Customs of the Spring Festival are centered on praying for the New Year, getting rid of the old and bringing in the new, worshipping the gods and ancestors, driving away evil spirits, praying for a good year, etc., with colorful and festive contents and a strong taste of the New Year, cohesive with the essence of the traditional culture of the Chinese civilization. During the Spring Festival, all over the country are held a variety of activities to celebrate the New Year, due to different regional cultures and there are differences in the content or details of the customs. First, before the custom: the end of the year 23 / 24: 1, busy year. The end of the year 23 or 24, in folklore, known as the "small year", from the small year people will begin to "busy year". It is not exclusively referred to as a single day, and the days known as "Xiaonian" vary according to local customs. The main folkloric activities during the New Year include dust sweeping and stove worship. Prior to the Qing Dynasty, the traditional day of the New Year was the 24th day of the Lunar New Year. From the middle and late Qing Dynasty, the imperial family on the twenty-third day of the lunar month to hold a ceremony, in order to "save money", by the way, the zaowang master also worshiped, so the folk in the northern region to follow suit, more in the lunar month on the twenty-third of the lunar New Year. Most areas in the south, still maintains the old tradition of Lunar New Year on the 24th day of the lunar month. 2, dust sweeping. Before the busy year is mainly to get rid of the old and new as the theme of activities, dust sweeping is one of the old and new customs. Proverbs say "the 24th day of the Lunar New Year, dust and sweep the house". Dust sweeping is the end of the year cleaning, the north said "sweeping room", the south said "sweeping house". Whenever the Spring Festival comes, every household has to clean up the environment, cleaning all kinds of appliances, unwashing bedding curtains, sweeping the courtyard, dusting dust cobwebs, dredge the nullahs and ditches. Everywhere overflowing with joy to engage in health, clean and welcome the happy atmosphere of the New Year. According to folklore: because the "dust" and "Chen" consonant, dust sweeping in the New Year has the meaning of "in addition to the new Chen Bu Xin". Sweeping the dust is intended to be all "poor luck", "bad luck" are swept out, in order to pray for the next year of good luck; this custom is entrusted to the people to ward off evils and disasters, the old and the new, and welcome the prayers and aspirations of the auspicious and blessed. 3, sacrificial stoves. December 23 or 24 of the lunar calendar to sacrifice the stove, is the day after night to brush the stove clean, the old Zaojun removed and burned, to the morning of New Year's Eve to the new like pasted on, a send a welcome, are to be set up wine and meat, sweets, sugar cane, rice and fruit, etc., burning incense, candles, paper cannons, and so on. The end of the year on the 25th: 1, make tofu. Folk proverb: "Lunar New Year's Eve 25, grinding tofu." Some places also have the custom of eating tofu dregs before New Year's Eve. Individual regions have this legend: after the king of the stove reported to heaven, the Jade Emperor would visit the world to see if the families were as the king of the stove played, so the families ate bean curd dregs to show that they were clean and hid from the Jade Emperor's punishment. 2, pick up the Jade Emperor. Folklore has it that after the God of the Stove went to heaven, the Jade Emperor himself came down on the 25th day of the 12th month of the lunar calendar to investigate good and evil on earth, and to determine the misfortunes of the coming year, so every family sacrificed themselves to pray for blessings, which was known as "receiving the Jade Emperor". On this day, people should be careful in their living and speaking, and strive for good performance in order to win the Jade Emperor's favor and bring blessings to the coming year.3. Shining the silkworms. Shining field silkworms, also known as "burning field silkworms" and "burning field wealth", is a popular folk custom of praying for the New Year in the south of the Yangtze River. Lunar New Year's Eve this day will be tied to the torch of the pole in the field, with the flame to divine the New Year, the flame is a good omen of the coming year's harvest. Some places hold this activity on the 30th day of the lunar month.4. Catching up with the chaotic year. Sent to the sky after the God of the stove to New Year's Eve to welcome back, during which the earth without God's jurisdiction, no taboos, civil marriage, known as "catching up with the messy year". The chaotic year is a specific period of time designed by the people for themselves to regulate their social life. At the end of the year, people have leisure and savings, for people who usually have little energy to organize big events, this is a good time for leisure and entertainment. The end of the year 26: on the 26th day of the Lunar New Year, folklore has also circulated the "26th day of the Lunar New Year cut meat" argument: said "26th day of the Lunar New Year, kill pigs and cut meat" or "26th day of the Lunar New Year, cut the head of the knife", said the main preparations for this