Proverb: twenty-seven kill rooster, twenty-eight to the surface of the hair, twenty-nine steamed buns, thirty night boiled a night, the first day of the New Year twisted a twist. Southeast Jin folk circulated two songs, one of which is "twenty-three, sent the master up to heaven; twenty-four, sweep the house; twenty-five, steamed dumplings; twenty-six, cut down the meat; twenty-seven, rubbing the pewter; twenty-eight, composting scruffy; twenty-nine, washed the feet and hands; thirty days, the door god, the couplets are posted." It reflects the time constraints and the intensity of the preparations. The second is a nursery rhyme: "On the twenty-third day, after the sacrifice of the stove, the children clapped their hands and laughed. After five or six days, the New Year will come. The box to ward off evil spirits, play with the walnuts, and the two cannons are fired. The five sons are on their way to the top, and the fire rises higher than the sky." Reflects the joyful psychology of children looking forward to the New Year.

Twenty-three and twenty-four of the Lunar New Year

Twenty-three or twenty-four of the Lunar New Year is also known as the "Little New Year", which is the day when people offer sacrifices to the stove. The folk song "23, sugar melon sticky" refers to the annual Lunar New Year's Eve on the twenty-third or twenty-fourth day of the sacrifice of the stove. There is a saying that "the government three, the people four, the boat family five", that is, the government on the twenty-third day of the Lunar New Year, the general people on the twenty-fourth day of the month, the water family for the twenty-fifth day of the festival of the stove. Xiao Nian is the beginning of the Spring Festival celebrations, and there are two main activities: sweeping the New Year's Eve and sacrificing to the stove. In addition, there is the custom of eating stove sugar, and in some places, eating fire, eating sugar cake, oil cake, and drinking tofu soup.

As early as the Song Dynasty, there is a record of the 24th of the lunar month to celebrate the small year, but at that time, the small year is not divided into two days, so the history of the 24th of the lunar month of the small year of the custom is much longer. So when did it change? It goes back to the Qing Dynasty. Qing dynasty emperor from the Yongzheng years, every year on the twenty-third of Lunar New Year in the Kunning Palace to worship God, in order to save money, the emperor by the way, the king of the stove also worshiped. Later, the royal family, Baylor followed suit, on the twenty-third day of the lunar month to sacrifice the stove, and since then there has been a government and the people in different days in the small New Year's division.

Stove worship

Zao Wang niche sacrificial stove, is a very influential in the Chinese folk, widely spread custom. In the old days, almost every house had a "Zao Wang" shrine. People called this god "Sifu Bodhisattva" or "Zaojun Sifu". Legend has it that he was appointed by the Jade Emperor as the "Zaowangfujun, the Sifu of the East Kitchen in the Nine Heavens", responsible for managing the fire of each family's stove and worshipped as the protector god of a family. He is responsible for the management of each family's stove fire, and is worshipped as the protector god of a family. Most of the Zaowang niches are located in the north or east of the stove room, with the idol of Zaowang in the center. For those who don't have a Zaowang niche, there are also those who put the idol directly on the wall. Some of the idols only depicted Zao Wang Wang one person, some have two men and two women, the goddess is called "Zao Wang grandmother".

Zao worship on the 23rd day of Lunar New Year is closely related to the New Year. The reason is that a week later, on the night of Lunar New Year's Eve, Zao Wang Wang comes to earth with other gods and goddesses with the good fortune and misfortune that the family is supposed to get. Lord Zao is believed to lead the way for the gods in heaven. The other gods ascend to heaven again after the New Year, but only Zao Wangwang stays in people's kitchens for a long time. The ceremony of welcoming the gods is called "receiving the gods", and for Lord Zao it is called "receiving the stove". The ceremony is much simpler on New Year's Eve, as long as you put on a new stove lamp and burn incense in front of the stove niche, it's all over.

There is a saying that "men don't worship the moon, and women don't sacrifice to the stove". In some places, women don't worship the stove. It is said that Zaowang master looks like a little white man, afraid of female sacrificial stove, there is a "male and female suspicion".

Stove festival folk talk about eating dumplings, meaning "send off dumplings to meet the wind face". Mountainous areas eat cake and buckwheat. Southeast Jin, the popular custom of eating fried corn, folk proverb, "twenty-three, do not eat fried, the beginning of the year - a pot down," the saying, people like to fry the corn with maltose bonded together, frozen into a large block, eat crispy and sweet.

