Legends and customs about the Spring Festival

The legend of the Spring Festival is because it is said that the Nian beast "Xi" is very cruel, and people will go door to door to eat people in the middle of the night. In order to avoid Nian beast, the ancestors of Yanhuang reunited with their families and sat together to resist Nian beast.

As the Year Animals come once a year, the ancestors of the Yellow Emperor groped out the tactics of struggle in countless struggles, fearing red, fire and noise, so people have the custom of putting up red paper products (red Spring Festival couplets and red window grilles), setting off firecrackers and beating gongs and drums. The customs of different periods, regions and nationalities are different.

The custom of the Spring Festival is:

1, New Year's Eve: New Year's Eve, also known as New Year's Eve, reunion dinner, etc. Especially the New Year's Eve dinner. New Year's Eve is the highlight of the year, which is not only colorful, but also very interesting. Worship the gods and ancestors before the reunion dinner, and eat after the worship ceremony. China people's New Year's Eve dinner is a family reunion dinner, which is the most abundant and important dinner in a year.

2. Keeping old age on New Year's Eve is one of the annual customs, and the custom of keeping old age has a long history. The folk custom of observing the new year is mainly manifested in that every household lights a New Year's fire and gets together to keep the "New Year's fire" from going out and wait for the moment to bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new year.

Extended data

During the Spring Festival, each region also has different ballads:

1, Shandong: Laba porridge, boil for a few days, Li Lila 23, 23, cantaloupe stick, 24, cleaning day, 25, pushing coal rats (it should be, see Beijing article "25, pushing minced meat"), 26, buying meat, 27, killing cocks, 28, white-faced hair, 29.

2. Beijing: "Twenty-three, honeydew melons are sticky; Twenty-four, housing Tomb-Sweeping Day; Twenty-five, pushing millet; Twenty-six, hanging meat; Twenty-seven, slaughter a chicken; Twenty-eight, send face; Twenty-nine, steamed bread; Stay for 30 nights, on the first day of the New Year. "

Baidu Encyclopedia-Spring Festival Customs

Baidu Encyclopedia-Spring Festival