Seeking the traditional custom from the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month to the 15th of the first lunar month.

On the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month [offering sacrifices to the stove] [eating candy from the stove]

In China, the Spring Festival usually begins with a ceremony of offering sacrifices to stoves on the 23rd or 24th of the twelfth lunar month. There is a saying that "officials, three people, four boatmen and five people", that is, the government held a ceremony to sacrifice stoves on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, ordinary people on the 24th and houseboats on the 25th. After holding the sacrificial stove, they officially began to prepare for the New Year. Every year from the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month to New Year's Eve, people call it "Spring Festival".

December [sweeping the house]

After the Stove Festival, preparations for the Chinese New Year officially began. Every year from the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month to New Year's Eve, China folks call this period "Spring Festival" or "Dust Day". Every household should clean the environment to welcome the Spring Festival.

On the 25th day of the twelfth lunar month [Chasing the Jade Emperor] [Driving out chaos] [Silkworm rearing in the field] [Thousand Lantern Festival]

It was not until New Year's Eve that Kitchen God was sent to welcome him back. During this period, there is no God's jurisdiction on the earth, and at all times, many people get married, which is called "expelling chaos". Luannian is a special period designed by people to adjust their social life. At the end of the year, people have leisure and savings, which is a good opportunity for those who have little energy to do great things.

The 26th day of the twelfth lunar month [killing pigs and cutting annual meat]

"On the 26th day of the twelfth lunar month, kill pigs and cut the meat of the year". This day is mainly to prepare meat for the Chinese New Year. Killing pigs, of course, is killing your own pigs; Cutting meat means that people who don't raise pigs go to the market to buy meat for the New Year. People often eat meat in the New Year, so it is called "annual meat".

127 February [Bathing] [Killing chickens and catching big episodes]

On this day, in addition to slaughtering their own poultry, every household has to go to the market for shopping and centralized procurement, mainly buying and selling new year's goods. According to the folk custom, we should take a bath and wash clothes these two days to get rid of the bad luck for one year and prepare for the Spring Festival next year.

Twenty-eighth day of the twelfth lunar month [making cakes and steaming steamed buns] [carving peach symbols]

There is a saying in the middle of the year: "On the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month, cakes and steamed bread are decorated with decals". According to the old principle, from the first day to the fifth day, steamed bread can't be steamed and fried with fire, so steamed bread can be steamed on this day.

129 February [Little New Year's Eve] [Sacrifice to ancestors]

"On the 29th of the twelfth lunar month, please go to the grave and ask your ancestors for a big confession". On this day, the ceremony of going to the grave to invite ancestors was particularly grand. The day before New Year's Eve, also known as "Little New Year's Eve", people hold banquets at home, which is called "Don't be old". Burning incense outdoors is called "Tianxiang", which usually takes three days.

December 30th-New Year's Eve [Posting Doors] [Posting Spring Festival couplets] [Eating New Year's Eve] [Keeping the Year] [Sacrificing ancestors]

The word "except" in "New Year's Eve" is "go; Easy; "Alternating" means that New Year's Eve means "the month is poor and the old year is exhausted". People want to get rid of the old department and the old year, and the coming year means getting a new year. This is the last night of the Lunar New Year. Therefore, the activities during this period are all around changing the old for the new, eliminating disasters and praying for blessings.

On the first day of the first month, set off firecrackers, celebrate the New Year, occupy the year and gather wealth.

This day is the first day of the year, the first day of spring and the first day of the first month, so it is called "Sanyuan". This day is still the year dynasty, the month dynasty and the Japanese dynasty, so it is also called the "Three Dynasties". China changed the time of the first day of the first month in different historical periods according to its own cultural traditions and customs.

The second day of the first month [God of Wealth Sacrifice] [Legend of God of Wealth]

In the north, the god of wealth sacrifices on the second day of the first month. On this day, both commercial shops and ordinary families will hold activities to worship the god of wealth. Families offered sacrifices to the God of Wealth who arrived on New Year's Eve. I want to eat wonton at noon this day, commonly known as "Yuanbao soup". Fish and mutton as sacrifices, I hope to make a fortune this year.

