The Spring Festival, the most important festival. China is the biggest and the most lively, one of the most important ancient traditional festivals, as well as Chinese unique to the festival.
A, the origin of the Chinese New Year:
The Spring Festival, is at the lunar calendar, the Spring Festival is called another New Year, China's most grand, the most lively, one of the most important ancient traditional festivals, as well as Chinese unique to the festival. The Chinese civilization is the most concentrated performance. Since the western han dynasty, the Spring Festival custom has been extended to today. The Spring Festival generally refers to the New Year's eve and the first day of the first month. But the people, the traditional sense of the Spring Festival is refers to the twelfth of wax offering from the 8 or the twelfth of 23 or 24 people, until the fifteenth day, among them with New Year's eve and the first day of the first month for high tide. To celebrate this holiday, over one thousand years of history in the development, formed some relatively fixed customs and habits, and there are many also it today. In the Spring Festival this traditional festival, China's han ethnic and most ethnic minority groups has to held various celebration activities, these activities are offered their ancestors, and hit the millennium bringers of good fortune, prayed for good harvests as the main content. Activities form rich and colorful, with strong ethnic characteristics. May 20, 2006, the "Spring Festival" folk with the approval of the state council listed in the first national nonmaterial cultural heritage list.
The origin of the Spring Festival is a legend, China ancient times have a kind of call "year" monster, head long feelers, fierce abnormalities. "Year" in the deep sea for years, every New Year's eve to climb ashore, eating cattle damage lives. Therefore, every New Year's eve to this day, the people CunCunZhaiZhai FuLaoXieYou fled to the mountains, to avoid the "year" beast of damage. There is a NianChuXi, from the village foreign a begging old man. Folks a hurried panic scene, only to head east village to an old woman in the old man some food, and urged him quickly up the hill from "year" beast, the old man le fine beard say with smile: "mother-in-law if let me stay at home all night, and I must put the 'years' beast out." The old woman still continue to persuade, to beg for old man smiling without a word. At midnight, "year" beast into the village. It found the village atmosphere is different: the village head east wife the husband's family, the door post DaGongZhi, the candle lit. "Year" was a beast shake, call a sound. Nearly the door, suddenly spread in "as banging" fry the noise, "year" shuddered, and then can't gather together a forward. Originally, "year" the most afraid of red, the light and exploding. At this time, her mother-in-law's door open, see a hospital in red's old man in laugh. "Year" frightened to disgrace, awkward fled the leap up. The second day is the first day of the first month, seek refuge back to people to see the village safe and sound very surprised. At this time, the old woman is suddenly enlighted, quickly to the villagers had to beg for the old man's promise. It quickly spread around the village, people all know driven "year" to the beast. (hakka legend) a year from now on New Year's eve, every post red couplets, firecrackers; Candle lit, the family for years. The first early in the morning, still walk a friend congratulate. This customs more spreadses more and widely, became the most solemn Chinese folk traditional festival.
Second, the custom of the Spring Festival
1, la month 23 people
The Spring Festival in China, from the general people kick off. People, is a great influence in our country folk, spread very wide, custom. The old, and almost every family kitchen sets "the kitchen god" a god.
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2, la month 24 and dust
"La month 24, dusting dust and house", according to "lu shi chun qiu" account, our country many legends in day and the Spring Festival customs of dust. According to the folk said: because of the "dust" and "Chen" homophonic, in the spring and dust have "except ChenBu new meaning, it is the attempt to put all poor luck, bad luck all and go out. This custom is placing people old New Year wishes and made prayer. Every Chinese New Year comes, every household will clean environment, cleaning all kinds of instruments, unpick and wash bedding curtain, SaSao six Lv courtyard, dusting brushed dirt web, dredging AnGou open channels. People everywhere brimmed with cleaning, clean face with the joy of the Spring Festival atmosphere.
3, la month 25 meet the jade emperor
That old customs dicusses the heaven, day emperor on the jade emperor December 25, lower in person, inspections of good and evil men, and is set to crossing the next year, so the belongings of home praying, called "the jade emperor". This day daily life, words have, take heed, and fight for good performance, in order to earn the jade emperor's heart, down a blessing on the coming year.
4, la month 27, 28 bath
In the traditional folk custom in this two days to take a bath, studied the laundry, remove a year of bad luck, to prepare for the lunar New Year in the coming year, Beijing has "27, 28 Jiu wash a wash sloppy" saying. La month 26 bath for "wash fu lu".
Lunar New Year's eve, 5 30 stick goalkeeper, Spring Festival couplet, ShouSui, firecracker, the eve of the New Year's money, to eat and worship their ancestors
The New Year's eve means "poor old on all", people want besides midfield ace new, have the old so far and is divided, another year the meaning of sexually compromising, is the last year of a night. Therefore all activities during around in addition to midfield ace new, disaster prayers for the center.
Our country New Year's day has posted the custom of the keeper. The first goalkeeper is inscribed peach wooden for humanoids, hang in the side, and then is drawn on the door as goalkeeper posted.
The Spring Festival couplet one source of TaoFu is. At first people with peach wood door to ward off evil spirits hang in human form, and then draw keeper like in peach wooden, and then simplified as in peachwood board write goalkeeper name.
Hang "happiness" upside down, stick a window, stick stick posters, stick to hang thousand. These have a blessing, deck house place folk function. New Year pictures is our country's an old folk art, he reflects people's public customs and beliefs, is placing people hope for the future.
ShouSui, our country folk have the habit of ShouSui on New Year's eve, heath family "endure years". ShouSui from eve began to eat, the eve of the meal to eat slowly, from ZhangDeng time sitting, some people always want to eat late into the night. According to the Pope deloitte was alarmed by the age of "jing chu" record "of record, at least in the southern and northern dynasties have the custom of eve when eating. ShouSui custom, both to like water has gone by including the feeling of miss farewell party, and the coming New Year to send in beautiful hope of idea.