On the first day of the Lunar New Year, the New Year's Eve customs are different everywhere, let's talk about the customs in our village and see what is different from your place.
This is a rural area of Weifang City, Shandong Province, the first day of the year to get up early, change into newly purchased clothes, wash up, in the courtyard set up a table, the offerings are candy and fruit, and rice cakes; and then served with dumplings just out of the pot, lit three columns of high incense. Then we light up the lamps in the houses, which are now electrically lit, and the red lanterns on the poles in the courtyard. The whole yard is lit up, symbolizing a bright and prosperous year ahead.
On the first day of the Lunar New Year, you have to get up early, children are not allowed to talk loudly to prevent the emergence of unlucky words. Do not clean the garbage, do not throw dirty water, but you can set off firecrackers.
Before dawn, we have to go to the elders to pay tribute to the New Year's greetings, but do not have to kneel down and kowtow, grandparents will give the young grandchildren to distribute sweets and New Year's money. In the past, conditions were poor, eating a candy bar was a luxury, mostly a few grains of popcorn and black soft jujubes, can eat a few peanuts are also very few. The new year's money is 20 cents for boys and 10 cents for girls. In the past, the old people had a backward mindset and favored boys over girls.
This is a few decades ago, now the conditions are good, the money is not a small amount of money, snacks are not rare. Communication is also developed, more rapid e-commerce, all kinds of seasonal fruits are available, only you can not think, no you can not buy.
The whole day of the first day, do not have to cook, New Year's Eve package of dumplings, eat all day; this is in the poor years, is not even dare to think of things.
There are a lot of details, just say these things! Welcome to the south of the sky and north of the friends, all come to chat, *** degree of New Year's festivities.
The first day of the New Year get up early in the morning to worship God, and then the children go to pay homage to the New Year, adults clean up the house, cooking, eating noodles at noon, eating dumplings in the afternoon.1, worship God, our family usually worship heaven and earth (heaven refers to the Jade Emperor, earth refers to the Queen Mother), God of Wealth, Zhang Xian, Zao Wang, and the Goddess of Mercy, the land Lord.
Heaven and earth are usually prayed for peace and safety at home, good weather, good harvest, and fruitful land.
And the God of Wealth, it is generally hoped that the home this year, almost every household in China has this god, but also China's gods in the incense is the biggest one of the gods.
Zhang Xian is a Chinese god of good luck, and there is usually a couplet on both sides of the statue of Zhang Xian, which reads, "Zhang Xian comes down to the sky and opens his bow every day. The next couplet reads, "Bouncing a dog in the clouds, blessing children and grandchildren". The horizontal scroll reads, "Bless your children and grandchildren. This fairy has a great popularity in the Chinese tradition, because the Chinese advocate for children and grandchildren, so the fairy who blesses the children and grandchildren has a great popularity.
Master Zao, Zaojun, Zaojun Siwei. Chinese folklore Zao God every year on the night of the 23rd day of the month of Lunar New Year, up to the sky to report, the fourth day of the first month to return to earth. It is the lowest-ranking earth immortal in myths and legends. Legend has it that Zao Wangjun will report all the things that happen in the house in a year to the heaven and convey the will of heaven to reward the good and punish the bad.
Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Chinese mythology, is a very kind God, known as the Great Compassionate Goddess of Mercy. It also has a very big incense in China.
The Duke of the Land, also known as the Land Master, the Land Master is an ancient Chinese legend in charge of a side of the land of the gods, living in the ground, is the lowest level of the gods. As the saying goes, "Don't take the Land Master as an immortal". In Chinese folklore, there are many different images of land deities with different personalities. As a local protection god, popular in all parts of the country, where there are people living in the old days, there is the phenomenon of worship of the land god exists.
2, after worshiping the god, it is the happiest time for the children, the children of the family big and small to go together to pay homage to the New Year. When you get to someone's house, the rich people will give you 5 yuan, 10 yuan. Those who are a little less wealthy will give you 1 yuan or 2 yuan. Those who are a little bit better will give you a few steamed buns to offer to the gods. Whether it is money or steamed bread, all represent people's best wishes.