Steaming buns

After the 23rd of Lunar New Year, every family should steam buns. There are two types of steamed buns: those for honoring gods and those for visiting relatives. The former is solemn and the latter is flowery. In particular, a large jujube mountain should be made for the worship of Zaojun. "When a family steams flower buns, the four neighbors come to help." This is often a great opportunity for folk women to show their dexterity, a flower bun, is a handicraft.

Writing Spring Festival couplets

After the 23rd day of Lunar New Year, every family has to write Spring Festival couplets. Folk say there are gods must be posted, every door must be posted, every thing must be posted, so the Spring Festival couplets are the most numerous, the most complete. The couplets in front of the deities are especially elaborate, mostly words of worship and prayers. Commonly seen couplets include the God of Heaven and Earth: "Heaven's grace is as deep as the sea, and earth's virtue is as heavy as the mountain"; the God of Land: "White jade is created from the earth, and gold comes out of the earth"; the God of Wealth: "Lord of Wealth in Heaven, God of Fortune on Earth"; the God of Wells: "The well is a well, and the God of Fortune on Earth". The god of wells is "a well that connects to the four seas, and a family that reaches the three rivers". Face grain silos, corrals and other places in the Spring Festival couplets, are expressed warmly celebrate and hope, such as "grain harvest, six animals prosper"; "rice and noodles as thick as a mountain, oil and salt as deep as the sea"; "cattle like a tiger in the South Mountain, the horse like a dragon in the North Sea "; "sheep year after year, lamb month after month," and so on. In addition, there are some single couplets, such as each indoor sticker "head up to see joy", the door across the sticker "out of the door to see joy", the fire on the sticker "Wang Qi Chong Tian", the yard sticker "Full of gold in the yard", "deep roots" on the tree, "White Tiger" on the stone mill, and so on. Couplets on the door, is the face of a family, pay special attention to, or lyrical, or write the scene, rich in content, wonderful words.

Eat Zao sugar

Zao sugar is a kind of malt sugar, sticky, it is drawn as a long sugar stick called "Guandong sugar", pulled into a flat round type is called "sugar melon". Put it outside the house in winter, because of the cold weather, sugar melon solidified solid and some tiny bubbles inside, eat it crunchy, sweet and crispy, unique flavor. The real Guandong sugar hard, drop can not be broken, eat must be split with a kitchen knife, the material is very heavy and very fine. Slightly sour taste, no honeycomb in the middle, each piece weighs one or two, two or four, the price is also more expensive. Sugar melons divided into two kinds of sesame and no sesame, Lunar New Year's Eve, dust sweeping the house with sugar made into melon shape or melon shape, the center is empty, the skin is not as thick as five points, although the size of the different, but the deal is still calculated by the amount, the big sugar melons weighing one or two pounds, but used as a front to buy a very small number of people.

Sweeping the dust

After the Zao Festival, preparations for the New Year officially begin. Sweeping dust is the end of the year cleaning, the north called "sweeping room", the south called "dusting". In the Spring Festival before the dust to engage in health, is the Chinese people have traditional habits. Outdoors, inside the house, in front of the house, thoroughly cleaned, clean to welcome the New Year. The custom of "dusting and sweeping the house on the twenty-fourth day of the Lunar New Year" has a long history, according to "Lv's Spring and Autumn Annals", there was a custom of sweeping the dust of the Spring Festival in the era of Yao and Shun in China. According to folklore, because of "dust" and "Chen" homophonic, dust sweeping in the New Year has "in addition to the meaning of Chen Bu Xin", the intention is to put all the "poor luck", "poor luck", "poor luck", "poor luck", "poor luck", "poor luck", "poor luck", "poor luck", "poor luck", "poor luck" and "poor luck". ", "bad luck" are swept out. This custom is the desire of the people to break the old, and the wish of the old and welcome the new prayers.

