Spring Festival is an ancient festival in China, and it is also the most important festival in a year. Therefore, this festival also has many customs. Let me take this opportunity to introduce them to you! 1 The Spring Festival couplets were evolved from the "peach stalks" in the Warring States period more than two thousand years ago. According to Huainanzi, peach characters (peach stalks) are carved from peach wood. It is engraved with a spell that destroys happiness, and it changes every year. Meng Changjun, the Emperor of Shu after the Five Dynasties, had a whim during the Spring Festival and asked people to slice peach trees. He wrote a couplet on it: "Welcome to Qing Yu in the New Year and celebrate the festival in Changchun". This is the earliest Spring Festival couplets in China. As for the official birth of the name Spring Festival couplets, it was in the Ming Dynasty. After Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, made Jinling his capital, he issued an edict on New Year's Eve: "When the official family visits the New Year, they must write a Spring Festival couplets." Since then, Spring Festival couplets have become popular, and every household should post Spring Festival couplets during the New Year. On New Year's Eve, every family will get together for a reunion dinner. Of course, this is 1 New Year's Eve, which can be eaten at home or at the home of the elders. There are strict regulations on the dishes and the number of dishes for the reunion dinner. In our family, there must be eight dishes on the annual reunion dinner, among which fish and chicken are essential dishes. Lighting firecrackers at 0 pm is also a special custom in Xu Xi, which means "saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new". There is also a saying to welcome the New Year called "Shounian". In fact, "shou sui" means not sleeping from the 30 th to the first day of the year. For most young people, this is the best time to play. Of course, this is not entirely correct. Some of them. You can also contribute on the first day of the festival. Many lion dance classes and English song teams beat gongs and drums in every village to celebrate the New Year, and their hosts set off firecrackers to welcome them. On the third day of the second grade, the village will organize cultural activities to celebrate the Spring Festival, such as film screening, ball games, calligraphy and painting exhibitions, lantern riddles and so on. During the day and night, people flock to enjoy the beautiful scenery and welcome the lively and happy atmosphere of spring. Giving red envelopes is an important part of Spring Festival custom. The elders should give money to the younger generation, and the younger generation who can make money should also give money to the elders. Money can't be sent directly to wait for a while, but should be put in a profit bag. This is commonly known as "pressing your stomach and waist", which means that from the beginning of the year to the end of the year, your pockets will be full of facts and wealth. 6. It is also a rule to pay New Year greetings to family and neighbors. On the first day of the new year, you must go to your grandparents' house, and on the second day, you must go to your grandparents' house. Only on the third and fourth days can you go out to pay New Year greetings to your neighbors and friends. In short, the new year is a new beginning. I believe all of us will be healthy, happy and full of excitement in 2008! Why do elders give their children lucky money on New Year's Eve? Children will get lucky money from their elders. Why should children be given lucky money during the Spring Festival? Here is a widely circulated story. Legend has it that in ancient times, there was a small demon with black hands and white body named Chong who came out to harm people every New Year's Eve. It touched the head of the sleeping child three times with its hand, and the child cried with fear. Then he had a fever, talked nonsense and got sick from then on. After a few days, the fever subsided, but the clever child became a dementia fool. People are afraid that fetishism will harm children, so they sit up with lights on, which is called "fetishism". In Jiaxing, there is a family named Guan, and the husband and wife have a son in their later years, which is regarded as the apple of their eye. On New Year's Eve, I forced them to play for fear that they would harm the children. The child wrapped eight copper coins in red paper, opened them, opened them again, and played until he fell asleep. Eight wrapped copper coins are placed on the pillow. The couple didn't dare to close their eyes and stayed with their children all night. In the middle of the night, a strong wind blew the door open and blew out the lights. When the little black boy touched the child's head with his bare hands, a light broke