2. Lunar New Year's Eve 30 In the morning close to noon, sticking couplets, and then prepare for the evening's New Year's Eve dinner, basically the Spring Festival Gala began when the New Year's Eve dinner is almost eaten. Waiting for the end of the Spring Festival, basically also want to take a break, daytime good spirit to pay tribute to the New Year. After waking up in the morning, the children put on new clothes, down the dumplings to eat (dumplings to eat before worshipping the son, this God and that God). After the start of the New Year's Eve, the family generally left one person, and then the others first to the surrounding neighbors to pay tribute, and then drive around the closer relatives to pay tribute to the elders, which is generally the work of the first day of the year

4. the second day of the year Rizhao custom is the second day of the year the daughter-in-law back to her mother's home, that is, the aunt to go to the mother-in-law's home to pay tribute to the New Year

5. the third day of the year to the sixth day of the year before the holiday time, most of the time are The time before the holidays is mostly spent visiting friends and relatives, class reunions

6. The sixth day of the year During the day, if there is a 66 or 80 birthday old man, the whole family usually choose this day to get together to celebrate with firecrackers. The evening of the sixth is to receive the king of the stove, to burn paper and firecrackers (the year before the New Year is the 23rd day of the lunar month is to send the king of the stove, to say good things to the sky, down to the world to ensure peace)

7. the first month of the fifteenth Lantern Festival in the morning to eat the Lantern Festival, at night to eat dumplings, symbolizing reunion, and at night, usually go to see the lanterns, lighting fireworks.

The first day of the first month

Strictly speaking, the Chinese New Year begins at zero o'clock on the first day. Parents first get up to hand out papers, and before opening the door, they put a fire whip (they are said to be afraid of opening the door directly to meet God) before they can talk. Others get up one after another. After waking up, women are busy cooking dumplings, while men, led by their parents, pay homage. The order of worship in Zhaoyuan's olden days was to worship Heaven and Earth, the Queen Mother, Zao Wang, the God of Wealth, and the Old Ancestor.

Nowadays, only the Old Ancestor is usually worshiped.

[Eat]

The first meal of the Spring Festival is dumplings. When the dumplings are cooked, firecrackers are set off. In order to get rid of evil and seek good luck, some places use sesame straw to cook dumplings, which means that the new year will be like a sesame seed blossom, and the days will be better and better. Dumplings to cook more, there must be a surplus, after the meal pot to put on the steamed buns, meant to have a surplus head. After the dumplings are cooked, a bowl is first filled to honor Heaven and Earth, and then a bowl is filled to honor Zaojun. At mealtime, in addition to a bowl for each person, one or two more bowls are served, in the hope that many people will prosper. Eating dumplings is full of festive joy: eating jujubes means that you can get up early and work hard to get rich in the new year; eating chestnuts means that you can work hard and sweat hard in the new year; eating peanut rice means that you can live a long life; eating money means that you can get rich. No matter who eats any of them, everyone heartily congratulates them.

[New Year's Worship]

The custom of New Year's Worship at the Spring Festival has a long history and is still practiced today. First of all, the family worship, a family, the younger generation to the elders to pay tribute to the New Year, the generation between each other to pay tribute to the New Year; and then close to worship, that is to pay tribute to the elders did not get out of the five services; Finally, far worship, to give the five services of the elders and friends and relatives to pay tribute to the New Year.

In the old days, to bow to the New Year, now usually just hello. Businessmen pay tribute to the New Year, in addition to greetings, but also to congratulate each other on wealth. The younger generation to the elders to pay tribute to the New Year, the elders to give "New Year's money". The new daughter-in-law to the in-laws to pay tribute to the New Year, the in-laws to give a considerable amount of "New Year's money". Yuncheng and other places have a "Spring Festival five more beg long" custom.

