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New Year's Eve
The Spring Festival is our most grand traditional festival
Various Lunar New Year events are held throughout the country
Spring Festival customs are also colorful
With strong regional characteristics
Take a look at Xiao Yao today
Let's have a strong traditional custom all over the country
Hubei Spring Festival customs
Dragon Lantern Society
The Dragon Lantern Festival is the highlight of the Xiaogan Lantern Festival, and from the eighth day of the first year, people began to tie dragons, lions, colored boats, bamboo horses, stilts and other styles. On the fifteenth day of the first month, men, women and children travel together and sing various colorful words. For example, "the old man adds life, the young man is peaceful, the family is happy, the four seasons are flat, the grain is abundant, the deer crane is the same spring, the seven stars turn the bucket, the eight immortals are at the door, the long and rich, the ten blessings are complete" and other auspicious words of blessing.
Lantern Festival
On the night of the Lantern Festival, there are some places in Xiaogan where the custom of inviting the seventh sister, asking Nian Cheng, and begging qiao. Because of the legend that the seven fairies were reluctant to return to the heavenly court and turned into flying shuttle stones in the human world, on the fifteenth night of the first month, the dressed girls gathered next to the flying shuttle stones, holding needle and thread boxes in their hands and singing beggar songs to the seven sisters, asking about the good or bad of the year, how auspicious and fierce, whether they could get married, and so on.
In addition, some families use glutinous rice flour to make a goose egg shape, so that pregnant women burn "goose eggs" to account for boys and girls. The egg split will give birth to a woman, and the egg will give birth to a man with a small wart. Legend has it that the fifteenth night of the first month is the day when rats marry their daughters, and people cannot make noise at home. The woman would light an oil lamp under the bed and pray and say, "Ask the Red Lady to look at the lamp." "It is said that in this way, there will be no bed bugs in a year.
Clean up the old and the new
At the beginning of the new year, the people of Hubei pay attention to "removing the old year, welcoming the new year", and will definitely clean the home before the Chinese New Year's Eve, giving a good meaning to the new year, but also for relatives and friends to better show the home environment.
Chinese New Year's Eve take a shower
In addition to cleaning up the home, individuals must also wash well before the arrival of the New Year, wash away the bad luck and bad luck of the old year, and greet the New Year with a new attitude.
Drink chicken soup
Hubei Tuanfeng people drink chicken soup at the first meal of the Spring Festival, symbolizing "Qingtai peace". Among them, the main labor force also eats chicken feet, with the intention of "grabbing wealth in the new year", "hopeful offspring" to eat chicken wings, which means that they can spread their wings and fly high, and when the family eats chicken bones, there is the meaning of "getting ahead". The first meal of the Zigui people ate the sleeve fried white artemisia, taking its harmonic sound "Baihao" to Tujili.
Jiangsu Spring Festival customs
The people of Nanjing must eat in the New Year, and it is none other than assorted dishes. The production is convenient and means good, and the assorted vegetables include green leafy vegetables such as cabbage and spinach, as well as shredded carrots, soybean sprouts, black fungus, etc. to be embellished, which is colorful and represents people's wish to beg for a good color. When the shou is old, it is necessary to eat a sweet soup, also known as Fushou soup. Burning a silver carp from Xuanwu Lake does not move chopsticks for thirty nights, implying that there is more than one year.
Eating dumplings on the first day of the first year is not the tradition of Nanjing people, but eating "Yuanbao eggs" (that is, tea eggs), but also to bring guests a bowl of sugar water, which put a "joy group" (steamed glutinous rice flour and dried, rolled into a ball), meaning sweet and sweet, joyful and joyful, wontons must also have.
Tibetan Spring Festival customs
Unlike most regions, tibetan people celebrate the Tibetan calendar according to their own calendar. The Tibetan calendar is similar to the Han chinese calendar, and the Tibetan calendar year generally comes within a few days after the Han Spring Festival. Their Spring Festival customs are very local.
Prepare "Chema" and paint "Eight Auspicious"
On the eve of the New Year, each family should prepare a wooden auspicious bucket called "Chema" to wish for a prosperous and auspicious new year; they should also prepare Kasai (fried fruits), Luoguo (sheep's head) symbolized by colorful butter flower sculptures symbolizing the prosperity of the six animals and annual prosperity, as well as various dried and fresh fruits, ghee, tea bricks, etc., and stack them in front of the Shrine. On the 28th and 29th days of the 28th and 29th months of the Tibetan calendar, every household cleaned the courtyard and painted the "Eight Auspicious" patterns on the wall in the middle of the stove room.
Pour dirty water and hope for blessings
The day before Chinese New Year's Eve, when the sun was about to set, every household poured dirty water and dirt to the west, and let those dirty things be removed with the sun setting, in order to show that the old and the new were welcome, hoping that people would prosper and all things would grow.
Jumping gods will go to the old and welcome the new, exorcise evil spirits and blessings
Chinese New Year's Eve on this day, a grand and grand god-jumping meeting will be held. People wear gorgeous costumes, wear strange masks, and sing and dance with the accompaniment of conch, drums, sighs and other instruments to show that the old is welcome to the new, and to drive away evil spirits and blessings. Chinese New Year's Eve night, the favorite foods of Tibetans are oil cakes, milk cakes, blood sausages, and hand-grabbed meat.
Carry "auspicious water", swing "Bamboo Suqima"
On the morning of the first day of the Chinese New Year, women first go to the river or by the well to carry "auspicious water" to symbolize the auspiciousness of the whole family, health and longevity. Then every household placed a symbolic offering, "Bamboo Suqima", on a striking red table. "Zhu Su Qima" is a yuanbao-style long-shaped large color pot (similar to the five grain buckets in the Han region), which is filled with wheat grains at one end and cakes made of sugar, ghee and barley noodles at the other end, and several bunches of dyed wheat ears and barley ears are inserted on it, wishing for the abundance of grain and the prosperity of people and animals. Joyful people gathered around each other in the house with bamboo suqima, offering hada, singing and dancing to celebrate the New Year.
Years are a condensation of Chinese culture
The custom of the year is Chinese indelible memory
Finally, I wish you all a new year
All hopes come true
All dreams come true
All the waiting can appear
All the efforts can be fulfilled
Happy New Year to all!
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