Three parts of Spring Festival

 Henan
mm around the Spring Festival Send-off panic in the twelfth lunar month lunar busy Jizao
xxiii, before the Spring Festival, a major folk festivals, people call it New Year's joy could not, stop the hands of a variety of manual labor, routine years ago busy to Send-off activities Jizao.
Henan twelfth lunar month twenty-three Jizao customs, accompanied by a dismal folklore. ancient When an elderly couple only one child, the son of two such as apple, very loved. but poor family, without to make ends meet, had to reluctantly let my son go to the coal mines coal mining.
son did not return from a long time, the elderly extra miss. That day, the woman told his old man to the mine to see. on the road, the old man met a fellow traveler barefoot films, two further and further cooked, get along very well. gossip among the old man that film is by the King of Hell barefoot directed to the mine to recover one hundred miners. The old man worried, begging his son to stay barefoot films. barefoot promised generous slices and admonished him not to tell anyone.
met with his son, the old man pretending ill, his son serve about have not been able to go down. Soon, mine had an accident, the old man brought his son home in quickly.
blink of an eye three years passed, and on the twelfth lunar month twenty-two night, old man reminds me of the risk, could not help his wife said. Who would have thought those words to be heard Zao Jun gone, twenty-third night, on the days Zao Jun, told the story of the Jade Emperor. Emperor very angry and immediately punished barefoot films, and taking away the old man's son. < br> To do this, the twelfth lunar month twenty-three every day, people respect Zao Jun eat candy kitchen, I hope, after he went to Temple, not to fiddle with a non-human. Over time, people in the twelfth lunar month twenty-three Jizao.
every the twelfth lunar month twenty-three this day, the Central Plains from the discharge of urban and rural Slap Slap Baba first round of the New Year fireworks. Matang urban residents are busy buying, burning, etc. Jizao food. And in the vast rural areas, Jizao preparation activities and will be in a grand ceremony Jizao the deafening roar of guns in getting kicked off.
Jizao ceremony more in the evening. Jizao, the Jizao people kneeling before the stove like Lord, the embrace of the cock. It was also let the children hold the chicken, after kneeling in adults. It is said that chicken is Ascension of the Lord kitchen horse riding, it is not called chicken chicken, and called the horse. If the red rooster, commonly known as Incense smoke inside the house, full of mystery. man of the house pour kowtow murmuring. finished, the Jizao people shouting out kitchen god is grateful. If the chicken head absolutely still, need to be poured.
Jizao After the ceremony, people began to eat sugar and burning stoves and other Jizao food, some places have to eat sugar cake, cake, drink soup. < br> In Henan, the typical Jizao most important foci of food to sugar. stoves sugar is a sticky, sticky mouth and teeth of maltose. Jizao the reason for the lesions of sugar is to stick to the kitchen god's mouth. legend is a kitchen god The Jade Emperor sent the god of good and evil human supervision, it has issued on the pass, contact the feelings of heaven and earth, pass information between fairyland and where the responsibility
. In a time when it is heaven, lesions of sugar for it people, I hope it tasted sweets, and more into the well in front of the Jade Emperor made. It was also said Jizao stove sugar, not sticky kitchen god's mouth, but stick greedy good, love gossip Zao Jun grandmother's mouth.
Jizao day except eat candy kitchen, the fire is very unique seasonal food. every day of the twelfth lunar month twenty-three Jizao this city stands in the biscuits business is booming. people crowded not move to buy Jizao fire fight. mostly rural yourself , baking, kang system, bustling family, in great taste too small
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in Henan, people Jizao as second only to the Mid-Autumn Festival of Reunion. Where in the field, doing business , school people, are fighting back in the twelfth lunar month before twenty-three home. Jizao eat fire to the house to do, it will be the Kitchen God's protection, the family can be safe and sound next year.

