Legends and customs about the Spring Festival

The legend of the Spring Festival is because it is said that the Nian beast "Xi" is very ferocious and goes from house to house in the middle of the night to eat people. In order to avoid the Nian, the ancestors of Yan and Huang reunited their families and sat around to resist the Nian beast.

Since the Nian beast appears once a year, the ancestors of Yan and Huang figured out the secret of fighting through countless struggles. They were afraid of the color red, fire and sound, so people began to have red paper products (stickers). Red Spring Festival couplets, red window grilles), setting off firecrackers, beating gongs and drums and other customs. The customs of different periods, different regions and different ethnic groups are different.

The customs of the Spring Festival are:

1. New Year’s Eve dinner: New Year’s Eve dinner, also known as New Year’s dinner, reunion dinner, reunion dinner, etc., especially refers to the family dinner at the end of the year and New Year’s Eve. The New Year's Eve dinner is the highlight of the year. It is not only colorful, but also very special. Before eating the family reunion dinner, worship the gods and ancestors first, and then start the meal after the worship ceremony is completed. The Chinese New Year's Eve dinner is a family reunion dinner. It is the most sumptuous and important dinner at the end of the year.

2. Keeping the year old on New Year’s Eve is one of the annual customs. The custom of keeping the year old has been around for a long time. The folk custom of keeping the New Year's Eve is mainly manifested in lighting the New Year's Fire in all houses, family gatherings, and keeping the "Sui's Fire" from extinguishing, waiting for the moment to bid farewell to the old and welcome the New Year.

Extended information

During the Spring Festival, each region also has different songs:

1. Shandong: Laba porridge, boil it for a few days, and it will be like a song. Twenty-three, twenty-three, sticky melons, twenty-four, house cleaning day, twenty-five, pushing coal rats (should be millet, see Beijing chapter "Twenty-five, pushing millet"), twenty Six, go buy meat. Twenty-seven, slaughter the rooster. Twenty-eight, white flour and hair. Twenty-nine, steam buns. Stay up all night at thirty. On the first day of the new year, the elder sister pulls her younger brother to twist.

2. Beijing: "Twenty-three, sticky melons; twenty-four, cleaning day; twenty-five, push millet; twenty-six, remove the meat; twenty-seven, slaughter the pigs. Chicken; twenty-eight, steam the noodles; twenty-nine, steam the steamed buns; stay overnight at the thirty-eighth, and twist and turn on the first day of the new year."

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