September 27, 1949, the founding of the new China, in the first plenary session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, adopted the use of the world's common calendar, the first day of the first month of the Gregorian calendar as New Year's Day, commonly known as the solar year; the first day of the first month of the Lunar Calendar is usually in the spring before and after the start of the first lunar month, and thus the first day of the first month of the Lunar Calendar is designated as "Spring Festival ", commonly known as the year of the lunar calendar.
Traditionally, the Spring Festival refers to the period from the Lunar New Year festival on the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, or the Zaos Festival on the twenty-third day of the Lunar New Year, until the fifteenth day of the first month of the Lunar New Year, which culminates in New Year's Eve and the first day of the first month of the lunar year. In the Spring Festival this traditional festival period, China's Han Chinese and most ethnic minorities have to hold a variety of celebrations, most of these activities to worship God and Buddha, ancestors, in addition to the old and the new, welcome Jubilee to receive the blessing, pray for a good year as the main content. The activities are colorful, with strong national characteristics.
One of the legends of the Spring Festival: the year of the year
The year of the year, that is, in the last night of the old year, do not sleep, stay up to meet the arrival of the new year's custom, also known as the New Year's Eve year-observation, commonly known as the "year of the year". Explore the origins of this custom, in folklore is an interesting story:
The ancient times, there is a ferocious beast, scattered in the mountains and dense forests, people called them "year". It is hideous, ferocious nature, specializing in eating birds and beasts, scales and insects, a day to change a flavor, from knocking insects have been eaten to the living, so that people talk about the "year" color change. Later, people slowly mastered the "year" of the activities of the law, it is every three hundred and sixty-five days scurrying to the crowd of places to taste a mouthful of food, and the time of the infestation are in the dark, and so on, until the cock crows at dawn, they will return to the mountains and forests to go.
Calculating the date of the "New Year" rampage, the people will be this terrible night as a pass to brake, called "New Year's Pass", and came up with a whole set of New Year's Pass approach: every night, every family is ahead of time to do a good job of dinner, extinguish the fire! Net stove, and then all the chicken coop cattle pen tethered to the front and back doors of the mansion are sealed, hiding in the house to eat "New Year's Eve dinner", because this dinner has the meaning of bad luck and uncertainty, so organized very sumptuous, in addition to the whole family to eat together to express the harmony and reunion, but also have to be in the meal before the sacrifice to the ancestors, praying for the blessing of the gods of the ancestors, and the gods of the ancestors, and the gods of the ancestors. Peacefully through the night, after dinner, who do not dare to sleep, sitting together in a crowded chatting courage. Gradually formed the habit of New Year's Eve to stay up and keep the New Year's Eve.
The custom of keeping the New Year's Eve rose in the North and South Dynasties, and many literati in the Liang Dynasty had poems about keeping the New Year's Eve. "One night is even a double year, and the fifth night is divided into two years." People light up candles or oil lamps and keep vigil all night, symbolizing that all evil plagues and epidemics are driven away, looking forward to an auspicious new year. This custom has been passed down to this day.
The Spring Festival legend of the second: Wannian created the calendar said
Legend, in ancient times, there is a young man named Wannian, see the festival was very chaotic, there is a desire to set the festival intention. But bitterly unable to find a way to calculate the time, one day, he went up the mountain chopping wood tired, sitting under the shade of a tree to rest, the movement of the shadow of the tree inspired him, he designed a sundial measuring the shadow of the sun counting the time of the day, determine the time of the day, and later, the dripping springs on the cliffs inspired him, he made a five-tiered funnel pot, to calculate the time. Over time, he realized that every 360 days or so, the seasons rotated and the length of the day was repeated.
The king of the country at that time, named Zu Yi, was also often distressed by the unpredictability of the weather and wind. When Wannian learned of this, he took a sundial and a funnel pot to the emperor, and explained to Zuyi the reasoning behind the operation of the sun and the moon. Zu Yi listened to the dragon's face, felt reasonable. So left Wannian, in front of the Temple of Heaven to build the Sun and Moon Pavilion, built the sundial and funnel kiosk. And he hoped to measure the law of the sun and the moon, to project the accurate time of morning and evening, and to create a calendar for the benefit of the people of the world.
