Time flies, and there is only a small tail left until the Lunar New Year in 2024. The Spring Festival, for the Chinese nation, is the most important and lively traditional festival. The next half month, where there are Chinese, will be.
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The forms of the festival are rich and colorful, and the celebration methods in various places are very different and have their own characteristics, showing the colorful culture of the Chinese nation. What are the interesting customs in this festive and joyful festival?
* The New Year of Gongbu began as early as November 2006 as a festival that was inscribed on the list of intangible cultural heritage of the autonomous region in December 2006.
Gongbu New Year, also known as "Gongbu Festival" and "Gongbu Year", is the Tibetan New Year of Gongbu area (Bayi District, Milin County, Gongbu Jiangda County, Nyingchi City), held on October 1 of the Tibetan calendar every year, and is the most solemn festival of the local year.
In the New Year in the Chaoshan region of Guangdong, people will eat delicacies such as vegetable cake, fermented balls, fermented buns, tube fried, and five-fruit soup, which means that life is sweet and long-lasting. In particular, every family will bring a large bag of oranges when visiting relatives, and the number must be plural and with words of blessing.
Chaoshan Kung Fu Tea is a form of hospitality between relatives, and when leaving, the host will give back a big orange to express good wishes.
The New Year in old Beijing is very particular, and there is a folk song that sings: "Sugar melon sacrifice stove, the New Year is coming". It indicates that the Spring Festival is coming.
The Chinese New Year's Eve dinner on Chinese New Year's Eve must have meatballs and fish, symbolizing "family reunion" and "more than every year". Dumplings are a must-eat food, but they are not eaten on the Chinese New Year's Eve, but on the morning of the first day of the new year.
Suzhou's Spring Festival opens the door early in the morning to put three firecrackers, indicating that "Gao Sheng**" should follow the "Xi Shen Fang" referred to in the yellow calendar when going out in the morning, and go to the city god, land and other temples to burn incense, must go through ten temples, called "burning ten temple incense".
On Chinese New Year's Eve, cooked water chestnuts are put into the meal and dug out when eating, meaning "digging yuanbao". During the Spring Festival, when relatives and friends visit, two green olives will be put in when making tea, indicating that they drink "Yuanbao tea" and Wishing you prosperity.
Xiamen's New Year's customs are also very interesting, on the first day of the new year, it is taboo to call other people's names to urge people to get up, because this will make the other party be urged to do things all year round. In the early morning of the first day of the new year, people will light firecrackers to "open the right". People put on new clothes and go to the homes of relatives of their clansmen to pay New Year's greetings in order of seniority.
When you meet friends on the road, you will congratulate each other on the new day. When guests visit, the host will treat them with sweet tea, candy, candied fruit, melons and fruits, and there is a peaceful and joyful atmosphere everywhere. During the whole Spring Festival, businessmen do not do business, and the house cannot be cleaned for the first three days, and the feces cannot be poured out, because this will pour out the wealth, that is, the so-called "the city is not listed, and the dung is not removed for three days".
Sanya's New Year is relatively comfortable, and as a tourist city, there are almost no large-scale New Year's events. Most of the local residents will hold Chinese New Year activities in their local area, but for tourists, they bring New Year customs from different regions, but due to their dispersion, there is no unified New Year's flavor.
Therefore, apart from basking in the sun by the sea, relaxing in the hotel, and enjoying all kinds of warm and comfortable activities, the only place that smells of the New Year is hung everywhere with red lanterns and couplets. Although there is no constraint on the traditional New Year's flavor, this feeling is also very free.
For every Chinese, the Spring Festival is definitely the most important and lively traditional festival of the year. During the Chinese New Year, we not only have different customs in the furnishings of the house, everyone's food and clothing, words and deeds, and various allegorical eating habits, but also the customs across the country have their own unique Spring Festival customs, which are very different.