1, the first day of the first month
The first day of the first month to welcome the new year, worship. In the morning, each family burns incense, honors heaven and earth, sacrifices to their ancestors, and pays homage to the god of the year. Then they pay their respects to their elders in turn, and congratulate each other's relatives and friends.
Traditional customs: opening the door to firecrackers, worshiping the New Year, praying for the New Year, worshipping the New Year, occupying the New Year, and gathering wealth.
2, the second day of the first month of the year
The second day of the New Year is the New Year's Day, in the morning to pay homage to the gods of the heavens and the earth, sacrifices are made, the burning of cannons, burning paper treasures, and then ate "New Year's Day meal". This meal "New Year's dinner" generally prepared hairy vegetables, lettuce, fish, etc., intended to take the meaning of its wealth and road. This day the married daughter back to her mother's home, to husband and son-in-law to go, so commonly known as "son-in-law day".
The daughter must bring some gifts and red envelopes to her mother's home, distribute them to the children in her mother's home, and eat lunch in her mother's home, but she must return to her mother-in-law's home before dinner. The second day of the first month of the lunar year is called "Dog Day," according to the Chamshu.
Traditional customs: worshipping the gods, opening the New Year's dinner, etc.
3, the third day of the first month
The third day of the first year of the Lunar New Year is also known as the "Red Dog Day", which is synonymous with the word "Chikou", and you will not usually go out to pay respects to the New Year.
Traditional custom: burn the paper of the god of the door.
4, the fourth day of the first month
The fourth day of the first month of the Chinese New Year is said to be the day when Nuwa created the goat, so it is called "Goat Day". It is also the day to welcome the God of the kitchen stove back to the people, and it is said that "it is early to send the God, but late to receive the God".
Traditional customs: welcome the god to receive the god, to receive the five ways, eat folded Luo, throw poor.
5, the fifth day of the first month
The fifth day of the first month of the first month, according to folk custom is the birthday of the God of Fortune, so we should welcome the God of Fortune into the home, blessing the family's new year of prosperity, year after year.
Traditional customs: offerings to the God of Wealth (South), send poor, open the market.
6, the sixth day of the first month
The sixth day of the first month of the first month of the "Horse Day", called the Sixth Day of the Sixth. The first five just to welcome the God of Wealth into the door, the first six to send away the God of Poverty. "Send poor", which means offering to send poor ghosts, poor God, is a very distinctive Han folk custom of the year.
Traditional customs: sending the poor and starting the market.
7, the seventh day of the first month
Legend has it that this day is the birth of mankind, that is, the human birthday, the folk used to call this day "human day" "human day festival" or "human victory festival". As an ancient festival, "Man Day" has a history of at least 2,000 years in China.
Traditional customs: Smoke the sky, eat seven treasures of soup, send the fire god.
8, the eighth day of the first month
The eighth day of the first month of the Valley, the legend is that the Valley's birthday, the production of small lamps burned and sacrificed, also known as the Shunxing Festival, the day of the stars down to the sky stars out of the fullest.
Traditional customs: Shunxing, traveling to the gods, do Zaitou, release the life of the blessing.
9, the first nine months
The first nine days of the first month of the day, commonly known as the "day of birth", legend has it that this day for the birth of the Jade Emperor, to be held in order to celebrate the ceremony. The main customs are sacrifices to the Jade Emperor, Taoist temple fasting, etc., and pray for a new year of wind and rain, peace and health.
Traditional custom: Worship the God of Heaven.
10, the tenth day of the first month
The tenth day of the first month of the first month of the year, some areas in the south of the custom of turning on the lights, set up the lights of the banquet.
Traditional custom: to set up a feast.
11, the first month of the eleventh
The eleventh day of the first month is also "son-in-law day", is the father-in-law feast son-in-law day. In addition to the food left over from the celebration of Tian Gong's birthday on the ninth day of the month, there is still a lot of food left over from the tenth day of the month, which will be used to invite the son-in-law to dinner on the eleventh day of the month, so that the mother's family won't have to spend money on the feast anymore.
Traditionally, son-in-laws and daughters are entertained.
12, the twelfth day of the first month
From this day onwards, the family will buy lanterns and build a lantern house. Folklore commonly known as "twelve take lamp shed". The meaning is that the Lantern Festival is approaching, the village administrator from this day onwards will convene skilled craftsmen and young and strong to prepare lanterns, to do all kinds of preparations for the Lantern Festival.
Traditional customs: building lantern huts, lantern drinking parties, making jai-tou, making jiao-festival, and marking cannons.
13, the first month of the thirteenth and fourteenth.
The 13th and 14th of the first month of the year, lion dances, floating colors, touring the gods, temple fair. Legend has it that the thirteenth day of the first month is the "head of the lamp birthday", the folk in this day to light under the kitchen stove, known as "light stove lamp". In fact, because the first month of the fifteenth day of the Lantern is approaching, the families are piloting the production of good lamps, only to be said for the "lamp" day.
Traditional customs: lion dance, floating colors, tour of the gods, temple fair.
14, the 15th day of the first month
The Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first month of the first lunar month is the main traditional festival in China, also known as Yuanxi, the night of the first yuan, also known as the Festival of the first yuan, because it is the first full moon of the New Year. Lantern Festival customs since ancient times to the lively and festive custom of watching lanterns. To this day, fireworks are also one of the main customs of the Lantern Festival.
And "Lantern Festival" as a food, in China also has a long history. In the Song Dynasty, the popularity of a novelty food eaten on the Lantern Festival. This food, the earliest called "floating Yuanzi" later called "Lantern", the businessman also beautifully called "Yuanbao". Lantern that "dumplings" have the meaning of reunion.
Traditional customs: lanterns, lanterns, boat, burn guns, fireworks, picking green, the Lantern Festival.