On one occasion, Zu Yi went to learn about the progress of the Ten Thousand Years Test Calendar. When he ascended to the Altar of the Sun and the Moon, he saw a poem engraved on the stone wall beside the Temple of Heaven:
Sunrise and sunset are three hundred and six, and the weeks begin at the beginning.
The grass and trees wither and prosper in four seasons, and there are twelve rounds in a year.
Knowing that Wannian's creation of the calendar had come to fruition, he personally ascended to the Sun and Moon Pavilion to see Wannian. Wannian pointed to the sky and said to Zuyi: "It is now the twelve full months, the old year is over, the new spring resumes, I pray that the king of the country to set a festival". Zu Yi said, "Spring is the first day of the year, let's call it Spring Festival". This is said to be the origin of the Spring Festival.
Winter to spring, year after year, Wannian after a long period of observation, careful projection, developed an accurate solar calendar, when he presented the solar calendar to the succeeding king, already full of silver beard. The king of the country was y touched, in order to commemorate the achievements of Wan Nian, the solar calendar named "Wan Nian Calendar", Wan Nian as the sun and moon life star. Later on, people put up a picture of the star of longevity on New Year's Day, which was said to be in honor of the highly respected Wannian.
The Third Legend of the Spring Festival: Posting Spring Festival Couplets and Door Gods
The custom of posting Spring Festival Couplets is said to have begun about a thousand years ago in the period of the Later Shu, which is supported by history. In addition, according to the Jade Candle Canon and the Yanjing Yearly Record, the original form of the Spring Festival couplets was what was known as the "Peach Symbol".
In ancient Chinese mythology, there was a world of ghosts, in which there was a mountain with a peach tree covering 3,000 miles, and on the top of the tree there was a golden chicken. Whenever the golden rooster crowed in the morning, the ghosts that had gone out to roam at night would be rushed back to the ghostly realm. The gate of the Ghost Realm was situated in the northeast of the peach tree, and by the gate stood two godmen named Shentan and Yubi. If a ghost did something harmful at night, the gods would immediately find it, catch it, tie it up with a rope made of mango reeds, and feed it to the tiger. Therefore, all the ghosts in the world were afraid of Shentian and Yubi. So the folk used peach wood to carve into their likeness and put it in front of their house to avoid evil and prevent harm. Later, people simply carve the name of God Tantui and Yubi on the mahogany board, thinking that this can also suppress the evil to go to the evil. This kind of peach wood board was later called "peach talisman".
To the Song Dynasty, people began to write couplets on the mahogany board, without losing the significance of the mahogany to suppress evil, the second is to express their good wishes, the third is to decorate the portal, in order to beautiful. And in the red paper symbolizing the joy and auspiciousness of writing couplets, the New Year on both sides of the doors and windows, to express people's prayers for good luck in the coming year.
In order to pray for a family's well-being, people in some places still retain the habit of sticking door gods. It is said that when two door gods are posted on the front door, all demons and ghosts will be afraid. In folklore, the door god is a symbol of righteousness and force, the ancients believe that people with strange looks often have magical endowments and extraordinary skills. They are upright and kind-hearted, to catch ghosts and demons is their nature and responsibility, people look up to the ghost hunter Zhong Kui, that is, this kind of strange looks. So the folk god of the door is always angry eyes, grim-looking, holding a variety of traditional weapons, ready to fight with the ghosts and demons that dare to come to the door. Since the doors of our houses are usually two doors open to each other, the door gods are always in pairs.
After the Tang Dynasty, in addition to the previous two generals Shentian and Yubi, people also took Qin Shubao and Yuchigong, two Tang Dynasty military generals, as door gods. Legend has it that when Emperor Taizong of Tang Dynasty was sick, he heard the ghosts and demons outside his door calling out and had no peace all night. So he asked these two generals to stand beside the door with weapons to guard it, and the next night there were no more ghosts to disturb him. Later, Emperor Tang Taizong had the image of the two generals painted and pasted on the door, and this custom began to spread in the folk
Customs of the Spring Festival
Firecrackers
Chinese folk "open the door to firecrackers," it is said. That is, at the dawn of the new year, the first thing that families do when they open the door is to set off firecrackers, to beep and blare the sound of firecrackers to get rid of the old and welcome the new. Firecrackers for the Chinese specialty, also known as "firecrackers", "cannonballs", "firecrackers". Nowadays, we generally believe that setting off firecrackers can create a festive atmosphere, is a kind of entertainment for festivals, which can bring joy and good fortune to people. With the passage of time, the application of firecrackers more and more widely used, varieties and colors are also increasingly numerous. Hunan Liuyang, Guangdong Foshan and Dongyao, Jiangxi Yichun and Pingxiang and Zhejiang Wenzhou and other places is China's famous "hometown of firecrackers", the production of firecrackers are not only sold throughout the country, but also exported to other countries and regions of the world. People in addition to the old and new in the Spring Festival firecrackers, every major festivals and celebrations, such as the Lantern Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, the Mid-Autumn Festival and marriage, building, opening and so on, also want to set off firecrackers to show their congratulations.
