The first day of the first month of the lunar calendar is the New Year in China. Among the traditional festivals in China, this is the most important and lively one. Because the Lunar New Year is celebrated in late winter and early spring, people also call this festival "Spring Festival".

China people have many traditional customs in celebrating the Spring Festival. Since the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, people have been preparing for the Spring Festival. During this period, every household should clean up, buy new year's goods, stick grilles, hang New Year pictures, write Spring Festival couplets, steam rice cakes, prepare all kinds of food, and prepare to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new.

The eve of the Spring Festival is called "New Year's Eve". New Year's Eve is a time for family reunion. A family sits around, eats a big dinner, talks and laughs until dawn. This is called Shousui. When the bell rings at : on New Year's Eve, people will eat jiaozi. In ancient times, it was called "Zi Shi", and the Zi Shi on New Year's Eve was the time when the old and the new years alternated. People ate jiaozi at this time, which means "making friends at a younger age". This is also the origin of the name "jiaozi".

after new year's eve, it will be the first day of the new year. From the first day of junior high school, people will visit relatives and friends and pay New Year greetings to each other. Paying New Year greetings is an important custom in the Spring Festival. When paying New Year's greetings, everyone should say some auspicious words wishing happiness and health.

Spring Festival custom-setting off firecrackers

At midnight, the New Year bell rings, and the sound of firecrackers reverberates all over China. In this "three-yuan" moment of "the yuan of the year, the yuan of the month and the yuan of the time", some places still set up "Wang Huo" in the courtyard to show that the spirit is soaring and prosperous. Around the blazing fire, the children set off firecrackers and were alive and kicking happily. At this time, there were bright lights in the house, bright sparks in front of the court and deafening noises outside the house, which pushed the lively atmosphere of New Year's Eve to the climax.

The sound of firecrackers is a sign to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, and an expression of festive mood. Business people. Setting off firecrackers has another meaning: they set off firecrackers on New Year's Eve to make a big profit in the new year. However, according to the old custom, respect for the god of wealth should be the first, and setting off firecrackers should be the last. Legend has it that if you want to make a fortune, the firecrackers will ring until the end. In the old days, from the opening of the financial door at midnight during the Spring Festival, there were people who sent the God of Wealth. The God of Wealth with a piece of paper in his hand shouted outside the door: "Here comes the God of Wealth!" At this time, the owner of the house, in order to welcome the god of wealth, gave a reward to the bearer and sent it to the mouth of the god of wealth. Of course, it was inevitable to say something auspicious. For example, "the treasure is rolling in"! There is a pair of golden lions on the left and a pair of golden phoenix on the right! And so on. There is another one who dresses up as the God of Wealth, wearing a red robe, a gauze hat, a fake beard on his mouth, carrying a yellow cloth bag to collect money, followed by several drummers, and distributing the God of Wealth from door to door in order to ask for a reward. Every time people go to the door, they sing: "The left compartment is full of gold and silver, and the right side is full of treasures." A lot of good luck words are endless until the owner happily took over the red paper statue of the God of Wealth, gave them some money, and after thanking them, they knocked for a while and went to another house with the sound of gongs and drums.

