Chinese New Year custom of Han nationality;
Generally, we mainly eat rice cakes, jiaozi, Ciba, glutinous rice balls, poached eggs, big meatballs, whole fish, wine, oranges, apples, peanuts, melon seeds, sweets, fragrant tea and dishes. Accompanied by many activities, such as dust removal, washing bedding, preparing new year's goods, pasting Spring Festival couplets, pasting New Year pictures, pasting paper-cuts, pasting blessings, lighting candles, lighting fires, setting off firecrackers, observing the New Year, giving lucky money, visiting relatives, visiting ancestral graves, visiting flower markets, and creating social fires, this is extremely pleasant.
China New Year is like New Year's Eve, especially about:
First of all, the whole family must get together, and those who cannot return for some reason must leave a seat and a set of tableware to show the significance of reunion; Second, the food is rich, paying attention to "oral color", calling rice cakes "step by step", jiaozi "Wanshun", drinks "running water", eggs "big gold ingot" and goldfish "more than a year"; This kind of fish is not allowed to eat. It is called "Kanyu" and must be kept until the first day of school. In areas where there are no fish in the north, it is mostly replaced by carved wooden fish; Third, the seats are orderly, most of them are ancestors. The grandson is in the middle and the father is below. Men, women and children should drink. Close the door when eating, and the excitement will stop. In fact, the Han people still have many customs during the Spring Festival. For example, the north eats jiaozi during the Spring Festival, which means reunion, saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new.
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What is the custom of Chinese New Year in Guangdong?
Guangdong, like the whole country, began to prepare for the Spring Festival, but the Spring Festival in Guangdong has its own local characteristics. From the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month to the 15th day of the first lunar month, the nearly one month is called "Chinese New Year", which is now called "Spring Festival period". If we start with the preparation of "Spring Festival", we will enter a busy year from the fifteenth day of the twelfth lunar month, and then decorate the house, buy new furniture, new supplies, add new clothes, and buy and make Chinese New Year food. On the first day of the old society, beggars or children had the custom of "sending the god of wealth" in the morning. They wrote the word "God of Wealth" on a small piece of red paper and shouted "God of Wealth has arrived" at every door. When the host heard the sound of opening the door, he took a small piece of red paper "God of Wealth" and replied a letter of "Shili".
On the first day of the old custom, the family ate breakfast and began to celebrate the New Year. The younger generation congratulates the elders, and then the peers bow to congratulate each other. When you salute, you should say some auspicious greetings to each other. After the ceremony, the elders will give red envelopes to fewer people to benefit the market. Then go out to pay New Year greetings, from relatives to friends. When you pay New Year's greetings, you should bring homemade fried piles, oil angle and fruits as gifts.
Social customs and habits
1. The spring flower market was held on1from February 28th to the middle of New Year's Eve, and millions of people attended it.
2. arranging flowers. Every family must buy it, including placing oranges, daffodils and arranging flowers.
3. At the beginning of the Spring Festival, the first thing is to paste the door gods and couplets.
Giving lucky money is an important part of this custom. The elders should give money to the younger generation, and the younger generation who can make money should also give money to the elders. On the morning of New Year's Day, the first thing to do is to pay New Year's greetings to the family. Often, the younger generation pays New Year's greetings to the elders first. After breakfast, each of them pays a New Year call to relatives and friends. But not far away.
5. Xie Zao: On the 23rd night of the twelfth lunar month, it is called "Xie Zao", "Sending Zao" or "Sacrificing Zao". Tributes to the stove include: a bowl of rice, two pieces of sugar, a gift, a bowl of water, a gift of roast pork, some sugar cane, oranges, paper money and so on.
On the second and third day of the first month, married daughters will take their husbands and children back to their parents' home for the New Year. My daughter went back to her parents' house.
7. Eat seven dishes on the seventh day of the first month, and then the whole family will go out to play at 7: 20.
8, 12 points, stay at home.
9. Cantonese people must buy a pot of kumquat, a pot of daffodils or a peach blossom for the New Year. Why is peach blossom a tree, not a tree? Yes, Cantonese people bought a whole peach tree and went home. Peach blossoms are to Cantonese what Christmas trees are to Westerners. Guangdong people have a soft spot for flowers. Whether elegant or vulgar, we should buy old ones such as peach blossoms and mix them with all kinds of flowers during the New Year.
