Famous sentences, proverbs, proverbs, riddles, etc. About the Spring Festival.

China is a multi-ethnic country, and each ethnic group has different ways to celebrate the New Year. The customs and habits of the Han nationality, Manchu nationality and Korean nationality for the Spring Festival are similar. The family is reunited. People eat rice cakes, jiaozi and various sumptuous meals, set off firecrackers and wish each other well. Celebrations during the Spring Festival are extremely colorful, including lion dance and dragon dance, as well as walking on stilts and running dry boats. In some areas, people follow the activities of worshipping ancestors and gods in the past and pray for good weather, peace and good harvest in the new year. Ancient Mongols called the Spring Festival "White Festival" and the first month was Bai Yue, which means good luck. Tibetans celebrate the Tibetan calendar year. Hui, Uygur, Kazak, etc. Celebrate Eid al-Adha. The Spring Festival is also a grand festival for Miao, Yi and Yao people.

Beating the dog with meat buns: throwing things in vain (metaphor for paying the price in vain, no effect)

Meat buns beat dogs: Spring has gone and will never come back.

Dog in dog days: don't press if you are angry.

Dog trainer: Soft bullies are afraid of hard ones.

Dog skin hanging in the hall: What's that (painting)

Mouth-stealing dog: It runs away from everyone.

A blind dog catches a rabbit: touch your mouth

Blind mangy dog: Bite anything you touch.

Beggars Beat Dogs: Poor Cross

Mad dog in the wild: it's hard to get close.

Dogs don't eat shit: looking for trouble varies from person to person. Some are legends, some are heard, especially some unique customs and tastes at the beginning of this century, which have become somewhat distant and mysterious to us today. For this reason, we traveled through just visiting, interviewed the witnesses, and made up such a story to help the basis for holiday chat and wrangling.

There are many things in the twelfth lunar month.

Since the twelfth lunar month, there have been literati writing Spring Festival couplets under the eaves of shopping malls in an attempt to earn some money for the New Year. After the sacrifice, the new Spring Festival couplets were gradually posted, and thousands of families took on a new look. Some people use James Zhu, others use red paper, and only the imperial court and imperial clan princes use white paper with red and blue edges as the rules. Those who are not imperial clan shall not use them at will.

In the twelfth lunar month, plum blossoms are tied in a big-bellied and small-mouthed utensil and placed about five feet underground. When the fire warms the ground slightly, the plum blossoms will gradually turn white, put in paper cages and sell in the city. Momo, plum blossom and Spring Festival are also acceptable. Tents are set up and paintings are sold in prosperous areas. Women and children rushed to buy them for fun.

On the first day of the twelfth lunar month, porridge sellers lined up in the market on the street. There are even walnuts, persimmons, dates, chestnuts and dried water chestnuts, which are sold with baskets on their shoulders. Followed by fat pheasant, Guandong fish, wild cats, wild birds, bacon, iron finch, fruit cover, giant Buddha flower, Douguang Qianpian and Louzizhuang Yuanbao. After October of the lunar calendar, we sell Wei paintings, door gods, hanging money, gold and silver foil, yellow money, gold coins, burning paper, glass mirrors and windows. ..... Qian Dian Bank exchanged gold, silver, plum blossom and begonia ingot. After the 20th, honeydew melons, sugar cakes, glutinous rice cakes and kwantung sugar will be sold. When the stove was delivered on the 23rd, Shenma was provided with copied beans with rotten grass. There are also kiln sellers, porcelain bowls, incense burners and candlesticks in Beijing. Stuffed gourd, children save money; Support the pot tile, and the furnace mouth is used as an aid. After 25th, sesame stalks, pine and cypress branches, atractylodes lancea, etc. are sold for "aging". The price and money in the twelfth lunar month are more expensive than usual, so there is a proverb that "the water and soil in the twelfth lunar month are three points more expensive". At this time, the old man always advised the younger generation to spend money carefully, so there was another proverb, "Twenty-seven or eight, take all the goods and catch them to the end."