The first thing people do when they return to the house after setting off firecrackers is to worship the heavens and the earth, meet the gods and offer sacrifices to their ancestors. In ancient times, this custom was very prosperous. Due to the different manners and customs in different places, the forms of ancestor worship are also different. Some go to visit the ancestral graves in the wild, and some go to the ancestral halls to worship their ancestors. Most of them put their ancestral tablets in the main hall in turn at home to display their offerings, and then the worshippers offer incense and bow down in order of age. After paying homage to their ancestors, southerners look up the auspicious direction of this year in the almanac, burning lanterns and torches, carrying pots and holding wine, offering incense and firecrackers, and opening the door to travel to meet XiShen, which is called "going out of the Arabian nights" or "going out", Zhejiang called "going out to find" and Shanghai called "going out for happiness". This custom is to get lucky and pray for God's blessing for a smooth year. On New Year's Eve, you stay up all night and stay up all night. That night, housewives are busy hanging lanterns and making colorful decorations, posting Spring Festival couplets, cutting window grilles and pasting New Year pictures, and decorating their houses in red, green and green, adding a rich atmosphere to the festival. Perhaps what children look forward to most is the lucky money. The lucky money is given to the younger generation by the elders. In some families, after the New Year's Eve dinner, everyone is not allowed to leave at the table. When everyone has finished eating, the elders give it to the younger generation and encourage their children and grandchildren to learn and improve in the new year. In some families, parents put them under their pillows after their children fall asleep at night, and in more families, children gather in the main hall, shouting happy New Year to grandparents and parents, and lining up to bow down; Then reach for a red envelope. They even recovered their grandparents' bedrooms and ran to the edge of the bed together, shouting, "lucky money, lucky money!" " The old man didn't think it was lively enough, so he pretended to be stingy. He went from bargaining to besieging and groping, and finally dug up the red envelopes of his ancestors. Everyone looted them and roared away. The old man was overjoyed at this scene and thought it was a good sign that everything would go well in the New Year.

People's traditional ideas always like to win more prizes during the Chinese New Year and hope everything goes well. There are many old customs among them. If there is a custom of prohibiting the use of brooms everywhere, it is thought that using brooms in the New Year will sweep away luck and wealth, and it will be difficult to make good luck in the New Year. If you have to sweep the floor, you must sweep it from the outside to the inside. In order to make this custom popular, the first day of the first month is also designated as "broom birthday". Don't scold children in the new year, and you must pay special attention to what you say. If a child breaks his rice bowl carelessly, everyone will never scold him, but say that he is "safe all the year round", because the homonym of "broken" and "old" flushes the ominous atmosphere. In the New Year, adults are most afraid of children saying something unlucky. In addition to horizontal care and vertical care, some places also wipe their mouths with a piece of red cloth or toilet paper, which means that even if they say something unlucky, it is equivalent to farting. Others put oranges and lychees on their pillows, which are called "year-old fruit". Oranges and lychees are homophonic for good luck in the coming year. In some areas, there is also a custom to steal the statue of the God of Wealth, and to hide it in the crotch after stealing it, in order to take the meaning of the idiom "the God of Wealth puts in the warehouse (pants)". Among these whimsical tastes and customs, there are many hard-working people in the past dynasties who flatter the god of fate.

On the morning of the Spring Festival, when the doors are opened, firecrackers are set off first, which is called "opening firecrackers". After the sound of firecrackers, the ground is full of broken red, which is called "full house red" At this time, the streets are full of anger and joy.

Spring Festival custom-stick grilles

During the Spring Festival, people in many areas like to stick various paper-cut window grilles on their windows. Window grilles not only set off the festive atmosphere, but also bring people beautiful enjoyment, integrating decoration, appreciation and practicality.

Paper-cutting is a very popular folk art, which has been deeply loved by people for thousands of years. Because it is mostly pasted on windows, people generally call it "window grilles".

Paper-cutting is a very popular folk art, which has been deeply loved by people for thousands of years. Because it is mostly pasted on windows, people generally call it "window grilles". With its unique generalization and exaggeration, window grilles show auspicious things and good wishes to the fullest, and decorate the festival with prosperity and jubilation.

Spring Festival custom-paste the word "blessing"

