Traditional Spring Festival customs and related legends
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Waxing Moon Twenty-Seventh
February 8
Slaughtering chickens, catching up with large gatherings, and the items needed for the Spring Festival are all in the process of being purchased. This day is the purchase day, and the New Year goods needed for the New Year are purchased on this day.
Waxing Moon Twenty-Eight
February 9
Steamed steamed steamed bun decals. The ancients used peach wood as a wood to ward off evil spirits, and it was later replaced by red paper. Paste the word Fu, paste the couplet.
Waxing Moon 29
February 10
Go to the grave and ask the ancestors to make a great offering. The worship of ancestors has a long history in our country. This day is the day of ancestor worship.
Chinese New Year's Eve
February 11
One night is two years old, five is divided into two days. Cold resigns from winter snow, and warmth brings into the spring wind. The last day of the year is called "year-end" and the evening is called "Chinese New Year's Eve". Chinese New Year's Eve, people often stay up all night, called keeping the year.
New Year's Day
February 12
The Golden Rooster announces. The younger generation pays homage to the elders, and the elders give the elders money to suppress the evil spirits. A new day of the year begins here.
The second day of the Lunar New Year
February 13
Golden Bark Primrose. Relatives go to the New Year's greeting, the east family stays for dinner, and the west family has a wine feast. On this day, I began to visit relatives and friends.
The third day of the Lunar New Year
February 14
Fat Pig Arch. The son-in-law visited the husband and daughter-in-law and returned to her mother's house, and the gift was double. The traditional custom of this day includes the custom of returning to the mother's house and not moving a knife or scissors.
The fourth day of the Lunar New Year
February 15
Sanyang Kaitai. The king of the stove wants to check the household registration and welcome the god of the stove back to the people. The fourth day of the first lunar month is the "Sheep Day" of the creation myth of Nuwa, and this day is forbidden to kill sheep.
The fifth day of the Lunar New Year
February 16
Gen cattle plough spring. The five roads connect the god of wealth, the east, west, south, north, and north, and the five roads of wealth. The fifth day of the first lunar month, commonly known as the Five Festivals of Breaking, is named after the Chinese folklore that many taboos can be broken on this day.
The sixth day of the Lunar New Year
February 17
Horses to 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 Chinese folk custom on this day is to send poor ghosts, abandon torn clothes, and offer pancakes.
The seventh day of the Lunar New Year
February 18
Life expectancy. Spread pancakes and eat shippo soup, settle the body and mind, and recuperate. The seventh day of the first year is the birthday of a person, and the person who is born after him is a person who is respected. Respect everyone, parents can not teach their children on this day.
The eighth day of the Lunar New Year
February 19
Release and pray for blessings. 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.
The ninth day of the Lunar New Year
February 20
The Jade Emperor's birthday. The Jade Emperor is the highest god in mythology who dominates the universe, and people hold festivals on this day to celebrate.
The tenth day of the Chinese New Year
February 21
Sacrifice stone thanksgiving. The tenth day of the new year, the birthday of the ground. There is heaven and earth, people and animal houses are dependent on the ground, and rice and wheat and hundreds of grains are born on the ground. The flavor of vegetables and vegetables was sacrificed to him, and he rejoiced on his birthday. In life, loyalty and filial piety and righteousness are based on the earth, and things must be done with down-to-earth feet.
New Year's Day 11
February 22
Sacrifice to Zigu. Deeply oppressed women worshipped her as the protector of weak women.
New Year's Day 12
February 23
Set up a light shed. The Lantern Festival is approaching, and the preparations for the Lantern Festival are beginning.
New Year's Day Juzo
February 24
Light the lamp under the stove. Pre-placed Lantern Festival, since the thirteenth, lanes and strange bridges, are woven bamboo lanterns.
New Year 14
February 25
Linshui Niangniang's birthday, also known as "Suncheon Virgin". It is the god who saves the women who have difficult childbirth.
New Year's Day 15
February 26 Lantern Festival
Night-illuminated silkworm (god). Guan Color judged the abundance of a year, and later evolved into "Lantern Festival Lantern Viewing". "Lantern Festival" is the first full moon night of the year, but also the night of the rejuvenation of the earth, also known as the "Shangyuan Festival", eating the Lantern Festival means reunion auspicious.
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Source: Guangyuan Wenguang Brigade