Customs of the Year of the Tiger

Spring Festival Customs _20 10 Folk Calendar of Spring Festival in the Year of the Tiger _ Highlights of Spring Festival Customs

Spring Festival generally refers to New Year's Eve and the first day of the first month. But among the people, the traditional Spring Festival refers to the sacrificial ceremony from the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month or the 23rd or 24th of the twelfth lunar month to the 15th of the first lunar month in La Worship, with New Year's Eve and the first day of the first lunar month as the climax. During the Spring Festival, Han people and many ethnic minorities in our country will hold various activities to celebrate. The main contents of these activities are offering sacrifices to gods and buddhas, paying homage to ancestors, saying goodbye to the old year and welcoming the new year, and praying for a bumper harvest. The activities are rich and colorful, with strong national characteristics.

Spring Festival, a traditional lunar festival in China.

Spring Festival Lantern Festival Qinglong Festival Cold Food Festival Tomb-Sweeping Day

◆ Dragon Boat Festival ◆ Summer solstice ◆ Beggar's Day ◆ Mid-Autumn Festival ◆

Double Ninth Festival ◆ Winter solstice ◆ Laba Festival ◆ Celebrate the New Year ◆ Except this day in a year.

☆ Spring Festival

On the first day of the first lunar month, there were more than 30 names in ancient times, such as Yuanri, New Year's Day, Jacky, Chen Yuan, Yuanshuo, Sanyuan, Tri-city, Zheng Dan and Zhengshuo. After the Revolution of 1911, it was changed to the Gregorian calendar, and this day was designated as the Spring Festival, which was different from the New Year's Day of the Gregorian calendar. But people are still used to treating it as an annual festival, commonly known as "New Year's Day", "New Year's Day", "Old Calendar Year" and "Lunar Year". New Year's Day was first seen in Shangshu Shundian. In the Han dynasty, there were quite a lot of folk customs, and it is still the most grand festival of the year. Public officials have a three-day holiday and folk celebrations last for half a month.

According to the old custom, the Spring Festival begins at 0: 00 on the first day of the first lunar month. In all parts of Shandong, parents usually get up first to "hand out paper" and put a fire whip before opening the door before speaking. Men worship the god of heaven and earth under the guidance of their parents. The first meal of the Spring Festival is jiaozi. When cooking jiaozi, set off firecrackers. In order to drive away evil and seek good luck, jiaozi is cooked with sesame stalks in some areas, which means that the new year is like sesame blossoms and the days are getting better and better. Jiaozi has to cook more, which is definitely more than enough. After dinner, steamed bread should be put in the pot, which means more than enough. Jiaozi cooked, first hold a bowl of respect for heaven and earth, and then hold a bowl of respect for the kitchen god. When eating, in addition to one bowl per person, one or two bowls should be served in order to prosper the population. Eating jiaozi is full of festive atmosphere. During the Spring Festival, jiaozi is full of money, dates, chestnuts and so on. Eating red dates means getting up early in the new year and trying to get rich; Eating chestnuts means that you can make great efforts and sweat in the new year; Eating peanuts can prolong life; If you eat money, you can get rich. No matter who eats one of them, everyone sincerely congratulates. If the child gets the money, the parents will be happier. They think the child has a bright future. In addition to encouragement, they should also be rewarded with money to show their congratulations. Many places eat vegetarian stuffing in jiaozi on the first day of the first month, which means "a quiet year". In Linqing, we eat all kinds of buns, jujube cakes, sticky nests and so on. Breakfast on the first day of junior high school, supplemented by various balls, vermicelli and Chinese cabbage, is called "eating all the year round".

