Laiwu's New Year Customs

Spring Festival is the largest traditional festival in China, which is the general name of New Year's Eve and the first day of the first month. In the old society, it was called "Chinese New Year", but now it is still commonly known as "Chinese New Year", and later it was renamed Spring Festival, which is commonly known as "Lunar New Year" among the people. After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), it was officially named Spring Festival. In the twelfth lunar month, every household buys fish, meat, wine, vegetables, incense and firecrackers, which is called "buying new year's goods"; Steamed steamed bread, rice cake, steamed bread, etc. Known as "New Year's Eve", the whole family will eat it until the end of the month. Carry out a general cleaning, which is called "sweeping the dust". The thirtieth day of the twelfth lunar month (the 29th day of the second lunar month) is called "New Year's Eve". After breakfast, paste Spring Festival couplets, door gods, kitchen gods and New Year pictures; Set up an altar to worship the ancestors, which is called "Please Family Hall". In the evening, the whole family, old and young, get together to have a sumptuous "reunion dinner" and enjoy family happiness. This is called "saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new". After dinner, we light straw and set off firecrackers outside the door, which means the courtyard is auspicious and bright. It is called "Zhao Ting". Then, the whole family stayed up all night, wrapped in jiaozi (mostly plain stuffing, meaning "plain and clean"), and sat around the stove, guarding the family until dawn. In the early morning of Shuori, "paper code" (burning paper, incense, "gold ingot" and so on. ) and set off firecrackers to worship the gods of heaven and the earth to welcome the first day of the new year. Then the whole family will pack jiaozi together. After dinner, men, women and children began to pay New Year greetings in new clothes. First worship your ancestors and elders, and then greet each other according to family relations and neighborhood contacts. The closest relatives and elders distribute "lucky money" or candy to young children. Send it to your home the next afternoon or the third day. From the third day to the fifteenth day, relatives and friends give gifts to each other in the New Year, some neighbors invite each other to drink, and conditional towns hold entertainment activities such as juggling, performances and storytelling. Spring Festival is a traditional festival in China. The Spring Festival is celebrated all over the country, and there are differences in the way of celebration in every place, even in Laiwu.

Record the way of Chinese New Year in our village. Those who are prepared will not elaborate, but only the main ones.

On the morning of New Year's Eve, chickens and cocks are usually killed, and chickens are erected at night to worship heaven. After having lunch with my family, the couples stick them at the gate and at the doors. After the couple were attached to the kitchen stove, the family hall was invited, and the family hall invited the oldest one. At home, the order was put on the table, and a lot of chickens and fish were put on the first morning. After the family hall, every family should stick a stick on their own door and all the doors of the house, so that the souls of the dead will not wander around the house. As night falls, the whole family has dinner together. After dinner, they went to the gate to take pictures.

According to the hall, licorice is tied into a bundle and lit, which indicates a bumper harvest next year. After burning licorice, set off firecrackers and surround the burning ashes around the gate. Watch the door and then the whole family will go back to the house to watch the Spring Festival party and include jiaozi. When the clock strikes zero, they will begin to respect the sky.

Generally put the whole chicken, large pieces of meat, fish, meatballs and tofu, which means good luck, more than every year, wealth and good luck. On the afternoon of the second day, memorial tablets will be written according to the names enshrined on the memorial table. Then in the street, how many circles are drawn by how many people, paper money, incense and memorial tablets with names are put in each circle, the paper money is burned, soup is poured (a little cornmeal is put in the water), and then firecrackers are set off, which is the completion of the memorial hall.