the Spring Festival; Chinese New Year

As the saying goes, "Chinese New Year" is the most important traditional festival among the people. "After drinking the twelfth lunar month porridge, count the years." After the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, a busy year began, and every household painted the walls.

Sweep the house, clean the yard, get rid of the old cloth, wash your hair and have a haircut, make new clothes and make new year's goods. Making tofu sounds like "Du Fu". Evaporate the dough (cake), make reunion cake, which means "family reunion, climb higher step by step" and prepare chicken and fish, which means "good luck every year, more than one year old." Made of carrots, cabbage hearts, vermicelli and other seasonings, it is red, white and green, fresh and delicious, symbolizing innocence and family harmony. Buyers must add chopsticks at night, which means that the population increases and the family is prosperous.

New Year's Eve

The day before the Lunar New Year. In a jubilant mood, every household posted Spring Festival couplets (only purple and white couplets, not stickers), passed doormats and stick grilles, and posted lanterns. Some even specially posted the word "Fu", meaning "Fu is here". "Go out to see happiness" is posted outside the gate, "Spring in the courtyard" is posted in the courtyard, "Population is safe" is posted in the room, and "Living in a blessed land" or "Good health" is posted on the bedside. Stick "Six Livestock Flourishing" on the barn and so on. Fill a jar of water, enough firewood for three days, and enough food for half a month, which means "from eating to sitting, it will be useful for one year." Firewood is mostly sesame straw, bean straw and cotton firewood. There is a saying that "sesame straw is a big official, bean straw sticks are prosperous every year" and "bean straw sticks, cotton firewood and gold and silver treasures come together". In the afternoon, the man dressed up and went to the ancestral grave, or invited his ancestors home for the New Year, which was called "inviting home" (some people said "inviting paper"), and then ate for the next year. After receiving the kitchen at night, put a door guard stick at the door to prevent evil spirits from sneaking into the hospital. Burning incense with candles at night, brightly lit, staying up all night, is called "Shousui". In the old society, people called the Spring Festival a passport, which is the so-called "annual ticket". The poor went out to hide debts and returned on New Year's Eve. After midnight, the elders lead their children to send out "paper horses", set off firecrackers, worship heaven and earth, and worship their ancestors to ensure the safety of the young and old. The hostess threw paper money in front of the kitchen god statue to pay homage, chanting: "Get up in the morning and open the door and light candles;" Grandpa Kitchen God sat on it, with treasures on both sides; One scatters gold, one scatters silver, the third scatters a large group of mules and horses, the fourth scatters old age, and the fifth scatters children, not juren, but Hanlin. Amitafo. "After the paper horse was sent, the whole family, old and young, sat around the table for dinner, mostly in jiaozi. Jiaozi should pack money according to the family population (

In the old days, it was mostly "small money" (now coins) or dates. Whoever eats jiaozi with money represents good luck and makes a fortune in the coming year; Whoever eats jujube jiaozi will be happy and sweet in one year. Say something auspicious during the Spring Festival, for example, jiaozi said "earn" instead of "break" or "destroy" when cooked; When bread cracks, it says "blossom" or "laugh" instead of "crack". There is a saying in Chinese New Year that "five donkeys die on the New Year's Eve, so it's hard to say". After New Year's Eve, it means that the old saying has arrived and the new year has begun. First, the younger generation kowtowed to the elder, and the elder gave the younger generation "lucky money". Then the neighbors pay New Year greetings to each other and ask each other "Happy New Year" and "Congratulations on getting rich". It is customary to pay a New Year call as soon as possible, and it usually ends before breakfast. After breakfast (or dinner) on the first day of junior high school, sending the spirits of the ancestors who invited them home for the New Year to the cemetery is called "sending them home". In the early morning of the first day of the old society, begging was to "send the God of Wealth". Every time I go to a door, I shout: "When the God of Wealth comes in, it will increase the population and wealth; The god of wealth has fallen, and there are a lot of gold and silver treasures. "