Winter Festival

Winter Festival
Festival: Winter Festival
Festival hours: Lunar Solar Terms winter solstice (the Gregorian calendar on December 22 or 23)
Winter Solstice, commonly known as "winter festival", in ancient times is a grand festival. The winter solstice in the snow after 15 days, the shortest day of the Northern Hemisphere during the day, the longest night of the year in the most cold day to mark the winter to Spring, winter and spring is the time change. The 24 solar terms, the winter solstice the most attention.
The ancients considered that to the winter solstice, although still in the cold season, but has been near the spring. At this time the people have to go home over the winter festival, said the end of the year to the end result. Taiwan people think that every year the winter solstice is the family reunion holiday, because this day to worship their ancestors, if not at home, that is not recognized ancestors of the people.
On this day the winter solstice is the longest night of the year, many people take advantage of this night, with glutinous rice powder to be "the winter solstice circle." To the eve of Spring Festival was different from the "Cisui", the day before the winter festival called "Tian-year-old" or "Asia-year-old", saying that "years" before the end, but we all have a long-year-old.
Chinese people all over the customs although mixed, but generally the same. To do the winter solstice circle, the children should always pinch the request of some small animals, such as kittens, puppies, small rabbits, small tiger, and so on. Every time the children are very happy. Eat a round before the winter solstice, doors and windows in the table behind the counter bed lamp, respectively, stick to a winter solstice circle, known as "Shang consumption," we should wait until the "send focus" after drinking can be grilled. If the legend of pregnant women are at home at this time, a round of the Winter Solstice, it will Health male, female hygiene will be otherwise. Eat at the entrance to the winter solstice circle Chengshuangchengdui, to Geely. Eat only the last two, married people will be all the best; remaining a single unmarried persons will be successful. Some families also in the evening, the use of seasonal fruits, Sansheng worship place for ancestral worship. Also on this day "drying winter rice", that is, the water washed rice, in this day sun exposure after the collection, leaving the future of Zhuzhou sick to eat.

New Year's pictures 《on September 9 Han Xiao map》. Winter Solstice Festival after the weather entered a "Shuojiu" After九九八十一beautiful days to usher in the spring. "September 9 Han Xiao map" is a calculation of the calendar time, but also a beautiful ornament, Become a popular folk culture forms of entertainment.

Chung Yeung Festival

Chung Yeung Festival
Festival: the Chung Yeung Festival
Festival hours: Lunar September Chujiu
September Chujiu the annual Lunar New Year, is China's Chung Yeung Festival. Because the ancient "Book of Changes" in the "six" as a negative number, "9" as a-few, September 9 is the sun and the moon and yang, February 9 with heavy, therefore called Yang, also known as Chongjiu. "Chung Yeung Festival" before the name is recorded in the three countries are seen at times (220-280).
Chung Yeung Festival of origin, at least can be traced back to the early Han Dynasty. Han Gao Zu Liu Bang (previous 206 - before the 195 incumbent) Aifei Qi Furen was Duhuozhongshao the Lvhou mutilation, the ladies serve Qi Furen Jiamou was also expelled from the Palais, married and poor wife. Jiamou reported: in the palace, every September Chujiu, should Pei Zhu Yu, Peng fresh bait, drink chrysanthemum wine, to longevity. Since then, all follow the example of civil and common practice.
Chung Yeung Festival Zhuyu into the customs, in the Tang Dynasty have been very common. Zhuyu is a strong smell of the plants, can eat the fruit, stems and leaves are medicine, insecticide, Qushi, the role of case-by-Feng Xie, can Xiaoji food, cold and heat rule. The ancients considered the Chung Yeung Festival this day can be inserted asylum Xiaozai Zhuyu, repel blast, or wear in the arm, or do Xiangdai Zhuyu to wear on the inside, there are inserted in the head. Mostly women, children wear, and where men wear.
In addition to the Chung Yeung Festival people wearing Zhuyu, also inserted chrysanthemums. Chrysanthemums bloom in September, a "longevity spend" reputation. Tang has emerged into the Chrysanthemum customs, history prevalent. Qing Dynasty, Beijing Chung Yeung Festival is the custom of the chrysanthemum leaves and branches posted on the doors and windows, the "lifting of fierce and abusive to move auspicious", which is the head Zan-ju changed vulgar.

《Chrysanthemum Council》. Li Lulu for the plans.

Qiugaoqishuang before and after the Chung Yeung Festival, when chrysanthemums bloom, Shangju drinking is a traditional custom at this time. Shangju, drink chrysanthemum wine, about originated in the Eastern Jin Dynasty (317-420) poet Tao Yuanming (365-427). Tao Yuanming to hide well-known, well-known poetry, to well-known wine, but also to Aiju famous. He later generations to follow, then there are the vulgar Yang Shangju. Multi-old scholar-officials also will Shangju and banquet with a view to closer and Tao Yuanming. In the Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127) the capital of Kaifeng, Yang Shangju very popular, then there are many kinds of chrysanthemums. After the Qing Dynasty, is particularly popular Shangju of prosperity, not limited to September 9, it is still the most prosperous before and after the Chung Yeung Festival. Qingqiuqishuang, chrysanthemums in full bloom, the window Lei, the movie golden, Shi Feng Festival, Chrysanthemum Here, do not have some fun.

Jiang Zhaohe, 《Tao Yuanming Shangju》

Chung Yeung Festival later in the day, eat, "Yang cake" habits. Chongyang cake is a kind of pasta, plus date, ginkgo, pine nuts, almonds make sweet, and can also be made salty meat, pay attention to the Chongyang cake made 9-storey, as the pagoda at the top also do two small Sheep, to meet the Chongyang (sheep) means.
Chung Yeung Festival, a shout from the custom of civil, known as "assume Festival." In Qiugaoqishuang, all over the Chongyang flower season, mountain boarding Tour, to enjoy the beauty of late autumn, gives a delightful enjoyment. Chung Yeung Festival take the wind, has been very popular in the Tang Dynasty. For this reason many poets to write a lot of poems, such as the famous Tang Dynasty poet Wang Wei (701-761) "on September 9 Yi Shandong Brothers":
Independence in foreign land for different passengers,
Think of the pro-fold during the festive season.
Brothers take that away,
Biancha Zhuyu less one.
"Assume" In addition to Bihuoxiaozai, there are backgammon or the meaning of this is old people attached great importance to the Chung Yeung Festival take an important reason. "Assume" by the people seriously, especially by the elderly is another important reason is that "high" Rogachev mean, people think "take" people can live longer.

Chung Yeung Festival in the Garden old people happily viewing, tours of chrysanthemum.

Now the Chung Yeung Festival, has seen Biancha Zhuyu, such as customs, but many people will still take a Shangju this day, to watch the beauty of autumn. In recent years, this ancient festival has added a new dimension, as the annual "Senior Day." Whenever the festive season approaching, there must be respect for the various activities organised to wish the elderly take a step by step, good health and longevity.

Mid-Autumn Festival

Mid-Autumn Festival
Festival: Mid-Autumn Festival
Festival hours: Lunar August 15
In accordance with China's calendar, the Lunar New Year 7, 8, 9 of three months is the autumn. August is the middle of the month fall on August 15 and August is the middle of the day, so this festival is "Mid-Autumn Festival." Autumn, the weather was fine, cool, the sky a little Fuyun, the night sky of the moon also Jiaojie is particularly bright. August 15 is at the full moon night, the full moon become the best time. People Yuan Yue as a symbol of a happy reunion, the Mid-Autumn Festival known as "Tuan Yuanjie," after the Spring Festival is China's second largest traditional festivals.