day for the New Year. The main preparation for the New Year's meat on this day. Therefore, it is called "New Year's Meat". In some parts of the countryside, this day is a big market day, the market around the village people have to go to the market to buy New Year's goods, cigarettes, wine, fish, meat, firecrackers and relatives with the gifts can not be less, the New Year's taste has gradually thickened up. In the past, the days of the ordinary people are poorer, and the family is more people, so often eat a meal without a meal, the conditions are slightly better, but also can eat a little bit of nest with wild vegetables and whatnot, it is not easy to look forward to the New Year's Eve, the family's laborers have begun to kill the pig, no pig family, go to the market to cut a piece of meat to go home, therefore, the twenty-sixth day of the month of the stewed pork also known as the "Lunar New Year", "the twenty-sixth day of the month of the pork". "Lunar month twenty-six, kill the pig cut New Year's meat". The end of the year 27: traditional folklore in these two days to focus on bathing, laundry, remove the bad luck of the year, ready to meet the next year's New Year, proverb: Lunar New Year 26 bath for "wash the blessing of Lu", "twenty-seven, wash the guilt of disease". The end of the year twenty-eight: some places in the north have annual ballads: "Lunar New Year twenty-eight, steamed buns steamed cake sticker flowers" or "twenty-eight, the surface hair". The so-called paste flowers, is to post New Year's paintings, Spring Festival couplets, window decorations and all kinds of Spring Festival postings. In Guangdong, there is a saying, "On the 28th day of the 12th lunar month, wash the dirt", which means that on the 28th day of the 12th lunar month, the whole family has to stay at home to clean up and put up the Nianhong (Spring Festival) to welcome the New Year. New Year's Eve: The last day of the year is called "New Year's Eve", and that night is called "New Year's Eve". It is connected to the end of the New Year and is called "the end of the year, the end of the year and the end of the month", the eve of the new year, and an important point of junction between the old and the new. "New Year's Eve" is the year in addition to the meaning of the night, also known as New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, etc., when the end of the last night of the year. This is the last night of the year. During this period, the theme of the activities is to get rid of the old and bring in the new, and since ancient times, there have been customs such as posting the New Year's red, offering sacrifices to ancestors, having a reunion dinner, and observing the New Year's Eve. New Year's Eve is a day to get rid of the old and bring in the new, reunite the whole family, and worship the ancestors, which is known as one of the four traditional ancestor worship festivals of Chinese folklore, together with Qingming Festival, Mid-July Festival and Chongyang Festival. On the day of New Year's Eve, people pay special attention to get rid of the old and bring in the new to welcome the New Year. Households are busy cleaning up the courtyard, putting up lanterns and decorations to welcome the ancestors home for the New Year, and offer sacrifices with rice cakes, three animal meals and three teas and five wines. New Year's Eve, in the hearts of the people is of special significance, the end of the year the most important day, wandering even farther away from the wanderer is to rush home to reunite with their families, in the sound of firecrackers in the resignation of the old year, fireworks full of days to welcome the new year. 1, worship the gods ancestor worship. New Year's Eve ancestor worship is one of the important customs of the New Year, the Chinese people from ancient times have been careful to catch up with the tradition of the festival will not forget to worship ancestors, ancestral benevolence. On New Year's Eve, people will set up dishes, pour wine, and hold a grand ceremony to express their nostalgia for their ancestors and pray for their blessings, and this traditional custom has been passed down from generation to generation. This traditional custom has been passed down from generation to generation. Sacrificing ancestors not only covers all the ancient traditional Chinese festivals, but is also the eternal theme of Chinese folk festivals. 2, sticking the New Year's red. Stickers red, that is, is to stick the spring couplets, door god, New Year's paintings, lucky characters, crosses, window, etc., because these are the New Year's red festive elements, so collectively referred to as "stickers red". The New Year's red is a traditional Chinese New Year's custom, which reflects the customs and beliefs of the people, adds a festive atmosphere, and sends people to the New Year of the new life of the good hope. (1) Door God: Initially, the Door God was carved from mahogany in the form of a human figure and hung next to a person, and later, it was painted as a portrait of the Door God and posted on the door. Legend has it that the two brothers, Shentian and Yubi, specialize in controlling ghosts, and with them guarding the gateway, evil spirits of all sizes would not dare to enter the door to do harm. After the Tang Dynasty, there are