Shousui: "One night for two years, five hours for two years." Everyone stays up all night. As the saying goes, whoever stays up the longest is hardworking within one year. At noon, it was even more overwhelming, firecrackers were ringing, crackling and happy. The new year has come, and the Spring Festival celebrations have officially begun.
Set off firecrackers and light the stove: firecrackers say goodbye to the old year and red light reflects the sky to welcome the new year, which is a vivid portrayal of the New Year. On New Year's Eve, every household started to set off firecrackers and light stoves, which were built in the yard with firewood or coal. The custom of "setting off firecrackers and lighting a stove" has a long history. According to folklore, there was a fierce monster called Nian in Archaean, which fled to crowded places every 365 days to harm people. When people are afraid of smashing things, destroying farm tools, stealing food and eating animals, they hide. The more you hide, the more fierce you are. Every year will turn the village upside down. One year, Nian went to a village as usual, and almost every family in the village suffered, except the newlyweds with red curtains and red clothes. There are also some children who lit a pile of bamboo in the yard and are playing. The fire is red, and bamboo burns and explodes. I turned here in 2000, so I turned around and fled. People suddenly realized that Nian was afraid of red, fire and noise. Therefore, at the end of the year and the beginning of the year, every household sticks red paper, wears red robes, hangs red lights, makes stoves, plays gongs and drums and sets off firecrackers. Year after year, the custom of "setting off firecrackers and lighting a stove" dares to follow. Another way of saying it is that there was a kind of "nine-headed bird" in Archean that often harmed the world and people could not live with peace of mind. Later, a samurai lurked in the cave of the "nine-headed bird" and cut off its nine heads to remove pests for the people. As a result, the bird's nine heads were gone, but it was still alive, running around and bleeding. And this day happens to be New Year's Eve, and the Chinese New Year is coming soon. According to folklore, if the blood of the nine-headed bird reaches anyone's house, it will be unlucky next year. In the panic, everyone lit the "stove" one after another, so the "nine-headed bird" dared not come because of fear of fire and "used fire to exorcise evil spirits". (Provided by Chen, Tuisha Sub-district Office, huozhou city, Shanxi)
Send and receive gods: Folk customs can only "sweep graves" after the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, that is, the whole family cleans up. In this way, the gods enshrined on the wall have no place. Therefore, on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, we should "send God to heaven". At about eight o'clock this evening, food and firecrackers were set off and a "farewell ceremony" was held. On the first day of the first month, lanterns are decorated, incense is burned to pray, and then the gods sent away on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month are greeted. Every family worships the kitchen god and the god of heaven and earth. Others, the school is the master god, the business is the god of wealth, the brick burner, the coal kiln is the god of fire, the carpenter, the stonemason is the luban god, and there are three generations of ancestors, and so on. People expect the gods to bless happiness and peace. After liberation, burning incense and worshipping gods gradually faded, but the legacy of "communicating with gods" and worshipping ancestors still exists.
Spring Festival couplets, door gods: Spring Festival couplets are intended to welcome spring and happiness, and set off a festive atmosphere. Spring Festival couplets pay attention to antithesis, metaphor and straightforward narration. The forms of Spring Festival couplets vary in size, and the couplets are horizontal, upper and lower. There are only lintels on the small door, "Looking up to see happiness" indoors, "Going out to see happiness" outside the door, "Singing the Golden Rooster at Dawn" in the chicken coop and "Six Livestock Flourishing" in the stable. The content is colorful, witty and touching. The bright red Spring Festival couplets play up the peace of the Spring Festival. Door gods are decorations to exorcise evil spirits and pray for blessings. In addition to posting Spring Festival couplets, they are also posted on every door during the Spring Festival. Huozhou Customs is mainly a door god, who posted portraits of Qin and Wei Jingde in the Tang Dynasty. Probably originated from the allusion that "the door gods of the world go out of Huozhou".
Eating jiaozi, the son of next year: Wearing new clothes and having a good meal are people's holiday enjoyment. Of course, people will try their best to show it in this important festival. Wearing new clothes is luxurious, fashionable and beautiful, but there are certain customs in eating. Eat at dawn on the first day. Rice is a special kind of jiaozi, commonly known as "flat food" or "variable food". Take its homonym for example, one is that it has been said for years and it is getting better and better. Second, every household is eating. Legend has it that in ancient times, only the emperor ate jiaozi, and the common people had no share. A certain emperor sympathized with the hardships of the people all the year round and showed great mercy. He gave people a chance to eat jiaozi like the Forbidden City during the Spring Festival, which was called "total food" and gradually evolved into a special food "flat food" in the morning of the Spring Festival. It's New Year's Eve in jiaozi. Wrap the white flour and stuffing. There are some copper coins or small coins in Jiaozi's bag. Whoever eats first will be blessed. The more he eats, the more blessed he is. In the following year, my son usually eats his son's noodles on New Year's Eve afternoon. Save some for the New Year when you eat. It is the second year after midnight, so it is called the year after next, which means that food can be picked up, and there is still more than one year. On the first day, we usually have two meals, flat food in the morning and vegetables and steamed buns in the afternoon.