The Origin of Spring Festival Dust Sweeping
Every Spring Festival, families have to do a big cleaning. People spray-brush the house, clean the furniture and remove the bedding, which is called "sweeping the New Year" in ancient times.
The custom of dust-sweeping originated in the era of Yao and Shun, and evolved from an ancient religious rite to ward off diseases and epidemics. In the Tang and Song dynasties, the wind of "sweeping the year" prevailed. According to the Song Wu Zimu "Dream Liang Records" records: "December end ...... Scholarly and common people's homes, regardless of the size, all sprinkled clean the doorway, to remove the dust and filth, the net household ...... To pray for a new year of peace." To this day, the popular folk "waxing twenty-four, dust sweeping house" proverb.
There is also a legend in folklore, dust sweeping custom is due to Tongzhou (now Nantong) tenant farmers to meet the Jade Emperor's annual grain. In the early days, the tenant farmers here were so busy all year long that they had very little left, except for grain and rent. They prayed to the king of the stove on the twenty-fourth day of the lunar month when the heavenly bounty to say more good words, so that the Jade Emperor grace, from the heavenly storehouse to allocate some gifts, in the New Year's Eve before the descent of the annual grain - rice snow, so that they are full of reunion dinner. In order to meet the Jade Emperor's gift, tenant farmers every year in the waxing twenty-eighth day before the house inside and outside of the clean and fresh, in order to meet the heavenly gift of food, so that year after year, the Spring Festival sweeping the dust of the national customs from generation to generation continue to be handed down.
The origins of the Spring Festival New Year's Eve
The New Year's Eve, i.e., the night of New Year's Eve, people stay up all night, playing cards, chatting, firecrackers, wrapping dumplings ...... The custom of keeping the New Year's Eve began in the North and South Dynasties, and Geng Shouwu and Xu Junqian, both of the Liang Dynasty, had poems about keeping the New Year's Eve. "One night is even a double year, and the fifth night is divided into two years." In ancient times, the year-end vigil is also called "shine false consumption", people light up candles or oil lamps, all-night vigil, symbolizing all the evil plagues and epidemics shine run away, looking forward to a new year of good luck and good fortune. This custom has been passed down to this day.
The origin of the Spring Festival New Year's greetings
On the first day of the New Year, everyone gets up early, dresses up neatly, goes out to visit friends and relatives and pays tribute to each other, wishing for good luck in the coming year. On the origin of the custom of New Year's Eve, legend has it that in ancient times there was a monster, head long unicorn, mouth like a blood basin, people call it "year". On the night of the 30th day of the Lunar New Year, it would come out of the mountains and forests to prey on and eat people. People had to prepare some meat outside the door, and then closed the door, hiding in the house until the morning of the first day of the year, "the year" after a full meal to go, people only open the door to see each other, bowed to say goodbye and congratulate each other not to be "eaten by the year". This is the first time that the Chinese people have ever seen a Chinese New Year, and it is the first time that the Chinese people have ever seen a Chinese New Year.
The origin of the Spring Festival firecrackers
The firecrackers is the Chinese people in the Spring Festival to cheer the custom. This custom originated in the Han Wei period, the North and South Dynasties custom book "Jing Chu chronicles", "the first day of the first month, the cock crows, first in front of the court firecrackers to avoid the evil ghosts of the mountain shame." It is said that in ancient times, people living in mountainous areas often suffered from cold and fever (probably malaria today). At that time was considered to be the evil spirits, so in order to have a year of peace and prosperity, they will be in the New Year's Day of the lunar calendar with fire burning bamboo, making a loud noise, the mountain ghosts away, because the initial fireworks are burning bamboo, so called "Bakudan". Tang Dynasty called "Bakudan". Later also known as "firecrackers". After the invention of gunpowder, firecrackers using sulfur as gunpowder, wrapped in thick paper outside, and inserted fuse, fire after the fuse, the volume of the sudden expansion of the results of the outside of the thick paper to explode, thus making a loud noise. About this time, firecrackers in the elimination of evil at the same time, but also has the meaning of celebration. Now firecrackers only symbolize the meaning of joy.
