Nanchuan's Spring Festival custom?

Nanchuan District is located in the south of Chongqing, at the intersection of Chongqing-Guizhou and Chongqing-Hunan economic belts. It is a new urban development zone in Chongqing, bordering Daozhen, Zheng 'an and Tongzi counties in Guizhou Province in the southeast, Wulong County in the northeast, Fuling District in the north and Banan District and Qijiang District in the west.

Nanchuan is a beautiful and meaningful city with a long history, abundant resources, convenient transportation, superior ecology and openness. Nanchuan has been successively rated as the national advanced cultural area, the hometown of China couplets culture, the hometown of national songs and dances, the hometown of singing and dancing, and the hometown of dancing dragons on benches.

The custom of Spring Festival in Nanchuan is similar to that in other parts of the country.

1, bucket lamp

"Deng Dou" is a custom handed down from generation to generation by villagers in Tang Yan Community, Xicheng Street, Nanchuan District, Chongqing. On the night of the 14th day of the first month of every year, every family's old people and children go out of their homes with oil lamps and candles prepared in advance, and light the long lights connecting Jackie Chan one by one along the roadside, in the ridge and in front of the house. After the lantern festival, the villagers swam in the village to see who had the most lights and whose lights lasted the longest. According to local villagers, the custom of "fighting lights" has been going on in the local area for hundreds of years. The villagers hope that the weather will be good in the coming year through the way of "fighting lights"

Step 2 shop

Everyone has his own Nanchuan memory, and Laodong Street is the memory and feelings of Nanchuan people.

Nanchuan people like to visit Dongjie Street during the Spring Festival. Visiting East Street can not only experience colorful folk activities, but also taste all kinds of delicious food. You can eat all kinds of bamboo shoots and farm dishes in Zhu Fang. There are also special snacks, such as oil tea soup, oil tea, wheat nuggets, candied fruit, ghost buns ... Nanchuan on the tip of the tongue is not a hollow name.

East Street is divided into tourist and businessman comprehensive service area, cultural Expo experience area, Time Street experience area, parent-child outdoor education area and Jiefang Road nostalgic business area. It not only undertakes basic functions such as eating, living, playing and shopping, but also undertakes comprehensive functions such as cultural display, cultural experience, interactive communication and sightseeing experience.

The East Street in the Spring Festival is getting more and more lively. 65438+ 10 65438+From June to February 5, Sichuan Opera changed its face, clown performance, Lantern Festival, acrobatics, collection of non-legacy (time-honored) new year's goods, folk culture parade, photo exhibition, "My Happy Year" talent show and various garden activities enjoyed themselves in Dongjie.

The annual flavor of folk customs is not only in the East Street in the city, but also at the origin of the grand view outside the city. The walls are covered with "Spring Festival couplets", lucky rabbits with long legs, and red lantern walls in China ... everywhere is full of "the flavor of the year".

During the Spring Festival, Daguan Origin has prepared a variety of activities, such as a happy party, a garden party, a hometown fair, a New Year's parade on stilts, a parade of 24 solar terms, and eating Yuanxiao in the countryside. We invite you to go back to your hometown to participate in the Expo and the New Year, so that tourists can relive the "year of the original country" here. At the same time, it is a good choice to stay at the Twelve Courtyards or the Huanyu Hotel at the origin of Daguan at night.

Step 3 clean the dust

Twenty-four, sweep the house. China had the custom of sweeping dust during the Spring Festival in the Yao and Shun era. According to the folk saying: Because of the homonym of "dust" and "Chen", sweeping dust in the Spring Festival means "getting rid of the old and not being new", and its original intention is to sweep away all bad luck and bad luck. This custom has placed people's desire to break the old and create new ones and their prayers to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new. Whenever the Spring Festival comes, every household should clean the environment, clean all kinds of electrical appliances, remove and wash bedding curtains, sweep six yards, dust cobwebs and dredge culverts in open channels. Everywhere is filled with the joyful atmosphere of cleaning and welcoming the Spring Festival cleanly.

Step 4: keep your age

Keeping the New Year's Eve is one of the most important customs in the Spring Festival, and it has a long history. The earliest record can be found in the Local Records of the Western Jin Dynasty: on New Year's Eve, all parties give gifts to each other, which is called "the year of giving back"; Wine and food are invited, which is called "not old"; Young and old get together to drink and wish a complete song called "age division"; Everyone stays up all night, waiting for dawn. This is the so-called "shou sui". Since the Han Dynasty, the time for the alternation of the old and new years is generally at midnight.

5. Happy New Year

When paying New Year greetings during the Spring Festival, the younger generation should first pay New Year greetings to their elders and wish them health and longevity. The elders can distribute the lucky money prepared in advance to the younger generation. It is said that lucky money can kill evil spirits, because "old" and "special" are homophonic, and the younger generation can spend a year safely with lucky money. There are two kinds of lucky money, one is to put colored rope in the shape of Jackie Chan at the foot of the bed, which was recorded in Yanjing year; The other is the most common, that is, parents wrap the money distributed to their children in red paper. Lucky money can be given in public after the younger generation pays New Year's greetings, or it can be secretly put under the child's pillow by parents when the child falls asleep on New Year's Eve. The custom of giving lucky money to the younger generation by elders is still very popular.