painted fierce general Qin Qiong, Yuchi Jingde two people like for the door god, there are painted Guan Yu, Zhang Fei like for the door god. Door god image of the left and right households each one. Later generations often painted a pair of door god into a civil and a military. (2) Spring Festival couplets: that is, couplets, also known as "door pair", "joint pair", "peach symbols" and so on. One said that the Spring Festival couplets from the peach fu; another source is the Spring Festival stickers, the ancients in the Spring Festival more stickers "Yichun" two words, and then gradually developed into Spring Festival couplets. Every Spring Festival, whether urban or rural, every family should select a big red spring couplets posted on the door, for the festival to increase the festive atmosphere. (3) New Year's paintings: the Spring Festival hanging stickers in urban and rural areas is also very common, thick black colorful New Year's paintings to thousands of families added a lot of prosperity and joy of the festive atmosphere. These have the folk function of praying for blessings and decorating the residence. New Year's paintings are an ancient folk art in China. (4) Window Flowers: During the Chinese New Year, people in many areas like to put various kinds of paper cuttings on the windows: window flowers. Window flowers not only set a festive atmosphere, but also bring people the enjoyment of beauty, decorative, appreciative and practical in one. (5) Hanging money: the history of sticking hanging money has a long history, because the name has the word "money" in it, and hanging them under the eaves in front of the door signifies that wealth will come rolling in the new year. (6) Inverted "Fu" characters: Every Spring Festival, some local families have to stick large and small inverted "Fu" characters on the door, wall and lintel of the house. Spring Festival sticker inverted "Fu" word, take its harmonic "Fu to the", is a long-standing folk custom. (7) Horizontal approval: Horizontal approval refers to the banner that matches the couplet, and is generally only used for a few couplets that have this necessity. The so-called "horizontal", refers to the horizontal writing style; "batch", containing the meaning of revealing, commenting, referring to the whole pair of couplets of the theme of the content of the complementary, generalization, improve the role of the 3, New Year's Eve dinner. New Year's Eve dinner, one of the customs of the New Year's Day, also known as New Year's Eve dinner, New Year's Eve dinner, reunion dinner, etc., specifically refers to the end of the year on New Year's Eve of the whole family dinner. New Year's Eve dinner originated from the ancient year-end rituals, worship of gods and ancestors after the reunion dinner. The New Year's Eve dinner is the highlight of the year before, not only colorful, but also very meaningful. Before eating the New Year's dinner, the gods and ancestors are worshipped, and the meal is served only after the worship ceremony is completed. On the table there are usually chickens (which means to have plans), fish (which means to have more money every year), oysters and black beans (which means to have a good market), hairy vegetables (which means to be rich), bean curd bamboo (which means to be rich), lotus root (which means to be smart), lettuce (which means to have a good fortune), and garlic (which means to know how to make calculations), etc., for the sake of good luck. The Chinese New Year's Eve dinner is a family reunion dinner, which is the most sumptuous and important dinner at the end of the year.4. New Year's money. New Year's money (called "Bailiye" in Cantonese) is one of the customs of the Chinese New Year. New Year's money is distributed by the elders to the younger generation, after the New Year's Eve dinner, the elders will be prepared to distribute the New Year's money to the younger generation, it is said that the New Year's money can suppress the evil spirits, the younger generation to get the New Year's money can be peaceful and safe through the year; some people's families are the parents in the night to be the children are asleep, placed under their pillows. New Year's Eve money, reflecting the concern of elders to the younger generation of feelings and sincere blessings. In folk culture, New Year's money is meant to ward off evil spirits and blessings. The original intention of the New Year's money is to suppress evil and drive away evil spirits, because people believe that children are vulnerable to ghosts and spirits, so the New Year's money is used to suppress evil spirits and drive away evil spirits. 