[auspicious words]

The Spring Festival to speak auspicious words is one of the important features of Shandong folklore. Every year before the year, parents are always tired of cautioning their children, talk never "go off the rails". Even when things do not go well, but also to say auspicious words. Jiaodong folk most taboo two things, one is broken things, absolutely can not speak, to break things without saying a word to clean up, quickly throw it into the well, even if the road met acquaintances, but also do not speak. It is said that this can eliminate the disaster; the second is the first morning cooking dumplings, have to boil a few broken can not, but can not say broken, can not say "heap pots," and to say that "earned". Meant to earn money and wealth. Businessman's house is the most elaborate, and intentional dialog, asked if it was good? Answer said well; and asked earned no, said earned. In this way, great luck.

[Livestock]

Southwest Lu on the morning of the first day can not be chickens, ducks, geese, etc. put out, some circle a day, at least half a day to circle. It is said that they are afraid of dirtying the year, stirring up the year (because the firecrackers, the poultry will be surprised to fly everywhere), other domestic animals such as cows, horses, dogs, cats, etc., are given preferential treatment. Imo on the first morning, with the next year's rice to feed chickens, it is said that chickens eat a grain of rice, will be able to lay an egg; a variety of food served to the dog to eat, it is said that the dog first to eat something, will certainly be a bumper harvest.

[Send home]

Laiwu and other places have the custom of sending home on the afternoon of the first day. People go to the grave, burn paper, firecrackers, kowtow, the ancestors back to the grave, home, the genealogy put away, the Spring Festival ancestor worship ceremony came to an end. However, some areas are sent to the family hall on the second day of the month, and some areas are sent to the family hall on the third day of the month, which varies from place to place.

[Taboos]

There are a lot of taboos on the first day of the Spring Festival, and they are pretty much the same everywhere. Junan taboo push mill (before the year closed mill, until the first five are allowed to use the mill), taboo picking water, taboo sweeping the ground, taboo beating and cursing. In Linyi, it is forbidden to move the needle and thread, forbidden to make dumplings, forbidden to eat meat, forbidden to pound garlic. Yiyuan first night taboo light, it is said that the light, the rats will be flooded.

The second day of the first month

Jiaodong region on the second day after sunset to send the New Year, send the New Year to set up offerings, burning incense and paper, firecrackers. Some in the street on the table, one after another firecrackers, very lively. Some areas in the afternoon of the third to send the New Year.

Linqing has the custom of sacrificing the God of Fortune on the second day of the month. Merchants home for the God of Wealth tablets, the table with "money dragon" and "jujube mountain". Sacrifice, burn incense and kowtow, neighbors also bring incense and paper, to the merchant's home to sacrifice the God of Wealth, congratulations on business prosperity, the host will be entertained with wine and food, to express gratitude.

Stringing relatives is an important activity of the Spring Festival. Eastern Jiaodong and Laiwu and other places on the second day of the father-in-law's family, unmarried young men and women can replace their parents to visit their grandparents. Jimo in the third or fourth to the in-laws to pay tribute to the New Year, but can not go on the fifth. As the saying goes: "worship four not worship five, worship five dead mother-in-law". The order of Lacey's relatives is "first look at the aunt, after looking at the uncle, in-laws in the back".

The parents-in-law of the home of the aunt, especially the newly married aunt to be entertained. Laiwu and other places on the banquet in addition to chicken, fish, meat, eggs, generally have to set "four top four", that is, four fruit plate, four fried dishes, four small bowls, four large bowls and four large plates. The guests should take turns to toast to the master of the house.

The first year of a new daughter-in-law's life in Jiaodong is spent visiting her husband's grandfather's house, which is called "rooting". It is said that when you go to your grandfather's house, you will be able to put down your roots, and there will be no divorce or early widowhood. Roots, grandfather, uncle, aunt, etc. should be given to the new bride new year's money. The newlyweds in south Lu are usually strung out on a double day, meaning that they are paired up for good luck.

Old times, Linqing in the first month before the fifteenth generally do not string of relatives, as the saying goes: "seven do not go, eight do not move, nine go to death in-laws, cornering dead God." The first seven, eight, nine can not string relatives, the first ten can still be, turning refers to the first ten years later, until the fifteenth, more can not string relatives. After the fifteenth, only after the family can be strung together.

Fifth day of the first month

Fifth day of the first month of the first month of the first day of the first month of the first day of the first month of the first month of the fifth

Some places in Shandong Province, known as the "five horse day", and the day of the cloudy and sunny to account for the year's mules and horses of the lucky or unlucky, said that this day is clear the day the mules and horses are thriving.

