Chinese New Year customs

Customs of the Spring Festival around the world - an overview:

Beijing

Lunar New Year's Day is a time of many things for every family

Since the beginning of the month of Lunar New Year, there have been literati and ink masters writing spring couplets under the eaves of the marketplace in an attempt to earn some money to celebrate the New Year. After the sacrificial stove, the new spring couplets gradually sticky hanging, thousands of households, a new look. Some people with Zhu paper, some with red paper, only the inner court and the royal family princes and so on routinely use white paper, set with red and blue edges, not the clan shall not be unauthorized use.

Lunar New Year will be bundled up in a belly in a small apparatus, placed in the ground five feet or so, burning fire, so that the ground slightly warm, the plum blossoms will gradually put back to the white, with a cage of paper, to the market to sell, small peach, Yu Li, Yingchun can be so. In the prosperous areas, they set up mats and scaffolds to sell paintings. Women and children compete to buy, for fun.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, the street sells congee fruit rows into the market. More walnuts, persimmons, jujube, chestnut, dried lingjiao rice people, shoulder basket storage, called and sold. Next, there were fat pheasants, Guandong fish, wild cats, wild rasps, preserved meat, iron bird, deep-fried noodle cake, big Buddha flower, doo light thousand sheets, and floor zhuangyuanbao. After the 10th day of the lunar month, they sell guard paintings, door gods, hanging money, gold and silver foils, ingot and yellow money, pin gold inverted you, horse burnt paper, glass mirrors, and window eyes. After the 20th, they sell sugar melons, sugar cakes, glutinous rice and bamboo cakes, Guandong sugar. Bad grass copied beans, is the 23rd to send the stove when the supply of the gods and horses with. There are also selling kilns, copper and silver for porcelain bowls, the capital of the incense burner candlestick; smothered gourd, children to save money; support pots and pans, the stove used to help Cuan. To the 25th after the sale of sesame straw, pine and cypress branches, South Cangzhu for the "simmering age" of the use. Lunar month, the price of all things are more expensive than the weekdays, so there is a "Lunar month, soil and water is expensive three proverb. Older people to this time, always want to advise the younger generation to spend money carefully, so there is "twenty-seven or eighty-eight, flat to take the product grasp" of the proverb.

The eighth day of the waxing moon is the royal family waxing, and every family cooks fruit porridge. The day before the preparation of rice and beans, to the fruit of the carving of figures like the birth of a flower style. Three more cooking porridge into, the whole family gather food, gift relatives and neighbors, for Laha congee. Laha congee is made of yellow rice, white rice, river rice, millet, lingzhi rice, chestnuts, red cowpeas, peeled jujube puree, etc., boiled in water, and dyed red peach kernels, almonds, melon seeds, peanuts, hazelnut stalks, pine nuts and sugar, red ponds, Zuo Zuo grapes, for coloring. Do not use lotus seeds, lentils, Job's tears, hanging Yuan, with the flavor is hurt. Every seven days to wax, it is stripped of the fruit to wash the vessel, the night operation, to dawn when the porridge is cooked. In addition to ancestor for Buddha, feed friends and relatives, not after noon. And with red dates, walnuts, etc. made of lions, children, etc., to see the ingenuity.

La Bao day of the Royal River ice cellar, through the river water storage kiln, Taiyi pond ice storage snow pool ice kiln, open the door to transport, summer out of the use of very easy.

Twenty-three days of the end of the day, the family sacrifice stove, yard pole, hanging lanterns. Offerings are soup and stove rice, sugar melons and sugar cakes, feeding the gods and horses to incense lees fried beans and water pots. The men worship the gods and wish them good luck. Women in the inner room, sweeping the stove, to clean the mud to decorate, burning incense and worship.

Every December, in nineteen, twenty, twenty-one, twenty-two four days, by the Chintian Supervisors to choose an auspicious date, as usual, seal, issued by the world, all the implementation of public holidays. Thereafter, the pear orchard theater to choose a day to close the stage, eight classes together, to the next New Year's Day is blessed to open the theater. School children, in the "seal" after the school teacher also let the vacation, called "school year".

The twenty-fifth to New Year's Eve is said to be the "day of chaos". "On the twenty-seventh, you wash away your guilt, and on the twenty-eighth, you wash away your dirt."

At the end of the year, the leftover medicines of the year were discarded outside the door, and the collected prescriptions were put together and burned, which was called "Throwing away a hundred diseases".

Burning the pine branches, cypress leaves, southern Cangzhu, and auspicious dan in the furnace is called "simmering the year".

The day before New Year's Eve is called "Little New Year's Eve", and the family sets up a banquet, and people visit each other, called "Farewell". The day before New Year's Eve is called Tianxiang, and it usually takes three days to burn incense in the open air.

New Year's Eve, a lot of old reasoning

New Year's Eve, people python robes and coats out to visit friends and relatives, known as the "farewell". Family members bowed to honor their elders, also called: "farewell". Newly married couples must go to the father-in-law's home to say goodbye, or for disrespect.

New Year's Eve from the family court to the door, where walking outside to spread sesame straw, which is called "step on the year".

New Year's Eve, the night son of the first turn, outside the door of the torch, firecrackers competing. The moped is clustered, the car and horse clattering. Hundreds of officials to the court, congratulations on New Year's Day. At this time the sound of firecrackers such as waves of thunder, spread throughout the countryside, all night long. More mixed with the sound of rattlesnake drums, selling melon seeds to relieve boredom sound, selling rice and white wine ice marigold sound, selling cinnamon head oil shaking call the sound of the lady, sell the fine powder sound, and the sound of the firecrackers, and the up and down, it is really good to hear. "Tumin home, new clothes, Su belt, worship God and ancestor; burning germanium and silk, Mashuang family reunion, offering pepper plate, pouring cypress wine, whole steamed cake, sip powdered soup. Going out to welcome the joy, to participate in the medicine window, visit the shadow window, with the invitation to congratulate the festival." If you meet friends or relatives on the road, you will salute them, and then wish them, "Happy New Year." "As for the entertainment, the openwork will be fruit for tea, ten brocade hotpot **** food, soup is goose oil square patch, pork buns, Jiangmi cake, yellow millet; wine and food is cured chicken bacon, bad heron phoenix fish, pheasant claws, deer and rabbit preserved; fruits are pine, hazelnut and lotus Qing, peach, apricot and melon kernel, chestnut and jujube branch round, hawthorn cake Gengcai, green branch grapes, white son of pomegranate, qiu bo pear, apples and fruits, lion citrus phoenix tangerine, orange slices of Yangmei. They are also mixed with sea and mountain treasures, and the family is confused with the market points. Even if you are not a close friend, you must offer three cups of festival wine. If you forget your feelings, why don't you get drunk!" As the saying goes, "When you're at a new festival, it's better to go to a thousand houses than to sit at one. And the four horse clamor, happy all day, can really say is a great moment of victory.

/city/txt/2007-01/11/content_7240128.htm