Happy New Year: Happy New Year is a traditional folk custom in China. It is a way for people to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new and express their best wishes to each other. On the first day, after getting up, the younger generation should first pay New Year greetings to their elders, wishing them a long and healthy life and all the best. After the elders worship, they should distribute the "lucky money" prepared in advance to the younger generation. After greeting the elders at home, you should also greet people with a smile when you go out to meet them, and exchange auspicious words such as "Congratulations on getting rich", "Best wishes in the four seasons" and "Happy New Year". Neighbors, relatives and friends also visit each other or invite them to drink and entertain.
Opening the door with firecrackers: On the morning of the Spring Festival, opening the door with firecrackers is called "opening the door with firecrackers". After the firecrackers, the ground is broken red, which is the so-called "full house". At this time, the streets are full of anger and joy.
2. New Year's Day:
Back to her mother's house: A married daughter will take her husband and children back to her mother's house to pay New Year's greetings. On this day, the daughter who goes back to her parents' home must bring some gifts and red envelopes to her children and have lunch at her parents' home.
Sacrifice to the God of Wealth: In the north, the God of Wealth is sacrificed on the second day of the first month. On this day, both commercial shops and ordinary families will hold activities to worship the god of wealth. Families offered sacrifices to the God of Wealth who arrived on New Year's Eve. In fact, the bought rough printed matter was incinerated. I want to eat wonton at noon this day, commonly known as "Yuanbao soup". Fish and mutton were used as sacrifices. On this day, big businesses in old Beijing held large-scale sacrificial activities, offering sacrifices with "five sacrifices", that is, whole pig, whole sheep, whole chicken, whole duck and red live carp, hoping to make a fortune this year.
3. New Year's Day:
Mid-Autumn Festival: On the third day of the Lunar New Year's Eve, the old custom called "Mid-Autumn Festival" forbids visiting relatives and friends on this day, but this custom has long been out of date, because with the progress of the times, people seldom spend the Spring Festival together, which has faded a lot.
Red Dog Day: The third day of the year, also known as Red Dog Day, is an unlucky day. The red dog is the god of anger, and when it meets, it has evil things. Therefore, the residents of the older generation stayed at home on this day to avoid encountering murderers.
Xiaomi's birthday: People think Xiaomi was born on the third day of the first month. On this day, people hope to sacrifice and pray for the new year, and do not eat rice. I think that if you violate the law, it will lead to a reduction in grain production.
Small-year dynasty: that is, Tianqing Festival. The court festival in the Song Dynasty, the first year of Song Zhenzong Dazhong Xiangfu, was spread all over the world because of the gobbledygook, so Zhenzong issued an imperial edict, which designated the third day of the first month as Tianqing Festival, and officials and others had five days off. Later, it was called Xiaonian Dynasty, which did not sweep the floor, beg for fire or draw water, just like the old dynasty.
Burning door-keeper paper: In the old days, pine and cypress branches were burned together with door-keeper stationery hung on festivals on the third day to show that the New Year had passed and it was time to start business. As the saying goes, "if you burn the janitor's paper, one will seek physiology."
4. Lunar New Year:
Welcome to God: The fourth day of the fourth lunar month is the time when the gods return from heaven to earth. There is a saying that "send God early and receive God later". The so-called sending of God should start early in the morning, and it is not too late to receive God in the afternoon. In terms of offerings, three animals, fruits and dining tables should be prepared, and incense sticks should be lit to burn gold clothes. The boss wants to fire someone, so I won't ask him to worship God today. From grade one to grade four, shops are closed and women don't need to sew.
5. New Year's Eve:
Sending the poor: On the fifth day of the first month, "sending the poor" was a very distinctive folk custom in ancient China. On this day, every household uses paper as a woman, which is called "sweeping woman", "five poor women" and "five poor mothers". They carried paper bags on their backs, cleaned up the dirty soil in the bags and sent them to the door to burn them. This custom is also called "sending poor soil" and "sending poor daughter-in-law out". The folk custom of sending the poor reflects the traditional psychology that Chinese people generally hope to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, send away the old poverty and hardships and welcome a better life in the new year.
Sacrifice to the God of Wealth: Southerners sacrifice to the God of Wealth on the fifth day of the first month. According to folklore, the God of Wealth is the Five Gods. The so-called five roads refer to the east, west, north and south, which means that you can get money when you go out of five doors.
Opening: During the Spring Festival, shops of all sizes are closed from the beginning of the New Year, but open on the fifth day of the first month. People are used to taking the fifth day of the first month as the holy day of the god of wealth, thinking that choosing this day to open the market will definitely make a fortune.
Reuters God: Reuters God is the god of wealth believed by Emperor Wu. It is customary to take this day as his birthday and greet him in the sun, which is quite spectacular. The road head is also called "Five Road Gods". They say the sooner you meet the end of the road, the better. The first one you receive is the true god, which is particularly effective, so it is called "grabbing the road".
6. Lunar New Year:
Officially opened: shops and restaurants have just officially opened, and firecrackers should be set off.
Sending the poor: On this day, every household should throw out the garbage accumulated in the festival, which is called sending the poor.
Cuofei: The sixth day is Horse Day, which was called Cuofei in ancient times. People really started working or doing business on this day. From the beginning of the first month to the fifth day, it was impossible to clean, and the feces in the toilet piled up like mountains. So on this day, I did a big cleaning and worshipped the toilet god to clean the dirty toilet on weekdays. So it is called "fat" (but now people use new bathroom equipment, so there is no such custom). This day also means that farmers in the old society began to prepare for spring ploughing.