5, the New Year's Eve. Year-overs, also known as the light of the virtual consumption, the fire of the year, according to the year, etc., its long history, is one of the Chinese folk New Year's activities. New Year's Eve night vigil, folk activities are mainly manifested in the point of the year-old fire, keep the year-old fire. Each room should be brightly lit throughout the night, the whole family reunion, to meet the new year; New Year's Eve all burning lights and candles throughout the night, known as the "shine consumption", it is said that after so shine the year, it will make the next year home wealth abundance. Ancient north and south customs are different, some places to keep the custom of the year mainly for boiled New Year's Eve, that is, the all-night vigil; such as the Jin Dynasty, the Zhou Department of the book of the "customs" said: New Year's Eve night everyone with each other and gift, called "feed years"; young and old get together to celebrate, wishing the completion of the celebration, called the "sub-years"; the end of the year Not sleep, to wait for the dawn, called the "old age". In some places on New Year's Eve, the whole family gathered together, ate New Year's Eve dinner, lit candles or oil lamps, sitting around the fireplace chatting, all-night vigil, symbolizing all the evil plagues and epidemics run away, looking forward to a new year of good luck. Second, the festival customs: 1, worship. Is one of the ancient New Year's activities. In the morning of the first year to welcome the new year, offering fasting dishes to worship the "age of God". "Years", also known as "Regent", "Tai Sui", for the ancient era of star names, but also folk beliefs of the gods. Years to sixty jiazi of the stem and branch chronology for the operation of the cycle, ***60, each year there is a year-old god on duty, in the year when the duty of the year-old called "value of the year-old", is a year of the master, in charge of the year on earth's good fortune and bad luck. Such as the "three life" in the said: "Fu Tai Sui, is a year of the master, the leader of the gods". Paying homage to the year-old is the oldest traditional New Year's Eve custom, which is still prevalent in Guangdong, especially in the Wuchuan area. On the occasion of the first day of the new year, to welcome the new year, worship the god of the year, to receive the blessing, this traditional custom has been passed down from generation to generation since ancient times. 2, open the door to the firecrackers. In the morning of the Spring Festival, when the door is opened for good luck, firecrackers are set off first, which is called "opening the door to firecrackers". After the sound of firecrackers, broken red all over the ground, brilliant as a cloud of brocade, known as "full of red". At this time, the street is full of auspicious, joyful. "Open door firecrackers" is an ancient saying. At the dawn of the new year, the first thing to open the door of every household is to set off firecrackers, to beeping firecrackers to get rid of the old and welcome the new. 3, Lent. Worship God in the morning and set off firecrackers. The morning of the first day of the year with fasting to worship the god of the year, breakfast must eat fasting, with fans, bamboo, hairy vegetables, mushrooms, etc., the year to eat the vegetarian dishes are eaten in this morning, then you can fish and meat. 4, gather wealth. According to legend, the first day of the first month for the broom birthday, this day can not move the broom, otherwise it will sweep away the luck, broke the fortune, and the "broom star" to attract, incurring bad luck. If you have to sweep the floor can not be, must be swept from the outside to the inside. This day also can not pour water out of the garbage, for fear of breaking the wealth. Many places still save this custom, clean sweep on New Year's Eve, the first day of the year is not out of the broom, do not pour the garbage, prepare a large bucket, in order to Sheng wastewater, the day is not outside the splash. 5, Auntie Festival. The second day of the first month is the traditional Auntie Festival, Aunties have to go to the father-in-law, mother-in-law to pay tribute to the New Year. This day the married daughter back to her parents' home, to husband and son-in-law peer, so commonly known as "welcome son-in-law day". Back to the bride's home daughter must bring some gifts and lucky packets, distributed to the children of the bride's home, and eat lunch in the bride's home. Chaoshan people will be the second day of the aunts back to the parents-in-law home dinner called "food day day", that is, the meaning of lunch, aunts and daughters must return to their own homes before dinner (in some areas due to the reasons for the road may stay and eat dinner). 6, New Year's Eve. Worship, that is, during the New Year visit friends and relatives to congratulate each other on the New Year in a way, worship is an important activity in the Spring Festival, is a way for people to express their good wishes to each other, go to relatives to see their friends, pay respects to each other, congratulations and blessings, say some congratulations on the new year, congratulations on the wealth, congratulations, the New Year, and other words. The significance of the New Year's visit is between friends and relatives to contact feelings, congratulate each other on the New Year, to express the feelings of friends and relatives and the best wishes for the new year of life. 7, burn the paper of the God of the Door. In the old days, on the third day and night of the New Year's Day and Festival of the pine and cypress branches and festivals hung door god door paper and other incineration, to show that the year is over, and to start camping. Proverbs have "burned the door god paper, personal search physiology". 