Talk about Chinese New Year customs all over the country?

1. "Twenty-eight years old, washing sloppy", this is Cantonese. It means cleaning the house inside and out on the 28th of a year. Clean up all the bad things this year and welcome the new year.

2. Open the oil pan to steam rice cakes before the Chinese New Year. Stir-fry horns, scattered eggs, stir-fry piles, etc. In the frying pan; And rice cakes are generally steamed radish cakes, horse tellurium cakes and so on.

The first day of the first lunar month in the Spring Festival is the New Year of the East Asian lunar calendar. As the most important traditional festival in China, Japan, South Korea, Mongolia, Viet Nam, Laos, Myanmar, Cambodia, Thailand and Singapore, various customs of the Spring Festival are widely preserved in East Asian countries, and the most popular saying is Chinese New Year.

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* 1 origin

* 2 small years and big years

:: 3 customs offices

O 3. 1 Fujian, Taiwan Province Province

* 4 See also.

* 5 reference websites

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origin

It is difficult to know when the custom of Spring Festival originated, but it is generally believed that it originated from the activities of offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors in the late Yin and Shang Dynasties in China. The first month of the lunar calendar (65438+ 10 month) is the beginning of a year. In most cases, it is beginning of spring on the first or middle day of the first month (a small part of beginning of spring is in the late twelfth month), and now it is named Spring Festival; The final determination of the specific time of the festival is believed to be related to the minimum impact on agricultural work at this time. The last day of the lunar year (30th and 29th of the lunar month) is called "New Year's Eve". On New Year's Eve, the whole family get together for dinner (the last meal of the Lunar New Year). After dinner, there are customs of staying up late and giving lucky money, which means keeping the first day of the next year from the last day of the lunar new year. Therefore, this festival is also called China New Year.

According to the solar calendar, the spring outing lasts from 1 to 2 1 to February 20th. The beginning of spring is on February 4th or 5th.

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Small year and big year

In the folk, especially in rural areas, there has always been the habit of having a small year and a big year.

* Off-year, that is, the 23rd (or 24th) of the twelfth lunar month (see the explanation on the discussion page), send the Kitchen God to heaven (cremate the Kitchen God's paintings) and report to the Jade Emperor the performance of his family in the past year. In order to make the kitchen god speak well, we should offer honeydew melons, and paste sugar on his mouth when sending him away, so that he can speak well in heaven. To welcome Kitchen God back on New Year's Eve is to invite (buy) a new painting of Kitchen God (with the milk of Kitchen God and his wife on it) for the kitchen. A pair of couplets are usually posted on both sides of the painting: Heaven says yes, and the lower bound ensures peace. Horizontal batch: the head of the family.

* New Year's Day begins on the last day of the twelfth lunar month. It is generally believed that until the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month, there is another saying that it is the year before the first month.

* The "legal holiday of the Spring Festival" stipulated by the mainland is from the first day to the third day of the first lunar month (1 to 3 days).

Countries around China influenced by China, such as South Korea, have the Korean word "Seollal?" (Korean for "New Year"), a legal holiday; Vietnam, commonly known as the "New Year's Day", the legal time, like China, is also the first to third day. Although different countries have different names, their customs are similar.

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custom

Red lanterns should be hung in the New Year.

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Red lanterns should be hung in the New Year.

Laba: The eighth day of the twelfth lunar month is a traditional festival of the Han nationality, as a signal of the coming of "New Year's Eve". As a tradition, we drink Laba porridge and make Laba garlic on this day. See Laba Festival.

* Sacrificing the kitchen stove is to send the kitchen god to heaven in the coming year.

* dust removal,

* Post Spring Festival couplets and New Year pictures,

* Please, thank God,

* Burning incense and candles,

* Hang lanterns and light candles in lanterns. The flame of candles is really beautiful. If you put a light bulb, it will be much worse.

* ancestor worship,

* beating gongs and drums,

* New Year's Eve,

* set off firecrackers,

* Happy New Year,

* lucky money,

* Walking on stilts and dancing dragon lanterns,

:: Family reunification. People who go out to study and work should go home to reunite with their parents and celebrate the New Year together.

