The Spring Festival is an ancient festival. After so many years of accumulation, it will certainly form a distinctive festival feature. Among the people, there are many customs circulating in the Spring Festival. Here I bring you the traditional folk customs of the Spring Festival. Welcome to read. What are the traditional folk customs in the Spring Festival? 1

Sweep the dust

"Sweep the dust and sweep the house on the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month". According to "Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals", China had the custom of sweeping the dust in the Spring Festival in the Yao and Shun era. According to the folk saying: Because of the homonym of "dust" and "Chen", sweeping dust in the Spring Festival has the meaning of "except Chen Buxin", and its intention is to sweep away all bad luck and bad luck. Whenever the Spring Festival comes, every household should clean the environment, clean all kinds of appliances, tear down and wash bedding curtains, sweep the six yards, dust cobwebs and dredge open channels and culverts.

everywhere is filled with the joyful atmosphere of engaging in sanitation and welcoming the Spring Festival cleanly.

observing new year's eve

observing new year's eve is one of the most important annual customs, and the custom of observing new year's eve has a long history. The earliest record was found in the "Local Records" in the Western Jin Dynasty: on New Year's Eve, all parties gave gifts, which was called "giving the year back"; Wine and food are invited, which is called "don't be old"; It is called "dividing the age" when the young and the old gather to drink and wish a complete song; Everyone stays up all night, waiting for the morning, which is called "keeping the old age".

since the Han dynasty, the time when the old and new years alternate is usually at midnight.

New Year greeting

The New Year greeting card, which is popular in modern society, has been implemented in ancient China. As early as the Song Dynasty, new year card, a special New Year greeting, was used between the families and relatives of imperial nobles and literati, and it was called "name thorn" or "name sticker". It is to cut plum blossom stationery into cards about two inches wide and three inches long, and write your name and address on them. A red paper bag called "door book" is stuck on each door, on which the owner's name is written to receive the name thorn (name sticker). Worshipers put their names on the door book, which means to pay New Year greetings, and its significance is the same as that of modern New Year cards.

Sticking Spring Festival couplets

The custom of sticking Spring Festival couplets began about 1 years ago in the post-Shu period, which is proved by history. Spring Festival couplets are also called door-to-door couplets, spring stickers, couplets, couplets, peach symbols, etc. They depict the background of the times and express good wishes with neat, dual, concise and exquisite words, which is a unique literary form in China. Every Spring Festival, no matter in urban or rural areas, every household should select a red Spring Festival couplets and stick them on the door to add festive atmosphere to the festival. This custom began in the Song Dynasty and became popular in the Ming Dynasty. By the Qing Dynasty, the ideology and artistry of Spring Festival couplets had been greatly improved. Liang Zhangju's monograph "Poems on Spring Festival couplets" discussed the origin of couplets and the characteristics of various works. There are many kinds of Spring Festival couplets, which can be divided into door heart, frame pair, cross-dressing, spring strip and bucket square according to their places of use. The "door core" is attached to the center of the upper end of the door panel; The "frame pair" is attached to the left and right door frames; "Cross-dressing" is attached to the crossbar of the door; "Spring strips" are posted in corresponding places according to different contents; "Dou Jin", also called "door leaf", is a square diamond, which is often attached to furniture and screen walls.

window grilles and the word "Fu"

Folk people also like to stick various paper-cuts on the windows-window grilles. Window grilles not only set off the festive atmosphere, but also integrate decoration, appreciation and practicality. Paper-cutting is a very popular folk art in China, which has been deeply loved by people for thousands of years. Because it is mostly pasted on windows, it is also called "window grilles". With its unique generalization and exaggeration, window grilles show auspicious things and good wishes incisively and vividly, and decorate the festival with splendor. At the same time of putting up Spring Festival couplets, some people have to put large and small "Fu" characters on the doors, walls and lintels. Sticking the word "Fu" during the Spring Festival is a long-standing folk custom in China. The word "Fu" refers to good fortune and good fortune, which places people's longing for a happy life and wishes for a bright future. In order to fully reflect this yearning and wish, some people simply paste the word "fu" upside down, indicating that "happiness has arrived" and "blessing has arrived". There are also people who elaborate the word "Fu" into various patterns, such as longevity, longevity peach, carp jumping over the dragon gate, abundant grains, dragons and phoenixes, and so on.