The origin of the Spring Festival couplets
Every Spring Festival, China's folk family to stick the Spring Festival couplets.
The origin of the Spring Festival couplets begins with the peach symbol. Ancient legend has it that there is a big peach tree on Dushuo Mountain in the East China Sea, under which there are two gods, Shentian and Yushu, who are in charge of ten thousand ghosts. If they encountered a haunted ghost, they would tie it up and feed it to a tiger. Later on, during the Spring Festival, in order to avoid ghosts and monsters, the folk drew the images of these two gods on peach wood boards, which were called peach symbols. In the Fifth Dynasty, the Lord of Shu, Meng Chang, personally inscribed the couplet "New Year's Celebration, Happy New Year" on the peach symbol, which is generally regarded as the earliest Spring Festival couplet. By the Song Dynasty, it had become a custom to put up couplets for the Spring Festival. Wang Anshi wrote in his poem: "Thousands of doors and ten thousand pupils of the pupils of the sun, always change the new peach for the old symbols." Writing Spring Festival couplets on red paper began in the Ming Dynasty.
The Origin of the Door God
Previously, every family had to buy a door god and stick it on the door during the New Year's Eve to express the auspiciousness and to "ward off evil spirits and demons".
On the origin of the door god, there is a myth in a book written during the Warring States period that there is a huge peach tree that curves for 3,000 kilometers in the Doushuo Mountains in the East China Sea, and its branches reach to the ghost gate in the northeast, where all ghosts and monsters come and go. Under the tree, there were two gods, one Shentian and the other Yushu, who specialized in monitoring the behavior of ghosts, and when they found any ghosts doing wrong, they would be tied up with grass ropes and fed to tigers. So, people painted the images of God Tantui and Yu Jiao on two peach boards. They were placed on the side of the door to ward off the harassment of the hundred ghosts. This is the earliest image of the door god in the legend.
Throughout the generations, the content of the door god has changed. In the Tang Dynasty, the door god was replaced by Qin Qiong and Yuchi Jingde instead of Shentian and Yusu. Legend has it that once Emperor Li Shimin of the Tang Dynasty became ill due to nightmares, and in the middle of the night at three o'clock in the morning, he often heard ghosts screaming. When the ministers found out about this, they recommended Qin Qiong and Yuchi Jingde, the famous generals of the founding of the Tang Dynasty, to be fully clothed and guarded outside the door all night long. Within a few nights, Taizong's illness really got well. Afterwards, he ordered the painter painted Qin Qiong and Yuchi Jingde's image, pasted on the door, in order to quell the evil spirits. This practice, soon spread in the folk. Later, the god of the door and constantly added new content. People put Qin Qiong and Yuchi Jingde's image (there are other sages like) pasted in the front door to welcome guests, the legendary ghost hunter Zhong Kui's portrait hanging in the back door to drive away the ghosts, thinking that the front and back of the tight, wild ghosts can't get into it.
New Year's Eve does not kill the origin of the chicken
Old times, in Zhoushan, Zhejiang Province, New Year's Eve is not allowed to kill the chicken, which is very strange. This is because on such a festive day as New Year's Eve, Chinese people have to make a big feast, which is often inseparable from the chicken. Why has such a custom been passed down in Zhoushan?
It is said that in the early years of the Ming Dynasty, the king of Lu fled to Zhoushan, and Zhang Mingzhen, a Zhoushan native, assisted the king of Lu. They killed 18,000 people in Zhoushan, and in the end, only six families with six surnames were left. When the Qing army came to Liu Jiazhao, they suddenly heard the crowing of a rooster and stopped killing. It was because of this rooster's crow that the last six families in Zhoushan were saved and the Zhoushan people were able to reproduce. Since then, in order to honor the rooster's kindness, the custom of not killing chickens on New Year's Eve has been passed down in Zhoushan.