* Although the legal holiday for the Spring Festival in Chinese mainland is three days, many places (especially non-state-owned units) do not officially go to work until the eighth day of the first month.

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Fujian, Taiwan Province Province

The first day was early, the second day was clever, the third day was sleepy, the fourth day the gods fell to the ground, and the fifth day they parted. (Pronunciation in Minnan)

* The first day: wear new clothes, worship ancestors, and go to the temple to pray for a year.

* The next day: go back to my parents' house. The married daughter returns to her parents' home to reunite with her family on this day, which is also called the second day of the following year.

* The third day: the mouse gets married. From New Year's Eve to the second day of New Year's Eve, you should have a good rest in the third day. The ancients also said that it is good to care for animals and not disturb mice to get married. So I'm sleepy and full in grade three.

* Day 4: God fell to the ground. When the gods return to earth, every household prepares sacrifices and prays for the gods' blessing.

* Day 5: Separation. At the end of the Spring Festival, shops open to worship the God of Wealth.

Have a reunion dinner on New Year's Eve (September 29th if there is no New Year's Eve), and the whole family should get together neatly all year round. Eat new year's eve dinner on the second day of the lunar new year.

4. Hanghua Street, according to the customs of past dynasties, the annual Lunar New Year Flower Market will be held every Spring Festival. The Chinese New Year's Eve flower market usually starts about ten days before the Spring Festival and ends at twelve o'clock on the 30th. New Year's Eve is the climax of the Chinese New Year's Eve flower market. The closer it is to the first day of the Lunar New Year, the more popular it is. The flower market sells flowers, oranges, handicrafts and so on. Every household in Foshan will plant flowers to celebrate the Spring Festival. Peach blossom is an essential winter jasmine, pray for peach blossom luck in the coming year. Kumquat symbolizes "good luck". Four Seasons Orange, Golden Egg and Cinnabar Orange similar to Kumquat can also play this role, so ordinary families only buy one of them. Similarly, it is the fruit passed down from generation to generation, which means prosperity from generation to generation. Narcissus is also one of the decorations for Foshan people in the New Year.

5. Pay New Year greetings. No matter how many gifts you bring, it can't be odd. People who pay New Year greetings enter the doors of relatives and friends, and they should look at different people and say different greetings. Say "Happy New Year" and "Longevity is better than Nanshan" to the elderly; For those who have jobs, say "smooth work" and "progress in the new year"; If you are a business person, what you hear most is "making a big profit in the New Year" and "making a fortune and benefiting the market"; If children are studying, what they want most is to make progress in their studies and achieve excellent results in the new year. Before leaving, the host will leave two oranges in the gift of the recipient, and then exchange his oranges in order to bring good luck to the other party.

Back to her mother's house, on the second day of the first month, the married daughter went back to her mother's house with her husband and children to pay New Year's greetings. When a daughter returns to her mother's house, there must be a big bag of biscuits and sweets distributed by her mother to her neighbors, just like the scene of the New Year. If there are many daughters in the family, and none of them came back on the same day, then they should come one by one to show the girls' yearning for the family.

6. Giving gifts (red envelopes or lucky money) to underage juniors means bringing them blessings and good luck. The main meaning of auspiciousness lies in red paper, because it symbolizes good luck. Therefore, it is impolite to open the welfare in front of the elders who distribute it.

When visiting the New Year during the Spring Festival, the elders should distribute the lucky money prepared in advance to the younger generation. It is said that lucky money can kill evil spirits, because "old" and "expensive" are homophonic, and the younger generation can spend a year safely with lucky money.

Folks believe that giving children lucky money, when evil spirits or "Nian" hurt children, children can use the money to bribe them and turn evil into good luck.

7. On the 16th day of the first month, there is a saying in Foshan that "there is no place for the economy". On the same day, I bought windmills and lettuce and walked on Tongji Bridge to pray for Geely (the homonym of lettuce) and make a fortune. Sacrifice the stove to sweep the New Year's Eve, paste the Spring Festival couplets and pick up the New Year's Eve of the God of Wealth.