8, red mouth. Ancient folk in southern China, the morning of the third day of the Lunar New Year to stick "red mouth" (forbidden mouth), that this day is prone to quarrels, it is not appropriate to pay homage to the New Year. The so-called "red mouth", generally about seven or eight inches long, one inch wide strip of red paper, written on some of the words in and out of peace and good luck. In short, the sticker "Chikou", is to make people psychologically feel that the year can be safe in and out, do not get into verbal disputes with people or a variety of unfortunate disasters, home more wealth and prosperity, all the best. In ancient times, people in Hong Kong generally did not pay homage on the third day of the Lunar New Year because the third day of the Lunar New Year was "Chikou", also known as "Chikou Day". Red Dog is the god of flaring, one of the so-called Five Emperors of the ancient prophets, i.e. the god of the south, who is responsible for summer. Common thought is the day of red flaring under the brother, encounter is not auspicious, therefore, "small year towards" routine should be sacrificed to the gods. 9, small year towards. The third day of the New Year is also known as the "small New Year's Day", there is the custom of sacrificing to the gods. On the third day of the Lunar New Year, usually do not go out to pay homage to the New Year, because of the red mouth, so I hope to avoid easy to get into a verbal dispute with people, friends and relatives can not visit each other to visit, and the first day of the Lunar New Year to the third day of the Lunar New Year do not move the knife or scissors custom. Xiaonian Chao: Ancient records, the third day, Xiaonian Chao, not sweeping, not beg fire, not draw water, and the age of the same Chao. 10, Sheep Day. Years of Zhan" said: the fourth day of the first month of the year is the day when Nuwa made sheep, so it is called "Sheep Day". On this day, people cannot 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 sheep will have a good harvest. In the old almanac accounted for sheep, it is often said that "three sheep (Yang) Kaitai" is a symbol of good luck, but also to welcome the God of the stove back to the people's day. 11, the head of the road God. The God of the Five Roads, also known as the God of the Road, is a god of wealth worshipped in the Wu region. Commonly four days for his birthday, the sun to meet, quite spectacular. Commonly thought to receive the head of the road, the earlier the better, it is said that the earliest received is the true God, especially spiritual, so called "grab the head of the road. Some places, really in the first four days of the New Year will "rush to grab the head of the road", and has become a custom. As for people in the first five days of the first month to worship the head of the road god, and this day for its birthday, is the five road god in the "five" and the first five of the "five" involved in the reason. Receive five road shall master with incense and candles to the east, west, south, north, in five directions of the God of Fortune Hall to please receive, each to receive all the way to the God of Fortune, in front of the door to set off a string of a hundred guns. After receiving all, the master and his friends worship the God of Wealth in turn, and after worshiping, the hanging scroll on the original offering table will be cremated, indicating that the God of Wealth will be sent off. Ceremony is considered to be the end. 12, the opening of the market. The old custom during the Spring Festival stores of all sizes from the first day of the year closed, and in the first five days of the market. Commonly known as the fifth day of the first month for the God of Wealth, that the choice of this day to open the market will attract wealth into the treasure. 13, send the poor. The sixth day of the first month of the lunar calendar, also known as the day of the horse, in this day to send poor, is a very distinctive Han Chinese folk custom of the year. In China, there are their own ways to send poor, varying. But the moral is basically the same, are in sending away the poor. Reflects the ancient people generally want to resign the old and welcome the new, to send away the old poverty and hardship, to meet the new year's good life of the traditional psychology. 14, to fat. Since the first month, until the fifth day of the first month can not be cleaned, the accumulation of feces in the toilet, so this day to do a sweep, and worship the toilet gods, the usual dirty toilet clean. So it is called "Yi-Fei" (but nowadays, many people use new sanitary equipment, so this custom is no longer existed). 15, the opening of the market is very lucky. On the sixth day of the New Year, stores and restaurants officially opened for business, and to firecrackers, no less than the situation on New Year's Eve. The sixth day of the first month, in the old days is the size of the business "market" of the day, the door panel to be affixed to the "market auspicious, everything is going well" of the big red couplets. Firecrackers before business, to show good luck. 16, people day. People's Day is also known as "People's Victory Festival", "People's Celebration Festival", "Population Day", "People's Seventh Day" and so on. Legend has it that when Nuwa first created the world, after making animals such as chickens, dogs, pigs, cows and horses, she made people on the seventh day, so this day is the birthday of