CCTV 2005 Mid-Autumn Festival show "天涯共此时"

Mid-Autumn Festival is an ancient festival, festival on the full moon festival is an important custom. Etiquette ancient emperors have spring, autumn festival on the social system, there are private houses on the style of the Mid-Autumn Festival, to the later emphasis on the full moon festival, the solemn ritual has become easy Huanyu. Mid-Autumn festival in the custom of the Tang Dynasty Jisheng, many poets have in the Mingpian Wing on the poem, the Song Dynasty, the Ming dynasty, the Qing court and civil worship on the scale of the full moon more activities. Remains of various parts of China have many, "Baidoa on altar," "worship, kiosks," "Mochizuki floor," the monument. Beijing's "altar," is that Jiajingnianjian to build on the Royal Festival. Now, the festival of worship on a grand scale activities have been, diverse recreational activities of the masses replaced by the full moon.
Mid-Autumn Festival moon cakes, eat dumplings and the Dragon Boat Festival, the Lantern Festival to eat Tangyuan, is the traditional Chinese folk customs. The moon cake is round, symbolizing the reunion, some localities have also called "reunion cake", is the Festival of the goods will be fresh. Since ancient times, people regarded as auspicious moon cakes, a symbol of reunification. During the Mid-Autumn full moon, family reunion, for the full moon cake, Tantianshuide, is enjoyable.
Mid-Autumn Festival moon cakes habits, has a long history in China. Mid-Autumn Festival on the origin of moon cakes, there are different versions. One argument is: Tang Taizong Li Shimin reign (627-649), the General Li Jing crusade Hun Triumph, August 15 and to the Arc de Triomphe. At that time, the business Turpan presented to the Tang dynasty emperor cake celebration party. Taizong took over the ornate cake box, with a round cake, the smile that air moon said: "The cake should be invited Hu toad (that is, the moon)." Cake to finish at Qunchen together to eat. Since then, the Mid-eat-cake started the custom spread. According to another legend, but Li Longji in Tang Xuanzong (712-755 reign) was the most loved and Fei Zi Yang Hu with the full moon to eat cake, Xuanzong suspected of "Hu cake" is not good, the Royal Looking at the head of the Haoyue, said Suikou : "Called moon cakes!" "Moon cakes" the name of this fixed.
China's many varieties of moon cakes, around the system is not the same law, different flavor. From the origin can generally be divided into five categories: Beijing, Tianjin, wide, and the Soviet Union, the tide, great deal of diversity among. Moon cakes stuffed with sweet, salty, Hun, Su, moon cakes of various patterns and also above the words, it is good-looking, and tasty.

Moon cakes

The Tang Dynasty poet Li Bai (701-762) made by the "Jingye Si," a poem in China is the teenage children would recite the phrase:
Bed former Ming Dynasty moonlight,
Suspect is on the cream.
Wang cited the first moon,
Bow to think of home.
This poem is very straightforward and performance of the moon on the Youzai far from home caused by the strong feelings of homesickness. They can not return to the homeland and return to their loved ones around him and enjoy a Family Fun and had to look up to a symbol of happiness and reunion of the moon, sent away their blessings.
Since ancient times, China has a lot of myths and legends on the moon, one of the most famous is "Changebenyue." Chang is the ancient Chinese myths and legends of radio hero Hou Yi, the wife, Hou Yi said she steal from the West received the Queen Mother's death of longevity medicine, and became cents, fly the Yuegong. Followed by "cutting-Gui Wu Gang," the legend. Wu Gang is a reclassification of West Fox (Sisyphus)-style characters, he Qiuxiandedao, but a fault was banished to the moon, the day before the felling of Guanghan Gong laurel. Laurel has more than 500 Zhang, Wu Gang in the trunk of each chop on a gap, the gap will be an immediate closure, so he can never repeat this futile hard labour. Meanwhile, according to legend, close look at the case, August 15 when people can see the moon on the toad and Yutu. All these legends moon add a lot of magic and romantic, now the children will also listen to the full moon in the older generation repeatedly Jiangqi.

WU You such as 《Chang》

Bon-odori festival

Bon-odori festival
Festival: Bon-odori festival (Guijie, the Ghost Festival)
Festival hours: Lunar July 15
July 15 for the annual Lunar New Year, "Bon-odori festival", also known as "Ghost Festival", some areas commonly known as "Guijie", "Shi Gu." This is a Buddhist festival, the festival is also a place for ancestral worship. Folk belief that hell is the official from the jurisdiction of the Great, the annual Lunar New Year to July 15 is the birthday of Great Officer, to open the door to hell, or hell, so their ancestors, ghosts from hell will come to the world, it can be invigorating, comfort They.
"Bon-odori" (Ullam-bana) for the Tianzhu language, which means "to save overhang", originated in India as a Buddhist ceremony. Legend of Buddha heads disciples even see his mother in hell overhang, Qiufochaodu. Buddha in his July 15 to prepare the exception of fresh fruit, dependent, 10 monks, so that his mother from Kue. So Buddhists ancestors held a memorial for the "Bon-odori."
China's Liang from the Northern and Southern Dynasties (502-557) started to follow suit imitation, Xiangyan into Ghost Festival. But later in addition to Shezhaigongseng, also increased the Baichan, flame-mouth and other activities. On this day, in advance in blocks built before the village Master Block Shigu and Taiwan. Master at the previous Chaoduo hell for the ghost of the King of the Buddha, below for a disk system with peach, rice; Shigu platform legislature and the spirits of the three Lingpai banner. After noon, individual households have to pigs, sheep, chickens, ducks, geese and all kinds of Fagao, Shigu fruit, such as placing the stage. Principals in each of offerings on the plug in a blue, red, green color, such as the Triangle of paper flags that read "Yu Lan event", "Mannan door open" and other words. Ceremony in a while solemn music in the temples began. Immediately after that, with the Master bell sounded, and lead blocks under Zhongsengsongnian various spells and truth. And soup kitchens, a disk peach and the Misa to the Quartet, repeated three times. This ceremony is "Fang Yan mouth."

Folk opera 《Head even save the mother"》of artists in the Face painting.

By evening, in their own families but also at the door Fenxiang, incense planted on the ground, the better, a symbol of Wugufengdeng. This is called "Fuda."
He Deng also put Ghost Festival. The so-called Hedeng (water HEC), is a panel Xiaomu扎a lamp, most are made by Cai Zhi lotus-shaped, lit into the river after. He Deng was initially put by the rise of the temple, and later into civil. According to the traditional view, is to give those He Deng Yuan Sigui approaches, the lights out, He Deng also completed the innocent people, with a Naihe Qiao task. It was felt that Ghost Festival is Guijie, should also be of lights, for the ghosts to celebrate festivals. However, there are ghosts of other people, Zhang Zhong-yuan lights and Spring (Lantern)-lights not the same. Therefore, in the Spring of lights on land, Zhang Zhong-yuan lights in the water. That shops are closed and the streets to give a ghost. Right in the middle of the street, every Baibu put on a Xiangan, Xiangan上供of fresh fruits and a "ghost steamed stuffed buns." After a Taoist priest has heard people do not know how to sing the song festival of ghosts, this ceremony is "Shi Song of children."

Shanghai puts in river light on the ancient county jar orchid basin grand gathering , places the sad memory to the ancestor.

This is seldom be popular for among the people already section at the modern times, needing to hold grand law only in vihara will be. Jar orchid basin festival biography is developed more to the Japan queen , already becomes Japan being next only to second big festival of New Year.

Taiwan's Keelung Ghost Festival Shaozhi money people pay respects to their ancestors.

