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What is the Spring Festival in 2019? Do you remember the traditional customs of the Spring Festival

Spring Festival is an ancient festival in China, and also the most important festival in the whole year. Spring Festival is a family reunion festival. People who have been busy for a year can only have a chance to enjoy a good time with their families. What's the date of the Spring Festival in 2019? What are the traditional customs of the Spring Festival? As the most important festival in China, how do you plan to spend the Spring Festival?

Spring Festival time in 2019: Tuesday, February 5, 2019 the first day of the first lunar month

Spring Festival is the first day of the first lunar month, also known as the lunar new year, commonly known as' New Year '. This is the most ceremonious and lively traditional festival in China. Spring Festival has a long history. It originated from the activities of sacrificing gods and ancestors at the end of the year in the Yin and Shang Dynasties. According to the Chinese lunar calendar, the first day of the first lunar month is called the new year's day, the new year's day, the new year's day, the new year's day, and so on. In the period of the Republic of China, the Gregorian calendar was changed to the new year's day. The first day of the Gregorian calendar is called the new year's day, and the first day of the lunar calendar is called the Spring Festival.

The arrival of the Spring Festival means that spring will come, Vientiane will revive vegetation, and a new round of sowing and harvesting season will begin. People have just passed the long cold winter with withered plants and trees, and they have long been looking forward to the warm spring day. When the new spring comes, they will naturally welcome the festival with joy and singing and dancing.

Dust removal

Sweeping is the year-end sweeping. In the north, it's called "sweeping houses" and in the south, it's called "dusting". It is recorded that the Spring Festival should begin on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month. Some places still keep the tradition of sacrificing to the kitchen on the 23rd of the 12th lunar month. After the sacrificing to the kitchen, preparations for the Spring Festival are officially started. Generally speaking, from December 23 to new year's Eve, it is the best time to sweep dust. It is called "Sweeping Day", also known as "spring greeting day".

Sweeping the dust properly can bring good luck for the next year. In the past year, the family's gas field has been affected by many external factors, while "dust" and "Chen" are homophonic. Sweeping dust in the new spring means dusting cloth is new, sweeping out all the bad luck and misfortune, including the old and creating new, saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new. Therefore, before the Spring Festival, every household should thoroughly clean up, clean the utensils, remove the bedding and curtains, dust the cobwebs, and dredge the open channels and ditches. If the luck of the old year is not very good, you can still use grapefruit leaves to boil water and sprinkle it on the corner. Grapefruit leaves have the effect of expelling evil spirits and avoiding evil spirits in geomancy. They can be used to clean the house to thoroughly remove the dirty old air and welcome the joy of the new spring.

Celebrate the new year

In order to celebrate the beginning of the year, in addition to sweeping the dust, there are many things to prepare or pay attention to before the Spring Festival. For example, on the 19th or 30th of the lunar new year, it is advisable to paste red couplets and door gods at the door of the house, mainly in red, to protect the house, avoid evil, exorcise evil spirits, and auspicious; before the lunar new year, it is advisable to cut the hair, because the hair was called worry silk in ancient times, which means that the new year is far away from worry and everything is possible.

The housewife should purchase the supplies and food of the first morning of the new year, such as vegetables, tofu, sweets, or make the festival food by herself, such as fried and fried pile, Xiaokou date, Youjiao, etc; On New Year's Eve, you should take a thorough bath from head to foot. If you have bad luck in the old year, you should take a bath with grapefruit leaf water. Pay attention to that the bucket and towel containing grapefruit water should be new and appropriate red to increase happiness and vitality and prevent disasters; After taking a bath, you should put on new clothes, clothes, shoes and socks, etc. to avoid being contaminated with the old fashion. In order to avoid causing villains' right and wrong in the next year, you should put on new shoes to step on villains, which can reduce the right and wrong words in the next year.

For those who commit or rush to the age of Tai, they should wear new red underwear, and their coats should also be fresh (such as yellow, which represents the spirit of the emperor, which can transform evil spirits and eliminate disasters; such as red, which represents the spirit of celebration, which can increase happiness and prosperity), with the purpose of diluting evil spirits and bringing good luck.

New year's Eve vigil

New year's Eve refers to the night on the last day of the lunar year. On the new year's Eve, it is appropriate to carry out activities such as ancestor worship, new year's Eve dinner, guarding the year and setting off firecrackers. After the new year's Eve dinner, it's advisable for the whole family to sit around and hold the year's Eve together, and put on the new year's offerings. For example, a large plate of apples is indispensable, which is called peace and security. In the north, some families still need to provide a basin of rice, which was cooked before the Spring Festival, called "next year's meal". It means that there are leftovers every year, which can't be eaten all the year round. This year, they still eat the old food. The next year's rice should be cooked with rice and millet. There are yellow and white rice. It is also called "gold and silver rice".

It's better to choose some auspicious food for the birthday cake, such as dates (early spring), persimmons (everything goes well), almonds (happy people), fruits (immortality), rice cakes (higher year by year) & hellip; & hellip;. Guarding the year means staying up all night, symbolizing to drive away all evil and pestilence and looking forward to the good luck of the new year.