The custom of greeting the New Year during the Spring Festival has a long history and is still enduring. First, the family pays New Year greetings. In a family, the younger generation pays New Year greetings to the elders and the peers pay New Year greetings to each other. Later, the New Year greetings were for elders who did not take five clothes. Finally, I paid a long visit to Five Blessingg's elders, relatives and friends to pay New Year greetings. In the past, I had to kowtow to pay a New Year call, but now I usually just say hello. Businessmen should not only say hello, but also congratulate each other on their wealth. The younger generation pays New Year greetings to the elders, and the elders give them lucky money. On the first day of Linqing, men and married women took part in New Year's greetings. Men and women are separated, and they worship their elders first, and then all the elders in the family. This is called "New Year greetings for the whole family". Later, the patriarch led them to worship in temples and ancestral halls with different surnames. This year was called "New Year greetings in villages". Finally, the village head commanded the whole village to worship each other at the crossroads in the village to solve the disputes and grievances in previous years. This year is called "Happy New Year and Year of Unity", and Yuncheng and other places have the custom of "begging for a long time during the Spring Festival". After getting up, the children silently embraced Ailanthus altissima and sang "King Ailanthus altissima, you grow thick and I grow long, you grow thick and make materials, and I grow clothes". Zoucheng, on the other hand, has a special custom of tamping rat holes. The first morning, he pounded the mouse hole with a flour stick and said, "Poke, poke, poke, nine of the ten mice are blind, and one is not blind, so I will poke" to ensure food security.

There were many taboos on the first day, and the location was similar. In Junan, it is forbidden to push the mill (it was closed years ago, and it was only allowed to be used on the fifth day of the fifth year), to carry water, to sweep the floor, and to hit people and swear. Linyi, on the other hand, avoids spending money, including jiaozi, eating meat and mashing garlic. Yiyuan Garden doesn't light on the first night. It is said that if you light a lamp, rats will be overrun. Breaking things on the first day is the most taboo in Jiaodong. In case you break something, you should take the chess piece, don't look back, don't talk, go straight to the well and throw the chess piece into the well, otherwise you will be the "main murderer". In some places, after breaking utensils, read the auspicious words of "Peace through the years" to crack them. On the first day of cooking jiaozi, you can't say "broken" when it is broken, but "earned". This restaurant eats jiaozi and garlic at the same time during the Spring Festival, and it was renamed "Yihe Cuisine" because of its homonym with "garlic".

Entertainment activities during the Spring Festival are extremely common among Shandong people. Yangko, dragon lantern, lion dance, dry boat, martial arts performance, ball games and other forms are diverse. From the second day to the sixteenth day of the first month, there is a Drum Tower Gate Meeting in Qufu City, and the Confucius Temple is open. There were local opera performances such as Huagu and Blind Tune, folk art performances and vendors selling toys, fireworks, flowers and fried cakes. 14 is the peak of this meeting, and many people in rural areas go to the city to catch the meeting, commonly known as "rushing to visit the meeting". In order to watch the lively scene at the meeting, the wives of Confucius built a platform and shed on the inner wall of Confucius' gate, covered with lanterns and decorated with colorful lanterns, and hung a bamboo curtain on the street side of the platform for sightseeing.

[Sacrifice the stove] [Sweep the dust] [Eat stove candy]

In China, the Spring Festival usually begins with a ceremony of offering sacrifices to stoves on the 23rd or 24th of the twelfth lunar month. There is a saying that "officials, three people, four boatmen and five people", that is, the government held a ceremony to sacrifice stoves on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, ordinary people on the 24th and houseboats on the 25th. After holding the sacrificial stove, they officially began to prepare for the New Year. Every year from the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month to New Year's Eve, people call it "Spring Festival".

[taking a bath]

In traditional folk customs, we should concentrate on bathing and washing clothes these two days to get rid of the bad luck of the year and prepare for the Spring Festival next year. There is a saying in Beijing that "twenty-seven washes away the root of the disease, and twenty-eight washes away the mess." Taking a bath on the 26th of the twelfth lunar month is "washing Fulu".

[Posting doors] [Posting Spring Festival couplets] [Keeping the Year] [Eating New Year's Eve]

[Setting off firecrackers] [Sacrificing ancestors] [Giving lucky money]

The word "except" in "New Year's Eve" is "go; Easy; "Alternating" means that New Year's Eve means "the month is poor and the old year is exhausted". People want to get rid of the old department and the old year, and the coming year means getting a new year. This is the last night of the Lunar New Year. Therefore, the activities during this period are all around changing the old for the new, eliminating disasters and praying for blessings.

[Sacrificing to the God of Wealth] [Legend of the God of Wealth]

In the north, the god of wealth sacrifices on the second day of the first month. On this day, both commercial shops and ordinary families will hold activities to worship the god of wealth. Families offered sacrifices to the God of Wealth who arrived on New Year's Eve. In fact, the bought rough printed matter was incinerated. I want to eat wonton at noon this day, commonly known as "Yuanbao soup". Fish and mutton were used as sacrifices.

