1, say goodbye to the old and welcome the new

The last day of Nian is called Nian, and that night is called New Year's Eve. It is connected with the beginning and end of the new year, and is called "the end of the poor month, the end of the new year". This is New Year's Eve, and it is also an important time node to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new. "New Year's Eve" refers to the eve of New Year, also known as New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve and so on. This is the last night of the year. During this period, the theme of the activity is to get rid of the old cloth and update the new cloth. Since ancient times, there have been customs such as sticking New Year's greetings, offering sacrifices to ancestors, having a family reunion dinner, and observing the old age, which have been passed down to this day and last forever. New Year's Eve is a time to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, to reunite the whole family and to worship the ancestors. Tomb-Sweeping Day, July 30th and Double Ninth Festival are traditional festivals in China to offer sacrifices to ancestors.

On New Year's Eve, people pay special attention to taking off old cloth to welcome the New Year. Every household is busy cleaning the courtyard, decorating houses, welcoming ancestors home for the New Year, and offering sacrifices with rice cakes, three sacrificial meals, three teas and five wines. New Year's Eve has a special meaning in the hearts of China people. On the most important day at the end of this year, no matter how far away, the wanderers have to rush home to reunite with their families, say goodbye to the old year with firecrackers and set off fireworks everywhere to welcome the new year.

2. Worship God and ancestors

Sacrificing ancestors on New Year's Eve is one of the important customs of China New Year. The Chinese nation has a tradition of pursuing the future with caution, and never forgets to worship the ancestors and repay them. On New Year's Eve, people will put on dishes, pour wine and hold a grand sacrifice ceremony to express their memory of their ancestors and pray for their blessing. This traditional custom has been handed down from generation to generation.

There are many forms of ancestor worship, some of them go to ancestral halls to worship ancestors, and most of them put ancestral tablets in the main hall in turn at home to place offerings, and then worshippers worship them in order of age. Worship ancestors, mostly fish bowls, filled with high bowls, quite ringing.

3, paste the year red

Sticking New Year Red is a general term for sticking Spring Festival couplets, door gods, New Year pictures and window grilles. Because these are all red festive elements pasted during the New Year, they are collectively called "Sticking New Year Red".

Second, change:

1, Spring Festival time

The Spring Festival (the first day of the first lunar month) travels from June 65438+1October 2 1 to February 2 1. The earliest Spring Festival (such as 65438+65438+12 1 in 0966) and the latest Spring Festival (such as February 20th in 1985) are a whole month apart. According to the calendar, if the lunar calendar is not adjusted artificially, February 2 1 and February 23 19 will usher in the "latest Spring Festival in history". Previously, the Spring Festival appeared on February 20th of Gregorian calendar at the latest, which were 1920 and 1985 respectively.

2. Spring Festival

Leap Spring Festival, also known as the first month of leap, began in A.D. 1645 and adopted the calendar leap system. In 2800, leap in the first month of the lunar calendar only happened six times, which was very rare, and its years were 165 1, 2262 and 2357 respectively.

3. How to celebrate the Spring Festival

If there is a leap month in a year, it is in principle the first month of the Spring Festival, but there will be no holiday in the leap month. Of course, in a few areas, after the Spring Festival in the first month, the Spring Festival in the leap month should also be celebrated. Because the first month of leap is also called the first month, the first day of the first month of leap is also regarded as the Spring Festival.