Spring Festival custom:
paste up Spring Festival couplets
Hanging new year pictures
stay up late or all night on New Year's Eve
lion dance
When paying New Year's greetings, the younger generation pays New Year's greetings to their elders first, and then to their relatives and friends. When relatives and friends meet for the first time, they will say something like "Congratulations on your happy wedding", "Congratulations on getting rich" and "Congratulations on getting rich" to congratulate each other. The new son-in-law pays a New Year call to his parents-in-law's house, usually on the third day of the Lunar New Year. Old people have been celebrating the Spring Festival every 10 years since they were 60 years old.
On New Year's Eve, you put the boiled water chestnut in the rice and dig it out when you eat it, which is called "digging the ingot". When friends and relatives come and go, two green olives should be put in when making tea, which is called "Yuanbao tea". Congratulations on getting rich.
On the morning of Chinese New Year's Day, nave hung a portrait of his ancestors and presented him with a tea-and-fruit rice cake. The whole family took turns to pay New Year greetings, which was called "worshipping the ghost". Don't let them sweep the floor from home, for fear of sweeping out "wealth" and "wishful thinking", they can only sweep from the outside to the inside.
During the Spring Festival, the flag started the custom of "drumming", and drummers were struggling to drum for fun. On the third day, "playing the night drum", on the seventh day, "playing seven drums", and on the thirteenth to fifteenth days, the atmosphere was warm.
The custom of planting sesame stems, holly and cypress branches at home or in front of the church means that life is blooming and greener every day.
The custom of "roasting the head wind" for children on the sixth day of the sixth day. In the evening, I took my children to the fields to light torches to drive away diseases. While roasting, I sang: "Roast my head, wake up, roast my feet, correct my steps, roast my stomach without diarrhea, and roast my whole body." This disease will never be seen. "
On the eighth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, there is a custom of going to the Western Hills by boat to worship the temple, praying for the blessing of the water god and offering sacrifices to the giant Buddha, which is called "Shang". After the Wang Yu Temple was demolished, this custom gradually became indifferent.
During the Spring Festival, there are still many taboos in the old customs of Jiangsu, such as not moving scissors on the first day of the New Year to avoid disputes with each other; Don't move the kitchen knife to avoid being killed; Do not eat porridge, afraid of going out in the rain; Don't sweep the floor, afraid of sweeping away wealth and so on. With the popularization of scientific knowledge, many unscientific customs are gradually forgotten; Healthy and beneficial entertainment and leisure activities continue.