“Bamboo explosions startle the spring, making noise in Khotan competitions, and thousands of doors playing flutes and drums at night.” The sound of firecrackers in every household brings a lively and festive auspicious year. The Spring Festival, commonly known as "New Year's Day" and "New Year's Eve", is a grand and distinctive ancient folk festival in my country. Below I will share 5 folk customs during the Spring Festival. How many do you know? 1. Paste Spring Festival couplets
Spring couplets, commonly known as door pairs, are also called "spring posts" and "couples". Every Spring Festival, every household pastes red Spring Festival couplets on their doors, which adds to the festive atmosphere and is a unique literary form in China. Spring couplets originated from ancient peach symbols. Peach charms are rectangular peach boards hung on both sides of the door. Write the names of the two gods "Shen Tu" and "Yulei" on it to drive away ghosts and ward off evil spirits. Every Spring Festival, people always replace old charms with new ones, which also expresses the Chinese working people's good wishes to ward off evil spirits, eliminate disasters, and welcome good fortune. 2. Sending the Stove to Heaven
The 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month is commonly known as "Little Year". Legend has it that this day is the day when "The Stove Lord ascends to heaven". Every year on this day, every household will bake some sesame seed cakes wrapped in sesame candy, which is called "Sacrifice to the Stove Fire", or prepare stove candy. The Stove Lord will go to heaven at this time to report his work to the Emperor of Heaven. Give it to the Stove Lord. The mouth is sweet, and people hope that he will "say good things to God and bring good luck to him when he returns to the palace." 3. Make grinding to make tofu
The folk proverb says: "On the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth lunar month, grinding to make tofu." "In some places, there is also the custom of eating tofu dregs before New Year's Eve. It is said that after the Stove King reports to heaven, the Jade Emperor will visit the lower world to see if each household is as the Stove King said, so every household eats tofu dregs. To express poverty and avoid the Jade Emperor's punishment, good things will happen next year. 4. Kill pigs and cut the New Year's meat
The folk proverb says: "On the 26th of the twelfth lunar month, stew big meat", which refers to this day. The main purpose is to prepare meat for the New Year. Poor people can only eat meat during the annual New Year's Day. It is also the beginning of the New Year's Eve. On the 26th of the twelfth lunar month, there is a saying in various places: "Wash inside and outside on the 26th of the twelfth lunar month"; There is a saying that "on the twenty-sixth day of the twelfth lunar month, clean the livestock houses", and there is also a popular saying among the people that "the meat for the new year is cut on the twenty-sixth day of the twelfth lunar month". That is to say, from this day onwards, people start to buy new year's goods. One day is the big market day, and people from the villages around the market go to the market to buy new year's goods. 5. "New Year's Day" with sesame straw
The 30th day of the twelfth lunar month is New Year's Eve, commonly known as "New Year's Eve." Before noon on New Year's Eve, some wealthy families would spread sesame straw from the doorway of each house in the courtyard to the main entrance. It is said that this was originally done to prevent theft, and then people stepped on it. It evolved into the custom of "stepping on the old year", which means stepping on the old year to welcome the new year. "Sui" and "evil" are homophonic, so it also has the meaning of stepping on the evil spirits when saying goodbye to the old year and welcoming the new year. In addition, sesame straw is also auspicious. As the saying goes: "Sesame flowers bloom higher and higher", which means that they rise higher and higher.
The above is the Spring Festival custom that I know. What else do you know? ?