mankind. In the written records, the Han Dynasty began to human day festival custom, Wei and Jin began to emphasize. Ancient human day has to wear "people win" custom, people win is a kind of headdress, from the Jin Dynasty began to cut color for the flower, cut color for the person, or openwork gold foil for people to paste the screen, but also to wear in the hair. 17, Shunxing, Valley Day. Folk to the eighth day of the first month for the stars down to the world, the system of small lamps burned and sacrificed, known as Shunxing, also known as the "Star Festival", "catching the star". Sacrifice with two god code, the first printed with the star section, jujiao, xuanwu, etc., the second is "the life of the life of the star". The two sheets are put together before and after, clamped on a paper clip, and placed in the center of the back of the table in the courtyard. After dusk, they are sacrificed with the Big Dipper as the target. After the sacrifice, when the lamp will be extinguished, the god code, incense root and sesame straw, pine and cedar branches together with incineration, rituals into. Legend has it that the eighth day is the birthday of the grain. This day is cloudy, then the year is poor, the weather is sunny, the Lord of the year's rice harvest. 18, nine Huang will. In ancient times, many parts of the country, such as Guangdong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other provinces, are in the lunar calendar from September 1 to nine consecutive days of the custom of the ceremony of the Doo, known as the Nine Emperors will be. The nine kings of the Big Dipper are composed of the seven stars of the Big Dipper, the left auxiliary star and the right auxiliary star. Jade Box Record" said: September first to the first nine days, the Big Dipper nine stars Long Shi Chen, the world fasting, this day is better than the usual day, there is infinite merit. Nine emperor beliefs have a great impact, this worship in the folk gradually evolved into the custom of gift bucket. According to Hu Pu'an "Chinese National Customs": Guangdong region in September 9, more than nine Huang will be built to ritual bucket; in Yunnan, ritual bucket has been Dian custom, September to nine days held, the most pious; Zhejiang, Hangzhou, ritual bucket date in June to the first six, rituals and customs of roughly the same. 19, open the lights, lights and wine feast. On the tenth day of the first month, some parts of the South have the custom of turning on the lights, set up the lights wine feast. The day, the boy's father must purchase an octagonal paper lamp, hanging in the ancestral hall or temple in the center, in order to let the ancestors know their children and grandchildren and to shade blessing, or please God for protection. The custom of light and wine will include a series of customary activities such as turning on the lights, throwing lights, drinking lights and wine. 20, son-in-law day. Folk song has "eleven please son-in-law" that the first month of the eleventh is "son-in-law day", fathers-in-law in this day feast son-in-law. According to legend, this is because the first nine to celebrate the "heavenly public birth" of food to the first ten still can not eat, so, in the eleventh day used to invite son-in-law dinner, the mother's family do not have to break the bank. 21, twelve build lamps hut, do Zaotou, do Jiaojiao, standard artillery. The twelfth day of the first month, build a lantern shed, do jiao-festival, do fasting head, standard cannon. "Do Jiao Tou" complex rituals, the morning of the temple to invite God home, and sit on top of the hall, offering sweets incense; "do Jiao Tou" opportunity is rare, is a matter of honor, because people generally believe that "do Jiao Tou "can get God's love, will bring good luck, the next year will be rich hand, wishing for success, and therefore are solemn and for;" do Zaotou "are generally set up Zaotou wine. 22, Lion Dance, floating color, tour of the gods, the temple fair. January 13, 14, lion dance, floating color, tour of the gods, temple fair. There is also a legend that the first month of the thirteenth is the "lamp head birthday", the folk in this day to light under the kitchen stove, known as "point stove light", the old times from the first month of the thirteenth on the lamp, the first month of the eighteenth down light. 23, test lanterns, tour of the gods, temple fairs, send grubs and toads. This day of Chinese folk activities include drinking bright-eyed soup, try lanterns, eat bad soup, worship Linshui Maiden and so on. On the 14th day of the first month of the Lunar Calendar, Pengxi County in Sichuan Province has a traditional folklore activity of "sending grubs toad", in which participants not only get to eat authentic farmhouse "damba banquets", but also climb up the mountain holding bamboo lanterns, set off fireworks and "send grubs toad" to welcome the Lunar New Year.
