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The first day of the first lunar month
HAPPY NEW YEAR
In the traditional New Year custom, the first year of worship must be an elder or a neighbor, generally do not go out to the far door to worship the New Year. After Chinese New Year's Eve keeping the new year, people opened the door on the morning of the first day to congratulate each other, "Happy New Year!" Peace and auspiciousness...". The younger generation pays homage to the elders, and the elders give the elders money to suppress the evil spirits.
In addition to dumplings, there are also tangyuan for breakfast on the first day of the Chinese New Year, which means: everything is as expected, and the whole family is reunited. On the first day of the Chinese New Year, tangyuan is not called "tangyuan", it is called "yuanbao", and eating tangyuan is not called "eating tangyuan", it is called "deyuanbao".
The custom of the first day of the Chinese New Year is to open the door to cannon battles, pay homage to the New Year, occupy the year, gather wealth and so on. On the first day of the New Year, you cannot use a broom, otherwise it will sweep away your luck and ruin your money.
New Year's First Two
The second day of the first lunar month is also a New Year's Greeting. Relatives go to the New Year's greeting, the east family stays for dinner, and the west family has a row of wine.
On the second day of the Lunar New Year, the married daughter will take her husband and children back to her mother's house to pay respects to the New Year. On this day, the daughter who returns to her mother's house must carry some gifts and red envelopes to distribute to her children and have lunch at her mother's house. Among them, there are many rules for newlyweds to go to their mother's house. For example, the gifts brought must be in pairs. The mother's family can't accept it all, and when she returns to her husband's house, she will have to take back some of it.
New Year's Day First 3
On the third day of the first lunar month, in traditional customs, it is considered that the rat marries the daughter, so it is necessary to rest early in the evening and not disturb the rat to marry the daughter. Rats have a great taste of "who does not let me live this day, I make who is uncomfortable for a whole year", if the rat is disturbed to marry his daughter, the rat will plague the family. For the harvest in the field, go to bed early!
On the third day of the first lunar month, the Fat Pig Arch, also known as "Pig Day". Since the Qin and Han Dynasties, the traditional view is that the first day of the first lunar month is chicken day, the first two days are dog days, the third day of the first month is pig day, the fourth day of the first month is sheep day, the fifth day of the first month is the day of the cow, the sixth day of the first month is the day of the horse, and the seventh day of the first month is the day of the people. Legend has it that this is because when Nuwa created all living beings, she first created six animals and then created people, so the first six to the sixth day of the first month are the days of the six animals.
The fourth day of the first lunar month
Legend has it that at the beginning of the New Year, the fourth king of the stove wants to check the household registration, so every household must stay at home, not far away, prepare rich fruits, burn incense, light candles and cast firecrackers to show welcome.
The fourth day of the Lunar New Year is the time when the gods return to earth from the celestial realm. There is a saying that "sending The Gods early, receiving the Gods late", the so-called sending of the gods should start early in the morning, and it is not too late to receive the gods in the afternoon. In terms of offerings, the three animals, fruits, wine and vegetables should be prepared, and incense should be burned and candles should be burned to burn gold clothes. In the past, the boss wanted to "fire someone", so he did not invite him to worship God on this day, and the other party knew it and cleaned up after himself.
New Year's First Five
The fifth day of the Lunar New Year is commonly known as breaking the fifth, and it is necessary to "catch up with the five povertys", including "intellectual poverty, poor learning, poor literature, poor life, and poor friends". People rose at dawn, set off firecrackers, and cleaned up. Firecrackers are placed from the inside out, and as they are released, they go outside the door. It said it was to blast out all the unlucky things. On this day, the common folk food custom is to eat dumplings, commonly known as "pinching the mouth of a villain".
The fifth day of the first year is also the birthday of the god of wealth of the five roads. The so-called five roads refer to the east, west, south, north, and middle, which means that the five roads out of the door can be obtained. The five-way god of wealth is in charge of the five financial roads in the east, west, south, and north, and the circulation of goods must pass through these five roads, so the five-way god of wealth is especially valued by merchants. On the fifth day of the first month of the first month, greet the god of wealth, and the five gods of wealth gather to help you drive away all the bad luck and bad luck, so that you can do great luck and great blessings this year.
The sixth day of the first lunar month
On the sixth day of the Chinese New Year, the horse arrived at success. Liquor in the middle of the street. Thousands of households look at thousands of doors, and no one does not send them to the poor.
The fifth day of the first year has just welcomed the god of wealth into the door, and the sixth day of the first year will send away the poor god. On the day of sending the poor god, it is necessary to carry out a big cleaning in the house, sweep out the garbage, and useless torn clothes, etc. to be thrown away. In addition, you should drink a vegetarian soup, which is made of seven kinds of vegetables such as spinach and green vegetables.