This day is also known as the "broken five", some areas in the first five before the women can not go out to the relatives, are not allowed to move the knife and ruler to do the needle and thread, but also not allowed to raw rice, raw noodles and lettuce in the pot, after this day is no longer taboo. Linqing area of the "broken five", to the family as a unit to send the ceremony. Yinan also in this day to withdraw the family hall axis, some also eat fried cake, sweeping the yard, it is said that this day sweeping the yard does not attract ants.

Linyi and other places women do not go out on this day, do not comb their hair, do not move the needle and thread, it is said that moving the needle and thread will attract scorpions, centipedes.

This day generally eat dumplings at noon, you can also eat noodles, there is a "five eat a noodle, a mu to play a stone" said.

Old times, the first five days of the custom of sending poor, or "send poor daughter-in-law", Chiping called "five poor", avoiding New Year's Eve, firecrackers and cannons called "catch five poor". Shanxian this day passes to send the god of pestilence, in order to eliminate the sick, every family to the village or crossroads to send the god of pestilence. Early in the morning to burn incense and paper, praying for the gods of the plague far away, so that the family health and safety.

Many merchants say that the fifth for the God of Fortune birthday, Huang County and other places or called "road head day", this day open for business for the opening of the market auspicious. People firecrackers, worship the God of Wealth, eat dumplings to symbolize the Yuanbao, hoping that business is booming, prosperity. The dumplings on this day, like the first day of the year, should be broken a few times on purpose, and the shopkeeper asks loudly outside the kitchen, "Man, have you earned the Yuanbao?" The shopkeeper asks in a loud voice outside the kitchen, "Man, have you earned your yuanbao?" and the shopkeeper replies in a loud voice, "Yes, I have." This is for good luck. This day is the most taboo to say "compensation", "scattered" and other words, eat garlic is not allowed to eat garlic cloves, garlic paste should be called "Yihe dish", so as not to violate the taboo.

The seventh day of the first month

The seventh day of the first month of the human day, known as the Tang Dynasty, "people win the festival". It is said that the day of the Lord's prosperity and personal health. Huangxian, Zhaoyuan and other places according to the first seven, seventeen, twenty-seven is divided into "small people seven", "adults seven", "the old man seven", eat noodles at noon to wish people a long and healthy life.

Some local people day and the activities of the gods. Yinan in this day, pushing the mill pressure mill, send heaven and earth God, Zou County sacrifices to the fire god Zhu Rong, the candle with the community will be there, called "keep driving". Shanxian, Yuncheng this day to send the fire god.

People day this day, Linqing, Jinan and other places taboo women do needle and thread. It is said: "People do needle and thread, specializing in the eye of the mother-in-law." Shanxian morning to eat dumplings, now eat, called "pinch the mouth of the mouse", the night can not light, it is said to let the mouse get married, do not endanger the people.

The eighth day of the first month

The eighth day of the first month for the Valley Day. Lunan area is also known as this day "turn eight days", referred to as "turn eight". On this day, Yishui households to eat noodles, take "rolling the axle to turn a turn, an acre of land to play a stone" meaning, wishing the new year grain harvest. Yinan is the complete opposite, turn eight days is taboo to turn, spinning wheel, mill and other all can turn the tool, this day are to stop turning. Boxing and other places in the valley of the day accounted for the abundance and failure. Some places are said to be eight days clear, suitable for the Valley.

The first ten days of the first month

The first ten days of the first month, according to legend, is the stone birthday. This day is not allowed to move the stone, also not allowed to move the mill, mill, stone mortar, whacking cloth stone and other stone utensils, for fear of hurting the year's crops.

Changwei area, some in this day burning incense and paper worship stone God. Jancheng has the custom of lifting the stone god. Yuncheng also has a similar custom. Zou County and other places in ten days as a pro, called "Nafu".

New Year's Eve

New Year's Eve for the Lantern Festival, also known as the Festival of Lights.

Folklore, the Lantern Festival lights, is the light of good luck, can drive away demons and evil spirits in addition to all diseases. So people tend to end up with the lights shine each other's faces, but also shine a light on all corners of the house outside.