The origin of eating rice cakes on New Year's Day
The custom of eating rice cakes on New Year's Day is said to have a history of more than 3,000 years since the Zhou Dynasty. Since the ripening of grains is called a year, eating rice cakes on New Year's Day in later times contains the meaning of congratulating a good harvest. Eating rice cakes also take "high" long life meaning. In the area of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, there is still a story of rice cake. During the Spring and Autumn Period, Wu Zixu, a great doctor of the state of Wu, was given a sword by King Fu-chai of Wu and killed himself. Legend has it that before his death, Wu Zixu instructed his cronies: "After my death, if the country is in trouble and the people are short of food, you can get food by digging three feet into the ground at the city wall of Xiangmen." After Wu Zixu's death, King Goujian of Yue heard about it and thought that Wu had lost its main general, so he attacked Wu to revenge his shame. When Wu Zi Xu was defeated, the capital was trapped and the city ran out of food and aid, and the people and soldiers starved to death. At this time, Wu Zixu's close friends according to his life instructions, to go to the elephant door to dig three feet, and indeed dug up can be hungry "city bricks". It turned out that this is the year Wu Zixu secretly set up the "grain against emergency" plan, he used in the area around the Xiangmen city bricks, all are steamed with rice flour pressed into this kind of rice bricks are very tough, not only can be used as bricks to build a wall, when necessary, but also can be filled with hunger. Since then, every New Year's Eve, every local family has to steam a brick-like rice cake to honor Wu Zixu's achievements. Because it was made at New Year's, it was called rice cake, which has been passed down to this day
New Year's Money
When paying New Year's visit at the Spring Festival, the elders would distribute the prepared New Year's money to the younger generation, and it was said that New Year's money could suppress the evil spirits, because "year" and "spirit" are homophonic, and the younger generation would have the money. It is said that the new year's money can keep evil spirits at bay, because "year" and "spirit" are homophonic, and the younger generation can spend a year in peace if they get the new year's money. There are two kinds of New Year's money, one is to colorful rope threaded braided into the shape of a dragon, placed at the foot of the bed, this record is found in the "Yanjing Yearly Record"; the other is the most common, that is, wrapped in red paper by the parents of the money given to the children. New Year's money can be rewarded in the evening after the New Year's greetings in public, can also be in the New Year's Eve when the child is asleep, by the parents of the child's pillow under the covertly. Nowadays, the custom of giving New Year's money to the younger generation by the elders is still prevalent, and the amount of New Year's money varies, which is mostly used by the children to buy books and school supplies, and the new fashion has given a new content to the New Year's money.
SAY: There is nothing happier than receiving new year's money at the Chinese New Year! Folklore, children can use the new year's money to resist
Chinese New Year's Eve Dragon Dance
Juggling dragon lanterns, also known as the "Dragon Dance", "Dragon Lantern Dance", is China's unique folk entertainment activities. From the Spring Festival to the Lantern Festival, China's urban and rural areas have the custom of playing dragon lanterns. After thousands of years of inheritance, development, playing dragon lantern has become a form of lively, beautiful performance, with romantic folk dance. Dragon lanterns originated from people's superstitious belief in dragons, which has a history of more than two thousand years. In ancient times, people prayed for the blessing of the dragon with the dragon dance in order to get good weather and good harvests. The custom of the dragon dance has been carried forward and flourished by overseas Chinese. Whenever Chinese people have traditional festivals and major celebrations, they will dance lions and play dragon lanterns, presenting a strong oriental atmosphere.
SAY: It's a pity that there are few places that still have such a good custom as the dragon dance~~
Posting the Chinese character "福字"
Every Chinese New Year, every family has to put up "福" characters of various sizes on the door, wall and lintel of the house. Spring Festival sticker "Fu" word, is our country folk custom for a long time. In order to more fully reflect this yearning and wish, folk simply will "Fu" word upside down, said "happiness has been down" "fortune has come". "Fu" word upside down in folklore there is a legend. Zhuzhang, the first emperor of Ming Dynasty, used the character "福" as a secret mark to prepare for murder. Kindly Queen Ma in order to eliminate this disaster, the size of the city's families must be in the morning before the door in their own home posted a "Fu" character. Naturally, no one dared to disobey Empress Ma's order, so every house put up the word "Fu" on its door. One of the families could not read or write, so they put the word "Fu" upside down. The next day, the emperor sent people on the street to check, and found that all the families have posted the word "Fu", and there is a family to put the word "Fu" upside down. The emperor was furious at the report and immediately ordered the imperial guards to decapitate that family. Queen Ma saw that things are not good, busy to Zhu Yuan Zhang said: "that family knows that you visit today, deliberately put the word of fortune upside down, this is not the meaning of "fortune"? When the emperor heard that it made sense, he ordered the release of the family, and a big disaster was finally eliminated. Since then, people have been posting the Chinese character "福字" upside down for good luck and in honor of Empress Ma.
