Hangu Spring Festival Folk Custom

Generally speaking, Chinese people eat rice cakes, jiaozi, Ciba, glutinous rice balls, poached eggs, big balls, whole fish, wine, oranges, apples, peanuts, melon seeds, sweets, fragrant tea and dishes. With many activities such as dust removal, bedding washing, new year's goods preparation, Spring Festival couplets, New Year's pictures (Zhong Kui, Door God), paper-cutting, stick grilles, blessing characters, lighting candles, lighting fires, setting off firecrackers, observing the New Year, giving lucky money, visiting relatives, sending new year's goods, visiting ancestral graves, visiting flower markets, building social fires, Zhong Kui dances and so on, the family is extremely happy. People in China still have the habit of hanging Chinese knots during the Spring Festival. On the eve of the Lunar New Year, Tianjin people have the custom of inviting Chinese knots to receive Xiang Qiao's blessing at the Qiaoxiang Pavilion, an ancient cultural street. Wenzhou people want to go to their religion, sincerely pray and hope to get happiness with their families in the new year. Mostly Buddhism.

For thousands of years, people have made the annual custom celebration extremely colorful. Every year from the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month to New Year's Eve, people call this period "Spring Festival" or "Dust Day", which is the traditional habit of our people.

Then, every household prepares new year's goods. About ten days before the festival, people were busy shopping. New year's goods include chicken, duck, fish, tea, wine, oil sauce, North and South roasted seeds and nuts, and fruit with sugar bait. They should also prepare some gifts when visiting relatives and friends in the New Year. Children should buy new clothes and hats to wear in the New Year.

Before the Chinese New Year, a New Year greeting in red paper and yellow characters should be posted on the door of the house, that is, Spring Festival couplets written in red paper. There are brightly colored and auspicious New Year pictures in the house. Beautiful window grilles are cut out by ingenious girls and pasted on the windows. Red lanterns are hung in front of the door, or images of the god of wealth and the door gods (Zhong Kui, Qin Qiong and Jingdezhen) are pasted upside down. Passers-by are blessed to think about it. All these activities are aimed at adding enough festive atmosphere to the festival.

Another name for the Spring Festival is China New Year. In the past legend, "Nian" is a fictional animal, which will bring bad luck to people. New Year's Eve. When the tree is dead, the grass will not grow; After the New Year, everything grows and flowers are everywhere. How to spend a year? Firecrackers are needed, so there is the custom of setting off firecrackers, which is actually another way to set off a lively scene.

The Spring Festival is a happy and peaceful festival, and it is also a day for family reunion. Children who leave home should go home for reunion during the Spring Festival. The night before the Lunar New Year is the 30th night of the twelfth lunar month, also called New Year's Eve and Reunion Night. Celebrating the New Year is one of the most important activities at the turn of the new year. On New Year's Eve, the whole family stayed up all night, got together to drink and enjoy family happiness. In the north, people are used to eating jiaozi on New Year's Eve. Jiaozi's practice is to mix dough first, and the word harmony is harmony. Jiaozi's jiaozi homonym means to get together and to make friends at a young age. In the south, there is a habit of eating rice cakes. The sweet glutinous rice rice cakes symbolize the sweetness of life in the new year, step by step.

When the first cock crow rings, or the New Year bell rings, firecrackers are ringing in the street, and noise comes and goes. Everyone is beaming. The new year has begun. Men, women and children wear holiday clothes. First of all, pay New Year greetings to the elders at home. During the festival, children will get lucky money and have a reunion dinner. In the second and third years of the Lunar New Year, they began to visit relatives and friends, pay New Year greetings to each other and say some congratulations and new happiness.