New Year's Eve: The last day of December in the lunar calendar is New Year's Eve, commonly known as "New Year's Eve", also called "New Year's Eve". On New Year's Eve, Spring Festival couplets are posted on every door. In the evening, we have New Year's Eve dinner, reunite with our families, and enjoy family happiness. There are ten bowls of food in the New Year's Eve dinner, called "Ten Big Bowls", which is considered to be a "perfect blessing". The elders share the new year's money with the children.
Spring Festival: The first day of the first month of the lunar calendar is the beginning of the New Year, and the fifteenth day is collectively called the "New Year's Day". Early in the morning on the first day of the Lunar New Year, every household chooses an auspicious day to open the door, set off firecrackers, burn incense to welcome the spring and bring blessings, and put "Open the door with good luck" on the door. , red paper notes "May everything go well every year", and door charms, the whole family kowtows and prays for blessings. In Qu County, people eat tea eggs, rice dumplings, and rice cakes for breakfast, which symbolizes prosperity every year. They eat noodles for lunch, which is called "longevity noodles." People in Changshan area eat "longevity noodles" on the morning of the first day of the lunar month, drink sugar tea, and eat rice cakes, which symbolizes longevity, sweetness, and getting better every year; eating every other year's meal for lunch and dinner means having more than enough every year. Starting from the second day of the Lunar New Year, relatives and friends pay New Year greetings to each other and give each other gifts. New Year gifts include pastries such as jujubes and Yingrong cakes. As the saying goes, "the first month of the year is never empty-handed." Elders give "red envelopes" to children who pay New Year greetings. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, there was a three-day holiday during the Spring Festival. There were activities such as condolences to the families of fallen soldiers, group worship, visits to relatives and friends, and a Spring Festival party.
Lantern Festival: The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the Lantern Festival, commonly known as the "Festival of Lanterns". There has always been a custom of "making the Lantern Festival". On the morning of the tenth day of the lunar month, lanterns from Sixiang in Qu County came into the city, and Dabulong played ball rolling in the street and paid homage to Xiangfu Temple and Tianning Temple. The thirteenth day is the lamp holder. Board dragons, flower dragons, horse lanterns, tea-picking lanterns, etc. are scattered throughout the streets. On the 15th, for the climax of the Lantern Festival, colorful signs were put up at the intersections, lanterns were decorated, and the sound of fireworks resounded through the sky.
Answer: Angel x119 - Level 1 2010-3-6 18:36
Spring Festival customs
The first day of the first lunar month is the biggest tradition in our country festival. The customs in Zhejiang are the same as those in the whole country. The New Year Festival is also particularly grand and lively. The celebrations are centered on auspiciousness and are colorful; the main auspicious customs include setting off firecrackers, paying New Year greetings, and eating rice cakes.
1. Lucky words must be said on the first day of the new year:
"West Lake Browsing Chronicles" records that during the Spring Festival in Hangzhou and other places in the Ming Dynasty, every household would insert cypress branches into persimmons in the hall The top and bottom are supported by big oranges, which corresponds to the sentence "Pepsi is lucky"; because cypress, persimmon and orange are homophonic for "Pepsi is lucky".
2. Customs of Little New Year's Eve:
The third day of the first lunar month is regarded as the "Little New Year's Eve" custom in Suzhou and Hangzhou. On this day, no sweeping the floor, no begging for fire, no drawing of water and New Year's Eve. On this day, every household receives the Kitchen God. If there is a well next to the house, incense is prepared in the morning, vegetarian dishes are offered to the well fence, and the red paper seal newly posted on the well fence on New Year's Eve is removed, which is called "opening the well".
On the fifth day of the new year, every household in Hangzhou buys "inches of gold chaff" to offer to their ancestors, hoping to bring good luck to "making an inch of gold every day".
Answer: ericli_2007 - Level 3 2010-3-6 18:40
New Year's Eve: The last day of the twelfth lunar month is New Year's Eve, commonly known as "New Year's Eve". It's called "New Year's Eve". On New Year's Eve, Spring Festival couplets are posted on every door. In the evening, we have New Year's Eve dinner, reunite with our families, and enjoy family happiness. There are ten bowls of food in the New Year's Eve dinner, called "Ten Big Bowls", which is considered to be a "perfect blessing". The elders share the new year's money with the children.
Spring Festival: The first day of the first month of the lunar calendar is the beginning of the New Year, and the fifteenth day is collectively called the "New Year's Day". Early in the morning on the first day of the Lunar New Year, every household chooses an auspicious day to open the door, set off firecrackers, burn incense to welcome the spring and bring blessings, and put "Open the door with good luck" on the door. , red paper notes "May everything go well every year", and door charms, the whole family kowtows and prays for blessings. In Qu County, people eat tea eggs, rice dumplings, and rice cakes for breakfast, which symbolizes prosperity every year. They eat noodles for lunch, which is called "longevity noodles." People in Changshan area eat "longevity noodles" on the morning of the first day of the lunar month, drink sugar tea, and eat rice cakes, which symbolize longevity, sweetness, and getting older every year; eating every other year's meal for lunch and dinner means having more than enough every year. Starting from the second day of the Lunar New Year, relatives and friends pay New Year greetings to each other and give each other gifts. New Year gifts include pastries such as jujubes and Yingrong cakes. As the saying goes, "the first month of the year is never empty-handed." Elders give "red envelopes" to children who pay New Year greetings. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, there was a three-day holiday during the Spring Festival. There were activities such as condolences to the families of martyrs, group worship, visits to relatives and friends, and a Spring Festival party.
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Answer: Ice Cream Princess - Level 2 2010-3-9 19:33