Posting New Year pictures

Hanging 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 prosperous and happy festive atmosphere to thousands of families. New Year pictures are an ancient folk art in China, reflecting people's simple customs and beliefs, and pinning their hopes for the future. New Year pictures, like Spring Festival couplets, originated from "door gods". With the rise of woodblock printing, the content of New Year pictures is not limited to monotonous themes such as door gods, but has become rich and colorful. In some New Year pictures workshops, classic color New Year pictures such as Three Stars of Fu Lushou, heavenly god blesses the people, Harvest of Five Grains, Prosperity of Six Livestock, and Greeting the Spring with Happiness have been produced to meet people's good wishes of celebrating and praying for the New Year. There are three important producing areas of New Year pictures in China: Taohuawu in Suzhou, Yangliuqing in Tianjin and Weifang in Shandong; Three schools of Chinese New Year pictures have been formed, each with its own characteristics.

China's earliest collection of New Year pictures is the woodcut New Year pictures of "Beautiful with the Dynasty" in the Southern Song Dynasty, which depicts four ancient beauties: Wang Zhaojun, Zhao Feiyan, Banji and Lvzhu. The most popular among the people is a New Year picture of Marrying a Mouse. It depicts an interesting scene in which a mouse marries a bride according to human customs. In the early years of the Republic of China, Zheng Mantuo of Shanghai combined the calendar with the New Year pictures. This is a new form of New Year pictures. This new year's picture, which combines two into one, later developed into a calendar and has been popular all over the country.

Burning firecrackers

There is a folk saying in China that "opening firecrackers". That is, at the arrival of the new year, the first thing for every household to open the door is to set off firecrackers to eliminate the old and welcome the new with the sound of firecrackers. Firecrackers are a specialty of China, also known as "firecrackers", "firecrackers" and "firecrackers". Its origin is very early, and it has a history of more than two thousand years.

Setting off firecrackers can create a festive and lively atmosphere, and it is an entertainment activity in festivals, which can bring happiness and good luck to people. With the passage of time, the application of firecrackers has become more and more extensive, and the varieties and colors have become more and more numerous. Every major festival and happy event celebration, as well as marriage, building a house, opening a business, etc., firecrackers should be set off to celebrate and make a good luck. Liuyang in Hunan, Foshan and Dongyao in Guangdong, Yichun and Pingxiang in Jiangxi, Wenzhou in Zhejiang and other areas are the hometown of fireworks in China. The firecrackers produced are of various colors and high quality, which are not only sold well all over the country, but also exported to the world.

buying new year's goods

families in China have to buy a lot of "new year's goods", Spring Festival couplets, blessings, new clothes and food during the New Year (the market is mostly closed during the New Year). It is an important activity for China people to celebrate the Spring Festival. Compared with the past, the way people in China do new year's goods has become more modern, and they don't stick to tradition.

There is a special new year's goods in Shanxi: brushes and chopsticks must be bought every year, which means "quick hair". What are the traditional folk customs of the Spring Festival? 2

Specific contents of the Spring Festival customs 1. Chinese knots

Chinese knots are also called coiled knots, and each knot is woven with a red rope from beginning to end. China originated in ancient times, when there were no words. In order to remember some things, people put different knots on a rope to show their memory, which is called "knotting notes". At that time, people used this method not only to remember important things in production and life, but also to express their love for young people. As a decorative art, Chinese knots give people a simple and auspicious impression. It contains strong national flavor and elegant appearance, which not only embodies the mystery of ancient times, but also embodies the spirit of China people. Therefore, it soon became an object that people hung indoors or gave to each other during the Spring Festival. Beautiful modeling and antique charm add a peaceful and auspicious atmosphere to traditional festivals.