Kaifeng Kaifeng Chinese New Year people called the Spring Festival as the proverb: xxiii, Jizao officer. Dec. 23 as the festival of folk Jizao people to allow the king to the kitchen to talk about things more than the Jade Emperor in heaven, every family should be put on the tablets of the Kitchen God, some in pairs on both sides of the tablets the words visit relatives with gifts more and no less. preparation stocking thirty twelfth lunar month has been busy. Kaifeng still popular today for the New Year with a ballad: play tofu; XXVI, to flesh; XXVII, kill chickens; xxviii, killing ducks; twenty-nine, play wine; Eve children, children flags affixed door. New Year's Eve New Year's Eve children used to say, each and every household couplets. In the past this day, there are still many old customs of Kaifeng. such as dam then . family of immediate early wake up, change clothes, washing is completed, the first set off firecrackers, thanks to Zhu Xianzu portrait. Then, the younger to the older New Year, the elders give the younger generation, Happy New Year. old New Year's generally more by the parents to lead, thanks to the elders first, near family, neighbors and friends, to go the distance after each. each other to take New Year guests at home standing tobacco, tea, melon seeds, peanuts, candy and so on. by Kaifeng sound as a whistle, mule carts and fro in a constant stream.
flood the temple as a sacrifice graves, offering Zongzu date, the old almanac for the day, said, . fifth day of the break five, people think that the first years after the fifth day is not a good day, also avoid each other between the string of relatives and friends to visit. In addition to this two-day, the holiday season, go pro Kaifeng string folk friends, almost no free days.
Spring
Linzhou Linzhou folk folk will be called the Spring Festival Chinese New Year, but New Year is not specifically a lunar month, but including the first and the end of the year. into the twelfth lunar month will have a
eighth day of the twelfth lunar month breakfast on this day, people want to eat the porridge to do before, pull on the south wall of a valley heap at the mouth saying: According to historical records, Lin Song is from the beginning of the state. the original meaning is that people worship their ancestors with a one-year harvest, worship the gods and to celebrate the harvest. Later, the state disaster-prone forests, and gradually evolved to eat I wish the coming year Lianggu Feng Teng. current state of private forests are still , good words to say to both sides in the kitchen bit pairs ace wrote: mouth.
round sweep the house. folk legends The Kitchen is the Emperor of Heaven to the Governor, responsible look at the merits and demerits family members, those who have had to draw road sign on the wall, to the end of the twelfth lunar month report twenty-three God, Paul then just before dawn after a day aimed at the wall with a heavenly back to the mark for civil penalties. people in order to eliminate hidden dangers, to be sent days after the day on the Kitchen God, and immediately started cleaning the house, which formed a ; customs.
twenty-five grinding bean curd. that day, people will soak the beans grinding, rubbing off baskets to slag foaming, boiling point of slurry into blocks, fishing into the sieve from the backlog. after all the tofu into small block into the water where salt stored for consumption during the Spring Festival.
twenty-six to the flesh. is a day meat rack on the market everywhere, Murakami support pot slaughter swine and sheep, flesh who, family wealth and the amount of line the fifteenth day of the rich in every possible way; the poor merit of the first month or so.
twenty-seven steamed food. is a poor family to do one thing to be wealthy, but also one of the characteristics the New Year. must be based on population size of each , the number of guests, to steamed enough to pay for the fifteenth, at least to eat take advantage of family farmers to express their wishes, in addition, six also posted on the door gods. The door gods mostly Qin Qiong, King Tak, machetes Guan Gong, the five sub-imperial examinations, etc., mostly rigid printed. posted pair stress ; poor sign (horizontal line), pair rich paste the wall in the door a giant stack together. there with diamond paper to write on the prescription of a bucket, write paste gold writing, the rest were written on red paper. auspicious red faction inside and out.
twenty-nine spreading wax away. is at night, to a large village near the phase led to form dozens of lantern, knocking drum, beat big Rao, holding incense paper to the tablet before the village temple, lit candles, burned incense foil, intended to send the Gospel exorcism ritual. Murakami's people concentrated in the Holy Land, waiting for the arrival of the team sent to the gospel. One Village to send , then the other village, Shino lit .1950 years later, this custom disappeared, replaced by twenty-nine play wine.
