The daily customs of the Spring Festival

This day is the first day of the Lunar New Year. Everyone goes back to visit their elders. Such a visit helps to promote family relations. This form is called New Year greetings (centennial). Be sure to bring gifts and double copies to symbolize yes-men.

Older people usually give their children red envelopes, which symbolize good luck and evil spirits.

In order to welcome relatives and friends, the host will prepare tea and dessert, which is to make the guests sweet and beautiful in the new year. Candy trays are often called eight-treasure boxes, and eight kinds of food are similar to the homonym of "hair" in Chinese characters in China. Yu Yi will make a fortune in the new year.

Chinese New Year: Daughter-in-law goes back to her mother's house

On this day, the married daughter will go back to her parents' home to visit her parents, relatives and friends. Traditionally, married daughters don't have many opportunities to visit their families.

In the old society, people thought that "married girls are all spilled water", so they generally could not go home for a reunion dinner on New Year's Eve or New Year's Day.

But now, men and women are equal, and people don't observe this custom very much. However, when visiting parents, married women should come with their husbands and bring some cake gifts.

On the third day of the lunar new year: mice marry women

After busy visiting relatives and friends two days ago, people can have a rest today.

In fact, it is unlucky to see relatives and friends on the third day of the lunar new year. People will go to bed early tonight and get up late in the morning.

As the saying goes, on the third day of the lunar new year, mice get married, so people will reduce their activities at night in order to give mice time to marry women.

People will put rice, cakes or peanuts in the corner and let the mice take them away. People hope to establish a harmonious relationship with mice, so that mice can give people a peaceful year.

This folk belief mainly comes from the fact that rats often bring disasters to people in the old society.

Marrying a mouse is very famous in China's traditional stories, so it often appears in various poems, paintings and performances.

Lunar New Year's Day: Meeting Kitchen God

According to the custom, 65438+February 23rd of the lunar calendar is the day to send God, and the fourth day of the Lunar New Year is considered as a good day to invite God.

It is said that the Kitchen God will report the good and evil of mankind in the past year to the Jade Emperor, and will not return to the world until the fourth day of the fourth lunar month.

There is a saying in China, "Send God early and receive God later." So send the Kitchen God away in the early morning and meet him around 4 pm.

There is a legend in the north of China that on this day, the Kitchen God will come to inspect every household, so you should not leave home on this day. Another custom is not to close the door on this day, in case the kitchen god can't enter the house.

Lunar new year's day: open the market to meet the god of wealth

Today it is customarily called "breaking five knots".

According to traditional customs, people think that many taboos of the New Year can be broken on this day.

There are several stories about the origin of Pentecost, among which the most widely known is that it is the birthday of the God of Wealth.

Therefore, on this day, people will have a big meal to celebrate.

People will also set off fireworks to attract the attention of the God of Wealth to ensure that the God of Wealth will take care of them and bring good luck in the new year.

Even today, in the north of China, people still like to eat jiaozi on this day. Celebrating this day can break many taboos.

Besides, jiaozi is shaped like a gold ingot, so eating jiaozi is also a way to celebrate the God of Wealth's birthday.

On the first day of lunar new year's day: send thousands to the poor.

According to traditional customs, families usually send the poor away on this day.

By doing so, China people hope to send away poverty and usher in happiness and good luck in the new year.

According to legend, a poor man was the son of an emperor thousands of years ago. He is short and thin, and likes to wear rags and drink porridge.

Even if someone gives him new clothes, he won't wear them until they are torn. Therefore, with the passage of time, he was called a poor man and gradually became a poor man.

In order to send the poor away, people usually throw away their rags, rubbish and other dirty things.

This practice is also for cleaning.

As far as the first five days of the new year are concerned, people are not allowed to throw away any rubbish, because it is regarded as wealth and cannot be swept away.

However, many taboos can be broken after the five breaks.

So, people will eventually clean their houses again.

Nowadays, the custom of sending the poor away in big cities is not common.

On the seventh day of the seventh lunar month: people catch fish every day.

This day is usually called People's Day, and is considered as everyone's birthday.

In most parts of China, people will eat noodles on this day, because in the culture of China, noodles symbolize longevity.

In South China, even in Southeast Asia, especially in Malaysia and Singapore, China people celebrate everyone's birthday with raw fish on this day. This Chinese raw fish salad is also called lo hei.

It is usually made by mixing raw fish strips (mostly salmon) with diced vegetables, and then adding various sauces and seasonings to eat together with other ingredients.

Raw fish literally means "raw fish", but because the pronunciation of "fish" and "fish" is the same, raw fish is interpreted as homophonic "raw fish", which means more than enough promotion.

Therefore, raw fish has become a symbol of abundance and wealth.

Raw fish ingredients include radish (white radish), carrot, red pepper, turnip, purple ginger paste, dried orange, lemon leaf, coriander, dried pepper, jellyfish skin, peanut powder, roasted sesame, fried shrimp, spiced powder and so on. , and added a sauce made of sour plum sauce, rice vinegar, kumquat sauce and sesame oil.

Generally speaking, every ingredient added represents good luck.