What are the customs during the Spring Festival?
2. Open the door and set off firecrackers. When the door is opened in the morning of the Spring Festival, firecrackers are set off first, which is called "opening the door to set off firecrackers". After the firecrackers, the ground is broken red, which is the so-called "full house". This is a street full of auspicious spirit and celebration.
3. Paste the chicken. China folks compared the first eight days of Xinzheng to six kinds of animals, people and valleys. The first day of the first month is the Year of the Rooster, which is an auspicious day. The method of using chickens to ward off evil spirits is to kill chickens at the door or paste chickens at the door, which is called paste chicken, and it has pinned the good wishes of the working people in our country to eliminate disasters and avoid disasters.
4. Eat rice cakes. Because of its homophonic "old age" and diverse tastes, rice cakes have almost become a must-have food for every household. The styles of rice cakes are square yellow and white rice cakes, which symbolize gold and silver and express the meaning of making a fortune in the New Year.
5. Eat glutinous rice balls. Eating glutinous rice balls on the morning of New Year's Day is of special significance, which means: all the best, happy family. Eating jiaozi in the New Year is not called "jiaozi" or "Yuanbao", and eating jiaozi is not called "eating jiaozi" but "getting Yuanbao".
6. Give lucky money. It is a traditional folk custom in China to give children some lucky money during the Spring Festival. The lucky money is full of blessings from the elders to the younger generation. In China, there are some popular stories about the origin of lucky money. For example, in ancient times, there was a demon with black hands and white body called Chong, who came out to harm children every New Year's Eve. So people burn lights all night and put copper coins on children's pillows to ward off evil spirits. This is called "protecting the special" and "suppressing the special", and later it is called "protecting the old" and "suppressing the old".
7. welcome the kitchen god. In the past, the boss wanted to "fire" a person. On this day, he came to worship God uninvited. The other party knew it well and packed up and left. There is also a legend that Kitchen God will come to check the household registration this day, so it is not advisable to travel far.
8. Welcome the God of Wealth/Road God/Send the poor/Open the market. The fifth day of the first month is called "Breaking Five", which is a big day for businessmen. This day is to pray for a bumper year and meet the god of wealth. "The store will open its doors and set off firecrackers on this day."
9, stone birthday/send the poor (send the child). On the fifth day, I just welcomed the god of wealth into the door, and on the sixth day, I will send away the poor god. On the day of sending the poor god, we will do a general cleaning at home and throw away all the rubbish, useless rags and the like. In addition, you should also drink a vegetarian soup, which is made of seven kinds of vegetables such as spinach and green vegetables.
10, human day/fishing for raw fish/spreading pancakes/hiking/climbing. The seventh day of the first month is also called People's Victory Day, People's Celebration Day, Population Day and People's Seventh Day. Legend has it that Nu Wa created chickens, dogs, pigs, cows, horses and other animals at the beginning of creation, and then created people on the seventh day, so this day is the birthday of mankind. Some people began to observe daily customs in the Han dynasty, and they began to pay attention to it after the Wei and Jin Dynasties. In ancient times, people had the custom of "men winning". The man won as a headdress. Since the Jin Dynasty, people cut the ribbon for flowers and people, or put gold foil on people's screens and put it on their hair.
1 1, Yuanxiao is eaten on the fifteenth day of the first month. As a food, Yuanxiao has a long history in China. In the Song Dynasty, a novel Lantern Festival food was popular among the people. This kind of food was originally called "Floating Zi Yuan", later called "Yuanxiao", and merchants also called it "Yuanbao". Yuanxiao, or sweet dumplings, is made of white sugar, rose, sesame, red bean paste, cinnamon bark, walnut kernel, nuts and jujube paste, wrapped in glutinous rice flour into a round shape, which can be vegetarian and has different flavors. It can be boiled, fried and steamed, which means happy reunion. Shaanxi jiaozi is not wrapped, but rolled with glutinous rice flour, or boiled or fried, warm and round.