thirty pinched kernels, pan. pinching pinching Bian Shi Yan ie, pan or fry food . This is the twelfth lunar month the two thirty this day the most intense and arduous job. is the day, from early start, the home of all women work together, filling the disc tray filling, and the surface and the surface, to be a good filling and good plate surface, to squeeze around Kangbian Bianshi. funny side while pinch-law sister is very happy. The package Bianshi thirty at night and the first day to get up early enough to eat. been busy around 5 pm. Bianshi wrap, the first cooking pot, groan small cap, each plate two points by the housewife at home, burn incense and pray for ancestors on paper: crisp meat, balls, head (for reference with the pig rib), vegetable species were all fried food, but first must acquire a little pot, fill Zaotang, let the king who started just before dawn back kitchen to eat. Of course, if Small twelfth lunar month lunar calendar, the day's activities to put twenty-nine the.
coins Bianshi. This is the custom was popular in Linxian. Bianshi within thirty package, the package will be a few coins into the Bianshi, respectively, the first day breakfast , who eat coins Bianshi who blessed this year, to bring great fun the whole family young and old. People are scrambling to get up early, especially children money for room and board, made an exception to eat Bian Shi, happy family laughing .
give light. thirty evening, the Southern rural counties to each household beaten paper lanterns, connected to the column, send in the grave, night lighting, so that the ancestors of man the New Year. The light in the first day morning to recover.
BAR stick. thirty at night, people used to put the gate in the threshold of a peach with wooden sticks, no peach to stick with the other, to prevent . also known as the twelfth lunar month every year thirty nights, the family chat endlessly, take to enjoy the Tianlun this music. housewife should gracefully on the incense table for offerings, all night long candle, incense 5 times. is a loud noise curfew, so as not to disturb the gods; cut out of the box cabinet, so as not to run wealth; ban in the mirror, take the comb, so as not to see night to throw leftovers, called every festive dinner. who started early have to throw leftovers to .1980 trillion more than auspicious years later, boil an increase of new content, a lot of qualified people gathered around televisions to watch the wonderful TV programs, nearly midnight, the young right-handed Dianzhao each gun, took the fire in his left hand, right foot cross outside the door left foot, the sharp eyes TV screen, laid out the frame grab nod concussion. TV screen sub- when one, with the melodious bell, thousands of families of firecrackers went off everywhere, fire, fireworks, sound and other two color guns to the sky was dotted with colorful, dazzling.
first day kowtow. It is unknown Chiba days Bian Shi, the family elders give the younger generation and bowed, and then gang go to other stores (usually the family) and bowed New Year. home of the elderly in addition to remain a highly respected by the head, the rest all went to the neighbors, or even three in five villages to the clan of new Friends of the New Year. If the younger a child, or newly married wife, elder to give some lucky money.
visit relatives. visit relatives in the order: nephew to go grandma house, and she brought husband to go to her parents, then went to Auntie, aunt, sister home. except in special circumstances, must Huibai. people have . It is believed that the fifth day, fourteen, twenty-third day of the ominous. the first month is the first year after an auspicious day, very taboo yin shi, housewives also dig a little ash, sent to street intersections, commonly known as well, dress nice, have fun, even with mistakes, not beaten scolded, which is under the rule of elders preach. If a child maltreatment, they were all condemned. So the best hope is that the children Chinese New Year.
mm around the Spring Festival in Hubei Hubei
Mission style chicken soup were the first meal of the Spring Festival, a symbol of whichever pronunciation can see through the egg yolk proteins, new son back to his wife's family, the family must endure the teasing Yue and not angry. Huangpi New Year of the order of attached to the door, refused Chinese New Year.