Qiqiao Tanabata Festival

Qiqiao Tanabata Festival
Festivals: Qiqiao Festival (Tanabata Festival)
Festival hours: Lunar July Chuqi
Lunar July Chuqi is the Qiqiao Chinese folk festival, this day is a legend and the sky Qian Niuxing Zhinvxingxiang the day, and this one has a beautiful on the Cowherd and Zhinv moving, spread eternal love story. Legend has it long time ago, Nanyang Story cattle Jinjiazhuang, there is a clever, young man called Cowboy Zhonghou, Zaowang parents, sister-in-law had to live with his brother. Sister-in-law well vicious and often abused him and forced him many live, he finally also evicted from their homes. Gukulingding the Cowherd and only one Laoniu dependencies as partners. Suddenly one day, Laoniu told Cowherd: "Tomorrow is July Chuqi, Jungmun the seven daughters to Xiafan to human bathing. Zhinv of which the youngest daughter of the most Xinlingshouqiao, you Zhinv to hide the clothes, she can do you The wife. "Listening to the Laoniu, Cowherd echocardiography, decided to try it.
July Chuqi this day, the Cowherd and possession of the reeds in the river, waiting for Cong. Not long, only seven from the sky Pianpian float fairies, take off their clothes and jumped into the river in Qingqing. Cowherd and leaped into the Baoqizhinv clothes back on the run, alerted the seven fairies. Phi six fairies from their clothes, fly the skies, only the smallest Zhinv no clothes and can not go to heaven, panic stood on the river. Cowherd Jiejiebaba on the Zhinv said that as long as she agreed to marry him, put clothes Fenghai. Vega is his love to see the young man, Hanxiu nodded. Cowherd Zhinv married men and women weave Geng, love each other, next to the sons and daughters of Health, life was very happy happy. Wangmuniangniang Borandanu after that, personally Xiafan, forcibly Zhinv back to the sky.
Cowherd do wear leather shoes, holding their children, a mood-elevating heaven Quzhuizhinv. We should catch up with a saw, Qizhi Wangmuniangniang pull out the head of the Jinzan Yihui, a choppy Tianhe there, the Cowherd and Zhinv be separated from the two sides, only a relatively tears. They love the loyalty touched magpie, 10 million magpie coming Dachengqueqiao, Cowherd Zhinv meet on the bridge, Wangmuniangniang is also no alternative but to allow each of the two Queqiao meet on July 7.

WU You such as 《Cowboy Zhinv》

Later, every Lunar July Chuqi, Legend has it Cowherd Zhinvqueqiao meet the day, girls will be dressed in new clothes to Huaqianyuexia, look up to the rise of the night sky to find on both sides of the Galaxy Niulang Xing and Vega, hoping to see their 2001 Highlights of the meet, pray that God can own as Xinlingshouqiao Zhinv like to have a happy marriage wishful Heart. This is the Tanabata Festival Qiqiao the origins.

American couple had a Chinese 《Valentine's Day.》

Qi Qiao in the civil section is a very lively festival, the young woman to wear new clothes, worship the Double Star and Zhinv "Qi Qiao." Qiqiao many types of activities, the most common is pinning Qiqiao. Young women who used color line and 7-pin, and if we can successfully pass through the Qiaoshou girl.
Tanabata is considered ancient Chinese "Valentine's Day," Cowherd Zhinv Tanabata Queqiao meet the legend of this festival has given the somewhat romantic color. It is said that people under the same evening in Putao Jia also heard Cowherd and the Mai Mai Zhinv situation it is.

WU You like 《pinning》

Dragon Boat Festival

Dragon Boat Festival
Festivals: The Dragon Boat Festival
Festival hours: Lunar May Chu Wu
Dragon Boat Festival on the origin of that there are many, the most influential of which is to commemorate Qu Yuan said. This is now the ordinary people of China have become almost common sense.
Qu Yuan (about the former 340 - about 278 before) is the state of Chu during the Warring States Period people. Warring States Period of Qi, Chu, Yan, Han, Zhao Wei, Qin seven countries, Qin strongest, the total would like to gobble up other six countries, to dominate the world. Chu Chu Yuan is the doctor, is to have won the highly Chuhuai Wang. He advocated political reform Chu, the United States, the common resistance Qin. However, Qu Yuan was the idea of my colleagues in the opposition, they Chuhuai Wang and later successor, who ares Xiangwang defamation before Qu Yuan. In the drive a wedge between Jianchen, Hunyong the Chuhuai Wang gradually alienated Qu Yuan, and he was expelled from the state of Chu Ying Du. Qu Yuan to leave States, is still concerned about the fate of the motherland. Later, he was heard Chu Qin defeated the news, grief and indignation wholehearted, the Miluo River on the input end of their lives. This is a day of the Lunar New Year in 278 BC in May Chu Wu.
Qu Yuan jumped the people heard the news after Jiang's very sad, Hua Zhao boats rushed to salvage his body, it has not been found. To keep fish eat Qu Yuan, the people who put food into the feed the fish in Jiang. After each day to people in the rivers should be designated on the dragon boat races, to show mourning, and also with input Jiang Zhu Tong meters installed in his worship. Legend, someone once encountered in the riverside Qu Yuan, Yuan said: "You gave me the food was snatched from a dragon, the future can be diverted to Artemsia argyi Cypriot extinguishers, and tied with five color line, two things are most afraid Long . "From then on, people will have to make glutinous rice dumplings wrapped bamboo leaves to commemorate Qu Yuan, and the dumplings will become the traditional food of the Dragon Boat Festival.
Therefore, the Dragon Boat Festival to eat dumplings, the dragon-boat race has been the custom handed down.

Like the poet Qu Yuan

The second Legend of the Dragon Boat Festival and the historical figures of the Wu Zixu. Wu Zixu ( «- before the 484) is the Warring States Period, Chu, because Chu Fu Xiong were killed, it took Wu, help Miss Fachu, scoring all of Chu Ying City, Chu bodies were unearthed from the tomb in, Bianshi 300. Wu and after the warring countries, Wu Zixu persuade the country's king refused to summation, but the king believed Chan Yan, thanks to Wu Zixu sword, his suicide. Wu Zixu of people said: "I died, my eyes will be dug up in the Wujing Dong hoisted above the door, to see the army Ruchengmiewu." Ziwen and then died. Fuchawenyan Danu king ordered to take the bodies of Wu Zixu installed in the leather, on May Chu Wu Jiang invested in. Legend has it the Dragon Boat Festival is also a result of the Wu Zixu the day.
Dragon Boat Festival is the third sources say that in order to commemorate the Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220) Xiaonv Cao'e. Cao'e Jiang's father drowned in a few days but not the bodies. Only 14-year-old Cao'e Haoku day and night along the Yangtze River, also voted in May Chu Wu Jiang himself, 5 after the body have a father. After the Memorial human Cao'e the Hau Festival, voted in Cao'e Cao'e Jiang in the construction of the temple, she is living in villages and towns renamed "Cao'e town," the father of sati is named "Cao'e River."
Chinese Dragon Boat Festival is the continuation of more than 2,000 years of traditional festivals and holidays throughout the whole of the same practices, such as the dragon-boat race, eating dumplings, Perry Sachet, inserted Artemsia argyi and iris, and so on.

Selling iris grass. Li plans for Lulu

Chinese dragon-boat race is a long history of water sports activities and some regions also known as the "dragon boat is zoned" or "Dragon Boat Festival." Dragon Boat Festival Dragon Boat Festival customs, prevalent in China in the area south of the Yangtze River Basin. Qing Emperor Qianlong 29 years (1736), the Dragon Boat Festival held in Taiwan, then Taiwan's Chiang Goddess Zhifu in Tainan City the match. Taiwan and Hong Kong in each of the Lunar May Chu Wu dragon boat races are held. In addition, the Dragon Boat also has spread into Japan, Vietnam and other countries. 1980, the dragon-boat race was included in China's national sports events, held every year, "Qu Yuan's Cup" Dragon Boat赛. June 16, 1991 (Lunar May Chu Wu), Qu Yuan's second home in Yueyang City, Hunan Province, held the first International Dragon Boat Festival. In previous races, held with both traditional and modern color of the "leading festival." "Leading" to Qu Zi Cinei being carried by the leading athletes to "red" (Phi red zone), who took the Jiwen Zhuji, and lead to "light" (that is, eye). Then, to participate in the festival-all the staff of bowing three times, was carrying leading to Miluo River, towards the dragon boat stadium. The participate in the competition, trade fairs and celebrate the activities of as many as 60 million people, is unprecedented.

Hong Kong's dragon-boat race activities

Dragon Boat Festival to eat dumplings, which the Chinese people is another important traditions and customs. Dumplings a long time, many tricks. According to records, as early as the Spring and Autumn Period dumplings on a prototype that used Zizania latifolia of the (water-oat leaf) into a horn-shaped packages Shumi, "Kok millet"; Zhutong loaded with rice sealed Kaoshu, "tube rice dumplings."

