1, Lunar New Year 23: sacrificial stove

China's Spring Festival, generally from the sacrificial stove to open the prelude. Zaosi, is a folk in our country has a great influence, widely spread custom. In the old days, almost every family had a Zao Wang Wang god in the stove.

2, Lunar New Year's Eve: dust

Lunar New Year's Eve, dust sweeping the house, according to the "Lui's Spring and Autumn Annals" records, our country in the era of Yao and Shun on the Spring Festival dust sweeping custom. According to folklore: because of the dust and Chen resonance, dust sweeping in the New Year in addition to the new meaning of Chen Bu Xin, the intention is to sweep out all the poor luck, bad luck. This custom is to support people's desire to break with the old and welcome the new and pray for the old. Whenever the Spring Festival comes, every household has to clean up the environment, wash all kinds of appliances, dismantle and wash the bedding curtains, sweep the six capitals of the courtyard, dusting dust cobwebs, dredge the nullahs and ditches. Everywhere overflowing with happy health, clean and welcome the New Year happy atmosphere.

3, Lunar New Year 25: pick up the Jade Emperor

The old custom is that after the God of the stove in the sky, the Jade Emperor in the lunar calendar on the 25th day of the twelfth month, personally down, to investigate the good and evil on earth, and set the next year of misfortune and happiness, so all the family sacrifices to pray for blessings, known as the pick up the Jade Emperor. On this day, we should be careful in our living and speaking, and strive for good performance in order to win the Jade Emperor's heart and blessings in the coming year.

4, Lunar New Year 27: 28 bath

Traditional folklore in these two days to focus on bathing, laundry, remove a year of bad luck, ready to meet the next year of New Year, the capital has twenty-seven to wash the guilt, twenty-eight to wash the sloppy proverbs. Lunar month twenty-six bath for the washing of the blessing.

5, Lunar New Year's Eve: 30: New Year's Eve stickers, posting Spring Festival couplets, the New Year's Eve, firecrackers, eat New Year's Eve dinner, to the New Year's Eve money, ancestor worship

New Year's Eve means the month of the poor end of the year, people want to get rid of the old part of the new, there is the old year to this year, the next year, another change in the new year meaning, the lunar calendar is the last night of the year. Therefore, the activities during this period are centered around the old part of the new, eliminate disasters and pray for blessings as the center.

All over China on New Year's Eve, there is the custom of posting the door god. Initially, the god of the door is carved mahogany for the human figure, hanging next to the person, and then painted into a portrait of the god of the door posted on the door.

6, the first day of the first month: the New Year

The morning of the Spring Festival, open the door, the first firecrackers, called the opening of the door cannonball. After the sound of firecrackers, broken red all over the ground, brilliant as a cloud, known as the full red. At this time, the street is full of auspicious gas, joyful.

An important activity in the Spring Festival, is to new friends and neighbors to congratulate the New Year, the old term for New Year's Eve. On the first day of the new year, people get up early, put on the most beautiful clothes, dressed neatly, go out to visit friends and relatives, pay respect to each other, wishing good luck in the coming year. Worship a variety of ways, there are a number of people led by the same patriarch to go door to door to pay tribute to the New Year; there are colleagues invited to pay tribute to a few people; there are also gathered together to congratulate each other, known as the group worship. Because of the time-consuming and laborious door-to-door New Year's greetings, after some of the upper-class people and the scholarly elite will use the posters to throw congratulations to each other, which developed after the New Year's greetings piece. Spring Festival to pay homage to the New Year, the younger generation should first pay homage to the elders, wish the elders a long life and well-being, the elders can be prepared beforehand the New Year's Eve money to the elders, it is said that the New Year's Eve money can hold down the evil spirits, because of the age of the year and the spirit of harmony, the elders to get the New Year's Eve money can be safe and secure through the year.

Spring Festival handbook information text (2):

China has many traditional festivals, but I like the Spring Festival best. Every New Year, beating gongs and drums, putting up lanterns and colors, sending the old and welcoming the new activities are lively, and every face is overflowing with the joy of Spring Festival.

I remember on the thirtieth day of the year to eat a reunion dinner, I morning a bed, put on the new clothes that my mother bought for me, happy! A moment later the family gathered grandpa, grandma, aunt, uncle, so lively. Grandma prepared a table full of dishes for us, including fish, duck, turkey hot pot, and my favorite skinny meatballs. I also helped pour the drinks and set up the dishes.

After dinner, the whole family gathered together to watch the Spring Festival Gala, the program can be wonderful. There were skits, songs, and dances

The night sky at the Spring Festival was even more beautiful, and the beautiful fireworks dotted the dark sky with colors. Some are like budding flowers, and some are like shooting stars passing by in a flash, dazzling people. Children in the square to catch up, laughing,

In the distance also came: crackling sound, perhaps the atmosphere of the festival!