Shandong lanterns of many kinds, each with its own characteristics. Face lanterns and turnip lanterns have a more rural atmosphere, while colored lanterns have more urban characteristics. In the old days, the Jiaodong, Luzhong and southwestern Shandong regions used to use bean flour and cornmeal to make twelve zodiac lanterns, with meticulous workmanship and realistic images. The significance of the twelve zodiac lamps is to eliminate diseases and make people prosperous. There are also moon lanterns representing the twelve months. The symbolism of the moon lantern is to pray for a good harvest of crops, fruits and vegetables harvested in that month. The noodle lamps are usually placed at the head of the bed, window sill, door anvil and on the table.

The turnip lanterns around Tengzhou are unique. In the past, the Lantern Festival was held in Texas, and the colorful lanterns had a variety of patterns, including coherent sets of lanterns, scattered lanterns of different shapes, dignified and ornate lanterns of pagodas, and unpredictable box lanterns. In Cao County, there is a particularly exquisite colored lantern called snowflake lantern. It is said to require years of work by a skilled craftsman to make.

The Lantern Festival in rural Boxing has the custom of lighting lamps. The boy carries the lamp and circles the jujube tree six times while reciting the mnemonic "DuoLuo DuoLuo, blossom and jujube" six times (legend has it that DuoLuo is the old man in charge of the jujube tree). It is said that if you take care of the jujube tree, you will have a good harvest of jujubes.

Feixian Jade Emperor Temple will be held on the day of the Lantern Festival "send driving" ceremony. Tengzhou Lantern Festival "playing flowers" is even more fascinating. The girls in Jancheng make flower trees and flower girls on the day of the Lantern Festival, hoping for a good cotton harvest.

Individual local women have "seen the mother's lamp, to die old man" taboo, some places the new bride must go back to her mother's home to avoid the lamp. [Stove] [dust] [eat stove sugar]

China's Spring Festival is generally from the annual Lunar New Year twenty-three or twenty-four of the sacrificial stove to open the prelude to the so-called "official three people four boat family five", that is, the government in the Lunar New Year on the twenty-third day, the general civilian family on the twenty-fourth day, the people on the water in the twenty-fifth day of the sacrificial stove ceremony. After holding the sacrificial stove, will formally begin to do to meet the New Year's preparations. Every year from the lunar month 23 to New Year's Eve this period of time, the folk called "welcome spring day".

[Receiving the Jade Emperor][Catching the Messy Years][Photographing Silkworms][Thousand Lanterns Festival]

Sending the God of the Zaos to the sky until New Year's Eve to welcome back, during which time there is no god on earth to govern, there are no taboos, and the people marry more, which is known as "catching the Messy Years". Messy year is the people designed for themselves to regulate the social life of a specific period of time. At the end of the year, people have leisure and savings, and it is a good time for people who usually have little energy to organize big events.

[Bathing]

Traditional folklore is to focus on bathing and washing on these two days, to get rid of the bad luck of the year and to prepare for the coming New Year, and there is a proverb in Beijing that says, "Wash your guilt on the 27th, and wash your slovenly clothes on the 28th". Lunar New Year's Day 26 bath for "wash the blessing of Lu".

[Small New Year's Eve] [New Year's Eve]

The day before New Year's Eve is called "Small New Year's Eve", when families set up banquets, and people visit each other as "Farewell". The day before New Year's Eve is called Tianxiang, in which incense is burned outdoors, usually for three days.

[Posting of door deities][Posting of Spring Festival couplets][Keeping of the New Year][Eating of the New Year's Eve dinner]

[Setting off of firecrackers][Ancestor worship][Giving of New Year's money]

The word "除" in "New Year's Eve" means "to go, to change, to alternate"; The meaning of the word "in addition" is "go; change; alternation", New Year's Eve means "the end of the month and the end of the year", people have to get rid of the old part of the new, there is the old year to this year and remove the meaning of the next year another change of the new year, is the lunar calendar throughout the year on the last night. Therefore, the activities during this period are centered around the removal of the old part of the new, eliminate disasters and pray for blessings as the center.

