On the first day of the lunar calendar, the Chinese Lunar New Year. It is one of the most important and popular festivals, one of the traditional Chinese festivals. The Lunar New Year is late winter and early spring, so people also call this festival "Spring Festival".
There are a lot of traditions and customs for Chinese people to celebrate the Spring Festival. From the 23rd day of the Lunar New Year, people start to prepare for the New Year. During this time, every family cleans up, buys and puts up window decorations, hangs them for the New Year, writes Spring Festival couplets, steams rice cakes, and prepares many kinds of food for the New Year.
The eve of the Spring Festival is called "New Year's Eve. New Year's Eve is a time for family reunions. Families sit around, eat a nice dinner, laugh, and stay up until dawn, is called. When the clock strikes zero on New Year's Eve, people also like to eat dumplings. Anciently known as 0:00 to midnight, midnight New Year's Eve is the intersection of the old and the new year, people eat dumplings at this time, is to put more years in the hands of the child". This is also the origin of the name "dumplings".
Over New Year's Eve or New Year's Day. From the first person to visit relatives, see friends, pay tribute to each other. New Year's Day, Spring Festival customs. Happy New Year, everyone should say a few words wishing happiness, health and good luck. Chinese New Year Customs - Firecrackers
When the clock strikes midnight, the New Year's bell rings, and the sound of firecrackers resonates throughout the land of China. In this "year, month, when the "3" era, some places also in the courtyard of the base "Wang fire", to signify the prosperity through the sky, prosperity and prosperity. Burning around the fire, the children set off firecrackers, happy to jump happened, the house is brightly lit, before the trial is brilliant sparks, the house is a cacophony of sound New Year's Eve festive atmosphere to a climax.
Firecrackers, New Year's Eve, is a sign of the outflow of the festive mood. Commercial people. Firecrackers have another meaning: they set off firecrackers on New Year's Eve night school in the new year big hair Italian. However, according to the old custom to honor the God of Fortune first set off firecrackers after the temple. Legend has it that, in order to get rich, cannonballs ring last considered sincere. At the age of midnight from the Chinese Lunar New Year opens the treasury from the door, which sends the God of Fortune, God of Fortune's hand holding a piece of paper printed on the doorway, yelling: "Send the God of Fortune's arrival! The owners of the house, in order to welcome the God of Fortune, they take the tips of the incoming people, send the God of Fortune in their mouths, and of course, there is no escape from saying auspicious words, such as: "Gold and silver rolling"! Golden lion left, right there is a golden phoenix"! So, like luck. However, the other is the appearance of God wealth, dressed in red robes, head wearing a sarong, mouth hanging fake beard, carrying a bag of money, and then by a few banging gongs and drums, delivery to the door to distribute the God of the yellow body of wealth like to discuss the tip. Every day in front of people, singing a song: "make a sound backlog in the library, the right side of the treasure is full of piles of the house." Good thing there is a lot of discussion, in the mouth does not rest until the boss put joy red paper God of Fortune statue, give them some money, these people's wealth, rich play God, while pulsating powerful, a catty clang gongs and drums, go to other stores.
The first thing to do after the firecrackers back to the house, is to prepare for the wedding, idolatrous worship of their ancestors. In ancient times, this ceremony was very popular. About the rituals of different forms of worship are also different, to some wild Joan ancestral graves, some ancestral worship, most of them at home, the ancestral tablets are placed in the main hall, display offerings, worship long order of juvenile incense pilgrimage. The southerners still ancestors, check the annual calendar contains auspicious directions in this year, burning lanterns and torches, carrying pots and pans to pull wine, Hong Kong Ming firecrackers door travel to meet the spiritual pleasure, hereinafter referred to as "Tianfang" or "travel", Zhejiang is called "In Pursuit", known as "Pocket Hei Sinking Square. This customized wealth and pray to the gods to bless the year Pepsi as well. New Year's Eve stayed up all night and did not sleep the night. That night, housewives were busy hanging lanterns, post spring scrolls, cutting window clings, New Year stickers, red and green flowers, adding to the rich atmosphere of the holiday in the decoration of the house. The child hopes that perhaps the New Year's money. New Year's money is distributed by elders and juniors Some homes are after New Year's Eve dinner, everyone sits at the table is not allowed to go, and so everyone has finished eating the old generation, and encourage the children to study in the new year, and be a good person, some homes are parents in the dark after the children fall asleep on their pillows, and more people are small children gathered in the main venue, chanting Happy New Year to Grandma and Grandpa, Mom and Dad, and lined up on their knees, then asked for red envelopes. Even her mother's bedroom grandfather's recovery, go to sleep together, a lot of yelling: "New Year's money, New Year's money! "The old man still think not lively enough, pretending to be petty, by bargaining to siege exploration, finally red envelope eavesdropping ancestors, ransacked, before whistling and scattered. The old man every day to open any ball, this situation, think it is a good omen, the New Year a complete success.
