According to the old custom, the Spring Festival begins at 0: 00 on the first day of the first lunar month. In all parts of Shandong, parents usually get up first to "hand out paper" and put a fire whip before opening the door before speaking. Men worship the god of heaven and earth under the guidance of their parents. The first meal of the Spring Festival is jiaozi. When cooking jiaozi, set off firecrackers. In order to drive away evil and seek good luck, jiaozi is cooked with sesame stalks in some areas, which means that the new year is like sesame blossoms and the days are getting better and better. Jiaozi wants to cook more than enough, and steamed bread should be put in the pot after dinner, which is intended to be more than enough. Jiaozi cooked, first hold a bowl of respect for heaven and earth, and then hold a bowl of respect for the kitchen god. When eating, in addition to one bowl per person, one or two bowls should be served in order to prosper the population. Eating jiaozi is full of festive atmosphere. During the Spring Festival, jiaozi is full of money, dates, chestnuts and so on. Eating red dates means getting up early in the new year and trying to get rich; Eating chestnuts means that you can make great efforts and sweat in the new year; Eating peanuts can prolong life; If you eat money, you can get rich. No matter who eats one of them, everyone sincerely congratulates. If the child gets the money, the parents will be happier. They think the child has a bright future. In addition to encouragement, they should also be rewarded with money to show their congratulations. Many places eat vegetarian stuffing in jiaozi on the first day of the first month, which means "a quiet year". In Linqing, we eat all kinds of buns, jujube cakes, sticky nests and so on. Breakfast on the first day of junior high school, supplemented by various balls, vermicelli and Chinese cabbage, is called "eating all the year round".
Entertainment activities during the Spring Festival are extremely common among Shandong people. Yangko, dragon lantern, lion dance, dry boat, martial arts performance, ball games and other forms are diverse. New Year's Eve
December 30th is New Year's Eve, commonly known as New Year's Eve. People's main activities to send the old and welcome the new are concentrated on this day, and the Spring Festival reaches its climax, which is the most solemn and lively.
In order to decorate the scenery and set off the atmosphere of "accepting blessings and welcoming the new", every household should post Spring Festival couplets, door hearts and invitations, and write in red paper "Days are getting older, people are getting longer, spring is full", "Another year's grass is green, apricot flowers are still ten miles red", "Beautiful people are outstanding", "Looking up to see happiness" and "The whole hospital is shining". )
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The eighth day of the twelfth lunar month is a traditional festival of the Han nationality. Zhang Tang kept the festival "Justice in Historical Records" and said: "The twelfth lunar month is also ... hunting animals and animals sacrifice their ancestors at the end of the year, because this day is also established." In the Han Dynasty, the third day to the day after beginning of winter was regarded as "La Ri", and in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, it was changed to1the eighth day of February as "Laba Festival". In fact, the ancient Spring Festival began on this day. The folk song says, "Don't be sad, old lady. After Laba, it is the New Year. Laba porridge, how many days? Ber Ber La La 23rd ... "Among Buddhists, Laba is called" Daocheng Festival ". There are folk customs of cooking porridge for Buddha, feeding relatives and friends, and eating food, as well as the custom of soaking "Laba garlic".
Dragon Boat Festival On the day of Dragon Boat Festival, moxa is commonly inserted at the door in all parts of Shandong. On May 5th, every household once again pasted mugwort, peach branches, paper or cloth peaches or the Monkey King on the door, decorated with garlic, black beans and five-color cloth strips, pasted paper-cut peaches, tigers, chickens and gourds on the door panels, and pasted swords on the door frames. At the same time, insert mugwort leaves and peach branches on all doors and windows, and stick paper-cuts such as gourd, chicken, tiger, toad, peach and five poisons (scissors for cutting scorpions). The planted Echo will be picked from Shan Ye in the darkness after dusk the day before the festival, commonly known as "touching the dwarf". On the Dragon Boat Festival, almost all people in the province eat zongzi and eggs, and some places like to drink realgar wine. Children don't drink, just put some on their ears and nostrils. Qingming Festival
Qingming is an important solar term in the old calendar. The custom of sweeping graves to worship ancestors in Qingming has a long history. The custom of sweeping graves existed before the Qin Dynasty, but it was not necessarily in Tomb-Sweeping Day, and it became popular from the Tang Dynasty. "Qing thomas lee" said: "Eat cold food on New Year's Eve, celebrate the first frost festival, and offer sacrifices to sweep the graves. At the end of the year, you should wear white clothes, bring wine and tools for cutting vegetation to serve the grave. You shut up the tree and cut down Cao Jing, which is called sweeping the grave. " The Ming Dynasty's "A Brief Introduction to the Scenery of the Imperial Capital" contains: "On the Qingming Day in March, men and women went to the grave, carried coffins and statues, and hung ingots behind the sedan chair. The road was full of embarrassment." The custom of sweeping graves in Tomb-Sweeping Day has been passed down from generation to generation. In the old society, the grave-sweeping ceremony of Beijingers was not held in Tomb-Sweeping Day, but on Singles Day near Tomb-Sweeping Day. Due to different family economic conditions, there are many different ways of offering sacrifices. Going to the countryside to sweep the grave, some people sit around for dinner, some people fly kites, and some people tie wicker in a circle on their heads, saying, "If you don't wear willow in Qingming Festival, the dog will turn yellow in the afterlife." This is not only a grave-sweeping, but also a spring outing. It is both a mourning for our ancestors and a spring outing for ourselves.