Hotels that open in Yichang during the Spring Festival

The year of Yichang begins on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month. On this day, every household "blows dust", and "dust" is homophonic with "Chen", which means to get rid of the old and welcome the new, also commonly known as "playing the hall porch"! The 24th day of the twelfth lunar month is a small year. There is still a lot of attention about which day is the off-year holiday. As the old saying goes: the king is three people and four people, and the prince is twenty-five. It means that princes and ministers celebrate the 25th of the twelfth lunar month, and ordinary people celebrate the 24th of the twelfth lunar month. On this day, people will burn incense and worship God, and they will also simmer soup and eat meat. In the evening, a piece of glutinous rice candy or maltose should be offered in front of the kitchen god, and the mouth of the kitchen god should be sealed, so that when he reports to the jade emperor in heaven, he can talk about it and hide it if he can. This day is still the day when the mouse marries the girl, so the girl's sister-in-law used to cut the wedding dress in red and green and put it under the lampstand to give the mouse a generous gift. From this day on, every household began to be busy preparing for all aspects of the Spring Festival. The first thing is to buy and prepare all kinds of food for the New Year. Every household must also grind flour to make dumplings, which means "round and round". After eating them, they can be "happy" and "high every year". The second is to prepare new clothes, new hats and new shoes. People may wear old things all year round, but they must look over their "clothes" in the New Year. Once again, I began to buy Spring Festival couplets, New Year pictures and "door gods". During this period, the husband and his wife will go to their parents-in-law's house and give them money and things, commonly known as the year of resignation. Next, the atmosphere of the New Year is getting stronger and stronger: "Twenty-five dozen tofu; Twenty-six cut fish; Twenty-seven years; Twenty-nine have everything; Thirty nights of peach blossoms. " On the thirtieth day of the twelfth lunar month, people should paste couplets, blessings and stick grilles. Cooking pig's head meat, frozen fish, braised sausages and meat, cooking roast meat and steamed vegetables, etc., the most lively thing is to have a reunion dinner. At noon, the family sits around and talks while eating. Generally, we should use "Sanquan" (whole chicken, whole fish and whole duck), "Sangao" (fish cake, meat cake and mutton cake) and "Sanwan" (fish ball, meatball and lotus root ball) for the New Year's dinner. In recent years, people put a hot pot in the middle of the table, which is steaming, adding to the festive atmosphere. You have to light a lamp when you eat. Of course, the late people will not be forgotten when having a reunion dinner. Usually, bowls, chopsticks and wine glasses are placed on the top of the table (commonly known as the upper table), which is also very particular. Chopsticks must be placed on the bowl to show that they have eaten, and then the wine in the cup is poured on the ground. Before having a reunion dinner, you should set off firecrackers. At this time, you should be very cautious, because the quality of firecrackers is directly related to the luck of the next year. In the evening, we also send lights to the deceased, often the younger generation brings candles and lights them in front of their graves to let the deceased celebrate the New Year. In the evening, taking a big bath indicates to wash away the bad luck of the year, put on new clothes, and the whole family gather around the fire, eating rice cakes or dumplings, symbolizing the sweetness and promotion of New Year life. When eating jiaozi, there is only one coin in a hundred jiaozi, which means that the person who eats this jiaozi has a good year. People watch the Spring Festival Gala while chatting. All the lights at home must be on, and it is not until the clock is turned that the vigil is completed. When the cock crows at the first dawn, all households, men, women and children put on new clothes, hats and shoes, the younger generation pays New Year greetings to the elders, and the elders give the prepared lucky money to the children. This is the long-awaited hope of the children. So far, they finally got their hands in the bag with joy. Then open the door and let off the explosion to welcome the new year, and the neighbors meet each other to celebrate the new year. At the dawn of the first day of the first month, whips and firecrackers will be released soon. This is the New Year! Go out with the door half open (seal the door and leave one end of the money paper on the door) and go out to pay New Year's greetings. There are also many exquisite New Year greetings in Yichang. On the first day, I worshipped my grandparents' uncles. On the second day, I worshipped my maternal grandparents; Parents-in-law who worship their wives in the third grade; Worship relatives and friends on the fourth day; The fifth day is the birthday of the God of Wealth, and the shops resume their business to pick up the God of Wealth (many businessmen go to the temple to burn incense and pray for the new year's wealth). From the first day to the third day, you can't take out the garbage, you can't cook raw rice, you have to eat the leftovers from the year, and you hope that there will be leftovers. Later, it evolved into a family cooking noodles, shredded beans, and glutinous rice. You can't splash water outside, lest you go away. It's called "sending the poor" until the sixth day of the sixth day to take out the garbage accumulated for so many days. Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month-every household should fry spring rolls. On the night of the Lantern Festival, people will also use glutinous rice flour and bean paste stuffing to make glutinous rice balls to eat, in order to wish a successful and smooth year's work. The expiration of May coincides with the reunion, which is for good luck. However, the prosperity of Lantern Festival lies in "lights", so it is also called "Lantern Festival". It is a big lantern in front of every household and shop, in temples, gardens, squares and other public places. After sunset, all the lights are put together, and even the city is connected, and the red light shines brightly. There are various shapes of lanterns, including colorful lanterns, various plant lanterns, animal lanterns, character lanterns, story lanterns and so on. As the saying goes, "Eat two big heads, and each one will find his own way". After the 16th day of the first month, the celebrating people returned to their respective industries. At this point, the Spring Festival activities ended. Yichang has a lot of two-part allegorical sayings about how to celebrate the New Year: there is oil in the twelfth lunar month-salt comes first; Eat lotus root in three miles-see through it; The lame man pays a New Year call-crooked is crooked. The Chinese New Year is very important in the hearts of China people. "If you have money, you can have a wife for the Chinese New Year." Although the way of celebrating the New Year has changed, such as eating in hotels for New Year's dinner, paying New Year's greetings by SMS or online, going out to go on road trip, etc., the cultural concept of pursuing reunion and "spare time" has not changed at all. For more than a thousand years, our ancestors have lived and multiplied in this beautiful land, and in their long-term production activities and daily life, they have gradually formed various customs and habits with strong local characteristics. These customs and habits condensed the ancestors' pursuit and yearning for a better life, and showed their good qualities of simplicity and diligence. Excerpt from Sina