[New Year's][Open Door Cannonball]

[Occupy the year][Paintings of chickens][Gathering of wealth]

This day is the first day of the year, the first day of spring, the first day of the first month, so it is known as the "Sanyuan"; this day is also the year of the dynasty, the month of the dynasty, the day of the dynasty, so also known as the "three dynasties". "Three Dynasties". Different periods of Chinese history had changed the time of the first day of the first month according to their own cultural traditions and customs.

[Sacrifice to the God of Wealth][Legend of the God of Wealth]

The God of Wealth is sacrificed in the north on the second day of the first month, a day when both trade and commerce stores, and ordinary families, hold sacrifices to the God of Wealth. Each family sacrifices the god of wealth that they received on New Year's Eve. In fact, they incinerate the rough prints they bought. On this day, wontons are eaten at noon, commonly known as "Yuanbao soup". Fish and mutton are used as offerings.

[Burning the paper of the god of the door][Guzi's birthday][Xiaonianzhao]

Shiaonianzhao is the Tianqing Festival. Song dynasty court festival, Song Zhenzong Dazhong Xiangfu first year, because of rumors of heavenly books descending to earth, Zhenzong issued an imperial edict, set the first three days of the first month for the day of the festival, officials and other leave for five days. Later, it was called the Small New Year's Day, and it was the same as the Yearly Day without sweeping the ground, begging for fire, or drawing water.

[Sacrifice to the god of wealth][Road head god][Send poor][Market]

The fifth day of the first month of the first five commonly known as the broken five. One said that many taboos before the fifth day can be broken on this day. According to the old custom to eat "dumplings", the north called "cooking meat and potatoes". Women are no longer taboo door, began to visit each other to congratulate the New Year. The new bride in this day to return to peace. One said that the day of the broken five should not do things, otherwise the year meets a failure.

[Man Day][Pancake][Eat Seven Treasures Soup]

The legend says that the female snail first created the world, in the creation of chickens, dogs, pigs, cows, horses and other animals, in the seventh day of the creation of human beings, so this day is the birthday of mankind. Han Dynasty began to human day custom, Wei Jin began to emphasize. In ancient times, there was the custom of wearing a "human victory" on the human day. Because it is the day of man, so in ancient times this day is not the custom of execution.

[Valley Day][Shunxing]

Folk to the eighth day of the first month for the stars down to the world, the system of small lamps burned and sacrificed, known as the Shunxing, also known as the "sacrifice star", "catching the star". Legend has it that the eighth day of the month is the birthday of Guzi. This day the weather is sunny, the Lord of the day a good harvest of rice, the day is cloudy, the year is poor.

[Stone Birthday][He Rat Married Daughter][New Year's Day Song]

Old folk rituals held in the first month of the rat activities, also known as the "rat married daughter" "rat married". The specific date varies from place to place, there is the seventh of the first month, there is the seventeenth of the first month, there is the twenty-fifth of the first month, many areas are the tenth of the first month. The way to worship rats also varies from place to place.

[Lantern Festival][Send children lamps][Welcome Zigu]

[Walking a hundred diseases][Stealing Vegetables Festival][Bawu Festival]

The Lantern Festival is also known as Yuanxi, the night of the yuan, also known as the Shangyuan Festival, because it is the first night of the new year, the moon is full. This festival is also known as the Festival of Lights because of the custom of viewing lamps during this festival throughout the ages. The formation of the Lantern Festival has a long process, the Han Emperor's first month on the night of Sin in the Ganquan Palace to sacrifice "too much" activities, by later generations as the first day of the first month of the fifteenth day of sacrifice to the God of Heaven's first voice.

[Eastern suburb to welcome spring][Spring post][Spring cow][Biting spring]

Welcoming spring on the day of spring is an important activity carried out by the Chinese ancestors on the day of spring. In the Zhou Dynasty, the Prince of Heaven personally led the three dukes and nine ministers of the vassals to go to the eastern suburb to welcome the spring, praying for a good harvest. After returning, he rewarded his ministers, and gave the people the benefit of virtue and order. This has become a universal spring event for generations to come.