During the Spring Festival, every household should paste the word "blessing" on the door, wall and lintel. Sticking the word "Fu" in the Spring Festival is a long-standing folk custom in China. According to "Dream of Liang Lu", it is recorded that: "When you are young, you will shop in a department store, draw a door god peach symbol, and celebrate the Spring Festival ..."; "Scholars, big or small, sweep their doors, clean their families, change their door gods, hang Zhong Xu, nail peaches, stick spring cards and offer sacrifices to their ancestors." The word "Tie Chun Pai" in this article is the word "Fu" written on red paper. The word "Fu" is now interpreted as "happiness", but in the past it meant "good fortune" and "good fortune". Sticking the word "Fu" in the Spring Festival, whether now or in the past, has pinned people's longing for a happy life and wishes for a better future. In order to fully reflect this yearning and wish, folks simply paste the word "Fu" upside down, indicating that "Happiness has fallen" and "Blessing has arrived". There is another legend that the word "fu" is posted upside down among the people. Ming Taizu Zhu Zhang used the word "Fu" as a secret word to prepare for murder. In order to eliminate this disaster, the kind-hearted Ma Huanghou made all the families in the city have to put a "blessing" on their doors before dawn. Naturally, no one dared to disobey Ma Huanghou's will, so the word "Fu" was posted on every door. One family can't read, so they put the word "Fu" upside down. The next day, the emperor sent people to the streets to check and found that every family had posted the word "Fu", and another family had posted the word "Fu" upside down. The emperor was furious when he heard the report, and immediately ordered the body-guard to chop down that house. When Ma Huanghou saw that things were not good, he quickly said to Zhu Yuanzhang, "The family knew that you were visiting today and deliberately pasted the word" Fu "upside down. Doesn't this mean" Fu Dao "?" As soon as the emperor heard the truth, he ordered the release, and a great disaster was finally eliminated. Since then, people have put the word "Fu" upside down, seeking good luck and commemorating Ma Huanghou.

There are also folk people who elaborate the word "Fu" into various patterns, such as longevity, longevity peach, carp jumping over the dragon gate, abundant grains and auspicious dragons and phoenixes. In the past, there was a folk saying that "on the 24th of the twelfth lunar month, every family wrote big characters". The word "Fu" used to be handwritten, but now it is sold in markets and shops.

Chinese New Year custom-observing the new year

Chinese people have the habit of observing the new year's eve. Watching the New Year begins with eating New Year's Eve. This New Year's Eve dinner should be eaten slowly, from the time when the lantern is lit, and some families have to eat it until late at night. According to Zonggu's Record of Jingchu's Years Old, it was customary to have New Year's Eve dinner at least in the Northern and Southern Dynasties.

keep the age at 3, and the common name is "endure the year". Why is it called "endure the year"? There is an interesting story among the people from generation to generation: According to legend, in the ancient era of the wild, there was a ferocious monster, and people called him "Nian". Every New Year's Eve, Nian beast will climb out of the sea to harm people and animals, destroy the countryside and bring disaster to people who have worked hard for a year. In order to avoid the Nian beast, people close the door early on the thirtieth night of the twelfth lunar month, dare not sleep, wait until dawn, and drink to kill time and courage. Don't dare to go out until the Nian beast doesn't come out on the first morning of the new year. When people met, they bowed to each other, congratulated them, and were glad that they were not eaten by Nian beast. After many years, nothing happened, and people relaxed their vigilance against Nian beast. On the 3th night of one year, Nian Beast suddenly fled to a village in the south of the Yangtze River. A village was almost eaten up by Nian Beast, and only a newly-married couple with a red curtain and red clothes were safe. There are also a few childishness who lit a pile of bamboos in the yard and were playing. The fire was red. After the bamboo burned, it exploded. Nian beast turned here and saw the fire and turned around and fled. Since then, people know that Nian beast is afraid of red, light and noise. Every year at the end of the year, every household puts up red paper, wears red robes, hangs red lights, beats gongs and drums and sets off firecrackers, so that Nian beast will not dare to come again. After the ancients burned bamboo poles, the air in the bamboo joints expanded, and the bamboo cavity burst, making a crackling sound, which is the origin of "firecrackers". But in some places, villagers don't know that Nian beast is afraid of red, and they are often eaten by Nian beast. This story later spread to Zixing in the sky. In order to save people, he was determined to destroy Nian beast. One year, when the Nian beast came out, he knocked it down with a fireball and locked it on a stone pillar with a thick chain. From then on, every New Year, people always burn incense, and ask Zixing to come down to keep safe.