"Sending the poor" on the sixth day of the first lunar month is a very distinctive custom of the ancient folk of the mainland, which means to sacrifice poor ghosts and poor gods. Han Yue, a great writer of the Tang Dynasty, had "Sending Poor Texts". The Tang Dynasty poet Yao He wrote the poem "Three Poems sent to the Poor on an Obscure Day", the first of which was Yun: "Every year to this day, the liquor worships in the street." Thousands of households look at thousands of doors, and no one does not send them to the poor. ”
New Year's First Seven
On the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, life expectancy is abundant. Spread pancakes and eat shippo soup, settle the body and mind, and recuperate.
It is also known as "Human Victory Festival", "Human Celebration Festival", "Population Day", "Seven Days of People" and so on. Legend has it that Nuwa was first created, and after creating animals such as chickens, dogs, pigs, cows, and horses, she created a human being on the seventh day, so this day is the birthday of a human being. The Han Dynasty began to have people and customs, and after the Wei and Jin Dynasties began to pay attention to it. Ancient people have the custom of wearing "human victory", human victory is a kind of headdress, from the Jin Dynasty onwards, there are ribbon cutting for flowers, cutting ribbons for people, or gold leaf for people to paste screens, but also worn on the hair.
In traditional Chinese customs, the seventh "people's day" of the New Year, people have a birthday, to seven kinds of vegetables, boiled into seven treasure soup, that is, the seven kinds of vegetables, boiled into a miscellaneous vegetable soup, in the agricultural society, everyone hopes to eat the seven treasure soup, the next year's harvest.
The eighth day of the first lunar month
On the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, the release is prayed for. On the day when the stars are in the netherworld, small lamps are burned and sacrificed, one inch of time and one inch of gold.
Taoism and folk use the eighth day of the first lunar month as the day when the stars are netherworld, and make small lamps to burn and sacrifice them, called Shunxing, also known as "sacrifice stars" and "receiving stars".
The fate of a person's year is completely in the hands of this elderly man, and the eighth day of the first lunar month of each year is the period of gathering of the stars, and it is also said to be the day of the "nether realm of the stars", so on this day, it is possible to sacrifice the star king (that is, shunxing), it is possible to get the blessing of the star king.
The ninth day of the first lunar month
The ninth day of the first lunar month is the day of the first month, commonly known as "Heavenly Gongsheng", and it is said that this day is the birthday of the Jade Emperor.
Every birthday of the Jade Emperor, people will hold a festival to celebrate, Taoism and folk main customs are to sacrifice the Jade Emperor, Taoist Temple, etc., in some places, when the day is, women prepare fragrant flower candles, bowls, placed in the open air at the entrance of the patio alley to worship the heavens, ask the heavens for blessings.
On this night in the old days, men and women gathered under the big tree (preferably the osmanthus tree) to sing, and asked the Jade Emperor's favorite little daughter, the Seven Fairies, to go down to the world, and the songs they sang must be happy and auspicious, so that the seven fairies are happy, and as soon as she is happy, the Father Emperor Jade Emperor will bless everything smoothly in the world.
New Year's Day 10
On the tenth day of the Chinese New Year, the stone sacrifice is thankful. There is heaven and earth, and the man-animal house rice wheat and hundred grains are born on the earth.
The tenth day of the Chinese New Year is the birthday of the stone, on this day all the stone tools such as grinding and milling cannot be moved, and even the sacrifice of the stone is set up, for fear of hurting the crops. Also known as "stone immovable" and "ten immovable". Henan customs On this day, the family pays tribute to the stone burning incense. Lunch must eat bread, thinking that eating bread will be prosperous within a year. In Places such as Yuncheng, Shandong, there are acts of lifting stones. On the night of the ninth day, a crock pot is frozen on a large smooth rock, and ten young men or ten little girls take turns carrying the crock pot. If the stone does not fall to the ground, it indicates a good harvest that year.
New Year's Day 11
On the eleventh day of the first month, the purple goddess is worshipped. Deeply oppressed women worshipped her as the protector of weak women.
The eleventh day of the first month, commonly known as "Please Zigu Day" (in some places, it is the fourteenth day of the first month). The earliest document of "Zigu" is the "Alien Garden" of Liu Jingshu of the Southern Song Dynasty. It is roughly said that Zigu was a concubine of the people, who was jealous of the original match, and was killed in the toilet on the fifteenth day of the first month, and the Emperor of Heaven took pity on her and named her the goddess of the toilet. However, the folk worshipped Zigu not because she was a toilet god, but because Zigu represented a deeply oppressed woman, and only then was she worshipped by women, and she was worshipped as the protector of weak women to sacrifice.