Dumplings

Zongye

Jin Dynasty (265-420), was formally set dumplings for the Dragon Boat Festival food. Northern and Southern Dynasties period, a hybrid rice dumplings, rice doping in the meat, chestnut, red dates, Chidou, more varieties. At the same time dumplings also used as gifts friends and relatives for gifts. To the Tang Dynasty, the rice dumplings have been "Bai Ying Ru Yu", the shape of a cone-shaped, diamond-shaped. Japan has documented in the literature on the "Datang dumplings." Song, has been "preserves rice dumplings," that is, fruit-rice dumplings, the poet Su Dongpo also "see Yangmei in rice dumplings," the poem. Yuan (1279-1368), Ming period, the dumplings wrapped in leaves Zizania latifolia expected from the changes to Ruo leaves, then used a reed of the package of dumplings, bean paste has emerged accessories, pork, pine nut kernels, Zaozai, walnuts, etc., Variety more colorful.
Even today, the annual May Chu Wu, many people they have to Baptist glutinous rice, washing Zongye, Bao dumplings. Around the dumplings taste different from the topping, multi north of Beijing for the package jujube jujube rice dumplings; South are bean paste, fresh meat, ham, egg yolk, and other topping, in Jiaxing, Zhejiang dumplings as the representative. The custom of eating dumplings popular in China Millennium without failure, but also spread to Korea, Japan and Southeast Asia.
Min Yan said: "Ching Ming Liu inserted, into Ai Dano." Folk belief that in May for the drug, the epidemic disease easily. The Dragon Boat Festival, one of the iris into wormwood and practices as an important one. The families are Sasaotingchu, iris, wormwood into the lintels cast Xuan Yu Tong, for the sickness, driving away evil by the epidemic. Wormwood, player Ai, Artemisia argyi, its stems, leaves contain volatile aromatic oil. It has the unique aroma, flooding Wen Ying, Chong Yi, to purify the air. Iris is a long aquatic herbs, strip the leaves also contain volatile aromatic oil, is refreshing Tongqiao, bone Xiaozhi, killing sterilization of drugs. Clearly, the ancients into AI and iris is the role of a certain disease prevention. Legend has it the ancient Dragon Boat Festival is the "Health Day."
Zhong Kui Zhuogui Dragon Boat Festival is the unique customs. In the Jianghuai region, every family is like hanging Zhong Kui, home to the town of sickness, driving away evil. On the origins of Zhong Kui, is said to be like this: suffering from malaria Tang Xuanzong (712-755 reign) had dreamed size of the ghost in Dianshang chase. Little devil wearing Hongyi, Yang stole the emperor's Sachet and Yudi, and running around the palace. The ghosts are wearing Lanpao and caps, I caught little devil, Wadiao their eyes, a swallow.
Xuanzonghewen, the ghost Koushou replied: "surnamed Zhong Kui-chen, Wu did not give the first and is willing to His Majesty the exception devil." Wake up after the emperor, malaria cure, so the painting for Wu Daozi seen as a dream painted a portrait of Zhong Kui Zhuogui , Orders in the Dragon Boat Festival, the world will be posted to sickness, driving away evil demons.

New Year's pictures, 《Zhong Kui》

Xiong Huangjiu drink in the custom of the people in the Yangtze River Basin is very popular. Xiong Huangjiu, is to add a drug realgar wine, realgar is a component containing arsenic sulfide minerals, the role of detoxification insecticide. So far the spread of civil story, "White Snake" out of White Snake Snake Lady Dragon Boat Festival and drink Xiong Huangjiu Xianchuyuanxing plot, which is that civil Yixie centipede, such as by Xiong Huangjiu Duchong can crack, Dragon Boat Festival holiday drink Xiong Huangjiu detoxification can sickness, driving away evil, to protect the body Health.

Wudu plans. Li Lulu for the plans.

Perry Sachet Dragon Boat Festival is also available in the customs, legends have Bixie flooding plague of Italy, and is actually used for decorative embellishment on the clothes. Sachet with cinnabar, realgar, incense and other drugs, outsourcing to silk, Si Yi Hsiang, and colored silk thread to string a deduction claim, a claim on a variety of different shapes on the Sachet, forming a string, Delicate lovely.

A wide range of Sachet

Today, Dragon Boat Festival has become a very popular in China's grand festivals, folk tales and ancient myths and legends and more to its heritage Millennium vitality.

Ching Ming Festival

Ching Ming Festival
Festival: the Ching Ming Festival
Festival hours: Lunar Solar Terms Tomb Sweeping Festival (calendar on April 5 or 6)
Ching Ming Festival tradition in China so far unique in the folk festival, the festival is the solar terms of the big folk festivals. As one of the 24 solar terms, clean time after the winter solstice in 102 7, after the spring equinox 15, the calendar of April 5, 2001 in the seasonal changes in a special position. Say the Ching Ming Festival, in ancient times from a very famous, now has lost the festival - Hansik start with. The two former Cold Food Observance in the vicinity of cemeteries on or 1, also known as the "Cold Day", "no-smoking section." Legend Hansik to mark the Spring and Autumn Period of the loyal Jiezi Tui.
Jie Zaitui is that the Xian Chen Jin, serve son Zhonger. Jin civil unrest, the son Zhonger forced to flee abroad. Jie Zaitui not afraid of difficulties and hardships to follow Zhonger 19 years in exile, have cut their Tuirouaotang, dedicated to the Zhonger. Zhonger done a monarch, that is the history of the Jinwen Gong, after the Zhongshang enthronement was accompanied by his exiled hero, and only forgot Jie Zaitui. Many people Jie Zaitui Mingbu Ping, persuaded him to discuss face-jun tours. However Jie Zaitui most despised those who seek power struggle tours of the people, he better pack up and quietly with her mother to Mianshan to the seclusion.
Jinwen Gong heard that, shame-and, personally leading people to find Jiezi Tui. However Mianshan Shangao Lu insurance, lush forests, looking for two people is easier said than done. Some people offer, from three fire Mianshan extracted Jiezi Tui. The burning times Mianshan, but not the sight of Jiezi Tui. After the fire out, people found carrying old mother sitting in the Jiezi Tui has been under an old willow was burnt to death, but also from tree to find a hole of the blood. Jie Zaitui blood in his book that his Gerou Bong-Jun has done for the Hill Road, Zhugong would not have to find him. If Zhugong can always self-examination, to clean governance, he Jiuquanzhixia also pleased to be a Mingmu.
To commemorate the death of Jiezi Tui advice, Jinwen Gong ordered this day as "Hansik," orders to prohibit the use of fire. Zhong Chen Jin Wengong the second year rate climbing Festivals, Nake old willow found the sprout and grow, it Ciming as "Ching Ming Liu," and the Hansik the day after as the Ching Ming Festival.
Glorious Spring is the Ching Ming Festival, the season of clean air, people have a place for ancestral worship grave-sweepers and Liu Ta-Qing into the custom.

Ching Ming grave-sweepers

Chinese people have a traditional virtue of respecting the elderly, the death of the more cherish the memory of their ancestors and reverence. Therefore, the Ching Ming Festival this every day, every household should be to the countryside to Jisao ancestral graves. People for the tomb to remove weeds and add new territories, in Fenqian point Shangxiang, put on the food and Zhiqian, said the thoughts and pay tribute to their ancestors. Now, people respond to the call, funeral means a lot to change. Abolition of burial, cremation practice, in the field more and less grave. However, every day, people will use a variety of ways to remember their ancestors, or is in this day Jisao martyrs tomb in memory of martyrs of the activities. People are going to cemeteries, presented flowers and wreaths, placed on the private grief.

Ching Ming Festival, the guitar team of students went to the martyrs cemetery pondered heroes.