Lunar month 29, 30 (New Year's Eve)

Every year, the evening of the last day of the lunar month of Lunar New Year, the last day of the lunar year (the month of the 30th, the month of the 29th), called "New Year's Eve". It and the Spring Festival (the first day of the first month) is the first and last, is the people of the old and welcome the new day. Due to the lunar calendar, there are thirty days in the big month and only twenty-nine days in the small month, so the date of New Year's Eve is also different from twenty-nine and thirty. However, this day is often referred to as "New Year's Eve" regardless of whether it is the 29th or 30th day of the lunar month. New Year's Eve night family reunion to eat New Year's Eve dinner (the last meal of the year in the lunar calendar), New Year's Eve dinner after the custom of giving out New Year's Eve money and stay up the New Year's Eve (vigil), which means that from the last day of the current year of the lunar calendar to the first day of the next year.

Zhou, Qin period of the end of each year, the palace to hold a "large exorcism" ceremony, beating the drums to expel the plague of ghosts, known as "by the removal of", and later called the day before the New Year's Eve for the small in addition to the small New Year's Eve; New Year's Eve for the big in addition to the big New Year's Eve.

The Heaven and Earth Table

Legend has it that this night is the time when the gods come down from the sky, so the folk have the custom of receiving the gods. Heaven and earth table is a temporary table, is the New Year's Eve special table mainly for the reception of the use of God. Generally, no big Buddha house is especially important, because the usual offerings to the Buddha is less, to the end of the year when the end of the year to the gods and buddhas to pay a big reward. The contents of the heaven and earth table and the permanent Buddha Hall is different, in addition to *** have hanging money, incense and candles, five for, big supply, the worship of the idol is mostly temporary, such as "100 percent", is a woodcut version of the picture book of the gods; "heaven and earth and the three worlds of the eighteen Buddhas and gods", a with a large yellow burlap woodcut watercolor. Large yellow burlap woodcut watercolor printing of the whole God code; three stars of fortune and longevity portraits and so on. Some of the above images are incinerated after receiving the gods, such as the "hundred percent", while others have to be incinerated only on the 5th day of the 5th month, or even on the Festival of Lights. The location of the heaven and earth table is not uniform, such as the hall place wide, can be placed in the house; such as the house has no land, it is placed in the courtyard.

Eat New Year's Eve dinner

Children playing with firecrackers, it is the housewives in the kitchen the busiest time, the New Year's dishes are done a few days before, and New Year's Eve dinner always have to be done in the kitchen on the day of the New Year's Eve. In the north, the dumplings on the first day of the New Year are also wrapped up on the evening of the thirtieth. At this time the cutting boards of the families are thumping and busy chopping meat and vegetables. At this time, the sound of the chopping board from every household, the sound of firecrackers from the streets and alleys, the sound of the abacus and the sound of the accounts from small stores, mixed with the sound of jokes and laughter everywhere, one after another, the ocean is full of ears, interweaving into the New Year's Eve joyful music.

Eating New Year's Eve dinner is the most lively and enjoyable time for families in the Spring Festival. On New Year's Eve, the sumptuous New Year's dishes on the table, the whole family reunion, sitting around the table, *** eat a reunion dinner, the heart of the fullness is really hard to describe. People are enjoying the table full of delicacies, but also to enjoy the happy atmosphere, the table has a big dish, cold pots, stir-fry, snacks, generally less two things, one is hot pot． One is fish. Hot pot boiling, steaming, warm and provocative, indicating a red-hot; "fish" and "Yu" consonance, is a symbol of "auspicious celebration of surplus", but also a metaphor for "year after year". It is also a metaphor for "having more than enough for every year". There are also turnips, commonly known as "choy tau" (菜头), which is a wish for good luck, and fried foods such as lobster and popping fish, which is a wish for good luck in the family, such as "blazing fire cooking oil". Finally, a sweet dish is served to wish for sweet days ahead. Even if you don't know how to drink on this day, you should drink a little bit.

New Year's Eve dinner hall of fame, different places in the north and south, there are dumplings, wontons, long noodles, snacks, and so on, and each has its own instructions. Northern people are accustomed to eating dumplings on New Year's Eve (the custom of eating dumplings is passed down from the Han Dynasty), is to take the old and the new, "change of year," the meaning of the child. Because white dumplings are shaped like silver dollars, they are brought to the table in pots to symbolize "a prosperous new year, with dollars rolling in". When some dumplings are wrapped, several coins sterilized in boiling water are wrapped into them, saying that whoever eats them first will earn more money. New Year eat wontons, is to take the beginning of its meaning. Legend has it that before the world was created, it was chaos, and it was only when Pangu opened up the sky and the earth that there was a four-sided universe. Long noodles, also known as longevity noodles, New Year's Day eating noodles is to wish a long life for a hundred years.