Xiaogan
Xiaogan in Plain, Custom and E but seasons are basically the same in most parts of Northeast, but also a unique taste.
early New Year's Day, people first, preparing for the wedding, household gods, elders, and then go out New Year. New Year is not asking affinities, known as hair splitting. duck; magpie first Ming suitable chicken; morning flight is to harvest when the sparrows noise; people also believe that the first day to hear the dogs barking is not a good sign.
12 o'clock New Year's Eve, when each one should do model of the gold ingot to the outside, the representative of the new year will be wealth and fortune
New Year's Day, two days of the past two days people do not sweep the floor, do not draw water or even get angry, get meals are pre- cooked, known as the three days of burning the keeper of paper, each physical search. br> the climax of the Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, drums knocking so loud, no drums or percussion less, people are also the iron pot as a drum hit. So Xiaogan people have
dragon will be the fifteenth day of Xiaogan folk festival activity. Zhalong people generally start from the eighth day, also tied the Lions, the color of the ship, bamboo horse, stilts, platform style. fifteenth day of age and sex fun with the tour sing a variety of color words. Picking ship Zoucunchuanhu, see what people what to sing the word, such as the bucket, the Eight Immortals Palace, a long rich, Ten Fu Filmography Legend is the seventh daughter of the Jade Emperor, she was the most ingenuity, and a very kind heart. One day, Seven Sisters that Danyang territory (now Xiaogan) has a young man named Yong Dong names, devote the money to bury their dead father, had sold themselves to slave. Seven Sisters deeply moved, private patio and Dong Results hundred good success in marriage under a large acacia trees. Unfortunately, a large locust tree for a matchmaker with joy, and the well together Hui Gong called Seven Sisters, Seven Sisters had to reluctantly fly. She turned it into the school shuttle weaving stone, looms in the earthly world, people are still in the dead of night to hear loom sound. fifteenth day of each night, dressed in costumes, girls gathered in the stone next to the shuttle, holding the sewing box to the Seven Sisters Qi Qiao, Qi Qiao sing songs. QiQiao song over and over, they still ask good or bad harvest, How good and bad, on matters such as whether the marriage. In addition, some people made with glutinous rice flour, oval shape, so that pregnant women burn birth to a boy.
fifteenth day of local folk legend also married woman at a rat the day, one can not noisy at home. Women want to light a sesame oil lamp under the bed, while worship says: ; It is said that this year there will be no bugs of the harassment. It is also cast with a basket from the last house on the abundance of cotton accounts for an apology. Yang is the main harvest, the harvest servant.
In addition, there is an interesting Xiaogan customs area, five even when the use of fire according to Li, pears and other fruits, while according to side with the ax and beat the trunk. one side knocking asking: fruits of the new year will be full of branches.
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in Xiangtan in Hunan Xiangtan
flow deposit along with many New Year's customs, ancient and simple. From the first day to the fifth, regardless of rural or urban, dragon dance can be seen everywhere. dragon dance first, dragon dance. Long with muster, somersault jump, great clouds of the trend. cheerful, the light swimming dragon roll, so dizzying. Hunan dragon dance popular in the area, but also inherited a lot of Wu Chu Custom wind, such as ;, The more meals the more abundant harvest that year. Changsha customs, when guests come New Year, to set off firecrackers to greet him. seated, the sent two betel nuts, known as the ingot, I wish the rich meaning.
mm around the Spring Festival Chaozhou region of Guangdong
New Year's Eve customs

the last day of the Lunar New Year, said years of age in addition, that night, said New Year's Eve, the Chaoshan customs that the prepared to do all kinds of New Year get together: the buy chicken, geese, ducks, fish; add new clothing system; newly purchased furniture and utensils; buy paintings, scrolls and so on. in particular to buy oranges, green olives and other fruit as a symbol of good luck and welcome good fruit to send to friends and relatives. old customs had years ago, the men will be the new haircut, women must ; debriefing purposes.
out New Year's Eve at his family reunion had to get home. New Year's Eve family reunion dinner fireplace. After dinner the adults to children, children to their parents generations ago, distribute storage tank to be full of water, rice container to fill the meter, the lights can not be extinguished, to symbolize waiting for the advent of Chinese New Year, New Year's bell sounded, the sound of firecrackers every household.