Spring Festival is really a lively, joyful festival.

Spring Festival handbook information text (3):

Spring Festival customs

Old Beijing Spring Festival Temple Fair

Spring Festival, commonly known as the New Year. In addition to general New Year's customs, temple fairs were the main custom of New Year's Eve in Beijing in the old days. In addition to the familiar factory Dian, Wuxian Caixin Temple (the second to the sixteenth), Dongyue Temple (the first to the fifteenth), Baiyunguan (the first to the nineteenth) are famous temple fairs, the most rich in Beijing New Year's Eve characteristics.

Wuxian Zaoshen Temple official activities from the second day of the first month. Early in the morning of the second day, to the God of Wealth Temple incense, in addition to the rich and famous, the vast majority of bicycles. They are mostly dressed in a variety of satin and cotton robes, covered with a waistcoat or kangshan, wearing a fine felt bowler hat. Incense from the city out of the issue of Guang'anmen to the south, of course, the basic wind, (because Beijing winter more northwest). But once out of Guang'anmen have to go against the wind.

The paper fish, with a bamboo split with a white line tethered to the handheld; there are strings, clay tires, outside the gold and silver foil gold and silver dollar, also tethered to the bamboo split. There is another kind of windmill with sound. This windmill system with thin gimlets and colored paper strips into a wind wheel, installed in the Panicum frame, each wind wheel with a white line tied to a pair of small drum legs, beating a clay masked paper drum, the wind a blow, BuHuoLing straight sound.

This kind of windmill has a single, four or even a dozen connected together.

The windmills can be single, four or even a dozen in a row. In the evening, when the sun is flat in the west, you just need to Renli street, you can see one bicycle after another to form a turbulent flow of traffic.

Northeastern New Year's Eve

The Northeastern people pay attention to the New Year's Eve to be lively and festive, and the New Year's Eve customs are also very many.

Eating dumplings with coins for good luck

Eating dumplings on New Year's Eve is a custom of the northern people. Northeastern folk in the New Year's Eve, there is a customary New Year's Eve. On the night of New Year's Eve, we must eat dumplings, only a few dumplings with coins in the many dumplings (at the moment people pay attention to hygiene, with peanuts or other nuts instead.)

Whoever eats such dumplings will have good luck in the new year, and have auspicious intentions.

In addition, the Northeast people in the first five days must eat dumplings, also known as broken five, is to bite the dumplings, implying that the inauspicious things are destroyed, there is a drive away disaster to avoid the meaning of evil.

Shaanxi customs

Spring Festival folklore, in all parts of the country is similar. Shaanxi folk style is simple, the Spring Festival with a strong local flavor and local characteristics. The first day of the year. In ancient times, the year was not on the twenty-ninth or thirtieth day of the waxing moon, but on the day of the waxing moon, that is, after the waxing moon. It was only after the Northern and Southern Dynasties that the Lunar New Year festival was moved to the end of the year. To the Republic of China, the change to the solar calendar, only the lunar year called the Spring Festival, because the Spring Festival are generally in the spring, and therefore called it the Spring Festival. Thirty nights to stay up all night, the first day of the New Year to twist the ballad to be able to understand the Beijing during the Spring Festival food how rich. The ballad lists Lapa congee, fried tofu, mutton stew and so on, are the Spring Festival old Beijing food.

Shanghai: Shanghai people eat on the first day of the Lunar New Year dumplings, rice cakes, bee cakes, rice cakes, cloud cakes, etc., a symbol of high year, step by step. In addition, eating soybean sprouts (also known as Ruyi vegetable) to symbolize all the best, and eating sprouts (soaked with broad beans) to symbolize wealth.

The Northeast: people in the Northeast after the waxing moon will first kill a pig, invite the village to eat a meal to celebrate. The first thing you need to do is to make sure that you have the right kind of food, and that you have the right kind of food. The most important thing is to make sure that you have a good understanding of what you are doing and how you are doing it. The first day of the year and the fifth day of the year, they eat dumplings.

Yu Nan: Yu Nan area New Year's Eve dinner at midnight, when the New Year's bell ringing and then served a plate of fish, to show that year after year. On the morning of the first day, the dumplings and noodles are cooked and eaten together, and the noodles represent the money string, which is the meaning of wealth.

Hunan: Hunan people will eat chicken, meat and fish on New Year's Eve. Chicken is required to be a male chicken, will be stewed, plate to let its head up; fish to choose chub, will be stewed and then sprinkled with red chili powder on the top, symbolizing the annual surplus, grains and abundance.