1, the twenty-third of the waxing moon sacrificial stove
China's Spring Festival, generally from the sacrificial stove to open the order. Zaosi, is a very influential in China's folk customs, widely spread. In the old days, almost every house had a "Zao Wang" god in the stove.
2, Lunar New Year's Eve dust sweeping
"Lunar New Year's Eve, dust sweeping the house", according to the "Lu Shi Chun Qiu" records, China in the Yao and Shun times on the Spring Festival dust sweeping custom. According to folklore: because the "dust" and "Chen" consonant, dust sweeping in the New Year has "in addition to the meaning of Chen Bu Xin", the intention is to all the poor luck, bad luck, swept out the door. This custom is the desire of the people to break the old, and the new wish and pray for the old and welcome the new.
3, Lunar New Year's Eve 25 to receive the Jade Emperor
The old custom is that after the God of the stove in heaven, the Jade Emperor on the 25th day of the 12th lunar month to personally down to the world, to check the earth's good and evil, and set the next year, so the family sacrifice to pray for blessings, known as the "receiving Jade Emperor". On this day, people should be careful in their living and speaking, and strive for good performance in order to win the favor of the Jade Emperor and bring down blessings in the coming year.
4, Lunar New Year 27, 28 bath
Traditional folklore in these two days to focus on bathing, laundry, remove the bad luck of the year, in preparation for the coming year's New Year, the capital has "27 wash guilt, 28 wash sloppy" proverb. Lunar New Year's Eve bath for "wash the blessing of Lu".
5, Lunar New Year's Eve on the thirtieth day of the month, sticking the door god, sticking the Spring Festival couplets, the New Year's Eve, firecrackers, eating New Year's Eve dinner, to the New Year's money, ancestor worship
Watch the New Year's Day, China's folk New Year's Eve in the New Year's Day is the habit of watching the New Year's Eve, commonly known as "boiled New Year's Day". The New Year's Eve vigil starts with the New Year's Eve dinner, which should be eaten slowly, from the time of the lantern to the table, and some people have to eat late into the night. According to the record of "Jing Chu Yearly Records", there was a custom of having New Year's Eve dinner at least in the North and South Dynasties. The custom of observing the New Year's Eve is not only a way of saying goodbye to the years that have passed, but also a way of expressing hope for the coming New Year.
6, the first day of the first month of the New Year
The morning of the Spring Festival, open the door for good luck, first set off firecrackers, called "open the door cannonball". After the sound of firecrackers, broken red all over the ground, brilliant as a cloud of brocade, known as "full red". At this time, the street is full of gas, joyful.
7, temple fair
The temple fair is the majority of Chinese people's Spring Festival complex, but also an indispensable annual custom. Spring Festival temple fair is the earliest folk religious ceremonies, temple fair time, usually by monks, Taoist priests to do the "ritual" or "dojo" to worship God, people also want to incense pilgrimage, make a wish, return the wish, seek blessings. During the temple fair, there are also vendors and folk art performances. There are many traditional events in the temple fair that have a long history and are loved by the people, such as lion dance, dragon dance, rice-planting song, stilt walker, dry boat running, and so on.
8, watch the social fire
In addition to the temple fair, folk self-performance of self-entertainment of the social fire is also a long history of the New Year's entertainment. Social fire originated from the ancient worship of the land god and fire god. Social, that is, the land god; fire, that is, fire ancestor, is the legendary fire god. In China, which is famous for its agricultural culture, land is the foundation of people's foothold, and it lays the material foundation for the survival and development of human beings. Fire, is the source of cooked food and warmth, but also essential to the survival and development of mankind, ancient people with primitive thinking that fire also has a "spirit", and regarded as a special meaning of the gods to be worshipped, so the formation of the concept of fire. Ancient land and fire worship, produced the custom of sacrificing to the community and fire. With the development of society, the rituals of the fire gradually become a grand scale, rich in content, a variety of forms of folk entertainment.