Watching the Spring Festival Gala

Although this is not an ancient custom, after the 1980s, due to the popularity of television, the Spring Festival Gala has become an indispensable cultural "feast" for Chinese people! Every year, more than a billion people around the world watch the Spring Festival Gala on TV or on the Internet!

New Year's Eve

Since the Han Dynasty, the transition between the old and the new year is usually in the middle of the night, and New Year's Eve is one of the most important New Year's Eve celebrations. The custom of observing the New Year's Eve has a long history, and the earliest record of it can be found in the Western Jin Dynasty's Zhou Chu's Feng Tu Zhi: On the night of the New Year's Eve, each of them gave gifts to each other, which was called "feeding the New Year's Eve"; invited each other to drink and eat, which was called "parting the New Year's Eve"; and gathered together to drink, and wished for the completion of the praise, which was called "parting the New Year's Eve". The "sub-year"; we stay awake all night, waiting for the dawn, called the "old age".

"One night even double the year, five more divided into two days", New Year's Eve night, the whole family gathered together, ate the New Year's Eve dinner, lit candles or oil lamps, sitting around the stove chatting, waiting for the old and welcome the new moment, all-night vigil, symbolizing all the evil plagues and epidemics, according to the run away, and look forward to a new year of good luck and good fortune. This custom gradually prevailed, to the early Tang Dynasty, Tang Taizong Li Shimin wrote a "year-keeping" poem: "cold resignation from the winter snow, the warmth of the spring wind". Until today, people are still accustomed to the New Year's Eve to welcome the new year.

In ancient times, there are two meanings of year-end vigil: the elderly year-end vigil for the "resignation of the old year", there is the meaning of the treasure of time; young people year-end vigil, is to extend the life of parents.

The gods

The gods are divided for the old and the new year, but the time of the gods is not very uniform. In some cases, the ceremony starts as soon as the time comes, in some cases, it starts at midnight when the "Zi Zheng" time comes, and in some cases, it starts after the "Zi Zheng" time. After the sacrifice of the stove, the gods are back to the Palace of Heaven, ignoring the ordinary affairs of the earth, to the New Year's Eve, that is, after midnight, that is, when the new year comes, and then descended to the earth to govern. The ceremony of receiving the gods is held in front of the heaven and earth table, and is presided over by the eldest member of the family. Because the gods reside in different heavenly directions, the natural direction of the world to come is different, as to receive what God, God from where to come, to check in advance the "constitutional book", leading the family to raise incense in the courtyard according to the direction of receiving the gods. After kowtowing in accordance with the direction of the ceremony, stood at attention to be incense, and then kowtow, and finally the root of the incense, statues, such as ingots, put into the yard has been prepared for the money in the food bowl burned, with the burning of pine branches, sesame seed stalks, and so on. Firecrackers cracked when receiving the god, the atmosphere is very strong.

Treading Soun

After receiving the god, the sesame straw from the street door to the door of the house, people walk on it, crackling sound, known as "step on the age of", also known as "tread on Soun". Because the "broken" and "Soun" homophonic, to take the new spring began to drive out the meaning of evil spirits.

Receiving the God of Fortune

In the old days, from the night of the Spring Festival to open the door to the God of Fortune, there was a God of Fortune, holding a piece of paper printed God of Fortune outside the door yelling: "Send the God of Fortune's coming!" At this time, the master of the house to show welcome the God of Fortune to come, they will take the reward money to the people. The god of wealth sender would say some auspicious words, such as "Gold, silver and treasure roll in!" "The left side of the golden lion, the right side of the golden phoenix" and so on.

In addition, there are dressed in red robes, wearing a hat, mouth hanging on the beard, the body of the back of the yellow bag, dressed in the likeness of the God of Wealth, followed by a few gongs and drums, door-to-door distribution of the God of Wealth like to ask for reward money. Each to the door of people, singing "the left side of the pile full of gold and silver bank, the right side of the treasure full of house pile" and a bunch of auspicious words, until the master joyfully received the God of Wealth like to give them some money, these people thank you, more vigorously knocking for a while. In the sound of the gongs and drums, they moved on to other households.

