#Red Hot New Year #Spring Festival is a traditional festival of the Chinese nation, after the eighth is the Year, let's talk about the Spring Festival (New Year) some knowledge.
1. Origins. During the Yu Shun period, after Qin Shi Huang unified the Six Kingdoms, it was stipulated that October was the first month, and the early Han Dynasty followed the Qin calendar: the Xia Dynasty used the first month of MengChun as the first month, and there are many theories about the origin of the Spring Festival, but the generally accepted theory is that the Spring Festival arose from the Yu Shun period. The name nian began in the Zhou Dynasty, and was not officially fixed until the Western Han Wu Emperor and continues to this day.
2. Customs.
(1) Sweep the dust
Folk people call the period from the 23rd to the Chinese New Year's Eve of the lunar month "Spring Day", also known as "Dust Sweeping Day". On the occasion of the Spring Festival, every household must clean up, clean all kinds of utensils, remove and wash the futon curtains, sprinkle the courtyard of Liu lu, dust and cobwebs, and everywhere is full of joy and joy, hygiene, and the happy atmosphere of cleaning and cleaning to welcome the New Year
(2) Prepare new year goods
Before the Spring Festival, every household must prepare New Year goods, including chicken, duck and fish meat, tea wine and oil sauce, north and south stir-fried goods, sugar bait fruits, etc., and also prepare some gifts given during the New Year when visiting relatives and friends, and children should buy new clothes and hats to prepare for the New Year.
(3) Paste couplets
Couplets, also known as "Spring Union", "Door Pair", "Spring Sticker", before the Spring Festival, paste the Spring League on the gate, post the auspicious New Year paintings in the house, hang big red lanterns or paste blessing characters in front of the door and the statues of the god of wealth and the door god.
(4) Window flowers
People also like to paste all kinds of paper cuts on the windows - window flowers, window flowers not only set off the festive atmosphere, but also decorate the festival with prosperity
(5) Paste the word "Fu"
Some people have to paste large and small "Fu" characters on the doors, walls, and walls of the house, and most people paste the word "Fu" upside down, indicating that "happiness has arrived" and "blessings have arrived.".
(6) Set off firecrackers
Chinese folk have a "door opening firecrackers" saying, that is, at the arrival of the new year, the first thing every household opens the door is to set off firecrackers, with the sound of firecrackers to remove the old and welcome the new, firecrackers are Chinese specialties, also known as "firecrackers", "cannon battles", "firecrackers"
(7) Keep the age
Chinese New Year's Eve is one of the most important annual activities, Chinese New Year's Eve night, the whole family gathers together, eats Chinese New Year's Eve meal, lights candles or oil lamps, sits around the stove and chats, waiting for the time to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new. The all-night vigil symbolizes the drive away of all evil plagues and plagues, and looks forward to the auspicious new year.
(8) New Year's Greetings
On the first day of the New Year, people get up early, put on the most beautiful clothes, dress up neatly, go out to visit relatives and friends, pay respects to each other, wish the next year a great fortune, when the Spring Festival is celebrated, the juniors should first pay homage to the elders, wish the elders a long and healthy life, the elders can distribute the money prepared in advance to the juniors, and the juniors can spend a year in peace and security when they get the money.
(9) Spring Festival
Some local markets also have lion dances, dragon lanterns, performances of community fires, flower markets, temple fairs and other customs, during which the city is full of flower lanterns, tourists are full of streets, lively and extraordinary, the grand situation is unprecedented, until after the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month, the Spring Festival is really over.
3. Contraindications.
(1) To say good things, avoid scolding children, the tradition believes that if a child is scolded at the beginning, he will be scolded for a whole year.
(2), avoid cleaning, do not sweep the garbage out of the door: before the New Year to worship the "stove king", after sending away the "stove king", Chinese New Year's Eve night before the cleaning, called "sweeping dust", there is the meaning of removing the old and welcoming the new.
(3), the first and second days of the first year, avoid laundry, the birthday of the water god in the first and second days of the first year, so it is taboo to wash clothes on these two days.
(4), the first day of the first year to avoid urging people to get up, the morning of the first day of the New Year do not urge people to get up, thinking that this will make the other party will be urged to do things all year round.
(5) Married women should avoid returning to their mother's home on the first, fourth and fifth days of the first year: during the New Year, the women and sons-in-law who marry out can only return to the woman's mother's home in the second or third year of the first year.
(6) Avoid praying to people who are still sleeping: On the first day of the New Year, avoid visiting the New Year with people who are still sleeping, and you must wait until the other party gets up to worship the New Year, otherwise you will make the other party stay in the hospital bed all year round.
(7) Avoid debt collection, traditionally believes that during the New Year, whether it is a person who asks for a debt or a person who asks for a debt from someone, the whole year will be very unlucky, so it is taboo to collect debts from people.
Customs and taboos are different from all over the world, welcome to share with you. [Rose] I wish everyone a happy family and a happy New Year!