3, at noon, usually eat noodles, longevity noodles. That a root of noodles are on behalf of the good wishes for the year. According to the old people say, eat the longevity noodles on the first day of the New Year, the old people and children will be safe and sound throughout the year.
4, in the evening will eat dumplings. Because of the meaning of "change of year", so popular with the people. Is the meaning of the old and the new, but also adhering to the meaning of God, is a must eat a feast food, otherwise, God will remove your name in the yin and yang world, after death will become a lonely ghost not in the book.
We Henan Yu Dong area no special New Year's Eve, in the memory of the teenager mainly have the following content.
One is the morning of the first day before dawn, began cooking dumplings, after the first bowl must be given to the elders, if a family has a few sons to start a family single, the daughters-in-law of each family will secretly compete with each other, who sends on the earliest appear who filial piety.
Second, the sun did not come out before, it is best not to go to the convenience, said it will wash the festivities.
Third, after the firecracker paper to be cleaned up after lunch, if you sweep the symbol of wealth, the year to be poor.
In my memory, these are the main ones.
(The old jujube tree in the picture is my family's history witness, 1938 Chiang Kai-shek grilled the Yellow River, the whole family went to the desert, returned to my old father found a small jujube tree in a highland outside the village, and moved it to the home to grow to this day.)
We here in the south of Hebei, Xingtai City, Xingtai County. To mention the first day of the Lunar New Year, it is true that there are many customs.
One is to get up early. People are diligent and early in the spring, on the first day of the year, people will get up at four or five o'clock. After putting on new clothes and socks, we must first kowtow to our ancestors, and then to our parents and grandparents to pay tribute to the New Year's Eve, and to send the money, get up and can not be noisy, to avoid disturbing the ancestors God, the spirit. To the end of the firecrackers, it began to go out to the townspeople to pay tribute to the New Year, at this time you can speak loudly.
Secondly, the girl does not worship. Unmarried women, do not pay homage to people, married into the family's daughter-in-law, only to the in-laws, grandparents and the family's house family kowtow to the big generation, do not pay homage to the townspeople.
Third, not to the bedridden patient to pay tribute.
Fourth, people of the same generation do not pay homage. If it is a generation, age and about the same size, is not necessary to pay homage. But the difference in age is particularly large, and now will go to worship, to show respect.
Five is the morning must eat dumplings. On the first day of the morning meal, it is necessary to eat dumplings. Because the dumplings are shaped like Yuanbao, so eating dumplings is Yuanbao imported, the more you have. There are also coins in the dumplings, who ate, who has the good fortune.
Sixth, when eating, to first honor the gods, spirits, ancestors, ancestors. In the ancestor, the first God, spirit, in addition to worship offerings, products, each time you eat, but also the rice in the God, the spirit of the front of the flat three times, in the ancestor, the previous flat four times, to invite people to eat.
Seven is the first day of the year, do not move the broom, do not take the needle and thread. Here we have dumplings wrapped in the shape of a treasure, heralding a new year of prosperity.
There are also some taboos: on the night of the New Year's Eve to the knife, pole scales and some other things to hide, do not see on the first day; thirty nights to clean up the house, the first day of the sweeping; do not eat rice wine (because rice wine is also known as mash); can not say unlucky words, there are still people on the first day of the ancient to discuss the mouth color. One year, the man thought of a way to lead the hostess to say auspicious words. On the first day of the Lunar New Year, open the door after the firecrackers, to the shrine in front of the hall on the incense, after the incense to climb the wooden ladder (the male host in advance in the shrine next to put a small wooden ladder), asked the hostess, you see me like this is what? The hostess said, "Why are you climbing the ladder when there is nothing else to do? The man climbed up the ladder one step at a time and continued to ask the hostess, "What do you think I am doing? The lady of the house said, "You're going up one rung after another!" The Mistress of the house fell off the wooden ladder in a fit of pique on the spot! Do you know what kind of auspicious words the male host was trying to ask the female host to say?
