The Spring Festival, commonly known as "Chinese New Year" and "Chinese New Year", is a grand and distinctive ancient folk festival in China and one of the most lively traditional festivals. The following are some folk customs during the Spring Festival. How many do you know?

folk customs of the spring festival

1. offering sacrifices to the kitchen stove

in ancient times, people believed that the good words spoken by the kitchen god in front of the jade emperor would bring happiness to the family and wish it well in the coming year. So every year on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, every household will worship the Kitchen God and ask him to say more beautiful and auspicious words after last week.

second, stove sugar

a kind of maltose, also called sesame sugar, is very sticky. Those that grow into strips are called "Kwantung Sugar" and those that grow into oblate circles are called "cantaloupe". Put it outside in winter, because the weather is cold, the melon is strong and there are some tiny bubbles in it. It tastes crisp and sweet, and has a unique flavor.

Third, sweep the dust

There is a folk saying "Sweep the house with dust on the 24th of the twelfth lunar month". After the kitchen sacrifice, we officially began to prepare for the New Year. Cleaning is year-end cleaning, which is called "cleaning" in the north and "dust removal" in the south. Cleaning the dust before the Spring Festival is a traditional habit of China people. On the day of dust removal, the whole family began to clean the house and yard, scrub pots and pans, remove and wash bedding, and greet the New Year cleanly. In fact, people use the homonym of "Chen" and "Chen" to express their will to destroy Chen and the old.

IV. Temple Fair

Visiting temple fairs is one of the folk activities during the Spring Festival. Guangfu Temple Fair and Beijing ditan temple fair are also called the two major temple fairs in China. It covers such theme activities as puppet show, Chinese unique skills, Wulin Congress, Lantern Festival, etc., and contains rich contents such as blessing culture, folk culture, food culture, business and leisure culture.

5. Burning firecrackers

There is a folk saying in China that "open the door for firecrackers". That is, at the arrival of the new year, the first thing for every household to open the door is to burn firecrackers to eliminate the old and welcome the new with the sound of firecrackers. Fireworks are a specialty of China, also known as "firecrackers", "firecrackers", "firecrackers" and "firecrackers". Its origin is very early. Regarding the evolution of firecrackers, Excellent Popular Arrangement records: "Ancient firecrackers. All of them are popular with real bamboo, so Tang poetry is also called explosive pole. Later generations rolled paper for it. Called "firecrackers".

The original purpose of firecrackers is to welcome gods and drive away ghosts. Later, with its strong festive color, it developed into a symbol to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new. Burning firecrackers can create a festive and lively atmosphere, which is a kind of entertainment in festivals and can bring happiness and good luck to people.

These are the folk customs I know about the Spring Festival. What other customs do you know, my friends? Welcome to add, let's meet in the comment area ~