Qingming hours, the weather warming, well-meng, a new green everywhere, it is a good time to play outdoors. People often accompany the countryside to enjoy the spring, breathe fresh air, watch the blue sky, green trees, grass and flowers. Walking to the outskirts of the ancient custom called "Ta-Qing", so the Ching Ming Festival, also known as "Ta-Qing Festival." Panicum people to pack roots in the head wear, drive out ghosts and disaster, pray for peace happiness, called "interpolation Liu." Ta-Qing also pick Mosla ancient customs, such practices can also be seen until now. Each before and after Tomb Sweeping Festival, are girls, women Ta-Qing, pick some of the fresh vegetable, dumplings come back and do maroon, Qingxiang delicious, Bieyoufengwei. Some women also like the small white flowers planted on the Shepherd's Purse Faji on.
Tomb Sweeping Festival season, people there are kite-flying, the tug-of-war, swinging customs. At this time of spring sowing is a good farming season, there are many Nongyan that clean and agriculture, such as "before and after Tomb Sweeping Festival, Zhonggua kinds of beans." Liu into the ancient Ching Ming Festival is also available in the tree planting activities, there is poetry, "Green streets willow like breathing to allow the vicinity of cemeteries in March days" of the sentence.

New Year's pictures 《Chunfengdeyi》

Chun Long Festival

Festivals: Chunlong Festival (February 2 "-long rise")
Festival hours: the first two days of Lunar New Year in February Folk legends, during the first two days of Lunar New Year in February, the sky is in charge of the Dragon King Precipitable Cloud rise of the day.
From then on, rain will gradually increase. Therefore, this day is called "Chun Long Day", also known as the "leading festivals." Widespread in northern China, "February 2, the dragon head, large warehouses full, Kokura flow" of the Minyan.

New Year's pictures, "February 2-rise"

Whenever the arrival of Chunlong, in most parts of northern China, families or the early morning Dazhuodenglong river Tiaoshui to Jingbian, will return home lighting, burning incense,上供. Old, the people of this ceremony is called "Reply Long Tian." On this day, every household to eat noodles, which means "pick leader" to Yougao bombing, which means "eat gentian" to Popcorn, to pray for "the bean flower, dragon king ascended to heaven, rain-clouds cloth, Wugufengdeng . "
Chunlong section on the source of the spread of such a folk story. Tang, Queen Wu Zetian (684-705 reign) Dangshanghuangdi, infuriated the Tianting the Jade Emperor, the Jade Emperor Chuanyu Secretary palm rain Dragon King of the Four Seas, the world within three years are not allowed to rain. Tianhe Secretary of the Dragon King can not bear to sever human way out, they defy the will of the Jade Emperor, secretly drop a heavy rain. Jade Emperor furious, the pressure in the Dragon King suffer a big mountain, the mountain-built Cloud:

Dragon King rainfall committed the day,
When the crime of human ages;
To re-board the Lingxiao Court,
Unless the beans when flowering.

People with good intentions to save the Dragon King, everywhere looking for the flowering of the beans. By the second year of the first two days of February, people in Fanshai maize seed, thought: This corn long New Year's pictures, "February 2-rise" was like the beans, a fried Kai Lehua speculation, it is the flowering of the bean » So every household Popcorn, and in the yard located in Fenxiang for Kai Lehua on the "golden beans." A rise of the Dragon King, to save the people know it, so the Jade Emperor exclaimed: "The flowering of the beans, I quickly put out!" Dragon King back to the Jade Emperor to Tianting response to human-to-cloth rain. Since then, civil society formed a habit, every February the first two days of this day, people eat Popcorn.
In fact, in February after the Lunar New Year, "rain" Solar Terms arrival of winter weather in the end, the rainfall will gradually increase, which itself is in North China monsoon climate characteristics. However, this from another angle also reflects the hope that the people Fengtiaoyushun, Wugufengdeng of good wishes.

Lantern Festival

Festival: Lantern Festival
Festival hours: Lunar New Year on the 15th
15 Lunar New Year is the traditional Chinese Lantern Festival. Called because the New Year in January, New Year's night is the 15th year the first full moon night, "Xiao" is "night" means, so this festival have to name the Lantern Festival. Lantern Festival, also known as Spring Festival, Yuanxi Festival, the Festival of Lights.

New Year's pictures 《-tours Lantern.》 Wang plans for the village.

Chinese people have the custom of Shangdeng in the Lantern Festival, is the old saying goes, "15 downtown New Year lantern." This custom originated in the Taoist "ternary": 15, 2000 to the Lunar New Year Spring Festival, July 15 for the Ghost Festival, October 15 for Xia Yuan Festival. Director, in the next three yuan respectively for "days", "", "" three officials, official days joy, the Spring Festival to Randeng. Eastern Han Ming Di (58-75 in power) believe in Buddhism, Yu Ling palace, temple in the Lantern Festival to Randenglifo and the people they have to have lights Jingfo. This order and his party, then the Lantern Festival into civil grand festival. After Li Zhao history of the tradition, the festival of lights more and more lights names as more and more, mirror lights, Fung lights, glass lamps, and so on. In addition to Randeng people, but also fireworks Zhu Xing, "Night invites applications not days" to describe the beauty of the scene is the Lantern Festival.

Guan Deng family, in the light of the world Liulianwangfan.

Lantern Shangdeng there is a high quality of the game - guess lantern riddles. Lantern riddle is unique to China game of words, words or things will hide the truth on the surface irrelevant beautiful poem rhyme or popular text, written in a note posted on the lantern, for Guandeng people quiz, some similar to some Western Newspapers published in the journal "aspect puzzle." Guess lantern riddles first appeared in the Song dynasty. In the Southern Song Dynasty (1127-1279) in Lin'an, during the Lantern Festival, of mystery, guess many people. Because riddle to enlightenment and wisdom with great interest, so in the process of spread by all sectors of the community welcome.

Yuan Xiaoye, and his father with his son in the flow of people in Guandeng guess lantern riddles.

Spring Lantern Festival is the Lantern Festival to eat the unique food customs. Civil Legend has it that this custom originated in the Spring and Autumn period (before 770 - before 476). Lantern Festival is also called "Tang Yuan", "maroon", is a powder made of glutinous rice with small ball, or solid or with stuffing, stuffing and more from sugar, bean paste, nuts, and so made, boiled, fried, steamed, Can be fried. Zhu Shi hoped that the Chinese people successfully, in 2001 began the first full moon night eating Lantern Festival, is the hope that the family reunion, harmony, happiness and success.
As time goes by, more and more colorful Lantern Festival activities. Spring Night, many cities hold carnivals, spectacular lantern display all, the novel form, Qianzibaitai in rural areas, held cultural and recreational activities, such as the release fireworks, Cai Gaoqiao, such as playing Longdeng. Many local festivals also increased by playing the Lions, is zoned Han Chuan, Niu Yangge, swinging, playing drums, and other peaceful activities.

Spring Festival

Festivals: the Spring Festival
Holiday hours: first day Lunar New Year
Will make the annual winter, spring will soon come when the Chinese usher in year of the Festival is a traditional Spring Festival (Lunar New Year). It can be said that the Chinese Spring Festival is the most grand and most festive holiday, has a long history and rich cultural connotations.
Spring Festival is the Lunar New Year Suishou, commonly known as "Chinese New Year." More than 2,000 years in the long river of history, China experienced a budding New Year customs, stereotypes, fissile and transformation process of development.
Pre-Qin period is customary New Year's infancy. At this time of celebration activities mainly in the agricultural end of the year, as people return the gift of God and at the festival. China's oldest collection of poems "The Book of Songs," recorded in the Western Zhou period (before 1046 - before 771) Old-year-old New Year at the turn of the festive customs, people will wine and lamb dedicated to gods, to reward the past year and God bless Blessings and pray for the coming year Fengtiaoyushun, Wugufengdeng. At that moment, the celebration activities for all countries to adopt the calendar诸侯different and there is no uniform days, largely in the winter Nongxian the occasion. This is the customary New Year Later, the embryonic form.
New Year customs stereotypes in the Han Dynasty. After the Warring States Period (before 475 - before 221) and the Qin Dynasty (before 221 - before 206) the end of the social unrest after the Western Han Dynasty (BC 206 - AD 25) the early implementation of "rehabilitation" policy, social production has been restored and developed, Relatively stable social order and people's high enrichment, a series of holiday customs to gradually taking shape. "Tai Chu Li-nung," after the implementation of long-term stability calendar, New Year's first day as a New Year date has therefore been established. As a result, all regions in the original Dongmochunchu different days at the Choushen, worship and celebration activities will be gradually unified in the first day Lunar New Year to this day. With the development of society, from the Han Dynasty to the Northern and Southern Dynasties (420-589), the first day New Year's practices intensified Guo Xinnian, burning firecrackers, for Tao Fu, Su Tu drink wine, Shousui Yang, Shangdeng recreational activities such as have appeared, the Spring Festival has evolved Become China's largest festival.