into the child's pillow. Chong hurriedly withdrew his hand and ran away screaming. Mr. and Mrs. Guan told everyone that wrapping eight copper coins in red paper was to scare away those special people. Everyone also learned to wrap eight copper coins in red paper and put them on pillows after the children's New Year's Eve. Sure enough, I never dare to hurt children again. It turned out that these eight copper coins were exchanged by the Eight Immortals, which helped the children secretly scare away the admirers. Therefore, people call this kind of money "lucky money", and because of the homonym of "worship" and "year old", it is called "lucky money" over time. In the history of our country, there were lucky money very early. The earliest lucky money is also called "winning money" or "winning money". This kind of money is not the currency circulating in the market, but a coin-shaped exorcism product specially cast for wearing and appreciating. This kind of wearing article in the form of coins first appeared in the Han Dynasty. Some of them have characters on coins, and all kinds of auspicious characters are cast on the front, such as "Long live the Millennium", "Peace in the world" and "Eliminating disasters and eliminating evil". On the back, dragons and phoenixes, turtles and snakes, Pisces, swords and stars are cast. In the Tang Dynasty, the court was in vogue for issuing money in spring. At that time, the Spring Festival was "beginning of spring Day", and it was a day of mutual worship in the palace. There was no such custom among the people. Twenty-six volumes of Zi Tong Zhi Jian record that Yang Guifei gave birth to a child. "Xuanzong personally saw it and gladly gave her gold and silver money to wash the child." The money for washing children mentioned here is not only a congratulatory message, but also an amulet given to newborns by their elders to ward off evil spirits. After the Song and Yuan Dynasties, beginning of spring was replaced by the first day of the first month, which was called the Spring Festival. Many customs originally belonging to beginning of spring have also been transferred to the Spring Festival. The custom of giving money in spring has evolved into the custom of giving children lucky money. The Chronicle of Yanjing written by Dunchong, Fu Cha in the Qing Dynasty recorded the lucky money in this way: "It is called lucky money to wear money with colored ropes, weave it into a dragon shape and put it at the foot of the bed. Children are given by elders. Also called lucky money. " During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, most lucky money was given to children with red ropes. After the Republic of China, it evolved into wrapping 100 copper coins in red paper, which means "long life" and giving lucky money to adult generations. Red paper is wrapped in an ocean, symbolizing "abundant financial resources" and "millions of profits". After money is changed into paper money, parents like to choose new paper money with related figures for their children, because the homonym of "Lian" and "Lian" indicates that future generations will "get rich again and again" and "get promoted again and again". From the above description, we can easily find that the custom of lucky money has a long history. It represents a good blessing from the elders to the younger generation. It is an amulet given to children by elders. I wish them good health and good luck in the new year. 2. Why do you want to eat jiaozi jiaozi during the Spring Festival? It is a folk food with a long history and is deeply loved by people. There is a folk saying "delicious but not as good as jiaozi". During the Spring Festival, jiaozi has become an indispensable delicacy. According to "Guangya" written by Zhang Yi, wei ren of the Three Kingdoms, there was a crescent-shaped food called "Wonton" at that time, which was basically similar to the shape of jiaozi now. By the time of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, wonton had been "shaped like a crescent moon, and it was delicious all over the world". Presumably, when jiaozi cooked it, he didn't take it out and eat it alone, but put it in a bowl with the soup, so people called jiaozi "wonton" at that time. This way of eating is still popular in some areas of our country. For example, when people from Henan and Shaanxi eat jiaozi, they should put some small ingredients such as coriander, chopped green onion, shrimp skin and leek in the soup. By about the Tang Dynasty, jiaozi had become exactly the same as jiaozi now, so it was fished out and put on a plate to eat by itself. Jiaozi was called "Joule" in Song Dynasty, which is the etymology of the word "Jiaozi" in later generations. This kind of writing can still be seen in the following Yuan, Ming, Qing and Republic of China. Jiaozi was called a "flat food" in the Yuan Dynasty. During