What is the difference between the Spring Festival in Beijing and the Spring Festival in Guangxi?

Beijingers: From the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, every household has to soak Laba vinegar (garlic), and it has begun to have a "taste of the year". The 23rd of the twelfth lunar month is also called "off-year". From this day on, Beijingers are busier, offering sacrifices to stoves, sweeping the floor, steaming steamed buns, buying new year's goods, putting up the word "Fu", putting up New Year pictures, cutting out window grilles and putting up couplets. Sticking to the door and sticking to the money, I have been busy until the New Year's Eve and started the New Year.

Guangxi people: The 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. Zongzi is an indispensable food for Zhuang people during the Spring Festival.

Traditional folk custom

China is a multi-ethnic country, and each ethnic group has different ways to celebrate the New Year. The customs and habits of the Han nationality, Manchu nationality and Korean nationality for the Spring Festival are similar. The family is reunited. People eat rice cakes, jiaozi and various sumptuous meals, set off firecrackers and wish each other well. During the Spring Festival, there are many kinds of celebrations, such as lion dancing, playing with dragons, wandering souls, making annual rules, walking on stilts and running dry boats. People in the southern coastal Lingnan area follow the past activities of ancestor worship and worship to pray for a good weather and a safe harvest in the new year.

Spring Festival is a new day to take off old cloth. Although it is arranged on the first day of the first lunar month, the activities of the Spring Festival are not limited to the first day of the first lunar month. From the beginning of the Lunar New Year's Day on the 23rd (or 24th) of the twelfth lunar month, people have been "busy": cleaning the house, buying new year's goods, putting up Spring Festival couplets, washing their hair and taking a bath, etc. All these activities have the same theme, that is, "saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new".

The Spring Festival is also a time to pray for the year. The ancients said that when millet is ripe, it is "year", and the harvest of grain is "big year". In the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty, there was an annual harvest celebration. Later, New Year greetings became one of the main contents of the annual customs. Besides, the Kitchen God, Door God, God of Wealth, XiShen, Well God and other gods. Everyone enjoys human incense during the Spring Festival. People take this opportunity to thank the gods for their care in the past and pray for more blessings in the new year.

The Spring Festival is a happy and peaceful festival, and it is also a day for family reunion. Those who are not at home should go home for reunion during the Spring Festival. Spring Festival is also a time for family reunion and family reunion. On New Year's Eve, the whole family get together to have a "reunion dinner". The elders give "lucky money" to the children, and the family sit around and "watch". At the turn of the New Year's Day, firecrackers exploded, and the activities to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new reached a climax. Every family burns incense to worship the heavens and the earth and ancestors, then pays tribute to the elders in turn, and then congratulates relatives and friends.

The Spring Festival is a festival for people to entertain and revel. After January, all kinds of colorful entertainment activities were launched: lion dance, Youlong lanterns, yangko, walking on stilts, juggling and so on, which added a rich festive atmosphere to the Spring Festival.

Therefore, the Spring Festival, a grand ceremony of praying for the New Year, celebrating and entertaining, has become the most solemn festival of the Chinese nation. Today, in addition to offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors, the main customs of the Spring Festival have been well inherited and developed.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Spring Festival