Customs of the Spring Festival in Wuhan: The Spring Festival is an ancient festival in my country and the most important festival throughout the year. How to celebrate this festival has formed some relatively fixed customs and habits over thousands of years of historical development, and many of them are still passed down from generation to generation. to date.

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.

According to folklore: because "dust" and "chen" are homophonic, sweeping dust in the New Year means "removing the old and spreading the new", and its purpose is to sweep away all bad luck and bad luck.

This custom entrusts people with their desire to destroy the old and establish the new and their prayers to say goodbye to the old and usher in the new.

Every Spring Festival comes, every household has to clean the environment, wash all kinds of utensils, remove and wash bedding and curtains, sweep the Liulv courtyard, dust away dirt and cobwebs, and dredge open ditches and ditches.

Everywhere is filled with the joyful atmosphere of doing hygiene and welcoming the New Year cleanly.

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 a unique literary form in my country.

Every Spring Festival, every household, whether in urban or rural areas, selects a red Spring Festival couplet and pastes it on the door to add a festive atmosphere to the festival.

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 "Cong Hua on the Threshold Couplets" explains the origin of the couplets and the characteristics of various works.

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There are many types of Spring Festival couplets, which can be divided into door centers, frame pairs, horizontal drapes, spring strips, squares, etc. according to the place of use.

The "door center" is affixed to the upper center of the door panel; the "frame pair" is affixed to the left and right door frames; the "horizontal stripe" is affixed to the crossbar of the door; the "spring strips" are affixed to the corresponding places according to different contents;

"Dojin" is also called "door leaf", which is square and diamond-shaped, and is often attached to furniture and screen walls.

Sticking window grilles and pasting the word "福" upside down. Folks also like to stick various paper-cuts - window grilles - on their windows.

Window grilles not only enhance the festive atmosphere, but also integrate decoration, appreciation and practicality.

Paper-cutting is a very popular folk art in my country and has been loved by people for thousands of years. Because it is mostly pasted on windows, it is also called "window flower".

With its unique summary and exaggeration techniques, window grilles vividly express auspicious symbols and good wishes, decorating the festival with prosperity and splendor.

While pasting Spring Festival couplets, some families will paste the word "福" in large and small sizes on their house doors, walls and lintels.

Posting the word "福" during the Spring Festival is a long-standing folk custom in my country.

The word "福" refers to blessing and luck, expressing people's yearning for a happy life and their wishes for a better future.

In order to more fully reflect this yearning and wish, some people simply paste the word "福" upside down to express "happiness has arrived" and "blessing has arrived".

Folks also use the word "Fu" to make various patterns in detail, such as longevity stars, longevity peaches, carps jumping over dragon gates, good harvests, dragons and phoenixes, etc.

New Year Pictures Hanging and pasting New Year pictures during the Spring Festival is also very common in urban and rural areas. The thick black and colorful New Year pictures add a lot of prosperity and joy to thousands of households.

New Year pictures are an ancient folk art in my country, reflecting the people's simple customs and beliefs and reposing their hopes for the future.

New Year pictures, like Spring Festival couplets, originated from the "door god".

With the rise of woodblock printing, the content of New Year paintings is no longer limited to monotonous themes such as door gods, but has become rich and colorful. In some New Year painting workshops, "Three Stars of Fortune, Luxury and Longevity", "Blessings from Heavenly Officials", "Five Grain"

Classic color New Year pictures such as "Prosperous Harvest", "Prosperity of Six Livestocks", "Welcoming Spring and Receiving Good Luck" can satisfy people's good wishes of celebrating the good year.

There are three important producing areas of New Year paintings in our country: Taohuawu in Suzhou, Yangliuqing in Tianjin and Weifang in Shandong. They have formed three major schools of Chinese New Year paintings, each with its own characteristics.

The earliest New Year paintings collected in our country today are the woodcut New Year paintings of the Southern Song Dynasty called "The Slender Face Appears with the Beauty of a Country" in the Southern Song Dynasty. It depicts four ancient beauties: Wang Zhaojun, Zhao Feiyan, Ban Ji and Lu Zhu.

The most widely circulated among the people is a New Year painting of "Mouse Marriage".

It depicts an interesting scene of a mouse marrying a bride according to human customs.

In the early years of the Republic of China, Shanghai Zheng Mantuo combined the calendar with New Year pictures.

This is a new form of New Year pictures.

This two-in-one New Year picture later developed into a wall calendar, which is now popular all over the country.

Keeping the year old on New Year's Eve is one of the most important annual activities. The custom of keeping the year old has been around for a long time.

The earliest record can be found in the "Fengtu Zhi" of Zhouchu in the Western Jin Dynasty: On New Year's Eve, each person greets each other with gifts, which is called "giving the new year";

"Dividing the year old"; everyone stays up all night waiting for dawn, which is called "keeping the year old".

"One night lasts two years, and the fifth watch divides two days." On New Year's Eve, the whole family gets together to have New Year's Eve dinner, light candles or oil lamps, sit around the fire and chat, waiting for the moment to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new. The all-night vigil symbolizes

Drive away all evil plagues and diseases, and look forward to a prosperous new year.

This custom gradually became popular. In the early Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin, Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, wrote a poem about "keeping the year old": "The cold leaves the winter snow, and the warmth brings the spring breeze."

To this day, people are still used to staying up late on New Year's Eve to welcome the new year.

In ancient times, staying up late had two meanings: older people staying up late meant "saying goodbye to the old year", which meant cherishing time; young people staying up late meant staying up late to extend the life of their parents.