On the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, we celebrate Wang Houla and cook fruit porridge. Rice and beans were prepared the day before, and figures were carved with hundreds of fruits. Cooking porridge in the middle of the night, the whole family gets together to eat and feed it to relatives and neighbors, which is Laba porridge. Laba porridge is cooked with yellow rice, white rice, glutinous rice, millet, water chestnut, red cowpea and peeled jujube paste. And dyed with red peach kernels, almonds, melon seeds, peanuts, hazelnuts, pine nuts, sugar, red ponds, grapes, etc. Never use lotus seeds, lentils, coix seed and glutinous rice, which will hurt you. Peel the fruit once every seven days, wash the utensils once, and operate all night until the porridge is cooked at dawn. Afternoon is not allowed except for ancestor worship and Buddha worship. There are also red dates, walnuts and so on. Make it into categories such as lions and children, and you can see smart thinking.

Laba and Yuhe River start from the ice room, water is transported from Tonghe to the inner kiln, and ice is transported from Taiye Pool to the ice kiln, which is very convenient in summer.

At the end of 23rd, every family offered sacrifices to stoves, put up posts in the courtyard and hung lanterns. Sacrifice is a soup stove rice, honeydew melon and candied cake, and sacrifice is a fried bean pot with fragrant grains. Luo Bai, male, is willing to suppress evil and promote good. In the back room, women sweep the stove, smear clean mud and burn incense to worship.

Every year1February, within 19, 20, 2 1 22, Qin chooses an auspicious day, seals it as usual, announces it to the world, and all of them implement public holidays. Since then, the Liyuan Opera House has closed one day, and eight classes will perform together, and the play will be blessed on the first day of next year. Children who go to school are also given a holiday by the teacher after the "closure", which is called "the year after school".

From 25th to New Year's Eve, it is said to be "Luan Nian Festival". "Twenty-seven, sick, twenty-eight, sloppy."

At the end of the year, throw the medicine left over from one year outside the door and burn the collected prescriptions together. This is called "losing all diseases".

Burning pine branches, cypress leaves, atractylodes rhizome and auspicious Dan in a furnace is called "simmering year".

The day before New Year's Eve is called "New Year's Eve" and there is a banquet at home. People call it "not old". Burning incense outdoors is called "Tianxiang", which usually takes three days.

Many old people are on New Year's Eve.

On New Year's Eve, people go out to visit relatives and friends in embroidered robes, which is called "saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new". Family members kowtow to their elders, which is also called "resignation". The newlyweds must go to the Yue family to resign, otherwise it will be disrespectful.

On New Year's Eve, sesame stalks should be sprinkled outside the walkway from home to the gate, which is called "stepping on the year".

It was the first time to have sex on New Year's Eve. Outside, treasures and torches win glory, and firecrackers explode. Shoulder cluster, chariots and horses stumble. Hundreds of officials went to North Korea to celebrate New Year's Day. At this time, firecrackers thundered all over the government and stayed up all night. It is even more mixed with the rattle, selling melon seeds to relieve boredom, selling rice wine ice cups, selling sweet-scented osmanthus head oil called Jiao Niang, and selling fine vegetable powder, which is comparable to the sound of firecrackers. It's really good. "Home of the natives, new clothes, Su Dai, worship the gods and ancestors; After burning germanium silk, the family went to worship, offered pepper plates, poured cypress wine, steamed cakes and sipped noodle soup. Going out to greet the relatives, attending the medicine window and the shadow window, there is a Cambodian celebration. " If you meet relatives and friends on the road, you should pay a New Year call first, and then wish "Happy New Year". "As for entertainment, flowers will be tea, ten brocade hot pots will be delicious, and the soup will be served with goose oil, pork buns, rice cakes and yellow rice; Wine and vegetables are salted chicken bacon, bad heron and phoenix fish, pheasant feet, deer and rabbit breasts; Fruits include pine, hazelnut, lotus, peach, apricot, melon seed kernel, chestnut, jujube, hawthorn cake, green branch grape, Baizigang durian, Bo Qiu pear, apple, lion orange, orange and bayberry. Mixed with delicacies, home confuses the market. Even if you are not close, you should offer three glasses of wine. If you forget your feelings, why not get drunk! " As the saying goes, "it's better to take a thousand than one." Four horses are noisy and happy all day, which can be said to be a very temporary victory. "