10, Guangdong. Unlike other provinces, lions are called "lion awakening". It has Guangdong characteristics in production and dance. Guangdong lion dance originated from the lion dance in Foshan during the Spring Festival. Besides performing in the square, it also dances along the street and pays homage to the lion from door to door to show that the lion is awake, safe and auspicious. The owner offered a reward to the door and let the Swiss lion pick it. This is the so-called "picking green". Take this activity to hope that the lion can bring good luck home. Followed by dragon dance, Guangdong dragon dance, various names, different dragon dances, entrusted with people's different ideals and wishes. The Spring Festival is a festive day, and most dancers are enthusiastic colored dragons, golden dragons and gauze skirts. They dance dragons during the day and play dragon lanterns at night. As for playing football, it was a traditional culture long ago.
Taboos and habits of Cantonese people
According to the old custom of "Laoguang", you can't wash your hair on the first day of the Lunar New Year, so as not to wash away your wealth; The second day of the lunar new year is the beginning of the new year. From the New Year's Eve, we can't eat meat until today. It's a red mouth on the third day of New Year's Eve, so don't pay New Year's greetings, it's easy to get into trouble; There are countless details about the lathe worker's birthday, Everyone's Day and so on. Also, you can't buy shoes during the Spring Festival, because the Cantonese pronunciation of "shoes" is the same as "alas"; Buying books is even worse. The pronunciation of the book is the same as "lose", and it is even more taboo to be afraid of "lose, lose" all year round. At major festivals, wedding banquets and birthday banquets, I am used to saying auspicious words instead of discouraging words. If someone accidentally breaks a plate, they will say "Peace through the years" or "Flowers bloom everywhere and prosper".
China's New Year's Diet
Bombing is a must for every family. The stuffing of the fried pile is a mixture of glutinous rice and sugar gum. Stir-fry glutinous rice until it bursts, and shell it. Fried dumpling skin is made of glutinous rice flour, which is very thin and covered with sesame seeds. The whole fried pile is fried in boiling oil until golden brown. Not so particular now. Some people make fried piles, while others don't put stuffing. There is also oil angle, which has soft corners, crisp corners and crisp corners.
There are also essential melon seeds for the Spring Festival, including red melon seeds and black melon seeds, as well as "modern" melon seeds (sunflower seeds). China candy includes sugar lotus root, sugar lotus seed, sugar water chestnut, sugar wax gourd, sugar orange cake, sugar coconut horn and sugar coconut slices.
Pastries include rice cakes, radish cakes, taro cakes, water chestnut cakes, nine-layer cakes and muffins. This means a better life during the Spring Festival. The rice cake is also called "big cage cake", which is named because the container for the rice cake can be a bamboo cage with a large opening. Rich people make a rice cake with dozens of kilograms of rice, and red dates and cypress branches are inserted on the golden cake surface, which means good luck. The Cantonese dialect of radish is called "Caitou", which is the homonym of "vegetable" and "wealth". Eating radish cake in the New Year means making money and treasure. Water chestnut cake is made of water chestnut, which is called "water chestnut" in Cantonese dialect. Eating water chestnut cake in the New Year can clear away heat and eliminate stagnation. Its effect of regulating appetite has been proved by practice, and it also has the meaning of "non-stop" and self-improvement.
There are many kinds of New Year's dishes in Guangdong, which are auspicious. Ordinary dishes are also given beautiful names, which makes people enjoy them. For example, the hands of Nostoc flagelliforme and oyster sauce are called "making a fortune", while the fried pork tongue with sauerkraut (called Julie in Guangzhou) is called "win-win", the fried fresh lily is called "a hundred years of harmony", the mushroom with vegetable gall is called "money everywhere" and the fish-slippery tofu pot is called "peace for all ages". There are also a variety of chicken products, such as "Feng Dan Chao Yang", "Hundred birds Chao Feng" and "Dragon and Phoenix auspicious". Chicken is an essential part of China's New Year's dishes, as the saying goes, "Nothing can be done without chicken".
Well, there is also roast pork, which symbolizes the chastity of marriage and the prosperity of the Spring Festival. At the lunch on the first day of the Lunar New Year, you must also eat vegetarian dishes blindly, commonly known as "Luohanzhai", which is made of pickles, fungus, vermicelli and shrimp. Some people also steam bacon, but you should eat "Zhai" before lifting chopsticks.