the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, Shen Bang's Miscellaneous Notes on Ten Thousand Parts recorded: "New Year's Day, New Year's Day ...... as a patch food". Liu Ruoyu's "Proceedings" records: "Eat fruit snacks on New Year's Day and eat a plaque immediately." The "plaque" of the "plaque food" in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties is now commonly used as "ping". A kind of "flat food" may come from Mongolian. Some new names about jiaozi appeared in Qing Dynasty, such as "jiaozi", "Water Snack" and "Boiled Bean". The increase of Jiaozi's names shows that its geographical spread is expanding. The folk custom of eating jiaozi during the Spring Festival has been quite popular in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Generally, jiaozi should wrap it up before New Year's Eve 12, and eat it at midnight. At this time, it is the beginning of the first day of the first lunar month. Eating jiaozi means "making friends when you are young", and "Zi" is homophonic with "jiaozi", which means "reunion" and "good luck". There are many legends about eating jiaozi during the Spring Festival. One is to commemorate the creation of Pangu and end the mixed state. The other is to use it as a homonym of "wonton", which means "five grains are abundant" In addition, it is said that eating jiaozi's folk language is related to Nu Wa's making people. When Nuwa soil caused people, the ears of loess people were easily frozen off because of the cold weather. In order to prevent the ear from being fixed, Nuwa put a small eye on the ear, tied it with a thin thread, and put the other end of the thread in the mouth of the loess man to bite, so that the ear would be fine. In order to commemorate the achievements of Nu Wa, ordinary people wrapped jiaozi, molded adult ears with flour, wrapped them with stuffing (thread) and ate them with their mouths. Jiaozi has become an indispensable program food for the Spring Festival. The reasons are as follows: First, jiaozi is shaped like an ingot. People eat jiaozi in the Spring Festival and get the voice of "the way to make money". Secondly, jiaozi has stuffing, which is convenient for people to put all kinds of auspicious things into stuffing and place people's hopes for the new year. When wrapping jiaozi, people usually wrap Jin Ruyi, sugar, peanuts, dates and chestnuts into stuffing. Eat the best and sugar, life will be sweeter in the coming year, eat peanuts, live a long and healthy life, eat dates and chestnuts, and have a baby early. In some areas, when people eat jiaozi, they have to match some non-staple food to show their good luck. If you eat tofu, it symbolizes the happiness of the whole family; Eating persimmons symbolizes all the best; Eat three fresh vegetables. It symbolizes that Sanyang opens Thailand. People in Taiwan Province Province eat fish balls, meatballs and seaweed, symbolizing reunion and wealth. Jiaozi has various fillings and making methods. Even the same kind of jiaozi has different ways of eating: Daur people in Inner Mongolia and Heilongjiang want to cook jiaozi with vermicelli broth. Then even the soup with jiaozi to eat; In some areas of Henan, jiaozi is cooked with noodles, which is called "gold thread penetrates gold ingot". Jiaozi cuisine not only brings joy to people, but also becomes an important part of China's food culture. Third, after the New Year's Eve, every household's house is completely dressed up, and New Year's Eve is approaching. Therefore, housewives are busy preparing the most abundant and meaningful reunion dinner in a year. A family reunion dinner, as its name implies, is a family gathering for dinner during the Chinese New Year, and even the deceased ancestors will not forget it. Therefore, after a good reunion dinner, every household should first "worship their husbands" (worship their ancestors). When offering sacrifices to ancestors, the incense burner representing ancestors should be removed from the shrine, put on the altar, and then burn incense to pray and invite ancestors to dinner. Then the old and the young bowed down in turn, fully demonstrating the traditional virtues of the hipsters, being cautious to the end, pursuing the distance, and putting all virtues first. After the sacrifice, the food for ancestor worship was reheated, and a big table was set in the hall, and the whole family gathered around. This is a wonderful time for every family to get together. No matter how far apart the family is at ordinary times, or how many zits there are at ordinary times, we should talk and laugh at this time, and we should not say anything sad or make noise. After dinner, housewives were busy clearing the table, so a cleaning activity began. This time, we don't have to care too much about cleaning, just for cleaning. Unlike the time at the end of the year, you have to brush pine grass. Go to Baidu ~