The first day of the first month

The first day of the first month of the first month was originally called "New Year's Day", and the original meaning of the word "New Year" was "head", which was later extended to mean "beginning". Start". This day is the first day of the year, the first day of spring, the first day of the first month, so it is called "three yuan"; because this day is still the age of the dynasty, the month of the dynasty, the day of the dynasty, so it is also known as the "three dynasty"; because it is the first day of the solstice, so it is also called

Open door firecrackers

On the morning of the Spring Festival, open the door, the first firecrackers, called "open door firecrackers". After the sound of firecrackers, broken red all over the ground, brilliant as a cloud of brocade, known as "full red". At this time, the street is full of gas, joyful.

New Year's Day

On the first day of the New Year, men get up early, put on the most beautiful clothes, dressed neatly, go out to visit friends and relatives, pay respects to each other, wishing good luck in the coming year. Worship a variety of ways, some are the same patriarch led a number of people to go door to door to pay tribute to the New Year; some colleagues invited a few people to pay tribute to the New Year; there are also get together to congratulate each other, known as the "reunion worship". Because of the time-consuming and laborious door-to-door New Year's greetings, some of the upper-class people and the scholars used the name stickers to congratulate each other, which developed into the "New Year's card" later.

When the Spring Festival to pay homage to the New Year, the younger generation should first pay homage to the elders, wishing the elders a long life and well-being, the elders can be prepared beforehand the New Year's Eve money to the elders, it is said that the New Year's Eve money can be pressed to stop the evil spirits, because the "age" and the "Sneaky" harmonic, the elders to get New Year's Eve money can be a year of peace and security. It is said that New Year's money can keep evil spirits at bay, because "year" and "spirit" sound alike. There are two kinds of New Year's money, one is a colorful rope threaded and braided into the shape of a dragon, placed at the foot of the bed, which is recorded in the "Yanjing Yearly Record"; the other is the most common, that is, wrapped in red paper by the parents of the money given to the children. New Year's money can be rewarded in the evening after the New Year's greetings in public, can also be in the New Year's Eve when the child is asleep, by the parents secretly placed under the child's pillow. Now the elders for the younger generation to send the custom of the new year's money is still prevalent.

The old folk to enter the new first few days of the weather to account for the success of the year. It began with the Han Dongfang Shuo's "years accounted for", said the year after eight days, one day for the chicken day, the second day for the dog, the third day for the pig, the fourth day for the sheep, the fifth day for the cattle, the sixth day for the horse, the seventh day for the people, the eighth day for the valley. If the day is sunny, then the main thing is prosperous, when the day is cloudy, the main day is not prosperous. Later generations followed their custom, that the first day to the tenth, the weather is clear, no wind and no snow for good luck. In later generations, it developed into a series of rituals and celebrations.

Drinking Tusu Wine

Tusu wine is a kind of medicinal wine. In the ancient custom, the whole family drank Tusu wine on the New Year's Day to get rid of immodesty. The method of making tusu wine is: use rhubarb one money, orange stalks, Sichuan pepper each one and a half cent, cinnamon heart one eight cent, cornelian cherry one two cent, one or two winds, with a reddish-red capsule hanging in a well, to the yuan day chen time take up, to the wine decoction four or five boiled. In ancient times, the method of drinking tusu wine was very unique. Generally speaking, people always start drinking from the oldest person; however, drinking Tusu Wine is just the opposite, starting from the youngest person. Presumably, the young ones grew up day by day and drank it first as a sign of congratulations, while the old ones drank it later as a sign of retention after one year. Song Dynasty writer Su Zhe's poem "New Year's Day," which reads, "Drinking tusu at the end of the year, I don't realize that I am over seventy years old," is a reference to this custom. This unique order of drinking, in ancient times, every time people produce a variety of feelings, so people have a deep impression.

Poly wealth

It is said that the first day of the first month for the broom birthday, this day can not move the broom, otherwise it will sweep away the luck, broke the fortune, and the "broom star" to attract, incurring bad luck. If you have to sweep the floor can not be, must be swept from the outside to the inside. This day also can not pour water out of the garbage, for fear that it will break the wealth. Today, many places are still preserved a custom, the New Year's Eve clean sweep, the first day of the year is not out of the broom, do not pour the garbage, prepare a large bucket to Sheng wastewater, the day is not outside the splash.