We are west of the Liupan Mountains in Longzhong, most of the rural culture is based on Qin culture, and Shaanxi area is similar to the first day of the New Year generally have the following customary activities: one is early to open the door, about five o'clock after opening the door, early to open the door, the prediction of the family's new year of diligence is not lazy; two is the collective travel, which is the village of the year's most lively scene, the sun tanzan, the whole village people dressed up, the village of the new. joyful, out of the nest, the older hand carrying a box of incense mounts, holding the head of the big red flowers on the livestock or sheep (nowadays do not see livestock and sheep, but cloaked in saffron car), to the wheat field or an open plot of land to gather, people meet with each other greetings and blessings, the young people early in the morning to open up, banging the gongs and drums, fireworks salute, there is a social fire in the village, but also the lion dance shaking the dry boat, playing the fire, to be focused on the people! After the family brought incense offerings collected together, presided over by the village elders, towards the direction of the god of joy, collective kneeling, welcome happiness to receive blessings, pray for a new year of good fortune, travel is the whole village carnival, under the premise of ensuring safety, how to have fun how to play until the midday meal point slowly dispersed; three is to eat New Year's Eve dinner, pro door or clan, the oldest appointment in whose house to set up a banquet, New Year's Eve, seems to be the door of the family or clan unity and gas, more in the days of good family or official family, their own initiative to open up; four is the clan's big New Year's Eve, first worship ancestors, that is, worship in the clan's incense or genealogy (generally is the clan's elderly home to hang up or placed on the desktop, some of whose family in the waxing moon over the matter, stay in whose home), after that, according to the generation string of the New Year's Eve in each family, the clan big family large, New Year's Eve team is also a vast, laughing, laughing, good is the The party was very lively and lively. After the New Year's greeting, free activities, young people get together to play cards, wine field, basketball, women square dance or rice-planting song twisted up, the dolls are also piling up to play. The first day of the first month of the year, to play the main, no farming, all activities indoors are limited to the clan, do not go to the family outside the family string.
Today, it is the twenty-second day of the Lunar New Year, tomorrow is the Northern New Year, the day after tomorrow is the Southern New Year, from the Spring Festival does not have a few days. As the most important festival in China, it naturally has many customs, especially the most activities on the 30th and the first day of the Lunar New Year. @fingertipsanongjia in the rural areas of eastern Anhui Province, to give you Kangkang, what are the customs of the first day of the New Year?
Say the first day of the Lunar New Year, first say the Lunar New Year's Eve, because many customs are connected. The New Year's Eve is the day of the family reunion, early in the morning, the men of the family, we must carry the salted pig's head, salted pig's feet, salted pig's tail, salted chicken, salted ducks and other salted meat will be cooked, brought to the nearby landlord, incense burning firecrackers, the first to pay homage to the landlord. After that, then carry back to worship the ancestors of the family, after that is cooked.
The children of the family get up, to be precise, is not yet up, you have to eat a piece of pork, meaning that the next year every day meat to eat, children do not crave. In addition, the hostess of the family, are to be in this day, a variety of meat dishes cooked, in addition to the New Year's Eve dinner preparation, but also for the first month of preparation. Other than that, the Spring Festival couplets, eat a reunion dinner, everywhere is similar, will not repeat. On the night of the New Year's Eve, after eating New Year's Eve dinner, families set off fireworks and firecrackers, close the door of wealth, ready to sleep.
So what are the special customs of the first day of the Lunar New Year? As mentioned above, the last door to close on the 30th day of the New Year is called the door to close the door of wealth, after this door is closed, the door will not be opened again that night, according to the local custom, open the door before 12 o'clock at night, it will be released to run away from the fortune. Then, on the first day of the New Year, then open the door is to open the door of wealth, it is said that whoever opens the door early to be able to make a fortune. Before opening the door there are instructions, usually with a small firecracker, blowing down the main entrance to open. Some families do not sleep on New Year's Eve, known as the New Year's Eve; wait until twelve o'clock at night directly open the door to wealth, known as grabbing wealth. Of course, open the door naturally inevitable firecrackers. So, the night of New Year's Eve to the morning of the first day of the New Year, almost the sound of firecrackers did not stop.
