What are the customs of the Spring Festival?

The Spring Festival has a long history, which evolved from the sacrificial rites of praying for the new year at the beginning of the year in ancient times, and bears rich historical and cultural connotations in its inheritance and development. So, do you know what customs there are during the Spring Festival? Interested friends come together to find out. 1. the 24th of the twelfth lunar month: sweeping the house

In ancient times, the Spring Festival cleaning was called "sweeping the year", which originated from a religious ceremony for the ancient people to drive away the epidemic. Later, it gradually evolved into a year-end cleaning. According to folk legends in the early years, "dust" and the old "Chen" are homophonic. Nowadays, before the New Year in the first month of the lunar calendar, sweeping away all the dust at home means getting rid of the old things of the old year and sweeping out all the bad "poor luck" and "bad luck" to welcome the new year. 2, twelfth lunar month: make tofu

As the saying goes, "twelfth lunar month, push the mill to make tofu". But why make "tofu"? As far as tofu itself is concerned, it is a good choice to replace meat. In the past, poor people always looked forward to eating a good meal in the New Year. Tofu is a food between meat and vegetables, and it can be used to make different dishes instead of meat. Of course, "making tofu" also has symbolic significance. Chinese "rot" and "fu" have similar pronunciations, and making tofu means "harvesting happiness and blessings in the New Year". 3. Twenty-sixth day of the twelfth lunar month: cutting meat

The 26th day of the twelfth lunar month is an important day to buy new year's goods during the Chinese New Year. In the old society, people's living standards were not high, and it was often difficult to see meat at the dinner table several times throughout the year. Only during the Chinese New Year did they want to eat meat once, so people called the meat prepared for the Chinese New Year "Year's Meat". To this day, in many rural areas of China, there are large gatherings on this day. On this day, people have to go to the market to buy gifts from relatives after the New Year, and firecrackers, cigarettes, wine, fish and meat for the New Year need to be arranged on this day. The folk proverb calls this day: "On the 26th of the twelfth lunar month, kill pigs and cut the meat of the year." 4. Twenty-seventh day of the twelfth lunar month: Killing Year Chicken

Killing Year Chicken is one of the traditional annual customs in northern China. "Chicken" and "Ji" have the meaning of good luck and good luck, and killing chickens on the 27th of the twelfth lunar month is also exquisite. Kill the chicken, don't eat it on the same day, you can't eat it until New Year's Eve, and you can't finish it when you eat it on New Year's Eve. You should always keep some. Because, in itself, it represents good luck, so during the festival, you should see chickens on the table every day, so that it is complete. 5. twelfth lunar month: making rice cakes

rice cakes are foods steamed with sticky rice noodles or corn noodles and dates or beans. Cakes made during the Spring Festival are called rice cakes. Because cake is homophonic with high, eating rice cakes in the New Year contains good wishes for high every year. According to the Han folk customs and traditions, on the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month, there is a custom of making rice cakes to prepare the staple food for the New Year.

That's all I know about the custom of celebrating the Spring Festival. What else do you know, my friends? Leave a message in the comments section.