Back to the bride's home on the second day of the first month

On the second day of the first month (the third day of the first month in the northern region), married out of the daughters have taken their husbands, children back to the bride's home to pay tribute to the New Year. Daughters go back to their parents' home, must do a big bag of cookies, candy, distributed by the mother to the neighbors, as the New Year's scene. If there are more than one daughter at home, and these daughters do not return on the same day, then, we have to come to a sub once, the gift is quite thin, four cookies only. However, it reflects the sentiment is very strong, the real "gift is light and heavy", it expresses the girl to the townspeople of the cut longing. The girl returned home, if there are nephews at home, when the aunt must again out of pocket, although in the first day of the new year's money has been sent, but this time the significance is different. This custom, the Chaoshan people called "eating day day". As the name suggests, it's just a midday meal, and the daughter must get back to her in-laws before dinner.

Ceremony for the God of Wealth (North)

In the North, the God of Wealth is worshipped on the second day of the first month of the lunar calendar, which is the day when both commercial and trade stores, as well as ordinary families, hold ceremonies for the God of Wealth. Each family makes a sacrifice to the God of Wealth that they received on New Year's Eve. In fact, they incinerate the rough prints they bought. On this day, wontons are eaten at noon, commonly known as "Yuanbao soup". Fish and mutton were used as offerings. Old Beijing's big business, this day are large-scale sacrificial activities, offerings to use the "five offerings", that is, the whole pig, the whole sheep, the whole chicken, the whole duck, red live carp, etc., and hope that this year to make a fortune.

The third day of the first month

The third day of the first month of the first month is the day when Nuwa created the sheep, so it is called "Sheep Day". On this day, people can't kill the sheep, and if the weather is good, it means that the sheep will be raised well during the year, and the people who raise them will have a good harvest.

Burn the door god paper

The old days and nights on the third day and night of the New Year's Eve, the pine and cypress branches and festivals hung door god door paper and other incineration, to show that the year is over, and to begin to make a living. Proverbs have "burned the door god paper, personal search physiological".

Valley Birthday

Folk think that the third day of the first month of the Valley's birthday, this day to pray for the year, and forbidden to eat rice.

Xiaonianzhao

That is, Tianqing Festival. Song dynasty court festival, Song Zhenzong Dazhong Xiangfu first year, because of the rumors of heavenly books down to earth, Zhenzong issued an edict, the first three days of the first month of the day for the Tianqing Festival, officials and other leave for five days. Later, it was called the small New Year's Day, not sweeping the ground, not begging for fire, not drawing water, the same as the age of the day.

Posting "Chikou"

In southern China, the morning of the third day of the Lunar New Year should be posted "Chikou" (forbidden mouth), that this day is prone to quarrels, it is not appropriate to pay homage to the New Year. The so-called "red mouth", generally about seven or eight inches long and one inch wide strip of red paper, written on some of the top in and out of the peace and good luck words (the content of a certain format, for example: "A.D. 1994 years A Hundred and Eleventh Year on the third day of the first month of the first three days of the year, when the God in front of incense and fire in front of the door nailed to break the four sides of the men and women of the red mouth, thieves, robbers, and Mars all the evils of the sky! (Great Luck and Good Fortune), which is posted on the top of the front and back doors, and another one is placed on top of the garbage to be picked out and dumped outside. These garbage is the first two days of the first two days of the accumulation down, must be to the third only together to clean up and pour out, otherwise, it is the same as the home of the gold and silver treasures to the outside world as well. In short, the sticker "Chikou", is to make people psychologically feel safe in and out all year round, not to have a quarrel with people or a variety of unfortunate disasters, home more wealth into the treasure, all the best.

"Sending the New Year"

The ceremony of sending the New Year is usually held at night, which is to send the gods and ancestors back to heaven.

The fifth day of the first month

The fifth day of the first month is commonly known as the fifth day of the first month.

Folk have the custom of eating dumplings, symbolizing the attraction of wealth and prosperity. According to the old custom to eat "water dumplings" (the north called "boiled meat and potatoes") for five days, now some people only eat three or two days, some every other day to eat, however, no not eat, the ancient times from the princes and kings to the streets and alleys of the small households are as such, and even the hospitality is also so. Women are no longer jealous of the door, began to visit each other to pay tribute to the New Year, congratulations. Newly married women in this day to return to peace. Folklore said that many taboos before the break five over this day can be broken. A said broken five this day should not do things, or this year in the event of failure. Broken five customs in addition to the above taboos, mainly to send poor, welcome the God of Fortune, open trade.

