What are the customs and customs of the Spring Festival? A brief introduction to the customs and customs of the Spring Festival

1. Happy New Year. New Year greetings are a traditional custom among Chinese people. It is a way for people to bid farewell to the old year, welcome the new year, and express their best wishes to each other. With the development of the times, the custom of New Year greetings has continuously added new content and forms. Nowadays, in addition to following the previous methods of New Year greetings, people now also pay New Year greetings online and by phone.

2. Open the door and firecrackers. On the morning of the Spring Festival, when the door is opened, firecrackers are set off first, which is called "opening the door and firecrackers". After the sound of firecrackers, the ground was filled with red, as bright as clouds and brocade, which was called "Full of Red". The streets are full of auspiciousness and joy.

3. Sticker chicken. Chinese people commemorate the first eight days of the new era with six animals, humans, and grains. The first day of the first lunar month is Rooster Day, which is an auspicious day. To use chickens to ward off evil spirits, the method is to kill the chicken and put a picture of the chicken on the door. It is called a picture chicken, which expresses the Chinese working people's good wish to avoid disasters and seek good luck and avoid evil.

4. Eat rice cakes. Because rice cakes are homophonic to the word "year high" and come in a variety of flavors, they have become a must-have snack for almost every household. The styles of rice cakes include square yellow and white rice cakes, which symbolize gold and silver and convey the meaning of getting rich in the new year.

5. Eat glutinous rice balls. Eating glutinous rice balls on the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year has a special meaning. Its meaning is: everything goes well and there is a happy reunion. On the first day of the Lunar New Year, glutinous rice balls are not called "tangyuan" but "yuanbao". Eating glutinous rice balls is not called "eating glutinous rice balls" but "getting ingots".

6. Give lucky money. It is a traditional Chinese custom to give some lucky money to children during the New Year. New Year's money is full of blessings from the elders to the younger ones. In China, there are some widely circulated stories about the origin of New Year's money. For example, in ancient times, there was a evil spirit named "Sui" who came out to harm children every New Year's Eve. So people would light up lights and stay up all night, and put copper coins next to their children's pillows to ward off evil spirits. This was called "keeping evil spirits" or "suppressing evil spirits".

7. Welcome the Stove Lord. The fourth day of the Lunar New Year is a day to worship the God of Wealth. In the past, if the boss wanted to "fire" someone, he would not invite him to worship the God on this day. The other party would know full well and pack up and leave. There is also a legend that the Kitchen God is coming to check household registration on this day, so it is not advisable to go far away.

8. Welcome the God of Wealth/Road God/send away the poor/open the market. The fifth day of the first lunar month is called "Po Wu". This day is a big day for merchants. It is a day to pray for a prosperous year and welcome the God of Wealth. "The store will be open today and firecrackers will be set off."

9. Stone's birthday/give away children to the poor. On the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, the God of Wealth is welcomed into the door, and on the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, the God of Poverty is sent away. On this day to send the God of Poverty away, a general cleaning should be carried out at home, and all garbage, useless rags, etc. should be thrown away. In addition, you also need to drink a vegetable soup, which is made from seven kinds of vegetables such as spinach and green vegetables.

10. Renri/fishing for fish/spreading pancakes/outing/climbing. The seventh day of the first lunar month is also known as "Human Victory Festival", "Human Festival", "Population Day", "Human Seventh Day", etc. Legend has it that when Nuwa created the world, she created humans on the seventh day after creating animals such as chickens, dogs, pigs, cows, and horses, so this day is the birthday of humans. The Han Dynasty began to have the custom of human day festivals, and it began to be taken seriously after the Wei and Jin Dynasties. In ancient times, people had the custom of wearing "rensheng". Rensheng is a kind of headdress. Starting from the Jin Dynasty, people cut ribbons as flowers, cut ribbons as people, or engraved gold foil as people to affix screens, and also wore them on their hair.

11. Eat Yuanxiao on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. "Yuanxiao" has been a food in China for a long time. In the Song Dynasty, a novel food eaten during the Lantern Festival became popular among the people. This kind of food was first called "Fu Yuanzi" and later "Yuanxiao". Businessmen also euphemistically called it "Yuanbao". Yuanxiao dumplings are stuffed with sugar, roses, sesames, bean paste, cinnamon, walnut kernels, nuts, jujube paste, etc., and are wrapped into round shapes with glutinous rice flour. They can be meat or vegetarian and have different flavors. It can be boiled in soup, fried or steamed, and has the meaning of happy reunion. Shaanxi glutinous rice balls are not wrapped, but rolled in glutinous rice flour. They are either boiled or deep-fried, heated and made round and round.