People's traditional concepts, always like to go begging for more good luck in the New Year, I hope everything goes well, which has many old customs. Such as all over the ban on the use of customs brooms, and the New Year's broom sweep away luck, sweeping wealth, good luck in the new year difficult. If I sweep the floor sweeping does not need to go from the outside to the inside. This custom became popular in the first month of the "broom birthday". New Year do not scold children, be sure to pay special attention to talk. Children accidentally smashed their rice bowls, we never called him, but he said he was "peaceful", "broken" years "harmonic frustration ominous atmosphere. New Year's, adults are the children most afraid of a slip of the tongue, the opening of the year to talk about some negative connotations, then, in addition to the vertical cross-care care, there are places with a red cloth or toilet paper to the child's mouth to wipe, it is meant to be as an ass of the mouth, and can even say unlucky, then, it is also equal to farting, there are also oranges, lychees placed on pillows known as the "pressure of the year fruit! ". Orange, lychee harmonic "lucky", in order to good luck in the coming year. In some areas there is a custom to steal the statue of the God of Fortune, stolen hidden in the crotch of the pants to take the meaning of the idiom "God's store of wealth (pants). In these whimsical fun vulgar, buried ancient working people pandering to the care and thought of the God of Fortune.
The morning of the Spring Festival, open the door, the first firecrackers, called "door cannonball". The sound of firecrackers, broken red all over the ground, brilliant as a cloud of brocade, known as "full red". At this time, the street is full of future.
Chinese New Year Customs - Window Decorations
On Chinese New Year, people in many places like sticking paper cutouts on windows. Window flowers not only set a festive atmosphere, but also bring people the enjoyment of beauty, set decoration, appreciation and practicality in one.
Paper-cutting is a very popular folk art for thousands of years, by the people, it is attached to the windows of the favorite, so it is generally known as "window flowers".
Paper cutting is a very popular folk art for thousands of years, by people, it is attached to the window favorite, so it is generally known as "window flowers". Window decorations with its characteristic generalization and exaggeration of the guitar mascot, good wishes expressed in the best, festive decorations flourish rich and joyful.
Chinese New Year Customs - Fukuji
Every Spring Festival, every family should be in the door of the room, the wall, the lintel pasted on the big, small, "Fu" character. Spring Festival sticker "Fu" character, is a long-standing custom of our country's folk. According to the "dream" in the record: "the New Year's Day in the near, store the department store, painting the door god, the Spring Festival, Spring Festival signer ......"; "the common people of the people, the lintel of the door to paste the big and small," Fu "characters. ; "the common people's home, regardless of size, all the sweeping Lu door, dust dirty, net family households, change the doorkeeper, hanging bells Xu, nail Spring Festival, sticker Spring Festival cards, sacrifices of ancestors. "Stick the skin of the Spring Festival" that is written in the interpretation of the word
Red paper "blessing"
Fu" word "happiness" means "blessing", "happiness", "happiness". means "blessing" in the past, "fu transportation." Spring Festival sticker "Fu" character, both now and in the past, in the hands of people yearning for a happy life, but also hope for a better future. Folk in order to more fully reflect this desire and willingness, so sex upside down sticker "Fu" word, "happiness" upside down "Fu to" Fu "word upside down in the folk! There is also a legend. Ming Bamboo cane used to prepare to kill the "Fu" character mark. Kind of Empress Ma to eliminate calamities, so that the size of the city's homes must be affixed with a "Fu" before dawn from the house. Empress Ma naturally no one dared to disobey, so all posted on the home of the "Fu" character. Families are illiterate, even put the "Fu" word upside down. The next day, the emperor sent on the street to see the family posted word, "Fu" there is a "Fu" word upside down, the emperor heard the report angry, immediately ordered the guards full of people, Ma Huang Huang look at the bad things, busy, said: "the family knows that Your visit today, deliberately blessed down, this is not a blessing "is what it means?" A reasonable emperor Zhu Yuanzhang ordered the release, the disaster was finally eliminated. From then on, people put the blessing down, funded them, and asked for auspiciousness in honor of Empress Ma.
The folk "Fu" character is finely drawn into a variety of patterns, patterns of birthdays, peaches, carp jumping Dragon Gate, grains, dragons and phoenixes and so on. In the past, people would say "24, and everyone writes big characters", "Fu" character, used for handwriting, market, store sales.
Customs of the Spring Festival - Celebrating New Year's Eve
Chinese folk custom of celebrating New Year's Eve. Celebrate New Year's Eve by eating New Year's Eve dinner, dun dinner eaten slowly, sit down by candlelight, some people always have to eat late at night. Awe attacked "Jing Chu yearly record" records, at least in the North and South Dynasties when the custom of eating New Year's Eve dinner.
