The Spring Festival, commonly known as "New Year's Day" and "New Year's Day", is a grand and distinctive ancient festival in China, and one of the most lively traditional festivals. Shared below are five folk customs during the Spring Festival, come and see if there is any you know it.
1, New Year's Eve vigilNew Year's Eve vigil, also known as "simmering", folk activities called vigil fire. Every New Year's Eve night, folk households will be lit all night, it is said that this can make the family become more full, rich. In addition, there is the custom of an all-night vigil in some areas. On New Year's Eve, the whole family gathers around for a reunion dinner, sends blessings to each other, and everyone sits around the fireplace, chatting together, symbolizing reunion and harmony. A vigil in the hope that all evil plagues and diseases will be driven away
The New Year's Eve vigil is one of the most important New Year's Eve activities in the traditional Chinese Spring Festival, which has been documented since the Wei and Jin dynasties. On the night of New Year's Eve, young and old members of the family get together to celebrate the festival and ****enjoy the joy of the Qi family. Su Dongpo once said: "children strong do not sleep, keep watch at night with joyful clamor", here written is the scene of the New Year's Eve.
2, sweeping the houseFolk proverb says "waxing twenty-four, dust sweeping the house". After the festival, the preparations for the New Year's Eve began formally. Sweeping dust is the end of the year cleaning, the north called "sweeping room", the south called "dusting".
Sweeping the dust before the Spring Festival is a traditional habit of the Chinese people. Whenever the Spring Festival is approaching, every household has to clean the environment, wash all kinds of appliances, dismantle and wash the bedding curtains, sprinkle the six capitals of the courtyard, dusting dust cobwebs, dredge the nullahs and dark ditches. North and south of the Yangtze River, everywhere overflowing with joyful health, clean and welcome the atmosphere of the New Year.
3, on the grave to invite ancestorsNew Year's rhyme: "Lunar New Year's Eve 29, on the grave to invite ancestors on the big offerings". The worship of ancestors has a long history in China. To die as one lives is not only an important symbol of filial piety, but also a virtue of honoring the elderly. As the Spring Festival is a big festival, the ceremony of inviting ancestors to their graves is particularly solemn. The time to invite ancestors to their graves is on the morning of the 29th in most areas. On the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar, the wives and the offspring would be cleaned and sacrificed to the ancestors, and on the day of the sacrifice, after the wine was brought to the gods, they would be listed before the ancestors, and the children and the great-grandchildren would each be served with pepper and wine at the parents' house. This shows that, as early as the Han Dynasty, China's ancestor worship has been a very important activity in the Spring Festival.
4, posting Spring FestivalSpring Festival couplets, also known as "spring stickers", "door to", "couplets", is an important symbol of the Spring Festival. When people in front of their homes to put on the Spring Festival couplets and blessings, means that the Spring Festival officially kicked off. Every Spring Festival, whether urban or rural, in addition to the Spring Festival couplets, families also have to stick window decorations, New Year's paintings, Foo, to increase the festive atmosphere.
5, watch the Spring Festival galaThe most important thing is to watch the annual Spring Festival gala, the Spring Festival gala has gradually become an indispensable part of the New Year's Eve, the whole family gathered in front of the TV to watch the Spring Festival gala, the atmosphere of this joyful mingling of the festivals are difficult to compare.
The above is what I know about the customs of the Spring Festival, partners you know what else?