6. Post Spring Festival couplets

Spring Festival couplets are also called door couplets, spring stickers, couplets, couplets and peach symbols. They depict the background of the times and express good wishes with neat, dual, concise and delicate words, which are unique literary forms in China. Every Spring Festival, no matter in urban or rural areas, every household should choose a pair of red Spring Festival couplets and stick them on the door to add festive atmosphere to the festival. This custom originated in the Song Dynasty and was popular in the Ming Dynasty. By the Qing Dynasty, the ideological and artistic quality of Spring Festival couplets had been greatly improved. Liang Zhangju's monograph The Story of Spring Festival couplets discusses the origin of Spring Festival couplets and the characteristics of various works.

There are many kinds of Spring Festival couplets, which can be divided into door heart, frame pair, cross string, spring strip and bucket square according to the place of use. The "door core" is attached to the center of the upper end of the door panel; The "door frame pair" is attached to the left and right door frames; "Cross-dressing" is posted on the crossbar of the door; "Spring strips" are posted in corresponding places according to different contents; "Dou Jin", also known as "door leaf", is a square diamond, often attached to furniture and screen walls.

7. Hanging New Year pictures

Hanging New Year pictures during the Spring Festival is also very common in urban and rural areas, and colorful New Year pictures add a lot of prosperity and festive atmosphere to thousands of families. New Year pictures are an ancient folk art in China, which reflects people's simple customs and beliefs and places their hopes on the future. New Year pictures, like Spring Festival couplets, originated from "door gods". With the rise of block printing, the content of New Year pictures is not limited to monotonous themes such as door gods, but has become rich and colorful. Some New Year pictures workshops have produced classic color New Year pictures, such as Fu Lushou's Samsung, God bless the people, abundant crops, prosperous livestock and welcoming the New Year, to meet people's good wishes of celebrating and praying for the New Year. There are three important producing areas of Chinese New Year pictures: Taohuawu in Suzhou, Yangliuqing in Tianjin and Weifang in Shandong; Three schools of New Year pictures have been formed, each with its own characteristics.

The earliest existing collection of New Year pictures in China is the woodcut New Year pictures of the Southern Song Dynasty, which depict four ancient beauties: Wang Zhaojun, Zhao, Ban Ji and Lvzhu. The most popular folk painting is the Year of Marrying the Rat. It depicts an interesting scene in which a mouse marries a bride according to human custom. In the early years of the Republic of China, Zheng of Shanghai combined the monthly calendar with the New Year pictures. This is a new form of New Year pictures. This new year's picture, which was combined into one, later developed into a calendar and has been popular all over the country.

Step 8 set off firecrackers

There is a folk saying in China that "open the door and set off firecrackers". That is, when the new year comes, the first thing for every household to open the door is to set off firecrackers to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new. Firecracker is a specialty of China, also known as "Firecracker", "Firecracker" and "Firecracker". Its origin is very early, and it has a history of more than two thousand years. Setting off firecrackers can create a festive and lively atmosphere, which is a kind of entertainment in festivals and can bring happiness and good luck to people.

9. ancestor worship

At the beginning of the new year, the first thing to do is to worship the ancestors. In some places, this etiquette is called "family worship" because ancestors are called "relatives" instead of gods.

Sacrifice to ancestors is usually carried out at home. In some places, every family hangs portraits of their ancestors in the hall, but most areas are for ancestral tablets. Around midnight on New Year's Eve, before opening the door and setting off firecrackers, ancestor worship activities began. Wine, delicacies and seasonal fruits are placed in front of ancestral tablets for ancestors to enjoy; After lighting the scented paper candle, parents lead their children to knock on the door for sacrifice. When you worship your ancestors, you should report the festive events that happened at home in the past year, from marrying a daughter-in-law, recruiting a daughter, giving birth to a child, and how your life is.

The significance of ancestor worship in the New Year is to pursue the future with caution, to respect ancestors, and to pray for ancestors to bless the prosperity of future generations, which shows the traditional ethical thought of the Chinese nation.

10, pick up the spirit

Receiving God means dividing the old year into the new year, but the time of receiving God is not uniform. Some people begin to hold ceremonies as soon as their children arrive, some people begin to receive gods at midnight when their children are "right", and some people do so after their children are "right". The ceremony of receiving gods was held at the table of heaven and earth, presided over by the oldest person in the family. Because the immortals live in different directions in heaven, the lower bound naturally comes in different directions. As for who to meet and where to come from, we should check the "constitution book" in advance, lead the whole family to hold incense in the yard, and follow their instructions to meet the gods. For example, Xin Weinian's "Constitution Book" states that "God of Wealth is due east, God of Wealth is due south, you God is northeast, West God is southwest, and Tai Sui God is southwest". After kowtowing according to the position, stand still until the incense is exhausted, and then kowtow. Finally, take down the fragrant roots, idols and ingots, put them into the money and grain pots already prepared in the yard, and burn them with pine branches and sesame stalks.

In short, Nanchuan's Spring Festival custom activities mainly focus on offering sacrifices to immortals, ancestors, saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new, and praying for a bumper harvest, which is similar to other places.