Pucheng Spring Festival custom

During the Spring Festival, Pucheng people are commonly known as "Chinese New Year". With the changes of the times, Pucheng's Spring Festival customs have changed, adding many new contents, but more of them are nourished by history and culture.

Last year1February, the lunar calendar was full of joy. Lunar calendar1February 20th, every household began to stir-fry fruits, paste cakes and sugar, steam rice cakes, make soda fruit and prepare new year's goods. At the same time, they began to clean up (commonly known as sweeping the dust), and men got haircuts and bought new clothes, which meant saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new. Wanderers have also rushed back to the New Year.

Send the kitchen god on the 23rd. The origin of sacrificial stoves is the worship of fire and the commemoration of cooking food with fire. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, people interpreted that the kitchen god blessed people and future generations, and the kitchen god gradually rose to be the master of a family's destiny, gradually drowning the original intention of this belief worship. On this day, offerings were laid out and housewives prayed diligently. In the past, incinerating the old kitchen god was called "sending the kitchen god to heaven".

The day before the New Year in China is New Year's Eve, the last day of the Lunar New Year. On this day, sacrifices are used to worship ancestors to express their thoughts and reflect the traditional psychology of China people who never forget their ancestors. Pucheng called this form "burning New Year's paper". On this day, there is even a festive move, that is, every household sticks Spring Festival couplets at the gate.

Eating New Year's Eve is an important activity on New Year's Eve. The New Year's Eve dinner was carefully cooked, and the whole family gathered around and talked and laughed. After dinner, the elders give the younger generation "lucky money" to show their love for the young people. Setting off firecrackers and closing the door at auspicious time is called "closing the door", which means cherishing time. After the New Year's Eve, the family, old and young, get together, eat fruit, say good words, stay up until after midnight, and even watch the arrival of the New Year all night. This is the so-called "Shounian". But from the first day of the first month to the third day of the first month, housewives have to work hard to prepare meals in the kitchen. When the stove is finished, smouldering a huge firewood with dark fire is a good sign of continuous fireworks, which also means that "pigs grow easily" and are called "boring pigs" In recent years, it has become a new fashion for the whole family to watch the Spring Festival Gala until late at night.

The first month of the lunar calendar is called "the first month". "Positive" and "positive" sounds are similar. In order to avoid the name "Zheng" of Qin Shihuang, the word "Zheng" in the first month was pronounced "Zhen", which has continued to this day. On the first day of the first month, people ushered in the cheerful pace of spring. Men and women put on new clothes and shoes, and everyone was beaming and blessed. "Firecrackers get rid of the old", every household sets off firecrackers to open the door on a good morning, indicating that the door is open.

On the first day, drinking osmanthus tea before meals without moving the knife means it is sweet. For breakfast, I usually eat leftovers prepared on New Year's Eve, so that I can have a good luck. Eating rice cakes means "eat rice cakes step by step". Most vegetarians must eat green vegetables (mustard), which means clear and auspicious. On this day, the younger generation pays New Year greetings to their elders to show their respect for the elderly. From the next day, I visited relatives and friends and paid a New Year call to each other. After the third day, friends and relatives invited a banquet. Male relatives invited the bride who got married last year, while female relatives invited the groom who got married last year. Relatives don't accept gifts from the bride and groom, which is called "inviting spring wine" and "inviting new relatives". From the first day of the first month to the third day of the first month, the language is very cautious and does not say unlucky or inappropriate words. Since the seventh day of July, the Dragon Lantern Dance has started, and every household has brought a dragon lantern into the house, saying that this will lead to auspicious celebrations at home all year round.

The fifteenth day of the first month is the Lantern Festival, the first full moon in a year, also known as Shangyuan Festival. At the beginning of the lights, the family got together for a family dinner. In the past, whenever night fell, various communities in the urban area would hold dragon lanterns, lion lanterns, costumes, walking on stilts, carrying pedestals and boating activities, which was called "Lantern Festival". Teenagers make grass dragons out of straw and like dragon dancing as much as adults. Dozens of people gathered, played for "ten times", moved out of the Sang Siu online gongs and drums and bamboo instruments, and toured the streets. It's night, there are dragons and dragons everywhere, endless communication, cannons, and all-night fun. This is the so-called "sleepless day."