New Year's pictures 《Guo Xinnian.》 Li Lulu for the plans.

New Year customs fissile occurred in the Tang Dynasty. Tang is economic prosperity, political昌明of the times, but also frequent cultural exchanges both inside and outside of the times. New Year customs gradually from Mr reported that the superstition, Rang disaster mysterious atmosphere of liberation, into entertainment, courtesy of festival. New Year's firecrackers are no longer means Qugui evil spirits, and a fun, festive way to celebrate the New Year Jishen shift the focus from the entertainment, people turned to their own entertainment fun, to enjoy life. Therefore, it can be said that only in the Tang Dynasty, the only truly celebrate the New Year, 000 people tide over the festive season really good time.
New Year custom to tomorrow (1368-1644)-transition period, this transition is mainly manifested in two aspects: First, etiquette and social activities gradually strengthen. People paid respects to each other in the New Year, Daguanguiren sent to Ming Tie each other, or, they Koubai; civilians also stresses "Lishangwanglai", gift gifts, mutual New Year. Second, the fun of further strengthened. New Year, played the lion, dragon dance, acting, storytelling, stilt walkers, Han Chuan, and other colorful entertainment. Beijingers visited temple, people visit the flower market in Guangzhou, Suzhou people listen to the bell…… Han Shansi entertainment activities around the distinctive, dazzling. At that moment, the New Year customs fully absorb China's traditional culture, a concentrated display of several thousand years of folk customs of the Expo.

Joy to the lion dance during the Spring Festival

In the traditional Spring Festival holiday, China's Han majority and the minority must hold all kinds of celebration activities, these activities are to worship deities and ancestors Festivals, Chujiubuxin, Fu Ying Hei then, to pray for a good harvest as the main content, activities The form of colorful, with strong ethnic characteristics.
2,000 years ago, China had the traditional Spring Festival, almost rooted in everyone's life. To the end of each Lunar New Year, people are left outside the rush to go home and have a family reunion, New Year's Eve Shousui, dumplings, paste New Year's scrolls, and so on New Year full of enrichment, the Chinese customs has become a common habit. Chinese New Year custom of radiation also to other neighboring countries, such as Vietnam, North Korea, South Korea and Japan, they have a similar way to celebrate the New Year.
Spring Festival activities are not limited to the festive day, but continued more than two weeks, generally 15 to make New Year End Lantern Festival to be completed. In fact, from Layue 23, people began preparing for the New Year. During that time, every household to Clean-up, buying Nianhuo, paste the window bars, hanging pictures, write New Year's scrolls, steamed rice cakes, all kinds of good food, preparing New Year. On the eve of the Spring Festival is "New Year's Eve," New Year's Eve night, the family reunion is an important moment. A family get together, eat a rich year's-end dinner, or Huan Syria, or entertainment vigil spring.

New Year's pictures, 《successive years of surplus》 (-), the use of homophonic placed in the new year's expectations.

People often posted in the words of the blessing on the door or windows so lucky.

Shousui, in the old year is the last day of not sleeping at night, Aoye to greet the new year to come. Explore the origins of this custom, civil generations spread of an interesting story: Swire period, a ferocious monster, Zheju in the dense forests in the mountains, people Guanta Jiao "years." It morphology Zhengning, naturally brutal, and bowed to eat the insects have been living and a taste for the day, people talk about "years"色变. Later, people gradually mastered the "in" the activities of the law, every 365 days of the local population fled the crowd a taste of fresh mouth, and setting the time in darkness after dawn until Jiming, It returned to the mountains in to the.
Operators of the prospective "," raging date, the people who put this terrible night as the gateway to boil, known as the "Year" and come up with a set of the Commissioner of the Chinese New Year approaches: to this day every night, every household will Dinner ahead, the focus off the net, then all the chickens circle Kraal tying in jail, the house before and after the doors are shut, hiding in the house to eat, "year's-end dinner." As the Dayton dinner with the uncertainty that Xiongji, very rich acquisition, in addition to the family dining Laoxiao sitting together in harmony reunion said, is to pay respects to their ancestors before eating, to pray for ancestors of the gods bless, peace To spend the night. After dinner, no one dared not sleep, crowded to sit together in order to chat, gradually formed a New Year's Eve on the boil in Shousui habits.
Shousui practices emerging in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and today we can read some of the literati at that time with respect to the Shousui of poetry. People point from the candle or lamp, the overnight vigil, a symbol of all the evil blast epidemic racing, drove them off, looking forward to the new year Jixiangruyi.

New Year's Eve family Shousui to dawn, to greet the new year. Shengxi Hui-shan, from 《old Beijing style painting well.》

New Year's Eve 0:00 a bell ring for people to eat dumplings. 0.1 in ancient times that "visible", New Year's Eve in the visible is the turn of the new and old, people eat dumplings at this point in time is for Xinjiujiaoti, "a reference to the age of" mean. "Dumplings" and "cross-" homonym, which is "dumplings" the origin of the name. Because of flour dumplings shaped like silver ingots, bowl-serve basins of the "New Year Fada Cai, rolling ingots come in" a wish, therefore, the custom of eating dumplings have been circulated so far.

Chinese New Year dumplings is the custom of many Chinese families. Shengxi Hui-shan, from 《old style painting in Beijing Well"》

Children especially like the Chinese New Year, because they can get Yasui Qian on New Year's Eve. Yasui Qian is a kind of sustenance best wishes for the new year gift, to be very particular about the equipment in a red paper bag, or in the year's-end dinner after the New Year when the bell sounded by the elders were distributed to minors younger people. It is said that because of the "Year" and "Chongming," a homonym, so younger people can be Yasui Qian压住evil Chongming, safely through the new year.
After New Year's Eve is the Lunar New Year's Day. From the first day, people have to Zouqin Qi, see friends, mutual New Year. New Year, Spring Festival is an important custom, is the New Year, wished each other a beautiful expression of a way. This is not only out of respect for the elderly and the love of friends and relatives, is also a kind of emotional contact, enhance friendship activities. New Year, we all have to say something I wish a happy, healthy and good fortune, to congratulate each other in the new year all the best.
In the Spring Festival, people have the custom of New Year's scrolls paste, New Year's scrolls of the original form is called the "Tao Fu." "Tao Fu" first appeared in the Zhou Dynasty (before 1046 - before 256), is suspended from the door Taomu on both sides of the rectangular plate. In ancient Chinese mythology, a Guiyu Legend has it the world, including mountains, the mountains are covered 3,000, a big peach, Shushao on a Golden Rooster. Whenever the early morning when the Golden Rooster Bell, the ghost of wandering out at night will be back to Guiyu. Guiyu is located in the door of peach trees in the northeast, the gate stood two people of God. If the ghosts in the night-day injury harm done things arguments, the two gods who will immediately find and catch it, to do with the Flemish Reed tied a rope to it, and sent to feed the tiger, thus the world of ghosts are afraid of these two gods People. So people will use Taomukecheng their appearance, on their own doorstep, to prevent harm Bixie. Later, people in just two Taomu board inscribed the name of God, that this town can do the same evil to evil, such Taomu board was later called "Tao Fu."