9, Dragon Dance
Dragon Dance, also known as "playing dragon lanterns", "dragon lantern dance", is one of the traditional dance forms of the Han Chinese people. It is one of the traditional dance forms of the Han Chinese people. Every time when there is a happy festival, there is a custom of dragon dance in all parts of the world. The Dragon Dance originated in the Han Dynasty and has been practiced through the ages. Initially, it was used as a ritual to worship ancestors and pray for sweet rain, but later it gradually became a recreational activity. In the Tang and Song dynasties, the dragon dance was a common form of expression during the New Year's festivals.
10, Lion Dance
Lion Dance, also known as "playing lion", "lion dance", it is the same as the Dragon Dance, is China's traditional form of dance, but also a popular folk sports activities. It is also a popular folk sports activity. The lion dance is also performed at Chinese New Year or celebrations.
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In China, the Spring Festival is also the ethnic minorities people's of the ethnic minorities. Each ethnic group holds a variety of celebrations according to their own customs, with their own strong and unique ethnic style.
Tibetan customs
Tibetan New Year's Eve, people dressed in colorful costumes, wearing strange masks, with oboe, conch, drums, music, held a grand and grand "Jumping God". The young men dance and sing wildly, indicating that the old and welcome the new, to drive away evil spirits and bring down blessings. To the New Year's morning, the women will go to the back of the "auspicious water", wishing the new year good luck.
Yi Customs
The Yi choose their annual festivals according to the Yi calendar. Some celebrate the Spring Festival with the local Han Chinese. In some areas, Yi compatriots set up pines in front of their doors and pave the ground with pine needles to show that they are free from disasters and calamities. 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 the arrival of the year in the rainfall.
Customs of the Zhuang People
The Zhuang people celebrate the Spring Festival at the same time as the Han people. On the evening of New Year's Eve, the rice eaten on the day of the festival is called "New Year's rice", and in some areas it is known as "Eat Lijie", which is the Zhuang term for "the late year". 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.
Buyi Customs
Buyi New Year's Eve, the whole family stayed up all night to observe the New Year's Eve at the watering hole. As soon as the day breaks, the girls scramble to fetch water. Whoever is the first to pick up the first quart of water is the hardest working and happiest girl.
Customs of the Qiang People
The Qiang people are one of the ethnic groups with a long history in the Chinese family. Now they mainly live in Mao County, Wenchuan County, Li County and part of Songpan County in Aba Prefecture, Sichuan Province. The Qiang New Year Festival is celebrated on the first day of the tenth month of the lunar calendar every year, usually for 3-5 days, and some villages have to celebrate it on the tenth day of the tenth month. According to folk customs, the Qiang New Year is also a time for honoring the gods and sacrificing to the God of Heaven, the God of Mountains and the Owner of the Land (the God of the Walled City). The whole village should have reunion dinner, drink smack, dance Shalang, until all the fun is over. 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 family can congratulate and invite each other.
Manchu Customs
The Manchus are divided into four banners: red, yellow, blue and white. Spring Festival, the red flag people in the door posted red hanging flag, yellow flag people in the door posted yellow hanging flag, blue flag people in the door posted blue hanging flag, white flag people in the door posted white hanging flag. These hanging flags have beautiful patterns and bright colors, symbolizing an auspicious start to the year.
Dong customs
Dong people during the Spring Festival prevailed a kind of "playing the Dong New Year" (also known as the Lusheng will) of mass activities. This activity is similar to the Han Chinese "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 from both villages, accompanied by music, dancing and enjoying themselves.
Bai customs
Yunnan Bai people celebrate the New Year with a kind of celebration called "put high up". The so-called "put high rise" is to use the whole large bamboo, in the bamboo joints loaded with gunpowder, after ignition can be the whole large bamboo collapsed into the sky hundreds of feet, to 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. Where the catch can not catch the embroidered ball, to give each other souvenirs, many times lost the ball and redemption of souvenirs, that is, expressed willingness to allow love.
Tujia customs
During the Spring Festival, the Tujia people will hold a grand hand-waving dance. The hand-waving dance is an ancient dance popular among 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.
Customs of the Dai People
The Water Splashing Festival is the New Year's festival of the Dai people, and it is the biggest traditional festival of the Dai people in a year. The day of the beginning of the rainy season is designated as the "Water Splashing Festival". During the three or four days of the festival, people splash water on each other to wash away the old soil and bless the new year with happiness and peace.
