Brief introduction of spring festival customs

2, sweeping the dust, New Year's Eve "twelfth lunar month, sweeping the dust (also known as sweeping the house) custom. 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.

3. On New Year's Eve, also known as the reunion dinner, the annual reunion dinner is extremely important to China people. The whole family respects and loves each other, enjoys family reunion and sits around the table, feeling very happy. People attach great importance to the "reunion dinner" on New Year's Eve. In addition to family reunion and family happiness, they also pray for the safety of the whole family, and all those who work outside will come back for the New Year.

4. Keeping the old age, keeping the old age on New Year's Eve is one of the most important annual custom activities, and the custom of keeping the old age has a long history. During the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the custom of keeping old on New Year's Eve was formed. Zhou Chu of the Jin Dynasty wrote "Local Records" and said: On New Year's Eve, people give gifts to each other, which is called "the year of giving back"; Young and old get together and wish a complete song called "age division"; Sleeping all the year round, waiting for dawn, is called "guarding the age".

Visiting during the Spring Festival is one of the traditional customs of the Spring Festival, and it is a way for people to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new and express their best wishes to each other. With the development of the times, the custom of New Year greetings is constantly adding new contents and forms. The significance of New Year's greetings lies in visiting relatives and friends, congratulating each other on the New Year, expressing feelings for relatives and friends and good wishes for the new year's life.

6, lucky money, every year on New Year's Eve, the elders can distribute the lucky money prepared in advance to the younger generation. It is said that lucky money can kill evil spirits, and the younger generation can spend a year safely with it. 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 one, that is, parents put money into red envelopes as birthday gifts for their children.

7. Post the Year Red (Spring Festival couplets). According to the records in Jade Candle Collection and Yanjing Years, the original form of Spring Festival couplets is what people call "peach symbols". Sticking Spring Festival couplets is also called sticking couplets, Spring Festival couplets, couplets and peach symbols. It depicts the background of the times and expresses good wishes with neat, dual, concise and exquisite words, which is a unique literary form in China.

8. Posting New Year pictures, it is also common to hang New Year pictures in urban and rural areas during the Spring Festival. Thick black and colorful New Year pictures add a lot of prosperous and joyful 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".

9. It is the oldest traditional custom of the Chinese nation to pay New Year greetings at the beginning of the year and worship ancestors and gods. When we bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, we should be grateful to the gods and express our filial piety and nostalgia for our ancestors. People are convinced that ancestors can bless future generations and make them prosperous. This traditional custom has been passed down from generation to generation, so people always hold sacrificial ceremonies, start with gratitude and pray for the protection of ancestors and gods.

10 year is one of the oldest customs, which evolved from the ancient harvest sacrifice. Its main manners and customs are worshipping God, wandering, ringing bells and offering sacrifices to the country. The main purpose is to repay God's kindness and pray for good weather, prosperity, national peace and security. Generally speaking, it starts from the second day of the first month to the end of the month, especially on the fifteenth and sixteenth, and in some places it is February of the lunar calendar.

1 1, set off firecrackers, firecrackers There is a 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.

12, New Year's Day, China's annual custom culture has a long history, and various Chinese New Year customs are derived from all parts of the country, with great differences between north and south. However, preparing new year's goods and giving new year's gifts are almost "necessary for the New Year" all over the country. Families in China have to buy a lot of "new year's goods", Spring Festival couplets, blessings, new clothes and food during the Spring Festival (most markets are closed during the Spring Festival).

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National characteristics:

1, Zhuang, Zhuang's Spring Festival lasts for three days from the 30th to the second day of the first month. On New Year's Eve, everyone kills chickens and ducks, steamed braised pork, lean meat powder and barbecued pork. The rice on New Year's Eve should be steamed a lot, which symbolizes wealth. There should be boiled chicken on the dining table, families with old people, stewed pig's trotters and whole chicken.

2. Tibetans, according to Tibetan scholars, in ancient times, Tibetans celebrated the New Year not at the turn of winter and spring, but in summer. "Wheat ripens at the beginning of the year", "Under the snow-capped mountains, wheat turns yellow and a happy New Year is coming." Now, in the middle reaches of the Yarlung Zangbo River, there is a tradition of "looking for fruit" before the autumn harvest.

Mongolians have always advocated white, so the first month of the lunar calendar is called "Bai Yue" and the Spring Festival is called "White Festival". Preparations for the Mongolian New Year began on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month. In addition to cleaning, bathing and arranging yurts, people have to put on new clothes, Ma Peihong tassels and new saddles.

4. Bai people, Bai people began to worship each other and give each other gifts on New Year's Eve. After midnight, young men and women rushed to fetch water as a sign of thrift. In the morning, the family drank syrup soaked in rice flowers, wishing the days were sweeter than honey. After breakfast, the children, led by adults, go to relatives and friends' homes to pay New Year greetings to their elders. Playing dragon lanterns, lion dances and whipping the overlord are essential activities in the festival.

5. Buyi people, Buyi people should prepare festival foods such as Baba and rice wine before New Year's Eve, and stay up until dawn on New Year's Eve. As soon as the cock crowed at dawn, the girls ran to the river to fetch water. Whoever takes the first sip of water shows that she is the most hardworking and happy.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Spring Festival (one of the four traditional festivals in China)