On the third day of the first month [Xiaomi birthday] [off-year dynasty] [sheep day]

The third day of the first month is Xiaomi's birthday, which is a day to bless and pray for the New Year. Off-year, that is, Tianqing Festival. The court festival in the Song Dynasty, the first year of Song Zhenzong Dazhong Xiangfu, was spread all over the world because of the gobbledygook, so Zhenzong issued an imperial edict, which designated the third day of the first month as Tianqing Festival, and officials and others had five days off. Later, it was called Xiaonian Dynasty, which did not sweep the floor, beg for fire or draw water, just like the old dynasty.

On the fifth day of the first month [send the poor] [open the market]

The fifth day of the first month is commonly known as the fifth day. It is said that after this day, many taboos can be broken. According to the old custom, you should eat "dumplings", which is called "boiled cakes" in the north. Women no longer taboo, began to visit each other New Year. The bride will go home on this day. It is not appropriate to do things on the day of the break, otherwise something will happen this year.

On the seventh day of the first month [People's Day] [Spread pancakes] [Eat Qibao soup]

Legend has it that the mother snail first created the world, and after she created chickens, dogs, pigs, cows, horses and other animals, she created people on the seventh day, so this day is the birthday of mankind. Some people began to observe daily customs in the Han dynasty, and they began to pay attention to it after the Wei and Jin Dynasties. In ancient times, there was a custom of wearing "Man wins". Because it is Human Day, there is a custom in ancient times not to execute people on this day.

The eighth day of the first month [Valley Day] [Shunxing Festival]

On the eighth day of the first month, people make small lanterns and burn them for sacrifice, which is called Shunxing, also called "offering sacrifices to stars" and "receiving stars". Some people say that the eighth day is Xiaomi's birthday. If the weather is fine, the rice harvest will be good. If it is cloudy, it will be a hard year.

The ninth day of the first month [Sunday]

Legend has it that this day is the birthday of the Jade Emperor. The main customs are offering sacrifices to the jade emperor and Taoist temple to heaven. In some places, when the weather is fine, women will prepare incense sticks and fast rice bowls and put them in the open air at the entrance of patio lane to worship heaven and pray for God's blessing.

On the tenth day of the first month [birthday of stone] [mouse marries girl] [song of the tenth day]

In the old society, people's rat worship activities held in the first month were also called "rat marrying female" and "rat marrying". The specific dates vary from place to place, including the seventh day of the first month, the seventeenth day of the first month and the twenty-fifth day of the first month. In many areas, it is the tenth day of the first month. Different places also have different ways to worship rats.

On the fifteenth day of the first month [Lantern Festival] [Send children lanterns] [Yingzi Valley] [Stay away from all diseases] [August 5th Festival]

Lantern Festival is also called Lantern Festival, Lantern Festival and Shangyuan Festival, because it is the first full moon night of the New Year. Because this festival has the custom of watching lanterns in past dynasties, it is also called Lantern Festival. The formation of Lantern Festival custom has a long process. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sacrificed "Taiyi" in Ganquan Palace in the first month, which was regarded by later generations as the prelude to offering sacrifices to the gods on the fifteenth day of the first month. The festivals and customs of Lantern Festival have been extended and expanded with the development of history. As far as the length of festivals is concerned, there is only one day in Han Dynasty, three days in Tang Dynasty and five days in Song Dynasty. In the Ming Dynasty, lights were lit from the eighth day of August until the seventeenth night of the first month, a total of ten days. Connected with the Spring Festival, it is a city during the day, full of excitement, and brightly lit at night, which is spectacular. Especially the exquisite and colorful lights make it the climax of entertainment activities during the Spring Festival. In the Qing Dynasty, there were many "hundred operas" such as dragon dancing, lion dancing, roller boating, walking on stilts and yangko dancing, but the festival period was shortened to four to five days.

Beginning of spring Customs [Welcome Spring in the Eastern Suburb] [Spring Post] [Spring Cattle] [Bite Spring]

Beginning of spring Spring Festival is an important activity of China ancestors during the Spring Festival. During the Zhou Dynasty, beginning of spring was the emperor. He personally led princes and doctors from three counties and nine counties to the eastern suburbs to welcome the Spring Festival and pray for a bumper harvest. When you come back, you should reward the minister, Bud and benefit the people. Later, it became a national Spring Festival activity for generations.