Ceremony God of Wealth (South)

The South in the first five days of the first month of sacrifice God of Wealth. Folk legend has it that the God of Wealth is the God of the Five Roads. The so-called five road, refers to the east and west, north and south, meaning that out of the five road, all can get money. Every New Year's Eve, people are in the first five zero hours zero minutes, open the door and windows, burning incense and firecrackers, fireworks, to the God of Fortune to welcome. Received the God of Fortune, we also have to eat road head wine, often eat until dawn. Everyone is full of hope for wealth, hope that the God of Wealth will bring home the gold and silver treasure, in the new year, a great deal of wealth. Commonly thought to receive the road head, the earlier the better, the earliest received is the true God, especially spiritual, so called "grab the road head". Some places, really in the first four days of the first day of the "rush to grab the head of the road", and has become a custom.

Send poor

The fifth day of the first month, "send poor", is a very distinctive ancient Chinese folk custom of the year. Its meaning is to offer sacrifices to the poor ghosts (poor gods). Poor ghost, also known as "poor son", according to legend, poor ghost is the son of Zhuan Xu. He was weak and short, and liked to wear rags and drink rice. Shaanxi Hancheng area, broken five this day, avoid going out, and will be fresh meat in the pot roast, but also fried beans, so that the collapse of the sound, that can collapse away from the poor gas, and seek wealth. In addition, the old New Year's Eve or the fifth day of the first month to eat especially full, commonly known as "fill poor pit". Widely popular folk send poor customs, reflecting the Chinese people generally hope that the old and welcome the new, send away the old poverty and misery, to meet the new year's good life of the traditional psychology.

Market

The old custom of the Spring Festival during the size of the store from the first day of the year closed, and in the first five days of the market. Commonly known as the fifth day of the first month for the sacred day of wealth, that the choice of this day to open the market will attract wealth and treasure.

The seventh day of the first month of the year

The seventh day of the first month of the year is the day of the people, also known as the "People's Victory Festival", "People's Day", "Population Day", It is also known as the "Human Victory Festival", "Human Celebration Festival", "Population Day", "Human 7th Day" and so on. Legend has it that Nuwa first created the world, in the creation of chickens, dogs, pigs, cows, horses and other animals, in the seventh day of the creation of human beings, so this day is the birthday of mankind. The Han Dynasty started the human day festival custom, after the Wei and Jin Dynasties began to emphasize. Ancient human day has to wear "people win" custom, people win is a kind of headdress, also known as color win, Hua Sheng. From the Jin Dynasty onwards, there are cut color for flowers, cut color for people, or openwork gold foil for people to paste the screen, also worn in the hair. In addition, there is also the custom of climbing high and writing poems. After the Tang Dynasty, pay more attention to this festival, every human day, the emperor gave qunchen color wisps people win, and high feast qunchen. If the weather is clear on the seventh day of the first month, the main population of the year safe, smooth entry and exit.

"smoked day"

Folk this day to eat spring cake roll "box vegetables" (a cooked meat food), and in the courtyard spread pancakes, "smoked day".

Eat Seven Treasures Soup

Seven Treasures Soup is made of seven kinds of vegetable soup, eaten on the day of the people, in order to take the auspicious omen, and said that this thing can be removed from the evil, cure all diseases. Different places have different products, different fruits and vegetables are used, and there are also differences in their meanings. Guangdong Chaoshan with mustard, kale, leeks, spring vegetables, celery, garlic, thick petals; Hakka people with celery, garlic, green onions, coriander, leeks with fish, meat, etc.; Taiwan, Fujian with spinach, celery, green onions and garlic, leeks, mustard, capers, cabbages and so on. Among them, celery and green onion Zhao smart, garlic Zhao calculating, mustard makes long life.

Send the fire god

In the Shandong Peninsula, the seventh day of the first month, but also "send the fire god", the children choose a two-meter stick, with wheat straw to tie it, which is the so-called "fire god". At dusk, one end of the "fire god" is lit in front of the house, and the children hold the other end of the "fire god" and run to a place far away from the house until it burns out. This activity is meant to send the "fire god" out of the house, so that there will be no fire in the house for a year and peace will prevail.