New Year's scrolls posted in the folk still prevail today. Chen Tingyi perturbation

To the Song Dynasty, people began to write couplets in Taomu board, a town of evil yet Taomu the significance of two express their good wishes, three decorative portals, so beautiful. Later, another symbol of festivity in the auspicious red couplets written on paper, the Chinese New Year of the paste on both sides of the doors and windows for people to pray for the coming year, Fu expressed the good wish of transport. After 1,000 years, Chinese New Year's scrolls as a special form of folk culture, Changshengbucui.
To pray for one of Fushoushan Corning, a number of local people retained the habit of paste door god. It is said that the door to paste on the two door god, all Yaomoguiguai will be discouraged. In private, door god is a symbol of uprightness and force. The ancients, who looks surprisingly often magical Bingxing and extraordinary skills. They carefully upright kind, Zhuogui escapement the devil is their nature and responsibilities of people admired the Zhuogui tianshic Zhong Kui, which is strange in such odd-shaped. So people are always Numuyuanzheng door god, or facial or solemn Zhengning, holding a variety of traditional weapons, always ready with the courage to come to fight the ghosts. As China's door to residential areas, are usually two off, the door god always Chengshuangchengdui.
Fang Baozhu during the Spring Festival, the children's favorite activities. Legend discharge of fireworks can drive monster Chumo, the annual New Year's Eve night, sounded everywhere on the acoustic string of firecrackers. Again and fireworks, sound and firecrackers add to the festive atmosphere of the festive celebrations, a New Year in a unique landscape.

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During the Spring Festival, all over the local traditional and cultural activities to the lion dance, dance Long Deng, is zoned Hanchuan, Cai Gaoqiao is most common. Many also hold temple. Chinese people celebrate the festival is a traditional Spring Festival approach, the general started from the first day, continued into the early 7. The best of a temple on the dragon and lion dance performances, a wide variety of crafts and local snacks, attracting tens of thousands of people celebrating the festive season.

Beijing Changdian temple

With the development of the times, the New Year's customs also has made some changes. For example, to prevent fires and prevent environmental pollution, many cities have banned or restricted the discharge of fireworks and firecrackers, but that does not affect the festive festive atmosphere. New Year's Eve night, every household will still have to join together, while eating year's-end dinner, while watching the best of the Spring Festival evening party, until the early morning of the Lunar New Year's Day. In the minds of the broad masses of Chinese people, the Spring Festival is always the most important holiday.

The annual Spring Festival evening party to become the focus of attention of hundreds of millions of people. Qin Xinmin for map.

Small, Year

Festivals: small,Year
Festival hours: Lunar December 23
La Yue, 23, also known as "small", is the civil Jizao days.
Chinese folk beliefs Zaojun, also known as the "Zaowang Ye" is a person in charge of the Kitchen God good and bad fortune. According to legend, the annual Layue 23, Zaowang Ye must be heaven to the Jade Emperor Bingbao the family of good and evil, so that the Jade Emperor reward and punishment. So send stoves, people like Wang in the kitchen before the Zhuoan上供-candy, water, materials beans, Mo grass, which after three samples for the stove-mount preparation of going to heaven. Jizao, but also to ensure the fire melted sugar East, Zaowang Ye Tu in the mouth. His mouth was Nianzhu, we can not say where in Huaihua of the Jade Emperor. People to have "men do not worship, women do not Jizao" the customs, ceremonies Zaowang Ye is limited to men.
The major's Eve night, Wang would also like to focus the world with the gods to the Chinese New Year, the day must have "access stove", "Jieshen" ceremony.

New Year's pictures "Zaowang Ye." Li Lulu for the plans.

From Laba, people began to wipe out until Layue 23 can be removed before and after completion. So also known as sweep the dust, a dust, is home to conduct a thorough clean, except for the old New Year, Quchu ominous. Individual households should conscientiously carry out thorough cleaning, do Chuangmingjijing. In Beijing, usually 24 to Layue as "sweeping the day."
Housewives are usually the first room furniture mask to bed, with head scarf wrap, and then use a broom to sweep clean the walls from top to bottom. So after the house, scrubbing tables and chairs, washing the ground. Wiping out the end, the shops, residents home an entirely new look. New paste Xianyanduomu the New Year's scrolls, shows that the booming fire Hongfu Shengjing. Vivid the door god, the rise of banner-see, beautiful window grilles, colorful pictures of flowers, lanterns and shrines of the rich offerings, are all filled with a happy, prosperous festive atmosphere.

Tianjin杨柳青年画"Door"

Laba Festival

Festivals: Laba
Festival hours: Lunar December Chuba
In China, the Lunar New Year in December also known as "La Yue" in December, Chuba called "Laba", also known as "La day." Laba is China's traditional festival of Han nationality, was also seen as a prelude to the Spring Festival.
According to records, Laba from the first ancient Chinese festival of Sumatra. China attaches importance to agriculture since ancient times, when agricultural production harvest, the ancients considered to be all things have gods help-you the results of the agricultural harvest celebration to be held in a grand ceremony to thank, known as "La festival." Prince Philip at the end of the festival, a feast to the ancient rural activities, with a new production of millet porridge Mi do, everyone dinner, to celebrate the festive season. Later, the wax festival develop into a family-oriented festival offerings. The 5th century, the Chinese government in December Chuba as Laba.
Buddhism came to China, people use Laba place for ancestral worship and the folk Chizhou, a new December Chuba is a Buddha, Sakyamuni, the legend of the story. To the effect that, before the Sakyamuni Buddha, has been self-cultivation for many years, Ede Gushouruchai, decided to give up Kuxing. Then he met a Munv, gave him milk rice porridge fill their stomachs. Fresh after his physical recovery, sitting in meditation under the bodhi tree, on December Chubawudao Buddha. To commemorate this matter, Buddhists have to Mega Guowuzhuzhou will worship Buddha, known as "La Bayu."
Chinese people drink La Bayu the history of 1,000 years, the first starts at the Song Dynasty (960-1279). At that time, every Laba this day, the imperial court, officials, monasteries have to do Laba Zhou. To the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), La Bayu drinking customs are prevalent. In the palace, the emperor, the Queen, Prince and so on to the Man Mo minister, thanks to La Bayu servants ladies, and the various temples of rice, fruit and other food for the monks. In private, every household should also Laba Zhou, worship their ancestors at the same time, the family reunion with consumption; neighbours are still friends and relatives among gifts, to show their blessings.
La Bayu the type of very rich. La Bayu emphasize traditional choice of eight Zhuliao, eight auxiliary materials, and Laba "8" in line, Yiyu Geely. Zhuliao to beans and rice main categories: a red beans, mung bean, cowpea, lentils, peas, broad bean, etc.; metres category are millet, rice, Huangmi, regular rice, glutinous rice, millet rice, wheat, oats, corn , Sorghum, and so on. Owner will be able to choose based on preferences and habits. La Bayu the materials, in the habit of peach preserve, Xingfu, walnut, Zaoni, chestnut, persimmon, melon seeds, lotus seeds, peanuts, hazelnut, pine nuts, pears stem, such as raisins inside choice.
Peiqi after the main materials used in casseroles, add water slowly to open fire on the boil, then boil cooked with sugar, roses, sweet osmanthus, and other spices. Laba Zhou Qi struggle in various parts of China Qiao Jing, wide variety. One of the most stress to Beijing, mix the rice in more items, such as red dates and lotus seeds, walnuts, chestnuts, almonds, pine nut, Guiyuan, hazelnut, grape, ginkgo, Lingjiao, Qingsi, roses, red beans, peanuts…… Total No fewer than 20 kinds. Layuechuqi people in the busy evening began, Ximi, foam fruit, expense Paper, to nuclear, refined sorting, and then began cooking in the middle of the night after midnight, and then-Huodun, has been stewing in the early morning the following day, La Bayu be boiled Well.
If the family is more stress, La Bayu special emphasis on the color, whatever the color of deep beans do not have to, just glutinous rice, Yimi, Lingjiao metres, lotus seeds for raw materials Aocheng meat porridge. Atherosclerosis of the white transparent texture, exquisite tableware in Sheng, is also pretty and tasty, not only color smell the United States, also auspicious symbol of Fushoushan, joyous harvest. Bingtianxuedi in the La Yue, a person Wai坐在餐桌旁, drinking sweet and delicious Laba Zhou, the Chinese people think that is very satisfactory beautiful thing. More particular about the people, but also first fruit carved into figures, animals and other shapes, and even Zaoni, bean paste, yam, Hawthorn cakes, and other colors of food, Niecheng myths and legends of the images. La Bazhou in the past that only the great temples for the table before we can see.
La Bayu Aohao after the first worship place for ancestral worship. After the gift to friends and relatives, must be sent out before noon, the family is the last human consumption. If the porridge given to poor people eat, it is for their own Ji-de. La Bayu eat leftovers, eat preserved there for a few days remaining, it is a good sign, comes "every year more than the" significance.