At the same time, the eleventh day of the first month is also the "Son-in-law's Day", which is the day when the father-in-law feasts on the son-in-law. In addition to eating one day on the tenth day of the first month, there is still a lot left, so the mother's family does not have to spend any more money, so it uses these remaining delicacies to entertain the son-in-law and daughter, and the folk song is called "Eleven Please Son-in-Law".
New Year's Day 12
On the twelfth day of the first month, build a light shed. The Lantern Festival is approaching, and the preparations for the Lantern Festival are beginning.
From New Year's Day to the eleventh day of the first month, most of the food people eat is rich and oily. Therefore, from this day on, people begin to eat lightly and clean the intestines. More importantly, since three days later will be the Lantern Festival, preparations will be made from this day onwards. The family will buy lanterns and build light sheds.
Folk custom is "the twelfth of the first month to set up a light shed". It means that the Lantern Festival is approaching, and the stewards in the village must gather skilled craftsmen and young adults to prepare flower lanterns from this day onwards, and make various preparations for the Lantern Festival.
There is a nursery rhyme cloud: "Eleven shouting, twelve lighting sheds, thirteen people turning on the lights, fourteen lights are bright, fifteen lines of the moon and a half, sixteen people finish the lights." ”
New Year's Day Juzo
On the thirteenth day of the first month, light the stove lamp. Each family pilot made the lamp. Tie the colored lights and eat tangyuan.
The thirteenth day of the first lunar month. Preparations for the Lantern Festival continue. In southern China, this day to enjoy the lanterns. The endless stream of Chinese will go to the City God Temple on this day to admire the flower lanterns. And this is just the prelude to the Lantern Festival. In addition to the traditional red lanterns, there are many different styles of flower lanterns. Light shows usually start today and end on the eighteenth day of the first month.
On the thirteenth day of the first month there is an important folk event, known as the "Lantern Head Birthday". Folk on this day to light the lamp under the kitchen stove, called "light stove lamp", in fact, because the fifteenth day of the first month of the flower lantern is approaching, each family has piloted the production of the lamp, only to start from the thirteenth day of the first month to start with the lantern. The thirteenth day of the first month is "on the lamp"; the fourteenth day is the "test lamp"; the fifteenth day is the "positive lamp"; and the seventeenth day is the "strike lamp". From the thirteenth day of the first month, people begin to say that the day of the "lamp head" is opened.
New Year 14
On the fourteenth day of the first month, pray to the water lady and bless the health of women and children. Test the lights.
Folk refer to the fourteenth day of the first lunar month as the birthday of the "Lady of Linshui" (also known as the "Virgin of Suncheon"). Legend has it that Linshui Niangniang, surnamed Chen, was a person during the Tang Dynasty and later became a god who saved women from difficult childbirth. Therefore, the folk shrine was enshrined, called "Linshui Niangniang" and "Suncheon Virgin". In fact, it is a protective god that women have shaped for themselves in an era of no status and underdeveloped science, and it is also a way for them to encourage themselves for fear of dystocia.
The fourteenth day of the first lunar month. In most parts of China, everything on the fourteenth day is for the Lantern Festival on the second day. On this day, the lantern festival is officially opened for the public to buy lanterns. For the Lantern Festival, performances like dragon and lion dances began to be practiced on the streets. There are also people who write riddles to guess the riddles to increase the festive atmosphere. In China, Lantern Puzzle is a very traditional anagram game.
New Year's Day 15
The fifteenth day of the first month, the Lantern Festival, watching the lights. The Lantern Festival is the main traditional festival in the mainland, also called New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, also known as Shangyuan Festival, because this is the first full moon night of the New Year.
Eat the Lantern on the fifteenth day of the first month, and the "Lantern" as a food has a long history in China. In the Song Dynasty, folk were popular for a novelty food eaten during the Lantern Festival. This kind of food, the earliest called "floating yuanzi" after the "Lantern", businessmen also called it "yuanbao". Lantern is the "tangyuan" with sugar, roses, sesame seeds, bean paste, yellow cinnamon, walnut kernels, nuts, date paste, etc. as the filling, wrapped in glutinous rice flour into a circle, can be meat and vegetarian, different flavors. It can be boiled, fried and steamed, which has the meaning of reunion and happiness. Shaanxi's tangyuan is not wrapped, but "rolled" in glutinous rice flour, or boiled or fried, hot and hot, and reunited.
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