The fifteenth day of the first lunar month, also known as the Lantern Festival, Lantern Festival, customary activities are mainly lanterns, lanterns, boat, fireworks, Lantern Festival, and so on. Lantern Festival customs are very distinctive, lanterns and fireworks is also one of the main customs of the Lantern Festival. Because of the custom of watching lamps on this festival through the ages, it is also known as the Lantern Festival." (1) Lantern Festival. Lantern Festival customs since ancient times have been dominated by the warm and festive custom of viewing lanterns. For example, the Tang "two capitals new record" cloud: "the night of the first month 15, the Royal Decree Jingwu relaxation ban, before and after each day to see the lights, light as day and night." (2) temple fair. Temple fair is one of the traditional folk activities. Guangfu Temple Fair and Beijing Temple Fair is known as China's two major temple fairs. It covers thematic activities such as puppet gathering, Chinese masterpieces, martial arts assembly, Lantern Festival, etc., and contains rich contents such as praying for blessings, folk culture, food culture, trade and leisure culture. (3) Eating Tangyuan. On the 15th day of the first month of the lunar calendar, we eat soup dumplings, which are also known as "Lantern Festival". Soup dumplings as food, in China has a long history. Song Dynasty, the folk that is popular a Lantern Festival to eat novelty food. This food, the first called "floating yuanzi" later called "Lantern", the businessman also beautifully called "Yuanbao". Dumplings also symbolize the reunion. (4) perform social fire. In some places in the north, on the 15th day of the first lunar month, but also several villages gathered together to perform social fires. Social fires, including stilt walkers, jumping Zhong Kui, floats and so on. Third, minority customs: 1, Tibetan customs. Tibetan New Year's Eve, people dressed in colorful costumes, wearing strange masks, with suona, conch, drums, music, held a grand and grand "jumping god will". The young men dance and sing wildly, indicating that the old and welcome the new, to drive away evil spirits and bring down blessings. In the morning of the New Year, women will go to back "auspicious water", wishing for a new year of good luck. 2, Yi customs. The Yi choose their annual festivals according to the Yi calendar. Some of them celebrate the Spring Festival with the local Han Chinese. In some areas, the Yi compatriots, in front of the door to set up a pine, with pine needles on the ground, said that the disaster eliminated. In other areas, pigs and goats are killed and eaten during the festival, and people visit each other and give each other meat and buns. On the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, the first thing you do when you get up is to carry water home. They will be a bowl of water and the day before the day than the weight of the water, such as the New Year's water heavy, it means that the arrival of the year with plenty of rain.3, Zhuang customs. New Year's Eve, to do a good job on the day of the festival to eat rice, known as the "pressure of the New Year rice", some areas of the masses known as "eat Li Festival", the Zhuang language for the "over the New Year" means. It is an omen of a good agricultural harvest in the coming year. Some also packaged with more than a foot long, five or six pounds of heavy alkali, a family with a small population a meal is not finished! Early in the morning on the first day of the New Year, before dawn, people get up, put on new clothes, firecrackers to welcome the new, women are scrambling to the river or wells, "draw new water", to start a new year of boiling life. 4, the Buyi customs. On New Year's Eve, the Buyei family spends the whole night at the watering hole to observe the New Year's Eve. As soon as the day dawned, the girls would scramble to beat the water. Who is the first to pick back the first water, who is the most hardworking, the happiest girl. 5, Qiang customs. The Qiang New Year Festival is held on the first day of October in the lunar calendar every year, usually for 3-5 days, and some villages have to celebrate it until the tenth day of October. According to the folk custom, when the Qiang New Year is celebrated, the gods will be honored and sacrifices will be made to the gods of the sky, the gods of the mountains and the owners of the land (the gods of the village). The whole village will have reunion dinner, drink smack, dance Shalang, until the end of all the fun. The whole ceremony is presided over by "Xu", and the smacking wine is opened by the respected elders in the village. During the festival, friends and relatives can congratulate each other and welcome each other.6, Dong customs. During the Spring Festival of the Dong people, a kind of mass activity called "playing Dong Nian" (also known as Lusheng) is prevalent. This activity is similar to the Han's "reunion", but more joyful and enthusiastic than "reunion". This kind of activity is generally organized by two villages **** with the agreement. The two teams officially hold a Lusheng song and dance competition in the square. At this time the audience of the two villages, accompanied by music, dance, enjoy the joy. 7, Bai customs. Yunnan Bai people celebrate the New Year with a kind of celebration activity called "putting on a high rise". The so-called "put high rise" is to use the whole of the big bamboo, in the bamboo joints loaded with gunpowder, after ignition can be the whole big bamboo collapsed on the sky 100 feet, become a veritable "high rise". Some areas of the Bai compatriots and Miao, Zhuang, as from the Spring Festival to the Lantern Festival, are in the "embroidered ball" activities. 