What are the folk customs in the Spring Festival?

The Spring Festival, also known as the New Year, is the largest and most solemn traditional festival among the people in China. No matter how far away from home, wanderers should go home to reunite with their relatives. The Spring Festival has a long history. With the change of time, many traditional customs have been left behind.

? Folk customs of the Spring Festival?

? First, sweep the dust and get rid of the old?

In most places, the tradition is to sweep the dust on the 24th of the twelfth lunar month, but the custom in our hometown is to sweep the dust after the Great Cold Festival. The potholes in the house can be started, and the corners inside and outside should be cleaned up. It usually takes a long time to clean up, which means to clean up all the bad luck and disappointments in one year, and the next year will be a good year.

? Second, do new year's goods and buy new clothes?

According to the custom of our hometown, every town has a fixed market day. Some places 147, some places 258, some places 369. It's 147 in our town, that is, every day at the end of the lunar calendar 147, vendors will go to the market to set up their stalls, and everyone will go to the market these days, which we call "participation". The 21st, 24th and 27th of the twelfth lunar month are the busiest and most crowded times of the year. Everyone will choose to buy new year's goods these days, and the streets are crowded with people.

The happiest thing when I was a child was to go to the show. Although you have to get up before dawn and walk on the mountain road for more than an hour, you can buy clothes. If I am lucky, I can get change to buy snacks and toys, so that I can have face in front of my companions during the New Year.

? Third, post Spring Festival couplets and hang lanterns?

After cleaning the house, we began to dress up. Putting up Spring Festival couplets and hanging red lanterns, the atmosphere of the New Year came up at once. Sometimes Spring Festival couplets are golden, so you can wipe off the gold powder on your face and pretend to paint a beautiful makeup for yourself. Children will also compare whose Spring Festival couplets are the most beautiful and foreign.

? Fourth, do tofu, steam glutinous rice, and stir-fry glutinous rice?

On the day before New Year's Eve, all the neighbors in the neighborhood began to prepare the ingredients for the New Year's Eve. Every household began to make tofu, also known as "beating tofu". Soak your hair with your own soybeans, grind them into soybean milk, add water and a little gypsum powder, and finally turn them into tofu. At this time, you can come to a bowl of primitive tofu pudding, add a spoonful of sugar to drown out the smell of beans, and the aftertaste is endless.

Another thing that needs to be prepared is fermented mash, which is steamed in a large pot, fermented with distiller's yeast, and finally becomes soft and delicious fermented mash. You can cook dumplings or eat them alone. Cooked mash soup can be kept for two or three days, and a bowl of cold soup is thirsty after eating snacks, which is simply more delicious than any drink.

Finally, frying, also known as "frying". Besides prickly heat, there are fried tofu, fried meatballs, fried ribs and so on. Moreover, the technology of prickly heat is complex, with many ingredients and slow dough, which requires the tacit cooperation of several people. Sometimes a family has to work late into the night.

? Fifth, respect for the elderly?

On New Year's Eve, every household began to get busy early in the morning, cooking pig's head and tail in a big pot, and then began to respect the elderly. Put the cooked pig's head and tail under the tablet of God at home. Every household should burn incense and paper money, as well as kitchen gods and land gods, and then set off a string of long firecrackers.

After respecting the elderly, I will treat the pig's tail and remove all the bones from the pig's head. When I was a child, my favorite thing was to stand by and watch my father tidy up the pig's head so that the best walnuts could be eaten for me. Then a pig's teeth will be cleaned and put on for children to pray for safety and health.

? Sixth, the reunion dinner?

There must be fish on the table, which means more than one year. Before the reunion dinner, we should also "respect the elderly", set a big table of rich meals and chopsticks, and prepare drinks. Then burn incense and paper money, and invite all immortals to have a reunion dinner with their deceased relatives. After respecting the elderly, you can eat at the table.

After eating, pack some rice, tofu and meat for the dog at home. Which dog eats first means that the price will increase in the new year. I will also cut a hole in my own fruit tree with an axe and pour food on it. Pray for the new year to blossom and bear fruit and not be destroyed by insects, ants and birds.

? Seven, go to the grave?

After the reunion dinner, after a short rest, we began to enter the next item-going to the grave. Take the paper money, incense and firecrackers you bought, and pay New Year greetings to the deceased relatives, praying that they will be safe, healthy and prosperous in the new year. I often have to walk from one hill to another, and the whole family has to go out.

? Eight, lucky money?

It's getting dark when you come back from the grave. After dinner, it is the lucky money that children are most looking forward to. There are many tricks in this link. Generally, the paper money of various currencies is put aside, and the younger generation will display their talents one after another, not sticking to various forms. As long as you can make your elders happy, you can get lucky money, mainly to make them happy.

The Spring Festival is an annual major festival of the Chinese nation, with a long history and rich cultural characteristics. Today, let's build a bright future with the joy of family reunion, the encouragement of love, the bond of friendship and hard work. To this end, the Spring Festival is not only a tradition to commemorate the past, but also a positive belief to embrace the future. It breeds inner hope and rich benefits with precious time. Let's live up to the time, savor the beautiful Spring Festival with our heart, pass on our best wishes to our family, friends and everyone around us, welcome the Spring Festival and wish you all a happy New Year!