The New Year's Eve dinner is made of gold, silver and rice, with pine and cypress branches inserted on it, and decorated with money, dates, chestnuts, longan, fragrant branches and chopped five pieces before it can be taken out. (called "Chinese New Year's Rice") Take larger branches of pine and cypress, put them in bottles, and decorate them with ancient money, ingots and pomegranate flowers. It's a cash cow.

Wear it with colored ropes, weave it into the shape of a dragon and put it at the foot of the bed. It is called "lucky money". What elders give to children is also called "lucky money", and the "sticker" used by wealth managers to withdraw money is called "ticket". Every year, except for the rich, anyone who exchanges money with silver is written on the lottery ticket, which is for the "red ticket" Take the meaning of gorgeous and auspicious.

Anyone who sells flowers is called Tanghua. "At the feast, give each other gifts. Peony is gorgeous, kumquat yellow, fragrant, warm and fragrant, and it can be cured in one room in three spring, so people call it "hall flower"

Hanging 1000 is to carve auspicious words on red paper, with a long ruler and A Zhi, and stick it in front of the door, reflecting the symbol of peach. There are eight immortals hanging in front of the Buddha statue. Hanging thousands of households use more, and aristocratic families use less. Its yellow paper is three inches long and red paper is more than one inch long, which is a "small hanging thousand" and is used by shops.

Every new year's eve, put a long case in the atrium. Percentage is the sacred picture of heaven. Before "100%", it is called "full supply" to provide display honey for the first floor. Cao Tong's Eight Immortals, Pomegranate and Yuanbao are called "flowers for Buddha". When it's time to pick up the gods, they will burn incense at 100%, and then burn incense until the Lantern Festival. This is what people often call "the table of heaven and earth".

The first month of entering every household

On the first day of the first month, get up at five o'clock, burn incense and set off paper cannons. On this day, we visited each other, regardless of grades, and ran for several days, which was called "Happy New Year". Foods to eat, such as Pepsi-Cola boxes, are made of persimmons, lychees, longan, chestnuts and ripe dates.

On the first day of the lunar calendar, gods and ancestors are worshipped, and paper-cutting continues to reach the height of ancestors, which is called "zhangqian" and burning.

On the tenth day of the first month, I visited the door during the New Year, clamoring for posting, throwing a business card and leaving in a hurry. Most of them don't need to talk to their master.

From the first day of the first month to the fifth day of the first month, it is commonly known as "Breaking Five". According to the old custom, you should eat "dumplings" for five days, which is called "boiled cakes" in the north. Now some families only eat it for three or two days, and some eat it every other day. However, there is no one who does not eat. This is true from the royal residence to the small houses in the streets, even for entertaining guests.

The lights in the first month have always been concentrated in the "six lights" at the front door, which are called "six lights", among which the lights in the "Ministry of Industry" are the most praised. Ice lanterns, birds and animals, and all kinds of things in the world are made very skillfully.

The lantern market used to focus on the East and West archways, but later it moved to the gallery headlines.

Liulichang ... Every year from New Year's Day to 16th in Xinzheng, department stores gather, lights are hung on glass screens, tents for 10,000 people are hung, jade toothpicks are hung, thousands of households are contacted, and books are filled, which are collected in the streets of Zhen Zhen. There is also "Qin Lou Chu Guan is partial to songs, and BMW is a guest." It is also a scene of the Old Beijing New Year Festival.