Customs in the days before the Spring Festival (selected 6 articles) Customs in the days before the Spring Festival.

The Spring Festival is a very grand festival in our country. The Spring Festival is a day of great reunions. There are also some customs and habits in the days before the Spring Festival.

Next, I will take you through the customs related to the days before the Spring Festival.

Customs a few days before the Spring Festival 1 1. On the 25th of the twelfth lunar month, grinding mills and making tofu.

"Making tofu" has a symbolic meaning.

The Chinese words "fu" and "福" have similar pronunciations, and making tofu means "harvesting happiness and blessings in the New Year."

2. On the twenty-sixth day of the twelfth lunar month, pigs are killed to cut the New Year meat.

In the past, many people could not afford meat, so they looked forward to having a meat meal for New Year's Eve dinner.

In traditional belief, meat represents wealth.

The most famous holiday meat is "braised pork".

3. On the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth lunar month, there is a big market for slaughtering chickens.

The Chinese word "chicken" has a similar pronunciation to the word "ji" in "jixiang". The Chinese will keep a complete chicken (the head, tail and feet are all kept), which represents the meaning of reunion.

4. On the twenty-eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, make your face hair.

On the 26th and 27th, the meat for the New Year is prepared. On the 28th, it is time to prepare the staple food.

5. On the twenty-ninth day of the twelfth lunar month, go get a drink.

Since the food has been prepared in the past few days, the Chinese will prepare some wine in the coming days.

You can see that what is written here is "get wine", not "buy wine".

This is because in the old days, many people could not afford to buy wine in bottles.

They use their own bottles or plastic bags and go to the wine shop to buy wine, where the wine will be placed in a large container.

Customs in the days before the Spring Festival 2 1. Pasting couplets Spring couplets are also called door couplets, spring posts, couplets, couplets, peach charms, etc. They describe the background of the times and express good wishes with neat, dual, concise and exquisite words. They are unique literature of our country.

form.

Every Spring Festival, every household will post couplets to celebrate the arrival of the New Year.

This custom originated in the Song Dynasty and became popular in the Ming Dynasty. By the Qing Dynasty, the ideological and artistic quality of Spring Festival couplets had been greatly improved. Liang Zhangju’s Spring Festival Couplets monograph "Three Couples on the Threshold" has a detailed introduction to the origin of the couplets and the development of various works.

The characteristics are discussed.

2. Sweeping dust "On the twenty-fourth day of the twelfth lunar month, dust and sweep the house." According to "Lu Spring and Autumn Annals", my country had the custom of sweeping dust during the Spring Festival in the era of Yao and Shun.

The meaning of sweeping dust is to sweep away all bad luck and bad luck, hoping that life will be better in the coming year.

3. New Year greetings On the first day of the New Year, people get up early, put on their most beautiful clothes, dress up neatly, go out to visit relatives and friends, pay New Year greetings to each other, and wish each other good luck in the coming year.

When paying New Year's greetings during the Spring Festival, the younger generation should first pay New Year greetings to their elders and wish them longevity and health. The elders can give the younger generation the New Year's money prepared in advance. It is said that the New Year's money can suppress evil spirits, because "Sui" and "祟" are homophonic, so the younger generation will receive the New Year's money.

You can spend one year in peace.

4. Staying up late Chinese people have the habit of staying up late on New Year’s Eve, which is commonly known as “staying up late”.

The New Year's Eve dinner starts with the New Year's Eve dinner. This New Year's Eve dinner should be eaten slowly, starting from the time when the lanterns are turned on. Some people have to eat until late at night.

According to Zong Mao's "Jingchu Years' Records", the custom of eating New Year's Eve dinner has existed at least in the Southern and Northern Dynasties.

The custom of keeping the year old includes not only a feeling of nostalgia for the passing years, but also a good hope for the coming New Year.

5. Eat New Year’s Eve dinner. Eating New Year’s Eve dinner is the most lively and happy time for every household during the Spring Festival.

On New Year’s Eve, the table is filled with sumptuous New Year’s dishes. The whole family is reunited, sitting around the table and having the reunion dinner together. The sense of fulfillment in my heart is really indescribable.

6. Give New Year's money. The New Year's money is given by the elders to the younger ones. In some families, after the New Year's Eve dinner, everyone sits at the table and is not allowed to leave. When everyone has finished eating, the elders give it to the younger ones and encourage their children and grandchildren.

In the new year, learn to make progress and be a good person.

7. Ancestor worship. This custom was very popular in ancient times.

Due to the different etiquette and customs in different places, the forms of ancestor worship are also different. Some go to the wild to visit their ancestors' tombs, some go to the ancestral hall to worship their ancestors, and most of them place the ancestor's tablets in the main hall in sequence at home, display the offerings, and then the worshipers press the long

The younger ones offer incense and kneel down in order.

8. Burn firecrackers. There is a Chinese folk saying of "opening firecrackers".

That is to say, when the New Year arrives, the first thing every household does when they open the door is to set off firecrackers, with the sound of beeping firecrackers to get rid of the old and welcome the new.

Firecrackers are a specialty of China, also known as "firecrackers", "firecrackers" and "firecrackers".

It originated very early and has a history of more than 2,000 years.