Li Customs
Li people living on Hainan Island, every Spring Festival, every family to set up a sumptuous food and wine, the whole family sitting around together to eat "New Year's dinner"; during the seat the whole family will 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. Interestingly, in the division of the prey, the first half of all the prey to the first hit the prey shooter; the other half by everyone equally. Pregnant women can get two shares, and passers-by who happen to meet, can also get a share.
Customs of the Lisu People
The Lisu people call the New Year's Day "Qash", and most of them make indica rice, glutinous rice, and water wine, and put a little of the first mortar pounded out of the poop on the peaches, plums, and other fruit trees, and wish for fruitfulness in the coming year. The Lisu people in the Nujiang region of Yunnan Province first feed salt to their oxen to show respect for their labor. Young men and women like to hold target shooting competitions in the Spring Festival. The girls hang their embroidered purses on bamboo poles, and the purses are shaken from side to side, inviting the young men to shoot, and whoever shoots down the purses first, the girls will send the wine as a prize to whoever is in front of their mouths.
Lahu Customs
On the night of New Year's Eve, the whole family of Lahu compatriots take a bath to clear their bodies and make good food for the following day. In the food, special attention is paid to glutinous rice poop, in addition to eating, always give a little to the cattle to eat, off in the plow, hoe, machete and other farm equipment on a little, in order to reward its year with the master cooperation, wishing the new year to create more wealth.
Daur customs
Daur people living in the northeast on both sides of the Nenjiang River, the first morning of the first day of the first month of the Lunar Calendar, young men and women dress up, the first to the elders to ask for peace, toast, salute, and then go from house to house to pay tribute to the New Year, each family is prepared to have a steamed cake, pay tribute to the New Year's Day, once the door to grab a steamed cake, it is said to have eaten, the production and life can be "high year after year! "
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Mulao Customs
From the first to the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar, men, women and children of the Mulao ethnic group dress up in festive costumes, and dozens, hundreds or even thousands of people gather on the hillside or in the racecourse to sing songs about labor, life and love.
Customs of the Dulong People
The only festival of the Dulong people is the "Kachuowo" festival, which takes place in the winter months. The most solemn ceremony is the cow sacrifice to heaven. On this day, the chief of the clan ties the ox to a stake in the center of the square. A young woman hangs a chain on the bull's horn, and then a brave and strong young man, holding a sharp bamboo spear, stabs the bull in the armpit until the bull falls down and dies. At this moment, people will dance "cow pot Zhuang" dance, and then share the beef.
Oroqen customs
Oroqen people in the Northeast, the Spring Festival morning, the first in the family according to the size of the seniority of the pouring of wine, the younger to the elders kowtow, the younger generation to each other, the first two, the first three horse races. The fifteenth day of the first month of delicious food. On the morning of the 16th day of the first month, the activity of smearing each other's black faces is carried out. Young people should kowtow first when they wipe the black face of the elderly.
Herzhe customs
Herzhe Hezhe language "Spring Festival" phonetic translation for "Fo Feshix", that is, the meaning of the New Year's Eve. People put on the hat ears, collar, cuffs, pants legs, aprons, shoes embroidered with beautiful patterns, geometric patterns and birds and flowers and other lace on the animal skin and other clothing. During the New Year's festivals, the average family makes a "fire feast" or a cake made from a wild fruit called "Bird cherry," which is also filled with fish and animal meat. To treat the guest of honor, it is used to kill the live fish, or roast the fish sticks, with this "Taraha" hospitality.
Kinuo Customs
When the Spring Festival arrives, the Jinuo, who live in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan Province, have a betel nut-chewing old man playing cymbals, a crone wearing a big pointy hat sounding a gong with a lowered head, and a drum played by a zhouba, or father of the village, while young men and women dance in a circle with their bare hands.
Customs of the Gaoshan people
The people of the Gaoshan ethnic group in the Spring Festival, dressed in colorful national costumes, gathered in groups at the village side of the cottage head to drink wine, and in the musical instruments accompanied by singing and dancing to their heart's content. Some villages also hold fish-forking competitions and carry out sports activities such as basket ball and pole ball.
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