Rice cake: also called Spring Festival cake. That is, buns on the eve of the Spring Festival are for people to eat in the New Year. There are many kinds of steamed stuffed buns in the Spring Festival, including plate jujube flowers, flowers, climbing, rabbit dolls, red world, paws, five-core jujube flowers and grape stalk jujube flowers. Huozhou rice cake is very famous. There are many patterns of rice cake, including climbing, jujube flowers, red world, rabbit dolls, flowers and hands. Huozhou custom, eating steamed stuffed buns or treating people with steamed stuffed buns during the Spring Festival, climbing mountains and jujube flowers are popular all over the world, and both men and women can eat them. "Hands" are for men only, two for each person, which means more work and more money, which means "fishing" and getting back more. "Flowers" are for women, symbolizing beauty and weaving dexterity. "Gaodeng Steamed Bread" means climbing up step by step, and the other is "Wuzi Climbing Up", which is the best of "Gaodeng Steamed Bread", meaning climbing up and looking far. "Rabbit" means fast running, especially suitable for unmarried women, who can get married as soon as possible. "Fish" means more than a year. During the sacrifice, sorghum stalks should be vertically penetrated through three or four ascends as the base, and another steamed bread should be worn on it according to the ghost of the sacrifice. Before you worship your ancestors, put on the red world here. I hope the whole family can live a rich and beautiful life. When offering sacrifices to the god of wealth, you should put a paw on it, hoping to make money and treasure. During the Spring Festival, the younger generation will pay New Year greetings to relatives and friends. The storage time of Chinese New Year's steamed stuffed bun can be from1February to the first month of the following year. Many places still have the custom of "eating high on February 2nd".
New Year's greetings to ancestors: After breakfast on the first day of the first month of the first month, the clan elders lead the people to worship their ancestors. Those who have ancestral halls should still gather in the ancestral halls and bow down at different levels according to clan generations. Some rich households still have to "fight". That is, each person receives a catty of meat and maintains the clan system. After the ancestor worship, they went to pay a New Year call to the clan elders who could not attend the ancestor worship. Lu Yu, congratulations on the new love, a peaceful and civilized atmosphere of joy. On this day, people are not allowed to get angry, say bad things and swear, otherwise it will be unlucky. Parents should give their children "lucky money" after their children pay New Year greetings, which is intended to restrain their age and avoid diseases and disasters in the new year. Now the elders give lucky money in the hope that they will buy books and school supplies, and the lucky money is entrusted with the ardent expectations of the elders. Happy new year is an extension of the new year. The Spring Festival is not just the first day of the first month, but a period of time. There is also a time difference between local customs and New Year greetings.
The first day: New Year greetings to the patriarch's parents;
The next day: when a man goes out to pay New Year's greetings, he goes to his uncle's house first, which is a close relative of the matriarchal family.
The third day, the fourth day: Aunties and aunts, all relatives are going to look around. Generally, the Yue family worships on the third day; On the fourth day, menstruation and his sister's family and other relatives visited.
On the fifth day of May, it is called Breaking Five. Every household cleans the indoor and courtyard, and dumps the dirt and sundries outside the gate, which is called "sending the poor". On the sixth day, within the fifth day, women don't string relatives. Only on the sixth day, Fang took her husband back to visit her parents.
When Nianbo turned here, he turned around and fled. People suddenly realized that Nian was afraid of red, fire and noise. Therefore, at the end of the year and the beginning of the year, every household sticks red paper, wears red robes, hangs red lights, makes stoves, plays gongs and drums and sets off firecrackers. Year after year, the custom of "setting off firecrackers and lighting a stove" dares to follow. The Spring Festival has a long history and customs. It is the beginning of the lunar calendar, commonly known as "Chinese New Year". It is also the biggest folk festival in Huozhou. In Huozhou, you can fully feel the rich flavor of the year.
Shousui: "One night for two years, five hours for two years." Everyone stays up all night. As the saying goes, whoever stays up the longest is hardworking within one year. At noon, it was even more overwhelming, firecrackers were ringing, crackling and happy. The new year has come, and the Spring Festival celebrations have officially begun.
Set off firecrackers and light the stove: firecrackers say goodbye to the old year and red light reflects the sky to welcome the new year, which is a vivid portrayal of the New Year. On New Year's Eve, every household started to set off firecrackers and light stoves, which were built in the yard with firewood or coal. The custom of "setting off firecrackers and lighting a stove" has a long history. According to folklore, there was a fierce monster called Nian in Archaean, which fled to crowded places every 365 days to harm people. When people are afraid of smashing things, destroying farm tools, stealing food and eating animals, they hide. The more you hide, the more fierce you are. Every year will turn the village upside down. One year, Nian went to a village as usual, and almost every family in the village suffered, except the newlyweds with red curtains and red clothes. There are also some children who lit a pile of bamboo in the yard and are playing. The fire is red, and bamboo burns and explodes. I turned here in 2000, so I turned around and fled. People suddenly realized that Nian was afraid of red, fire and noise. So every year until the end of the year, every household sticks red paper, wears red robes, hangs red lights, makes stoves, beats gongs and drums and sets off firecrackers. "