Chinese New Year customs 120 words

On the first day of the first month of the year, in order to open the door to] Daji colorful, early in the morning, people open the door to the first firecrackers, called "open the door cannonball". After the sound of firecrackers, broken red all over the ground, began to pay tribute to the New Year. "In our Yudong home, the first day of the New Year, the whole family should be at home to celebrate the New Year, every family is like this, but there is one kind of exception, that is, a thousand sons. Godchildren also have to reunite at their godparents' homes on this day." So said Mr. Meng Xianming.

When relatives visit on the second day of the Lunar New Year, daughters who have married out go back to their parents' homes with their husbands and children to pay their respects.

The third day of the first month of the lunar year is the day when Nuwa made the sheep, so it is called "Sheep Day". On this day, people are not allowed to kill sheep, and if the weather is good, it means that the sheep will be raised well during the year and the people who raise them will have a good harvest. But in many places, this day is also . A day for visiting graves and sweeping tombs.

The fifth day of the first month of the lunar calendar is commonly known as the broken fifth. "This breaking means that there are some things in the Spring Festival that can't be done before the fifth day of the first month, such as sweeping the floor and taking out the garbage, which can be done after the fifth day of the breaking." Mr. Qiao Taishan said, broken five of the custom is fixed from the Ming and Qing Dynasties and continues to this day, according to the description of the Qing Dynasty "Yenching Years and Years Records broken five": "the first five days is called broken five, broken five within the not to be raw for cooking, women are not allowed to go out of the "......

In many places, the fifth day of the year is also the day to send the poor god to welcome the god of wealth. Every New Year's Eve, people are in the first five zero hour zero minutes, open the door and windows, burning incense and firecrackers, fireworks, to meet the God of Fortune. After receiving the God of Wealth, we also have to eat road head wine, often eat until dawn.

From the twelfth day of the first month, people began to prepare to celebrate the Lantern Festival, shopping for lanterns, building lanterns. There is a folk saying: "eleven yell chatter, twelve built lantern shed, thirteen people open lights, fourteen lights are bright, fifteen line half of the moon, sixteen people finished lights.

The Lantern Festival to the Ming and Qing Dynasties more perfect, on the length of the festival, the Han Dynasty only one day, to the Tang Dynasty has been three days, the Song

generation is up to five days, the Ming and Qing Dynasties is from the eighth light, until the night of the seventeenth day of the first month before the lights. The whole ten days. Day for the city, bustling; night lights, spectacular.