Lunar New Year is first month, said Mongol, the first for the New Year, the beginning of spring. Tianfang dawn hi guns sound, every household in the Office large table filled with the red plate down (ie, oranges, oranges than orange, so called business), green olives and all kinds of beautiful candy, decorated front, younger generation up the offer tea blessing. this day most people want to vegetarian at least do not eat meat for breakfast. After breakfast take an adult carrying a child down to the relatives and friends New Year, a new host and guest exchanged is wishful to congratulate Tim Fuk so lucky, then make a fortune; host dinner to down, and betel nut (betel nut King of ancient customs, now with the Green Olive on behalf of), a total product Gongfu tea, the guests on the down He presented the owner good luck, the owner should take down rebates, popular style for that turn King Kyrgyzstan intended to retaliate good wishes.
started this morning, many lion dance classes drums to the chorus of the English village of the family visits New Year, the owner set off firecrackers to welcome. there hand evergreen leaves (commonly called a cash cow), or holding a book with paper affixed to the door on people; or Chuisuo Na, bamboo tap, sing songs, do four, then went house to house that auspicious New Year's, are taking advantage of the discussion points gratuities. the first two days, three days of multi-organization at village Xu Zhen Qing Chinese New Year cultural activities, in addition to Theatre performances take Chaozhou, mountain opera, doing shadow play, there are a large percussion team, tiger Lions, English chorus, dragon dance teams parade down the street to suffer the village. Today there are mapping movies, game balls , art exhibition, riddles and so on. droves people enjoy day and night tours travel watch, a joy of spring's lively atmosphere.

every household to eat a festive dinner dress brand new house after the New Year's Eve is coming. So Housewives will be busy getting ready to do the year's most abundant and most significant festive dinner. festive dinner, by definition, is a meal together in the New Year celebrations, and even deceased ancestors are not forgotten. Therefore, every household to do After a good festive dinner, the first must bow down sequentially, which fully demonstrated the influx of people reverence for his ancestors virtues, a traditional virtue of filial piety. offering complete, the sacrificial meal used to re-heat before, big table set up in the hall, packed together around the family firm, which is every family beautiful moment of reunion. family usually far apart either, or the usual number of lump, this time should also be laughter, can not say something sad, or noisy.
used the dinner, at home, busy housewives to clean up the table, so a Big clean-up market began. not very particular about cleaning this time, simply to clean it, unlike that at the end of a need to sweep the grass with pine drop-brush. and then he Health furnace fire, began to prepare ritual offerings tomorrow - vegetarian. many different types of vegetarian food, a taro do a sweet potato to do, while others had to do with dates, some of them are using peanuts, taro and sweet potato together to do. do vegetarian the materials are when it should be ready in the afternoon and let dry. fried vegetarian, the other the fire of Health is good, put an iron pot, marked with a large number of peanut oil. so boiling oil when mixed with the material to slip into pot a put it in the pan to take bubble creak. cooked, yellow, fragrant place particularly attractive. At this point, if the guests at home, the hostess will offer a new vegetarian fried, then soaked Gongfu on the mellow, well known for your taste delicious snacks Chaoshan.
to send some money to send some money
Chaoshan Spring Festival is an important one, the elders want to cents to the younger generation, younger generation can make money also giving the elders. Leng Leng, this money can not be sent directly, but to very particular to put in a highly profitable package, or see a piece of red paper. This is commonly known as throughout the year, full implementation will be pockets of real, rich rich margin. Of particular interest is the children before going to sleep, parents will face value of notes on a large apron of children, woke up soon after the money back. < br> New Year, to send a large orange
New Year, also known as elders give the younger generation knows to expect. breakfast, to their friends and family on their New Year. Chaoshan proverb says that: their sincerity. Therefore, some people get up immediately after the New Year went to relatives and friends, back before I eat.
