What are the customs during the Spring Festival?

Chinese New Year custom 1, offering sacrifices to the kitchen god

Kitchen God is said to be the "commander in chief of the nine-day East Chef" appointed by the Jade Emperor, who is responsible for managing the kitchen fires of various families. Therefore, he is regarded as the patron saint of a family, and almost every family in the folk has the throne of "Kitchen God". Every year on the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, the Kitchen God will ascend to heaven to report the good deeds or evil deeds of this family to the emperor, and the Jade Emperor will decide the good or ill luck of this family in the coming year accordingly. Therefore, the kitchen god is very important to the fate of a family. Therefore, when he ascended to heaven, the people should "send a stove." Cooking is usually held at dusk. When the family went to the kitchen, they respectfully offered incense, candy and sacrifices. In some places, they offer sacrifices to the kitchen god with the candy from the museum. It is said that this will make Kitchen God eat dessert and talk more about family affairs. Then, people took off the gods of the kitchen god and burned them in the kitchen, and the kitchen god ascended to heaven with the ashes. After the kitchen stove was delivered, the family carefully prepared for the Spring Festival. People clean rooms, wash utensils, unpack and wash bedding, and clean courtyards to welcome the Spring Festival with pleasure.

On New Year's Eve, every household should pick up the kitchen stove and take back the kitchen god who was sent away.

Chinese New Year custom 2, paste Spring Festival couplets

Sticking Spring Festival couplets is an important custom for China people to celebrate the Spring Festival. farmer

No matter how poor you are these years, you will spend a few dollars to buy a few anyway. Stick it on the door frame, one is to increase the festive atmosphere of the New Year, and the other is to pray for good luck in the coming year.

In ancient times, people thought that ghosts were afraid of mahogany. In order to prevent ghosts from entering the door, people hang a mahogany board on both sides of the door, on which are carved two images of immortals, called peach charms, which are said to monitor the behavior of ghosts, and are changed once a year to avoid evil spirits. In the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, there was a very literate monarch, Meng Yun. Li Meng was the monarch of Houshu. On New Year's Eve, he wrote two auspicious words on the Fu Tao edition: "New Year's Eve is in Qing Yu, and the festival is in Changchun". These two New Year greetings from Meng Ji became the earliest couplets in China. Since then, China people's poetic style has been integrated with the festive atmosphere of the Spring Festival, and literati regard Spring Festival couplets as a major event, which has been very popular since the Song Dynasty. It is said that in the Ming Dynasty, under the advocacy of Zhu Yuanjin, Spring Festival couplets became popular and gradually became a Chinese New Year custom. Whether poor, rich or illiterate, people will put a pair of red Spring Festival couplets on their doors.

China New Year Customs III. Stick to the door

Door-sticking gods are also said to have originated from hanging peach charms. In the Tang Dynasty, forgetting Weichi Gong and Qin gradually evolved into a "keeper". Every Spring Festival, people will put two portraits on the gate to ward off evil spirits. It is said that after Emperor Taizong Li Shimin ascended the throne, ghosts cried outside the bedroom every night. General Qin and Weichi Gong, when informed of the situation, requested to guard the door for Emperor Taizong. From then on, Taizong slept soundly. He couldn't bear to keep the two lovers forever, so he asked the painter to draw their portraits and stick them on the palace road to ward off evil spirits. This is the keeper. Since then, the two generals, Qin Wei, have been regarded as door gods, posted year after year and replaced year after year.

China New Year custom. Paste the word "fu"

During the Spring Festival, people also like to write the word "Fu" on the lintels and cabinets. Moreover, the word "fu" should be posted backwards, and the auspicious word "fu is here" should be taken. Every Spring Festival, the word "Fu" with different sizes and fonts makes the atmosphere of the Spring Festival more festive and lively.

China New Year custom. Setting off firecrackers

"firecrackers bid farewell to the old year." Every Spring Festival, people like to set off firecrackers to increase the festive atmosphere of the festival. Every year on the thirtieth day of the twelfth lunar month, from midnight, firecrackers come and go, and excited people get up early to welcome the New Year. There is also a legend that firecrackers are set off in the New Year. According to legend, there was a fierce animal in ancient times, very fierce. People call it the year. It occurs once every 365 days a year, and when it comes out, it will endanger mankind and bring great disaster to mankind. In 2008, people went out for activities at night, so people turned off the lights for one night to avoid disaster. Later, people found that wearing red clothes and burning bamboo could drive away the New Year, so at the beginning of each year, people would set off firecrackers to ward off evil spirits. Pray for good luck in the coming year. Up to now, setting off firecrackers is still an indispensable procedure for people to celebrate the Spring Festival.