Chinese New Year 2019(China Spring Festival)
Chinese New Year’s Time: February 5th, Tuesday.2019
Spring Festival holiday time: New Year’s Eve to the sixth day. Namely: February 4 to February 10, a total of 7 days. Among them, February 5, February 6, and February 7 are statutory holidays. Go to work on February 2 (Saturday) and February 3 (Sunday).
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Customs before new year
New Year’s Eve: New Year’s Eve is one of the custom of the New Year’s Day, also known as the annual dinner, the group dinner, the reunion dinner, etc., especially refers to the family dinner on the New Year’s Eve. The New Year’s Eve comes from the ancient year-end rituals, and worships the gods and the ancestors to reunite. The group dinner is the highlight of the year, not only rich and colorful, but also very particular. Before the group dinner, worship the gods and worship the ancestors. The Chinese New Year’s Eve is a reunion dinner for the family. This is the most abundant and important dinner at the end of the year.  Spring Festival couplets: also known as “door pair”, “couple”, “peach”, etc., is a kind of couplet, named after the Spring Festival, posted. It depicts the background of the times with neat, dual, concise and exquisite words, and expresses a good wish. It is a unique literary form in China. Every Spring Festival, whether in the city or in the countryside, every household should choose a red spring couplet on the door to add a festive atmosphere to the festival. There are many types of Spring Festival couplets. According to their use, they can be divided into door, box, cross, spring, and fighting. New Year’s Money:  The lucky money (called “profit” in Guangdong), one of the custom of the Spring Festival, is distributed to the younger generation by the elders. After the dinner, the elders should distribute the pre-prepared lucky money to the younger generation. It is said that the lucky money can suppress the evil spirits, and the younger generation gets the lucky money. You can spend a year safely. Some people are parents who spend their nights sleeping on their pillows and put them under the pillow for the New Year’s Eve. They reflect the love of the elders to the younger generation and the respect of the elders to the elders. It is a folk activity that integrates family ethics. The lucky money in the folk culture symbolizes evil spirits and exorcise ghosts, and blesses peace. The original intention of the lucky money was to ward off evil, because people think that children are vulnerable to sneaky scorpions, so they use the lucky money to fight evil. Keep Year:  Chinese folks have the habit of keeping their old age on New Year’s Eve. They eat a reunion dinner, and the stove should be cleaned to prepare for the first morning of the first month or the whole day. In the evening, you must keep your age, and every room should be lit up all night. The folklore of the old-fashioned year is mainly manifested by the fact that the New Year’s Eve is full of lights and annihilation. The observance of the age is called “burning the light according to the age of the year”, that is, the igniting of the lanterns in the big night, it is said that after the age of the year, it will enrich the wealth in the coming year. In ancient times, the customs of the north and the south were different. In ancient times, the custom of keeping the ages in the north was mainly in the past. For example, in the “Taste of the Winds” written by the Jin Dynasty, the New Year’s Eve, everyone’s various gifts and gifts, called “feeding the old”; Huan, Zhu Xi is complete, called “young age”; the end of the year does not sleep, waiting for the dawn, called “shouling old”. In some places on New Year’s Eve, the whole family reunited together, ate New Year’s Eve, lit candles or oil lamps, sat around the stove, and waited for the moment to greet the old, staying up all night, symbolizing the running of all evil diseases. Go, look forward to the good luck of the new year. |
Customs During New Year
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