8, Tujia customs. During the Spring Festival, the Tujia people will hold a grand hand-waving dance. Hand-waving dance is a popular ancient dance of the Tujia people, including hunting, military, farming, banquets and other more than 70 dance movements, rhythmic, beautiful, simple dance, healthy mood, without props, with distinctive ethnic characteristics and a strong sense of life. 9, Dai customs. The Water Splashing Festival is the New Year's festival of the Dai people, and it is the grandest traditional festival of the Dai people in a year. The day of the beginning of the rainy season is designated as "Water Splashing Festival". In the three or four days of the festival, people pour water on each other, said to wash away the body of the old soil, blessing the new year of happiness and peace. 10, Li customs. Li people living on Hainan Island, whenever the Spring Festival comes, every family should set up a sumptuous food and wine, the whole family sat together to eat "New Year's dinner"; during the family also sing "New Year's song". On the first day, the second day, the village young and strong men, but also held a "Spring Festival hunting". This day's prey village **** enjoy. 11, Lisu customs. The Lisu people called the annual festival for "Qash", they mostly do indica rice, glutinous rice poop and brewing water wine, the first mortar pounded out of the poop to put a little in the peaches, plums and other fruit trees, wishing for the next year of fruitfulness. Nujiang region of Yunnan, Lisu people, the first to feed salt to the oxen, to show respect for the labor of the oxen. 12, Jinuo customs. The arrival of the Spring Festival, living in Yunnan Xishuangbanna Jinuo, betel nut chewing old man raised his head to play cymbals, wearing a large pointed hat crone low gong, by the Zhouba (Zai father) first drums, male and female youths dance in a circle with their bare hands. 13, alpine customs. Alpine people in the Spring Festival dressed in colorful national costumes, groups of people gathered in the village side of the cottage head drinking wine, and in the musical instruments accompanied by singing and dancing. Some villages also hold fish-forking competitions and carry out sports activities such as basket ball and pole ball. Introduction of Spring Festival: Spring Festival is the grandest traditional festival of Chinese folklore, which is a folk festival integrating praying for blessings and calamities, celebrating and entertaining, and eating and drinking. The Spring Festival has a long history, evolved from the ancient times of the first year of praying for the year sacrifice, in the development of inheritance carries a rich historical and cultural heritage. In the development of inheritance has formed a number of more fixed customs, many of which have been passed down to the present day, such as buying New Year's goods, dust sweeping, posting couplets, eating New Year's Eve dinner, observing the New Year's Eve, paying homage to the New Year, New Year's Eve worship, dragon and lion dances, paying homage to the gods and ancestors, praying for blessings and calamities, touring the gods, escorting the boats, temple fairs, touring the gongs and drums, touring the banners and flags, going up to the lanterns to drink wine and enjoying the lanterns and so on. Traditional festival ceremonies and related customary activities are important elements of the festival, carrying the rich and colorful cultural heritage of the festival. Spring Festival custom song:
1, Beijing: "twenty-three, sugar melon sticky; twenty-four, sweeping day; twenty-five, push millet; twenty-six, to hang meat; twenty-seven, slaughter a chicken; twenty-eight, the surface hair; twenty-nine, steamed buns; thirty nights to keep the night, the first day of the New Year twisted a twist." 2, Shandong: Lapa congee, boiled for a few days, miles and miles and miles and miles of 23, 23, sugar melon sticky, 24, sweeping day, 25, push the coal rat (should be millet, see Beijing, "25, push millet"), 26, go to buy meat, 27, slaughter the rooster, 28, white flour hair, 29, steaming steamed buns, 30 night to stay up, the first day of the Lunar New Year, the sister pulling her brother to the first day of the Lunar New Year. On the first day of the New Year, the sister pulls her brother to twist a 3, Shaanxi: 23, sacrificing the stove officer, 24, sweeping the house, 25, grinding tofu, 26, to cut meat, 27, kill a chicken, 28, steaming jujube flower, 29, go to beat the wine, New Year's Eve pinch the dumplings, the first day of the pouting ass messy greetings. 4, the Northeast: 23 sugarmelon sticky, 24 sweeping the house, 25 to make tofu, 26 stew meat, 27 kill stove chicken, 28 stickers Kill the stove chicken, twenty-eight windowpane, twenty-nine to play wine, the year 30 wrapped dumplings. 5, unification: children children you do not want, after the Lah8 is the year; cooking eight porridge, drink a few days, miles and miles of 23; 23, sugar melon sticky; 24, sweeping the house; 25, freezing tofu; 26, go to buy meat; 27, slaughter the rooster; 28, the surface of the hair; 29, steaming steamed buns; 30 night to simmer for a night; the first one you The first day of the month, I'll take you all over the street.
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