New Year people, regardless of how many gifts with which a large orange (Citrus Chaozhou) is indispensable. Large Orange whichever pronunciation business people, the most pleasant to the ear than Good words, they will tell you very friendly. seated, the owner will be attentive brew the famous Chaozhou Gongfu hospitality. Before leaving, the owner will never leave those two big orange gift, and then remove the big orange home exchange, is intended to give each other good luck. have a good humor who Yi is out to give the new New Year, only in his trouser pockets are often fitted with two large orange, one by one after the New Year, his trouser pockets filled with two big orange is still the same. So , said people who have good early Yi New Year rituals is daughter back to her parents, must do a big bag of cookies, candy, distributed by the mother s neighbors have, as the scene of the New Year. If more than one daughter at home, and those not on the same day his daughter back, then, must come to a sub- Once a gift is quite thin, only four crackers. However, it reflects the feelings were exceedingly strong, the real is the a nephew, when the aunt must be re-pocket, although when the new moon has been sent to the lucky money, you can have different meaning this time. This custom, Chaoshan called daughter back to her in-laws must be before dinner.
Chaoshan first month of the Spring Festival because it is taboo
beginning of the year, Chaoshan people often see it as good or bad the new year mega show Good Year period, so Chinese New Year be careful not broken, accidentally broke when a custom has been in the water only a formality. sweeping prohibition of this practice is also slowly being phased out because of firecrackers during the Spring Festival, one visitor to the ground litter and garbage in particular many do not clean it really hindered Daya. Therefore, the starting pay attention to health, many young people will less of these practices pay attention to the traditional taboos.
creditors are not allowed home that day debt collection, debt collection because people think that on this day both lenders and borrowers are not auspicious. also avoid things from others pockets, it was felt that first day of the pockets of people to dig, and may result in a year have been funeral, because it will bring home ominous. Meanwhile, the bogey of the heavenly hair, because people in this, the day always like to link the hair with the funeral. this day even avoid killing, killing, knife is believed to cause disaster the ravages of war, disaster and other disasters occur the blood, but now people's living standard improves, eating plans a fresh, palate, urge sympathy for fast, there is less scruples.
diet, this day medication is strictly prohibited. Otherwise, the in the end from the beginning that the disease will lead to disease-ridden year, to take medicine continuously. first day breakfast bogey eat meat, there are several theories: one is the vegetarian meal, and its function is equal to one year; the other is the metaphor refers to the thrifty household management, not extravagance.
New Year customs
West River boat dwellers West Jiang Zhaoqing in Guangdong section of the Northwest Some of generations of life on board, most of them cook on board, most of them are still burning wood. fishermen also like the open space on the river bank planted with sweet potato, rapeseed, onion, garlic, etc., living subsidies.
the Spring Festival The fishermen were labeled in the residence of the red pieces of good fortune and blessings, they like the bow labeled patterns are , lettuce (making money), orange (good luck), Apple (Green) and the horseshoe, arrowhead (all Apartments fertility), etc..

Zhanjiang New Year with the rest of the country as the Spring Festival is the most solemn people, content the most abundant traditional festival, Chinese New Year but also Zhanjiang local characteristics. rural Chinese New Year, usually about one month from the preparation to the end of time, beginning in mid-December to prepare for Lunar New Year, including renovation of a house, buy furniture, add new ones clothes, procurement of various types of New Year and so on. New Year with sugar, rice, paintings, couplets, candy, cookies, crackers and the like, a year of most of the money earned for the New Year.
twenty-nine or the 30th of the most popular scene is the slaughter pigs, catching pond, catch on late Fair, men and women deployed together. In the evening every household paste related to revolutionary martyrs paste in the door by the Home Department issued a so scroll reads ....