On the first day of the first lunar month, the custom is called "Yuanri". On New Year's Eve, people worship their ancestors and great gods until the temples burn their heads and pay incense. In the evening, everyone got up to fry the fried piles, oil angle, kill chickens and burn incense sticks, and set off firecrackers, commonly known as "grabbing spring", to burn the first incense at 0: 00, praying for a smoother coming year. On the morning of the first ten days of the lunar new year, the elders will have to prepare the lucky money for the younger generation to express their blessings and good luck to the younger generation. On the morning of the first day, a family, old and young, should eat vegetarian food, which is said by custom. Fasting on the first day of the lunar new year is better than eating for a year. After eating vegetarian food, the younger generation will go to the family elders to say some greetings and well-intentioned words to congratulate them on the coming year, and they will receive "benefits" from their elders. The younger generation of * * who is "New Year's greetings" on that day hopes to get the most benefits from their elders.
On the second day of the new year: return to your mother's house in the new year.
On the morning of the second day of the second year, women at home are going to prepare a "New Year's Eve" meal. Eating "New Year's Eve" in Guangdong customs is the most grand meal at the beginning of the new year, and the dishes of the New Year's Eve meal should be meaningful. Such as; The names of such dishes as making a fortune and doing good things (pig's hands, Nostoc flagelliforme, oyster sauce), good luck (roast pork), smooth sailing (fish such as shad), and good things to make money (lettuce in oyster sauce) are all desirable.
On the second day of the first month, it is also commonly known as "Children's Day". On this day, married women and their husbands take their children back to their parents' homes, and children usually bring fruit, rice cakes, mushrooms, preserved meat and other new year's goods when they go back to their families. In some rural areas in Guangdong, there is a custom of "releasing fish" on the second day of the first month. After buying live carp, shad and sparrows, they are put into the river and released into the mountains.
On the third day of the lunar new year: avoid visiting in Akaguchi.
Custom this day is called "poor man's day", and every household will "sweep the poor man" in the morning of the third day, and sweep out the garbage accumulated for two days from the first day to the second day, which means sweeping away the dirty and unlucky folk customs. Therefore, if you don't go out to pay New Year's greetings on this day, you are afraid of being swept away like a "poor ghost". At the same time, on this day, people will not go out to pay a New Year call, and this day is also "Red Dog Day", commonly known as "Red Mouth". It is said among the people that the red dog is the god of anger, and it will easily lead to quarrels with others when going out. Therefore, those with elders at home will be very concerned about this day, and they will never leave home and will not let their younger generation go out to pay New Year's greetings, so they will stay at home to avoid the fierce words.
Fourth day: open the door to meet the god of wealth
Legend has it that the fourth day of the first lunar month is the "God of Wealth's birthday", so it is necessary to prepare three sacrifices, fruits, candy, tea, etc. one day in advance. Sacrifice is intended to "welcome the God of Wealth", and at the same time, all families will hold banquets to congratulate the arrival of the "God of Wealth's birthday". This custom is the most important worship activity in the first lunar month. A folk saying that worshipping the gods is usually held in the afternoon when the sun sets and at night; "send god early and receive god late."
The fifth day of the new year: driving five poor people
On the fifth day of the first month, it is commonly known as "Breaking Five", and it is necessary to "catch up with the five poor", including "poor in intelligence, poor in learning, poor in literature, poor in life and poor in communication". People get up at dawn, set off firecrackers and clean up. Firecrackers are released from the inside out, and they go outside the door as they are released. It is said that everything that is unlucky will be blown out.
The sixth day of the year: opening for business.
On the sixth day of the lunar new year, shops and restaurants officially opened for business, and firecrackers were set off, which was no less than the situation on New Year's Eve. Legend has it that the most popular boy on this day is 12 years old, because 12 is twice as much as 6, which is called Liu Liu Da Shun. On this day, every household should throw out the garbage accumulated in the festival, which is called sending the poor.
On the seventh day of the lunar new year: people cook porridge and eat flour and noodles every day.
On the seventh day, the folk custom is "People's Day", which means "Everyone's Birthday". On this day, every family will celebrate "Everyone's Birthday" with seven kinds of beans to cook porridge and stir-fry noodles, and small temple fairs will be held in old folk villages.
On the eighth day of the lunar new year: stop by and don't go home
In the old days, there was a custom among the people that "you don't go on July 7th and don't return on August 8th". Why didn't I go home that day, so I couldn't find the information.
New Year's Day: Three Sacrifice Fruits Worship the Jade Emperor
This day is the traditional "Nine Emperors' Birthday", offering sacrifices to the Jade Emperor with three sacrifices and fruits. I hope there will be a good harvest in the coming year, and at the same time, I have worshipped the "Ninth Emperor's Birthday" to bless my family's health and longevity.
The 10th and 11th days of the year: good harvest in spring.
Year 12: light a new lamp in front of the ancestral hall
In the old agricultural society, boys were attached great importance to inheriting family incense. Whenever there was no ancestral hall in the village with the same surname, boys born with the same surname could light new lamps and add family books on this day. On the fifteenth day of the first month, the lights lit by the newborn boys in the village were decorated in front of the ancestral hall.
Thirteen and fourteen years: Wang poultry house
These two days are the time to add three domestic poultry. (This is impossible for urban residents.)
Year 15: Visit a temple fair to see lanterns.
The 15th day of the first month is the Lantern Festival, which is the first full moon night in a year, and also the night in spring returns, also known as the Shangyuan Festival. The custom of burning lanterns on Yuanxiao dates back to the Han Dynasty, and it is indispensable to eat Yuanxiao and Tangyuan on this day. On this day, handsome men and beautiful women meet to watch lanterns, which is a good opportunity for blind date.
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Detailed explanation of Chinese New Year customs