[Sacrifice to the God of Wealth] [Road God] [Send the poor] [Open the market]

The fifth day of the first month is commonly known as the fifth day. It is said that after this day, many taboos can be broken. According to the old custom, you should eat "dumplings", which is called "boiled cakes" in the north. Women no longer taboo, began to visit each other New Year. The bride will go home on this day. It is not appropriate to do things on the day of the break, otherwise something will happen this year.

[ancient] [anterograde]

On the eighth day of the first month, people make small lanterns and burn them for sacrifice, which is called Shunxing, also called "offering sacrifices to stars" and "receiving stars". Some people say that the eighth day is Xiaomi's birthday. If the weather is fine, the rice harvest will be good. If it is cloudy, it will be a hard year.

[Lantern Festival] [Send children lanterns] [Yingzi Valley]

【 Walking all diseases 】【 Stealing vegetables festival 】【 August 5th festival 】

Lantern Festival is also called Lantern Festival, Lantern Festival and Shangyuan Festival, because it is the first full moon night of the New Year. Because this festival has the custom of watching lanterns in past dynasties, it is also called Lantern Festival. The formation of Lantern Festival custom has a long process. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sacrificed "Taiyi" in Ganquan Palace in the first month, which was regarded by later generations as the prelude to offering sacrifices to the gods on the fifteenth day of the first month.

【 Pick up the Jade Emperor 】【 Drive away the chaos 】【 Look after the silkworms in the field 】【 Thousand Lantern Festival 】

It was not until New Year's Eve that Kitchen God was sent to welcome him back. During this period, there is no God's jurisdiction on the earth, and at all times, many people get married, which is called "expelling chaos". Luannian is a special period designed by people to adjust their social life. At the end of the year, people have leisure and savings, which is a good opportunity for those who have little energy to do great things.

[New Year's Eve] [New Year's Eve]

The day before New Year's Eve is called "New Year's Eve", and people call it "Don't be old" when greeting each other. Burning incense outdoors is called "Tianxiang", which usually takes three days.

[Happy New Year] [Open the door and set off firecrackers]

【 Age 】【 Stick a picture of chicken 】【 Gather wealth 】

This day is the first day of the year, the first day of spring and the first day of the first month, so it is called "Sanyuan". This day is still the year dynasty, the month dynasty and the Japanese dynasty, so it is also called the "Three Dynasties". China changed the time of the first day of the first month in different historical periods according to its own cultural traditions and customs.

[Burning doorman's paper] [Xiaomi's birthday] [off-year dynasty]

Off-year, that is, Tianqing Festival. The court festival in the Song Dynasty, the first year of Song Zhenzong Dazhong Xiangfu, was spread all over the world because of the gobbledygook, so Zhenzong issued an imperial edict, which designated the third day of the first month as Tianqing Festival, and officials and others had five days off. Later, it was called Xiaonian Dynasty, which did not sweep the floor, beg for fire or draw water, just like the old dynasty.

[People's Day] [Spread pancakes] [Eat Qibao soup]

Legend has it that the mother snail first created the world, and after she created chickens, dogs, pigs, cows, horses and other animals, she created people on the seventh day, so this day is the birthday of mankind. Some people began to observe daily customs in the Han dynasty, and they began to pay attention to it after the Wei and Jin Dynasties. In ancient times, there was a custom of wearing "Man wins". Because it is Human Day, there is a custom in ancient times not to execute people on this day.

[Birthday of Stone] [Congratulations to the mouse for marrying a daughter] [New Year's Day song]

In the old society, people's rat worship activities held in the first month were also called "rat marrying female" and "rat marrying". The specific dates vary from place to place, including the seventh day of the first month, the seventeenth day of the first month and the twenty-fifth day of the first month. In many areas, it is the tenth day of the first month. Different places also have different ways to worship rats.

"Spring in the Eastern Suburb", "Spring Post", "Spring Cattle" and "Bite Spring"

Beginning of spring Spring Festival is an important activity of China ancestors during the Spring Festival. During the Zhou Dynasty, beginning of spring was the emperor. He personally led princes and doctors from three counties and nine counties to the eastern suburbs to welcome the Spring Festival and pray for a bumper harvest. When you come back, you should reward the minister, Bud and benefit the people. Make it a national Spring Festival activity for generations.