Eating New Year's Cake
At the Spring Festival, many regions in China have the custom of eating New Year's Cake. The rice cake is also known as "nian nian gao", which is a homonym of "nian nian gao", meaning that people's work and life will be improved year by year. There are many types of rice cakes, representative of the north of the white cake, the yellow rice cake of the farmers in the northern part of Serbia, the water mill rice cake in the water towns of the south of the Yangtze River, Taiwan's red turtle cake. Rice cake has the difference between the north and south flavor. Northern rice cakes have steamed, fried two kinds, are sweet; Southern rice cakes in addition to steaming, fried, there are slices of fried and boiled in the soup method, the taste of sweet and salty. It is said that the earliest rice cake is for the night of sacrifice to the gods, the year dynasty for ancestors used, and later became the Spring Festival food. Rice cake is not only a kind of festival food, but also brings new hope to people every year. As a poem in the late Qing Dynasty said, "The hearts of people are much better than the high, harmonic production of food, the righteousness of the year is better than the year, to pray for the year to think."
Bite spring
Eating spring cake on the day of spring is called "biting spring". Folk in the spring on this day to eat some of the spring fresh vegetables, not only for the prevention of disease, but also to meet the meaning of the new year. Tang "four times treasure mirror" recorded: "spring, food reed, spring cake, lettuce, number 'vegetable plate'." Visible Tang Dynasty people have begun to try spring plate, eat spring cake. The so-called spring pancake, also known as lotus leaf pancake, is actually a kind of hot noodle pancake - with two small pieces of water, the center of the oil, rolled into a pancake, after cooking can be uncovered into two. Spring pancakes are used to roll up vegetables to eat, and the vegetables include cooked and fried vegetables. In the old days, when eating spring pancakes, it was important to go to the box store to call "Su Pan" (also known as box vegetables). Box store is the meat store, the store sends people to send food to the home. The box is divided into compartments to put smoked tripe, pine nuts tripe, stove meat, meat, clear sauce, smoked elbow, sauce elbow, sauce mouth strips, smoked chicken, sauce duck, etc., to eat when you need to change the knife and cut into thin shreds, with a few other kinds of home-style stir-fried vegetables (usually shredded meat fried leeks and sprouts, shredded meat fried spinach, mung bean sprouts cooked in vinegar, veggie fried vermicelli, eggs, etc., if you have a freshly marketed "pheasant neck leeks," fried Shredded lean pork, and then with a spread of eggs, it is more fresh and flavorful, and rolled into the spring pancakes to eat.
2. Chinese people have many taboos in the Spring Festival, mainly to keep safe, in the coming year, everything goes well, all the best. From the first day to the first ten taboos are:
First: chicken day, the old days in the New Year's Day stickers chicken to ward off evil spirits and pray for good luck (chicken harmonic Ji Ji).
The second day of the month: the day of the dog, go out to pay homage to the New Year or ancestors.
The third day of the month: the day of the sheep, prone to quarrels, should not pay homage to the New Year.
The fourth day of the month is the Pig Day, which is a day to worship the God of Wealth.
Fifth: Ox Day, "broken five", can break many taboos: "send poor five" from the first to the fourth of the garbage can not be dumped, so as not to pour the wealth, the first five of the garbage is considered poor soil, dumped to send poor out.
Charter six: Horse Day, the day of sending God, the God of Wealth sent on New Year's Eve paper horse burned, the store began to resume business.
The seventh day of the month: People's Day, people's birthday, and the gathering to eat and drink, and the custom of setting off firecrackers and fireworks, Kai fireworks, is the birthday of fire.
Chu Hai: Valley Day, the stars down, so to sacrifice the stars, temples often set up altars on this day to sacrifice the stars .
The first nine: the birthday of the celestial master, the birth of the Jade Emperor, held a grand festival of heavenly activities.
The tenth: stone birthday, where the mill, pestle, mill and other stone utensils are taboo to move, called the stone does not move, and even burn incense to worship the stone