Celebrate New Year's Eve New Year's Eve, commonly known as "boiled year. Why is it called "boiled"? Folklore told generation after generation there is such an interesting story: according to legend, in the ancient flood era, there is a fierce beast, people call him "year". Every New Year's Eve, the beast must climb the sea to hurt people's animals, destroying the fields plague hard people a year. People in order to avoid the beast, the evening of Lunar New Year 30 days early black closed doors, dare not sleep, wait for the day to spend time and courage, they drink. As the morning of the New Year's Day, the beasts are no longer dare to go out. People meet each other bowing, wishing Wo Dao Ruoxi, glad that the beast can not eat, so, after many years, did what the case, people caught the beast unawares. This year 30 night, the beast suddenly he went to the south of a village, a village almost ate the beast hanging red curtains, only the newlyweds wearing red nothing, there are a few in the yard hit a pile of bamboo, bamboo burning, fire red childish point "pop" Baoxiang Nian to go here to see the flames scared to turn their heads and fled. Since then, people know that the beast is afraid of red, afraid of light, afraid of sound, the beginning of the year to the end of the year, every household red paper, wearing red robes, hanging red lamps, drums, firecrackers, so that the beast would not dare to come back. Ancient burning bamboo, bamboo air expansion, bamboo cavity burst, the sound of crackling, but in some places, the villagers do not know the beast is afraid of red, often eat the beast. Later spread to the sky there is Zi Wei Xing, in order to save his people, determined to be the origin of the "firecracker". Destruction of the beast. One year, he was the beast, a fireball down, thick chain locked on the pillar, since then, every New Year, people always have to burn incense, Zi Wei Xing down to the world to protect the peace
Night all-night double year, five minutes -2002 ", their families, gathered together. The family sits around and fills the table with refreshments and fruit. The placing of apples in the market is essential on the New Year's Day, which is called "peace". In the north, some mean people, there is also a pot of rice, burned years ago, in the new year, called "annual rice", every year there will be leftovers to eat all year round, this year, this year is eaten food. Generally mixed with rice and millet cooking, Beijing saying called "two rice" to yellow and white, which is called "gold and silver, gold and silver gold and silver rice bowl full of pots of rice every year. Many places celebrate New Year's Eve by preparing pastries and fruits for all those who want to seek luck: eating dates (early spring), eating persimmons (the best of all), eating almonds (happiness), eating peanuts (immortality), eating rice cakes (year after year). On New Year's Eve, the whole family eats, music, joy and laughter. There are also secular families pushing pai gow, rolling dice, betting on pokies, playing mahjong, noise, laughter into the climax of a joyful New Year's Eve.
Chinese New Year Customs - New Year
New Year is a Chinese folk tradition that is a way to express good wishes to each other for the New Year. "Happy New Year" for the elderly Baihe New Year, including the ancient meaning of kowtowing and saluting the elderly, happy, New Year as you wish, greetings for life. Event peers and friends, but also condolences and congratulations.
The New Year begins at home. Seniors get up on the first morning after the first New Year's greetings to elders, wishing elders a long and healthy life and good luck. Elders pray, to prepare in advance "New Year's money" to the younger generation. To the elders to worship a few years later, people going out for meetings should smile at each other with "congratulations on wealth", "four seasons as you wish", "happy new year" auspicious words to the left and right of the neighbors or friends and family! Happy New Year door to each other New Year or neighborhood drinking water entertainment.
If the ancient or square neighbors and friends are also difficult to visit the door, send a servant New Year's a business card, known as "fly post, each piece of red paper pasted on the front pocket, written "good luck", that is the purpose of the Sheng fly post. Since the Chinese new year gift new year card, greeting card, that is the legacy of this ancient sending each other fly post.
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Traditional Chinese festivals - Lantern Festival
Lunar New Year, the Chinese folk tradition of the Lantern Festival, the first since the first of the month, also called the month of the first full night of the fifteenth day of the first month of the month of the first month of the first month of the first full day of the month of the first month of the first month of the first month of the first month of the month. The night of the fifteenth day of the first full annual bright moon night, "night", "trapeze", therefore, the night of the fifteenth day of the first month of this festival is called the Lantern Festival.
On the Lantern Festival, the Chinese have the custom of eating lanterns. As the saying goes, "Therefore, lanterns, Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first month is also known as the Lantern Festival.
The Lantern Festival lanterns customized to the present has a history of more than 2000 years. Lantern Festival, everywhere lights and colors, lively and very lively. When night falls, people go in groups to see the lanterns. Bright lights of lanterns, wall lights, character lights, flowers, lights, carousel wheels, animal lights, toy lights ...... The lights of the world's most famous lanterns are all over the world, and they are all over the world. A sea of lights. Write some lantern riddles to attract the lantern watchers scramble to guess.
Eating Lantern Festival is a traditional Chinese custom. There was food as early as the Song Dynasty more than 1,000 years ago. Lantern is a small ball made of glutinous rice flour, wrapped in a filling made of sugar and a variety of nuts, cooked, sweet and delicious flavor. Because this food is eaten on the day of the Lantern Festival, then people called it the Lantern Festival. Chinese people hope that everything will be successful, the first full moon at the beginning of the year, family reunion, harmony, happiness, festivity, and hope to eat the Lantern Festival.