Spring Festival customs and changes

1. Customs:

1. Celebrate the New Year

The last day of the "year" is called "New Year's Eve", and that night is called "New Year's Eve" . It is connected with the beginning and end of the New Year, which is called "the end of the year and the end of the new year". It is the eve of the new year and an important time junction point to get rid of the old and welcome the new. "New Year's Eve" means New Year's Eve, also known as New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, etc. It is the last night at the end of the year. During this period, the theme of the activity is to remove the old and bring in the new. Since ancient times, there have been customs such as posting New Year's red, worshiping ancestors, having reunion dinners, and watching the New Year's Eve, which have been passed down to this day and lasted for a long time. New Year's Eve is a day to get rid of the old, bring new things to the world, reunite the family, and worship ancestors. Together with Qingming Festival, July Half and Double Ninth Festival, they are traditional ancestor worship festivals in China.

On the day of the New Year, people pay special attention to it to get rid of the old, introduce the new and welcome the new year. Every household is busy cleaning their courtyards, putting up lanterns and colorful decorations, welcoming their ancestors home for the New Year, and offering them rice cakes, three animal meals, three teas and five wines. New Year's Eve has special significance in the hearts of Chinese people. This is the most important day at the end of the year. No matter how far away the wanderers are, they rush home to reunite with their families, bid farewell to the old year amidst the sound of firecrackers, and welcome the new year with fireworks in the sky.

2. Worshiping gods and ancestors

Worshiping ancestors on New Year’s Eve is one of the important customs during the New Year. The Chinese nation has the tradition of being cautious about the end and pursuing the past. During the festival, we will never forget to worship our ancestors and repay our ancestors. of kindness. On New Year's Eve, people will serve dishes, pour wine, and hold a grand sacrificial ceremony to express their nostalgia for their ancestors and pray for their blessings. This traditional custom is passed down from generation to generation.

The forms of ancestor worship vary. Some go to ancestral halls to worship ancestors, while most of them place ancestor tablets in the main hall at home, display offerings, and then worshipers offer incense and kneel down in order of age. When worshiping ancestors, most fish and meat dishes are served in high bowls, which is quite similar to eating with bells and cauldrons.

3. Posting New Year's red

Posting New Year's red is the collective name for posting Spring Festival couplets, door gods, New Year paintings, window grilles, etc. Because these are red festive elements posted during the New Year, so Collectively known as "sticking to the new year's red".

2. Changes:

1. Spring Festival time

The Spring Festival (the first day of the first lunar month) is between January 21st and February 21st in the Gregorian calendar. Swim between. There is a whole month difference between the "earliest Spring Festival" (eg January 21, 1966) and the "latest Spring Festival" (eg February 20, 1985). According to calendar calculations, if the lunar calendar is not artificially adjusted, February 21, 2319 will usher in the "latest Spring Festival in history." Previously, the Spring Festival occurred on February 20 at the latest in 1920 and 1985.

2. Leap Spring Festival

Leap Spring Festival, also known as leap month, started from 1645 AD when the calendar system was used to set up the leap month. In the 1155 years from 2800 AD, the leap year of the lunar calendar It only occurs 6 times, which is very rare. The years are 1651, 2262, 2357, 2520, 2539, and 2634.

3. How to celebrate the leap Spring Festival

If there is a leap month in a year, in principle, the Spring Festival will not be celebrated in the first leap month, but it will not be a festival in the leap month. Of course, there are also a few areas that celebrate the Spring Festival of the leap first month after celebrating the first lunar month. Because the leap lunar month is also called the first lunar month, the first day of the leap lunar month is also regarded as the Spring Festival.