What are the national traditional customs of the Spring Festival in the country where the Spring Festival is celebrated
4hw.com.cn: the Spring Festival can be said to be the biggest festival in China. The Chinese Spring Festival has a history of thousands of years. In fact, in addition to China, many countries in Asia have celebrated the lunar new year under the influence of Chinese culture. Let's take a look at the countries that have celebrated the Spring Festival?
Korea: white envelope with lucky money
In South Korea, the Spring Festival is called 'old Zheng', which is a traditional festival for Koreans. In the Silla era more than 1000 years ago, Koreans began to celebrate the Spring Festival. However, from 1910 to 1945, when Japan colonized the Korean Peninsula, people were not allowed to celebrate the Spring Festival. In 1985, the Spring Festival returned to the people under the name of 'Folk day'. In 1999, South Korea officially resumed the Spring Festival and announced a three-day holiday.
Like China, Koreans must go home for reunion before the new year's Eve. Therefore, South Korea also has the Spring Festival transportation of "thousands of troops and horses back to their hometown" before the Spring Festival. It is difficult to get a ticket. Many people queue up all night to buy a ticket to go home. Of course, the bustling metropolis in the past was particularly clean during the Spring Festival, and there were not many people in the streets.
During the Spring Festival in China, adults will give children a red envelope containing lucky money to express the elders' concern and sincere wishes for their younger generation. Koreans also have lucky money. On the first day of the first lunar month, Jane offered sacrifices to her ancestors. The younger generation will pay New Year's greetings to the elders, and the elders will give new year's money to the younger generation. But the Korean lucky money is not in a red envelope, but in a white envelope. This is because, in the eyes of Koreans, white symbolizes purity and cleanliness.
Vietnam: buy a carp and put it back in the river
Like China, Vietnam regards the Spring Festival as the most lively and grand traditional festival. From December of the lunar calendar, every family in Vietnam is ready to buy new year goods. Many years ago, Vietnam's economy was backward, and the people's new year goods were relatively simple, just as a doggerel said: 'fat meat, pickles, red couplets; Flag poles, firecrackers, green rice dumplings. " Now, with the economic and social development of Vietnam, the annual goods of Vietnamese people are becoming more and more abundant.
On New Year's Eve, even if the work is busy, Vietnamese will try their best to get home for reunion. The family will sit around the table happily and have a rich reunion dinner. This is also very similar to China. On the dinner table of the reunion dinner, there must be big meat dumplings with Vietnamese characteristics. A big meat dumpling weighs 2 or 3 kilograms, enough for a family to eat.
Different from China's Spring Festival, Vietnam will buy a live carp and worship it in front of the kitchen King statue. After the stove King statue is burned, the carp will be put back into the river instead of being eaten. Why? It turned out that Vietnamese folk said that the carp was the embodiment of the Dragon King. Putting the carp back into the river can be used as the kitchen King's car to carry the kitchen king back to the heavenly palace.
Japan: celebrate the Spring Festival on New Year's Day
China and Japan are separated by a strip of water. At the latest in the Tang Dynasty, Japan continued to learn and introduce Chinese culture. Since then, Japan, like China, has celebrated the Spring Festival. At that time, the custom of Japanese celebrating the Spring Festival was similar to that of China.
However, during the Meiji Restoration, Japan's Meiji emperor carried out a series of reform measures, one of which was the abolition of the Spring Festival. Since 1873, the Japanese no longer celebrate the lunar new year. The Spring Festival disappeared from Japanese life.
However, although the Japanese are not the lunar new year, they solemnly celebrate the new year's day of the Gregorian calendar as the Spring Festival. New year's Day is the most solemn festival in Japan. From December 29 to January 3 every year, it is a national holiday for up to six days. On the evening of December 31 of the Gregorian calendar, the Japanese celebrate 'New Year's Eve'. That night, the Japanese family should sit in front of the TV and watch Japan's' Spring Festival Gala '--' red and white song Party '. On January 1, the Japanese paid new year's greetings to each other. Elders will also give children lucky money & hellip& hellip;
Singapore: unmarried elders can't send red envelopes
Singapore is the second country in the world with Chinese as the main ethnic group in addition to China. Singapore has a total population of 6 million, including more than 4 million Chinese. Therefore, the Chinese people have made the Spring Festival, the traditional cultural festival of the Chinese nation, take root and carry forward in Singapore.
Singapore attaches great importance to the Spring Festival. Public holidays in Singapore are generally only one day, even Christmas is only one day, and only the Spring Festival will have two days off. In the Spring Festival, the whole city of Singapore is decorated with lanterns, gongs and drums.
The Spring Festival Customs in Singapore are very similar to those in Guangdong. For example, during the Spring Festival, people will bring two oranges to pay New Year's greetings. This is because in Cantonese, 'Orange' is homonymous with 'gold', and 'Orange' is homonymous with 'auspicious'. Sending oranges means sending good luck and wealth.
Like China, Singapore also gives red envelopes during the Spring Festival. However, unmarried elders cannot send red envelopes to their younger generation. It turned out that the local custom in Singapore believed that it would be difficult for an unmarried man to get a wife by giving a red envelope to his younger generation; If a woman who is not married gives a red envelope to her younger generation, it will be difficult to get married.