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Spring Festival, that is, the Lunar New Year, is also known as the New Year and the New Year. The Spring Festival has a long history, with a history of more than 4,000 years, and is known as the four traditional festivals in China together with the Qingming Festival, the Dragon Boat Festival and the Mid-Autumn Festival.
The Spring Festival is a day to remove the old cloth and the new day, although the Spring Festival is set as the first day of the first lunar month, but the Spring Festival activities are not limited to the first day of the first lunar month. From the beginning of the year, people have begun various new year activities and continue until the fifteenth day of the first month.
So what are the main customs and activities that people are carrying out during this period?
Do New Year goods
In front of the screen, are you ready for the New Year at home? In ancient times, transportation was inconvenient and materials were relatively scarce. So in the first 10 days or so of the Spring Festival, people have begun to buy New Year goods. The purchased New Year goods include chicken, duck and fish meat, tea wine and fruits, north and south stir-fried goods, and fireworks.
Although the traffic is now very developed and the materials are very complete, people are still happy to buy New Year goods, fill sausages, pickle bacon and so on years ago.
Sweep the dust
The ballad says, "Twenty-four, dust sweeping day." "Sweeping dust is year-end cleaning." Every spring festival, every household has to clean the environment, use green bamboo leaves and grapefruit leaves tied to poles to clean the roof, the spider web on the wall, in addition to cleaning various utensils, dismantling and washing bedding and so on.
This is because "dust" and "Chen" are harmonious, and sweeping dust years ago has the meaning of "dust removal and cloth new". The purpose of sweeping the dust is to sweep all the poor luck and obscurity out of the door to pray for the next year.
According to the "Lü's Spring and Autumn", in the Yao Shun era, China already had the custom of sweeping away the dust during the Spring Festival. In particular, when dusting, a long broom is tied with straw and a wooden stick longer than the height of a person to clean the dirty things such as dust and spider webs on the beams of the house and in the corners of the walls. Then keep the straw and wait for Chinese New Year's Eve to finish eating Chinese New Year's Eve night, and then light the straw for the men to jump on the "fire pier".
Paste the new year red, burn the firecrackers
Every 28th, 29th or 30th day of the year, every household begins to "paste the New Year Red", which refers to the Red Festive Elements posted during the New Year such as the Spring Festival, the Door God, the Horizontal Batch, and the New Year Painting, which gives people a beautiful expectation for the New Year and new life.
And the burning firecrackers are the first thing every household does when the new year comes, and the old is ushered in with the sound of crackling firecrackers.
In the legend about the origin of the Spring Festival, the cannon and bamboo and the Spring League can drive away the attacking "Nian Beast".
Nian Beast is the evil beast of ancient Han mythology and legend, every year at midnight at the end of the year, Nian Beast will attack the village, and the crackling sound of firecrackers and firecrackers and the fiery red Spring League can scare off the Nian Beast and make people spend a peaceful Chinese New Year's Eve night.
Dinner
Chinese New Year's Eve meal is a family dinner at the end of the year Chinese New Year's Eve, which originated from the ancient year-end sacrifice ceremony, where the gods and ancestors are reunited to eat. Chinese pays special attention to the meaning, so the food on the Chinese New Year's Eve meal is also very intentional, such as chicken meaning has a plan, fish means more than every year, fat vegetables mean fortune, dachshund means long-term, etc. to seek auspiciousness.
Keep the age
Keeping the New Year is also one of the Customs of the Spring Festival, which refers to the Chinese New Year's Eve night family reunion and staying up late to welcome the arrival of the New Year. There are many folklore about the origin of the observance of the age.
One of the legends mentions that every year on Chinese New Year's Eve night, the gods in the sky will come to the human world, among these gods there is a one-legged god, it will quietly come to the sleeping person, give him a disease, so in order not to get sick in the next year, no one dares to sleep Chinese New Year's Eve night, and people in order to be able to survive Chinese New Year's Eve night, usually also prepare peanuts, melon seeds to entertain, refresh, but also means from the old year to the new year, every year there is food.
Therefore, keeping the age has become a custom for people to pray for health and food and clothing in the coming year, and it has been passed down to this day.
Money
Legend has it that in ancient times there was a little demon named "祟", every year in the thirtieth night will come out to harm people, as long as the sleeping child is touched by the head, will have a fever, dream, a serious illness, after the illness of the clever and clever child will become a crazy fool.
The copper money wrapped in red paper can help children scare away, so people call this money "pressure money", and then gradually become "pressure money". Pressing the old money also has the meaning of warding off evil spirits and driving away ghosts and blessing peace.
Bye bye
In ancient times, there was a vicious beast called "Nian", which would come out every night of the 30th lunar month to eat human beings, and the unarmed people could only put meat in the doorway and hide in the house by themselves, until the first morning of the first month, and they would come out and congratulate each other on not being eaten by the Nian beast.
In ancient times, "New Year's Greeting" meant to greet the elderly with new year greetings, including prostrating to the elders, greetings to good life, and good health. If you meet relatives and friends of the same generation, you also need to greet each other. With the development of the times, the forms of New Year's greetings have long been rich and diverse, such as SMS New Year's greetings, telephone New Year's greetings, video New Year's greetings, etc.
In addition, the Spring Festival also has customs such as running New Year goods, offering stoves, cutting New Year meat, and visiting gods, and each traditional custom is pinned on people's expectations for a better life in the new year.
Finally, here, Explosion Lab wishes everyone a Happy New Year, good health and bullishness!