Folk custom of Spring Festival
Generally, we mainly eat rice cakes, jiaozi, Ciba, glutinous rice balls, poached eggs, big balls, whole fish, fine wine, oranges, apples, peanuts, melon seeds, sweets, fragrant tea and dishes. Accompanied by many activities, such as dust removal, bedding washing, preparing new year's goods, pasting Spring Festival couplets, pasting New Year's pictures (Zhong Kui, the door god), wrapping jiaozi, pasting paper-cuts, stick grilles, pasting blessings, lighting candles, lighting fires, setting off firecrackers, keeping old, giving lucky money, paying New Year's greetings, visiting relatives, sending new year's goods, visiting ancestral graves, visiting flower markets, making social fires, and dancing in Zhong Kui.
People in China still have the habit of hanging Chinese knots during the Spring Festival. On the eve of the Lunar New Year, Tianjin people have the custom of inviting Chinese knots to receive Xiang Qiao's blessing at the Qiaoxiang Pavilion, an ancient cultural street. Wenzhou people want to go to their religion, sincerely pray and hope to get happiness with their families in the new year. Mostly Buddhism.
Every year from the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month to New Year's Eve, people call this period "Spring Festival Day" or "Dust Day", which is the traditional habit of our people.
Every household prepares new year's goods. About ten days before the festival, people were busy shopping, including chicken, duck, fish, tea, wine, oil and sauce, roasted seeds and nuts in the north and south, and fruit with sugar bait. Some gifts should also be prepared when visiting relatives and friends in the New Year, and children should buy new clothes and hats for the New Year.
Before the Chinese New Year, a New Year greeting in red paper and yellow characters should be posted on the door of the house, that is, Spring Festival couplets written in red paper. There are brightly colored and auspicious New Year pictures in the house. Beautiful window grilles are cut out by ingenious girls and pasted on the windows. Red lanterns are hung in front of the door, or images of the god of wealth and the door gods (Zhong Kui, Qin Qiong and Jingdezhen) are pasted upside down. Passers-by are blessed to think about it. All these activities are aimed at adding enough festive atmosphere to the festival.
Setting off firecrackers is the most common custom, which is used to set off lively scenes, celebrate the Spring Festival, set off firecrackers, post calligraphy and paintings on doors and windows to pray for blessings, and decorate homes.
Setting off firecrackers, there is a folk saying in China called "Open the door and set off firecrackers". That is, when the new year comes, the first thing for every household to open the door is to set off firecrackers to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new. Firecracker is a specialty of China, also known as "Firecracker", "Firecracker" and "Firecracker". Its origin is very early, and it has a history of more than two thousand years. Setting off firecrackers can create a festive and lively atmosphere, which is a kind of entertainment in festivals and can bring happiness and good luck to people.
The Spring Festival is a happy and peaceful festival, and it is also a day for family reunion. Children who leave home should go home for reunion during the Spring Festival.
The night before the Lunar New Year is the 30th night of the twelfth lunar month, also called New Year's Eve and Reunion Night. Celebrating the New Year is one of the most important activities at the turn of the new year. On New Year's Eve, the whole family stayed up all night, got together to drink and enjoy family happiness. In the north, people are used to eating jiaozi on New Year's Eve. Jiaozi's practice is to mix dough first, and the word harmony is harmony. Jiaozi's jiaozi homonym means to get together and to make friends at a young age. In the south, there is a habit of eating rice cakes. The sweet glutinous rice rice cakes symbolize the sweetness of life in the new year, step by step.
When the first cock crow rings, or the New Year bell rings, firecrackers are ringing in the street, and noise comes and goes. Everyone is beaming. The new year has begun. Men, women and children wear holiday clothes. First, they pay New Year greetings to their elders. During the festival, they will also give children lucky money, have a reunion dinner, and begin to visit relatives and friends on the second and third days, and say something to congratulate them on their new happiness, their wealth and their wealth.
The warm atmosphere of the festival permeates not only every household, but also the streets and alleys around the country. In some markets, there are customs such as Nuo dancing and Zhong Kui dancing, lion dancing, playing with dragon lanterns, performing social fires, visiting flower markets and temple fairs. During this period, lanterns are all over the city and tourists are all over the streets. It was very lively and unprecedented, and the Spring Festival didn't really end until after the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month.
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