The first day of the New Year can not kill, get up, to eat dumplings, must be solid, can not eat with filling. This dumplings, the night of the New Year's Eve, made in advance. The first to get up, to cook dumplings to worship ancestors. Of course, some people have the custom of waking up early to worship their ancestors and kowtow nine heads. In addition to breakfast can not be killed, the whole day is so, all the meals eaten, are prepared in advance on New Year's Eve.
Then, is to pay tribute to each other, very conventional, and will not repeat. On the first day of the year, we call this "on the human year", that is to say, to pay tribute to the elders of the family, grandparents, son-in-law on the second day of the year, to the old father-in-law, mother-in-law to pay tribute to the New Year. The general custom is so, to say how interesting words, that is, relatives and friends are in, everyone has time, chatting, playing cards, small time is relatively simple, have food, drink and play, there is also the New Year's money, feel very happy. Now the year, are diluted, a lot of old traditions lost, traveling faster, but significantly less interesting, because the fast come and go fast. What do you think about this? What are the interesting things about your first day of the year?
I'm from Shandong, my hometown is Tai'an, my in-laws are Jining, although not far away but the customs are very different.
In my hometown of Tai'an, the first day of the morning will get up early to go to the elders to pay tribute to the red packets [teeth], and the morning must be under the dumplings to eat also have to be meat stuffed, eat a meal in the morning began to go door to door to the old man to pay tribute to the age of the old man, basically the afternoon is to get together to play cards and talk to the sky, and basically the first day of the first day of the floor is not even if the sweeping, if the sweeping to the sweeping, and can not be used with a needle and thread stitching! Something ............ this day home adults will also tell the child ah can be angry can not cry and so on, in short, a day to be happy and happy on the right.
In-laws Jining customs are different, the first morning can not comb hair in the house must go outside, the morning dumplings must be vegetarian filling, (because of Confucius's disciple Zi Lu, Zi Lu died in the Wei family civil unrest, when Zi Lu outside the city, civil unrest did not flee from Wei, but in spite of their own safety and security into the risk of a fight was knocked off the crown tassel, Zi Lu said to himself: "The gentleman died, the crown is not free. (Tying his hatband back on, the samurai of course would not let go of this opportunity, and cut Zi Lu to a pulp).
Customs vary from place to place, and the overall feeling is festive, lively and auspicious. We Yuandong Xiayi County, in the past the first day of the year, some four or five o'clock to get up, let go of the door cannon, wash water can not be splashed outside, not out of the sun can not be outside to relieve themselves. Then firecrackers under the dumplings, the first bearing the first bowl of dumplings and two steamed buns to honor the ancestors, and to the same ancestral elders to send dumplings. After the family has eaten the dumplings, the younger generation kowtow to the ancestors, grandparents, parents, to express their blessings, the elders to the younger generation of the New Year's money, and then lead the children to the same ancestor to pay New Year's visit to the elders. Nowadays, the new society, new fashion, old customs can not keep up with the new era, and the ban on fireworks, New Year's Eve send microblogging, feel and the usual days almost, no New Year's flavor.
On the first day of the Lunar New Year, our hometown get up early to cook dumplings, dumplings are cooked, fish out when the pot is still left a symbol of the year. This year we wrapped two kinds of dumplings, leeks, shrimp and eggs, cabbage and beef, each with its own flavor.
After breakfast, put on new clothes, is to go from door to door to pay tribute to the New Year, the same surname is not out of the five blessings of the family elders have to go to, when I was a child, more like this moment, the elders will give the sugar ball, melon seeds, stuffed with two satchel pockets full of exquisite will also be wrapped up in a big red bag. Nowadays there is no such atmosphere, or miss the time of childhood.
At noon, my in-laws have to fish for rice, they are Manchu, like to use rice and millet to fish, and then steamed into rice, generally eat until the first month of the fifteenth, meaning that the new year more silver, more gold, a year of prosperity.
Also steamed rice cakes, usually before the steam, if it is too late to make up for the first day of the first year, symbolizing a better life year after year, year after year, better than a year.
In short, the first day of the new year is the beginning of a new year, with a sumptuous food to meet the arrival of the New Year, the family reunion, red hot over the New Year.