On this night of "being two years old in one night, and being two years old in the evening", family members get together and get together. The whole family sat together, and the table was filled with tea and fruits. In the New Year, a large plate of apples is indispensable, which is called "peace and security". In the north, some families have to provide a pot of rice, which was cooked years ago and provided for the Chinese New Year. It is called "New Year's Rice", which means that there are leftovers every year, which can't be eaten all the year round, and this year they still eat the grain of the previous year. This bowl of New Year's rice is usually cooked by mixing rice and millet. As the saying goes in Beijing, it is called "two-meter rice" because it is yellow and white. This is called "golden rice with gold and silver, full of gold and silver". In many places, cakes, melons and fruits prepared at the time of observing the old age are intended to win a lucky charm: eating dates (spring comes early), persimmon (everything goes well), almond (happy people), longevity fruit (immortality) and rice cakes (higher every year). On New Year's Eve, the whole family ate and enjoyed themselves, talking and laughing. Some vulgar families push Pai Jiu, roll dice, bet on Stud, play mahjong, and the noise of laughter and laughter has become the climax of New Year's Eve.

Spring Festival custom-Happy New Year

Happy New Year is a traditional folk custom in China, and it is a way for people to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new and express their best wishes to each other. In ancient times, the original meaning of the word "Happy New Year" was to celebrate the New Year for the elderly, including kowtowing to the elderly, congratulating them on the happy New Year, and greeting them about their lives. In case of friends and relatives of the same generation, we should also salute and congratulate them.

New Year greetings usually begin at home. On the morning of the first day, after getting up, the younger generation should first pay a New Year call to their elders, wishing them a long and healthy life and all the best. After the elders are worshipped, they should distribute the "lucky money" prepared in advance to the younger generation. After paying homage to the elders at home, people should also greet the New Year with smiles when they meet out, and exchange auspicious words such as "Congratulations on getting rich", "Best wishes for the four seasons" and "Happy New Year". Neighbors, relatives and friends also visit each other or invite them to drink and entertain.

In ancient times, if there were too many relatives and friends in the neighborhood to visit all over the house, servants were sent to pay a New Year call with business cards, which was called "flying cards". A red paper bag with the word "Jiefu" written on it was used to hold flying cards. So far, giving new year card and New Year cards in the Spring Festival is the legacy of this ancient exchange of flying cards.

With the development of the times, new contents and forms have been added to the custom of New Year greetings. Nowadays, in addition to following the previous New Year's greetings, etiquette telegrams and telephone New Year's greetings have sprung up.

Lantern Festival, a traditional festival in China

The 15th day of the first month of the lunar calendar is the traditional Lantern Festival in China. Because the first month is also called January, the night of the fifteenth day of the first month is the first full moon night in a year, and "night" means "night", so the festival on the fifteenth night of the first month is called Lantern Festival.

On the Lantern Festival, people in China have the custom of enjoying lanterns and eating Yuanxiao. As the saying goes, "Lantern Festival is also called Lantern Festival".

The custom of enjoying lanterns on the Lantern Festival has a history of more than 2, years. On the Lantern Festival, there are lanterns and colorful decorations everywhere, which is very lively. When night comes, people flock to watch the lanterns. Colorful palace lanterns, wall lanterns, figure lanterns, flower lanterns, lantern lanterns, animal lanterns, toy lanterns, etc., converge into a sea of lanterns. Some lanterns also have riddles written on them, which makes lantern watchers scramble to guess.

It is a traditional custom of China people to eat Yuanxiao on the Lantern Festival. As early as more than 1 years ago in the Song Dynasty, there was this kind of food. Yuanxiao is a small ball made of glutinous rice flour with stuffing made of sugar and various nuts. When cooked, it tastes sweet and delicious. Because this kind of food was eaten on the Lantern Festival, people later called it Yuanxiao. People in China want everything to be perfect. Eating Yuanxiao on the first full moon night at the beginning of a year means that their families are reunited, harmonious, happy and full.