specific contents of the custom of the Spring Festival II. Happy New Year

Happy New Year is an important activity during the Spring Festival. Like the reunion dinner on New Year's Eve, it is the custom of the Spring Festival that best reflects the "taste of the year". Generally, the younger generation pays New Year greetings to their elders on the first day of the Lunar New Year, wishing them happiness as the East China Sea and longevity as the South Mountain. After the New Year, the general rule is to pay homage to one's family on the first day, to the Yue family on the second day and to relatives on the third day. Students, colleagues, friends, collaborators and neighbors should also pay New Year greetings to each other. In the sound of "Happy Chinese New Year", the distance between hearts has been narrowed and the feelings between people have been enhanced.

specific contents of the custom of the Spring Festival III. Visiting temple fairs

Visiting temple fairs is the Spring Festival complex of most China people and an indispensable annual custom. Temple fairs in the Spring Festival are the earliest folk religious ceremonies. At the time of temple fairs, monks and Taoist priests usually perform "rituals" or "Dojo" to offer sacrifices to the gods and buddhas. People also have to make pilgrimages, make vows, make vows and seek blessings.

The specific content of the custom of the Spring Festival IV. Posting the word "blessing" backwards

In our country, people often use the word "blessing" to express their yearning and pursuit for good fortune, good fortune and happiness. Whenever we bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new year, every household should put the word "Fu" on the door of the house, which means that we are blessed to enter the house. In many places, the word "Fu" is put upside down, which means "Fu is here" by using the homonym of "Dao" and "Dao".

specific contents of the custom of the spring festival v. observing the social fire

in addition to the temple fair, the social fire performed and entertained by the people is also an entertainment activity with a long history. Social fire originated from the ancient worship of land gods and fire gods. Society, the land god; Fire, the ancestor of fire, is the legendary Vulcan. The worship of ancient land and fire has produced the custom of offering sacrifices to the society and fire. With the development of society, the ceremony of offering sacrifices to social fires has gradually become a grand, rich and diverse folk entertainment activity.

specific contents of the custom of the Spring Festival VI. Drinking Laba porridge

When people enter the twelfth lunar month, they are busy preparing for the Spring Festival. The eighth day of the twelfth lunar month is the Laba Festival, and people "make porridge with fruits such as grains, dates and chestnuts, and offer sacrifices to farmers and ancestors". Laba Festival originated from the ancient Laba Festival, also known as La Worship or wax festival.

specific contents of the custom of the spring festival VII. offering sacrifices to the kitchen god

offering sacrifices to the kitchen is a custom with great influence and wide spread among the people in our country. In the old days, almost every kitchen had a "kitchen god" shrine. According to legend, he is the "Nine-day East Chef's Commander-in-Chief", who is in charge of the kitchen fires of various families. People call this god "Master-in-Chief Bodhisattva" or "Kitchen Master-in-Chief", and he is worshipped as the protector of a family.

specific contents of the custom of the spring festival VIII. Dust-sweeping

"24th, Dust-sweeping Day". To welcome the new, we must first get rid of the old. Sweeping the dust is the year-end cleaning, which is called "sweeping the house" in the north and "dusting" in the south. Sweeping the dust before the Spring Festival is a traditional custom in our country. On the day of dust-sweeping, the whole family worked together to clean the house and courtyard, scrub the pots and pans, remove and wash the bedding, and greet the New Year cleanly. In fact, people use the homonym of "dust" and "Chen" to express their willingness to get rid of the old and the old.

specific contents of the custom of the Spring Festival IX. Sticking Spring Festival couplets

Spring Festival couplets, commonly known as "door-to-door" or "spring post", are a kind of couplets, so they are called Spring Festival couplets because they are posted during the Spring Festival. Sticking Spring Festival couplets is an important folk custom in the New Year. On the eve of the Spring Festival, every household should put up red Spring Festival couplets. A pair of festive and warm Spring Festival couplets expresses people's good wishes to welcome the new year and look forward to a new life.

specific contents of the custom of the Spring Festival X. Sticking New Year pictures

New Year pictures, like Spring Festival couplets, originated from "door gods". With the rise of engraving printing, the content of New Year pictures is not limited to the door gods and so on, but gradually the god of wealth is invited to the home, and then colorful New Year pictures such as Three Stars of Fu Lushou, heavenly god blesses the people, Harvest of Five Grains, Prosperity of Six Livestock, Greeting the Spring and Blessing the New Year are produced in some New Year pictures workshops to meet people's good wishes of celebrating and praying for the New Year.

