1, the first day of the first month

Since the beginning of the year, we have entered the theme of New Year greetings, ancestor worship and blessing. At the beginning of the new year, firecrackers, fireworks and other activities to celebrate the New Year reached a climax. Firecrackers bid farewell to the old year and fireworks filled the sky to welcome the new year. On the morning of the Spring Festival, firecrackers are first set off, which is called "setting off firecrackers" to send the old and welcome the new. After the firecrackers, the ground is broken red, which is called "full house". On the first day of the first month, we welcome the New Year and pay a New Year call.

2, the second day of the first month

On the second day of New Year's Day, people worship the gods of heaven and earth in the morning. After the ceremony, they will set off firecrackers and paper money, and then eat "New Year's Eve". This kind of "New Year's Eve" is usually made of seaweed, lettuce and fish. , intended to make money, lilu. The daughter who got married on this day went back to her mother's house and asked her husband to go with her, so it was commonly known as "Wedding Day". Daughters who go back to their parents' home must bring some gifts and red envelopes to their children and have lunch at their parents' home. According to the "Challenge Book", the second day of the first month is "Dog Day".

3, the third day of the first month

New Year's Day, also known as Red Dog Day, is homophonic with "red mouth" and usually does not go out to pay New Year's greetings. It is said that it is easy to quarrel with people on this day. However, this custom has long been out of date, because few people get together in the Spring Festival now, and it has faded a lot.

The customs of the Spring Festival

The Spring Festival is the biggest traditional folk festival in China, and it is also a folk festival integrating collective blessing, celebration, entertainment and food. The Spring Festival has a long history, which evolved from the sacrificial rites of praying for the New Year at the beginning of ancient times, and bears rich historical and cultural connotations in its inheritance and development. New Year's greeting activities are centered on offering wishes and praying for blessings, and are carried out in the form of eliminating the old, worshipping ancestors, exorcising evil spirits and praying for a bumper harvest. The content is rich and colorful, lively and festive, and the annual flavor is rich, which embodies the essence of traditional culture of Chinese civilization.

Chinese New Year has a long history. In the process of inheritance and development, some relatively fixed customs have been formed, many of which have been passed down to this day, such as buying new year's goods, sweeping dust, posting couplets, eating New Year's Eve, celebrating New Year's Eve, dancing dragons and lions, worshipping ancestors, praying for disaster relief, worshipping gods, gambling boats, temple fairs, playing gongs and drums, putting lanterns and enjoying flowers, etc. Traditional festival ceremonies and related custom activities are important contents of festival elements, bearing rich and colorful festival cultural connotations.