to have a reunion dinner, and then "line flower street". From the first to the fifteenth, friends and relatives or acquaintances pay their respects to each other, married or older to the unmarried or children to seal "Li Shi" (i.e., red envelopes), in order to show that good luck. The Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first month of the lunar calendar, eating "soup dumplings", meaning that the whole family in the new year, peace and reunion, happiness and contentment.

Guangzhou's Spring Festival customs are also different from those of other regions:

1. The Spring Festival Flower Market is held from December 28 of the lunar calendar to late at night on New Year's Eve, and millions of people participate in the flower market.

2. Every family must have flowers, including Chinese New Year oranges, daffodils and flowers.

3, celebrating the Day of the People. People day is the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, Guangzhou people set up a sumptuous family feast on this day to celebrate.

The Spring Festival in Zhanjiang

Like the rest of the country, the Spring Festival is the grandest and richest traditional festival among the people, but the Spring Festival in Zhanjiang also has local characteristics. The Spring Festival in the countryside usually takes about a month to prepare and ends in mid-December of the lunar calendar, when preparations begin, including renovating the house, purchasing furniture, adding new clothes, and buying various kinds of New Year's goods. New Year's goods include sugar, glutinous rice, New Year's paintings, couplets, candies, cookies, firecrackers and the like, and most of the money earned in a year is spent on the Spring Festival.

The most lively scenes on the 29th or 30th day of the year are the slaughter of pigs, catching fish in ponds, and catching the New Year's Eve Wei, with men, women, and children all out in force. In the evening, every household puts up "New Year's Red", both new year's paintings and traditional "door god", most of the couplets are related to fortune and so on, and the martyrs' families put up the couplets "Carry forward the tradition of the revolution and strive for greater glory" issued by the civil affairs department on the main door, and the kitchens, pigs and chickens put up the banners "sufficient food" and "prosperity of the six animals", etc. After the reunion dinner, they share the money to pay off the debts. After the reunion dinner, the money is divided. 12 o'clock, every household firecrackers, to send off the old and welcome the new.

The first day of the Lunar New Year, the rural areas are generally popular three taboos: taboo killing, taboo pouring, taboo sweeping, some rural areas are still accustomed to eating fasting. The second day of the year began to go to friends and relatives, you come and go. Most of the villages and towns during this period are lion dance, God, floating color parade, do opera, martial arts performances, ball games, etc., a variety of folk activities, has been extended for more than half a month.

Customs of Spring Festival in Gao Yao County

The first day of the first month of the lunar calendar is the Spring Festival, which is the most important traditional festival for the people of Gao Yao County. Before the festival, every family is busy with cleaning and hygiene, preparing New Year's goods, wrapping the "fruit steam" dumplings. New Year's Eve. Commonly known as the New Year's Eve, households in front of the red couplets, indoor lights and colorful, set up pots of orange, flowers, the evening to eat a reunion dinner, gathering Tianlun music, sitting around the New Year's Eve, all the firecrackers sounding. The first day of the New Year, the old custom of anonymity, do not go out, do not sweep the floor. The second day of the New Year is commonly known as the "New Year", slaughter three birds, prepare lettuce and garlic to worship God, praying for good weather, take the meaning of good fortune. During the Spring Festival, people wear red and green, the market flags flying, colorful. Folk organizations lion dance to celebrate the New Year, held a variety of recreational activities. Friends and relatives pay New Year's call to each other, send fruit steam, oil angle, head fruit, etc., see friends and relatives of children rewarded with red envelopes (lai see), acquaintances to meet each other, say good luck. Newlyweds to relatives to pay tribute to the New Year, become an essential ritual.