specific contents of the custom of the Spring Festival XI. Keeping New Year's Eve

New Year's Eve refers to the night of the last day of the year, which is connected with the Spring Festival from beginning to end, and is an important moment of "one night is even two years old, and five nights are divided into two years". "Except" means "going", and New Year's Eve means "the month is poor and the old year is exhausted", which means that the old year will be removed here and the new year will be replaced next year. New Year's Eve is the first climax of the New Year's Festival. Shounian, commonly known as "endure the New Year", begins with eating New Year's Eve. The New Year's Eve dinner is the most family-friendly and full of warmth and peace in a year. At this time, people not only enjoy a full table of delicacies, but also enjoy deep affection and festive celebrations. After the New Year's Eve, except for the young children, the whole family began to observe the new year, and * * * said goodbye to the old year and welcomed the new year.

specific contents of the custom of the Spring Festival XII. Eating jiaozi

There is a tradition of eating jiaozi at the Northern New Year's Eve, but the custom of eating jiaozi varies from place to place. Eating jiaozi is a unique way to express people's desire to pray for good luck when they bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new year. Jiaozi means getting married at an older age, and eating jiaozi during the Spring Festival is considered as a great luck. In addition, jiaozi is shaped like an ingot, and wrapping jiaozi means wrapping good fortune, while eating jiaozi symbolizes prosperity.

specific contents of the custom of the Spring Festival XIII. Lucky money

On New Year's Eve, the elders should give lucky money to the younger generation, which is also called winning money. Because "old" and "precious" are homophonic, the elders hope that the lucky money can exorcise evil spirits and avoid disasters, and bless the children safely.

The specific content of the custom of the Spring Festival 14. Setting off firecrackers

"One year in the sound of firecrackers". On the eve of New Year's Eve, at the time of the handover, the fire flashed and roared in the sky. The grand and warm firecrackers sent away the old year, ushered in a brand-new year and pushed the Spring Festival to a climax. What are the traditional folk customs in the Spring Festival? 3

1. Sacrifice.

During the Spring Festival, people will prepare tributes to their deceased relatives to show their memory, and hope that they will bless their families with smooth sailing in the new year.

2. Post Spring Festival couplets.

In the North, during the Spring Festival, every household will stick couplets on both sides of their doors, which means good luck, bringing festive atmosphere to the festival.

3. Sweep the old.

When the Spring Festival comes, every household should clean up and tidy up the house inside and outside, which means welcoming the Spring Festival and sweeping away bad luck.

4. paste it.

Like putting up Spring Festival couplets, Chinese New Year's stickers (also called Taofu) are colorful and add joy to the Spring Festival.

5. paste new year pictures.

Northerners like to post New Year pictures during the Spring Festival, which adds a lot of festive atmosphere to the Spring Festival.

6, keep the year.

Northerners have the custom of observing the New Year, that is, a family stays up until the New Year comes, and then they have a New Year's Eve dinner, which means to bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new year. On New Year's Eve, people stay up all night, playing cards, chatting, setting off firecrackers and making jiaozi. The custom of observing the age began in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, and Yu Jianwu and Xu Junqian in the Liang Dynasty all had poems about observing the age. Even two years old in one night, and two years in five shifts. In ancient times, keeping watch over the old age was also called wasting time. People lit candles or oil lamps and kept vigil all night, symbolizing driving away all evil diseases and epidemics and looking forward to good luck in the new year. This custom has been passed down from generation to generation.

7. set off firecrackers.

Setting off firecrackers in Chinese New Year is an ancient custom, which has a festive meaning.

8. Happy New Year.

Northerners have the custom that younger generations pay New Year greetings to their elders. On the morning of the first day of the New Year's Day, younger generations go to their elders in groups to say hello to them.

9. Dance the yangko.

Yangko dancing is a unique custom in the northern part of China. No matter men, women and children organize to walk around the streets and go door to door to dance Yangko to celebrate the New Year, the scene is very lively.

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On Chinese New Year's Day, men paste Spring Festival couplets, and women put fruits and vegetables in front of their ancestors after preparing all kinds of delicious food and pasting Spring Festival couplets.