The two are old Beijing enjoy Laba Zhou.

Laba, in addition to boil Laba Zhou, there are people in northern China bubble "Laba garlic" habits. Housewives stripped of the garlic skin, on Tanzi Li, then Daoman rice vinegar, across from Laba Tanzi mouth that day, on a warm room, to the New Year's Eve night out to eat dumplings at再拿enjoy. Soaked Suanban a dark green color, like jade, like, coupled with the dark red rice vinegar, very good-looking, added a private banquet to reunite the festive mood.

Laba garlic bubble

Traditional festival

China's vast, many people, all nationalities, all regions formed a rich and colorful folk customs, clothing, food, accommodation and transportation in; festivals, rituals and worship in; religious, civil aspects of worship; have Marriage, birth, the funeral. These customs have continued for thousands of years, different regions and the nation as their own reservations about the habits, of which there are still some gradual evolution of the Chinese nation a total of festivals and customs, traditional culture as a very important part.

A long history of the totem

"Grasping Ji doll" as "grasping Ji Doll" is popular in the Yellow River Basin of the Loess Plateau folk paper-cut flowers a mission, the regiment took the center of the Loess Plateau is the symbol of protection and propagation of the Division of the universe, the god of "grasping Ji dolls." The arms have Beas Shenzhi, reproductive investment potential, Touzha double Ji Forum, the lower body scissors down Yu Yang male, female head with the corresponding two-Ji, Yin and Yang Yi Yu its gender is the unity of heaven and earth god of the universe. Scissors positive, is the worship of evil spirits Rang Shenzhi way to disaster. Min Yan says: "cone cut for peace, Wudu Nian out." Chinese folk art in the eyes of the universe, the god of the sun, civil as peonies for the Suns, the decorated with peonies binocular. Shuangru god of the universe for the binocular cicadas, cicadas for animal reproduction Shenzhi, YU Zi Sun Wanshi reelected continuously. Sheng around for the lotus symbol and symbols, "Sheng who is also Health", is also a symbol of reproductive and multiply, lotus represents many of the positive symbols.
Local Minyan this is the explanation: "Tong Li Lin from the osmanthus, the sons and daughters of pro-pro-nephew, blowing Sheng Jin Chan-sheng, a generation older generation Gengen," "persimmon wishful Babao-sheng, Lotus guitar-take root." The god of the universe have their hands around yin and yang, Beas, Beas tail intersection for the first 000 words of wealth that is the first of future generations continue to extend the life of symbols, the double bottom around wishful geometric symbols, is a well-known Jixiangruyi life symbols, With the title of grass around the rabbit God together, is the local Minyan of "grasping wishful Tuer, brothers and sisters move" means. Rabbits, homonym of spit, is son of God, the symbol of our future generations and multiply. Double-double wishful rabbit, which means even the son of Health, the equivalent of the Loess Plateau when people get married Baitian De likes to sing songs, "both of Walnut both date, both children ran full kang, the boy to good health, wearing Lanshandaiding son; custody woman To Coincidentally, pomegranates Peony take the hinge. "
Paper-cut paper-cut explanation of the Lao Tainiang meaning, said: "a cut in the Road to interesting." If one is a window grilles Xintian You northern Shaanxi folk songs, such as complicated as "grasping Ji doll" can be called civil Paper-cut in the symphony. It was 6000 before the Yangshao culture of Xi'an Banpo painted pottery pots, "Beas people face," variations of the symbols.
The Loess Plateau in Gansu's Longdong Town Folk Paper-cut "Beas dolls", is about yin and yang, Beas. This fish around the Beas to grasp Ji dolls paper cutting, in Qingyang, Gansu Province, Gansu is can be seen everywhere along the Loess Plateau, its cultural content and artistic form is the same. Luochuan area of the Loess Plateau in Shaanxi to grasp the snake and the dragon dolls Ji Ji grasping doll, its meaning is the same. Folk art in China, fish, snakes (Long), the same frog, are interchangeable. Banpo painted pottery Beas people of Shaanxi, Shanxi, Gansu folk art works in the face of the Beas people grasping Ji dolls dates back to Banpo unearthed in Shaanxi in 6000 before the Yangshao culture of painted pottery, "Beas people face" logo. It is easy to live it and hunting and fishing together, that it is primitive society Banpo people hunting and fishing reflect the true portrayal of life, and netted around on both sides of the two symbols are considered symbols fishing nets. As the only painted pottery on the head, according to this line of thought then it was described as follows: "two nets were open, two body into the water, leaving only Xiatou and shoulders remain in the water outside. As part of feet underwater to see Unclear, so instead of painting, but you can get from the map in China and Italy will be underwater Moyu. They take on both sides of the crowded Wai touch, to net fish to escape. Moyu people because all the attention in the underwater So subconsciously, a binocular-This is the real face Moyu then, is one of the true Moyu Weimiaoweixiao map. "(" Opinion on几幅painted pottery patterns "," Central Plains Heritage "in 1987 [1]) However In my opinion, the primitive society and folk art creators are groups of common cultural symbols password to express the Chinese philosophy of the primitive.
Do not understand China primitive philosophy, they do not understand the philosophy and symbols password, it is impossible to interpret China's art and archaeology of folk art. Fish to be fair, folk art groups to create the concept of the Beas, in fact, not a natural attribute of the fish, it is the concept of yin and yang attributes of the fish symbol, painted pottery pots Center Liangtiao Yu rotating in the opposite direction, the fish is a kind of yin and yang Central rotation That life eternal life off going and future generations the concept of symbols. Folk art in the Beas people face-painted pottery basin Beas people who face, this area popular with the Yin and Yang Ji Beas and grasp the unity of folk paper-cut dolls echoes, the performance of the ancestor of life in the universe is God. It's a closed eyes (Banpo painted pottery were unearthed in the face) Yizheng (Jiangzhai painted pottery were unearthed in the face), this is not the natural shape of the eyes, but ideology eyes. Of the universe to God's eyes opened that day, Yang, day, is closed up, overcast, night. In Chinese folk art, an eye for an eye to the sun and the moon or the sun is the concept of a universal, Poyi paintings of rural farmers in northern Shaanxi painting, painting people's eyes and face painting tiger, the eyes are painted circular, Painting in the round eyes Yanbai the middle, not to be obscured from top to bottom eyelid. Their eyes shut is that the moon, the sun is opened, so to draw a bright, painted in luminous. I think this is the concept of the original group.
"Net" symbol Chinese folk art in common a "net" symbols, is a primitive society to the world today, the popular meaning of life is going symbols, is mankind's common cultural genetic code. It is spread over thousands of years in China's "double-smug" symbol, also known as "nosy" symbols, and variations of the name of its extremely rich. Unearthed in Shaanxi's Xi'an Banpo-Yangshao culture "of people with fish," painted pottery pots on the so-called "net" is the source symbol "10" symbols and "X" symbol. "10" is the superficial sun symbol, but "X" different, "X" on behalf of the rotating sun symbol and rotating symbols of the universe. The former is a square, the two sides and the box-shaped symbol, which is netted and diamond symbols, the so-called net symbol of life.
For thousands of years, these two types of symbols to the extremely rich variations in West Asia, China and even worldwide epidemic, including the accumulation in the Community, life rituals, customs and festivals, folk beliefs, taboos social life. We tomb stone relief from Shandong can be seen in the title of the Red Bird Luo Dan book, Banpo painted pottery decoration is the "net" sign. The spread of northern Shaanxi folk "-gourd" and "snake-nine eggs" pictorial, Hebei civil "gossip" and "gourd sets Founder," Weihe River Basin dolls pomegranate Zhenshang relative of both the "snake-nine eggs" (that is, "Health and Long-9"), the popular Perry today's society and played in front of the bed in the room, "Chinese knot" This is the so-called "net" sign. "Chinese knot" and so are its variations. Northern Shaanxi people's fanaticism flourishing of the Spring Festival each year to nine folk activities, and take the Jiugong gossip is the road map.
China's western hinterland Buer Da muddy soil Valley Hill area of Baja hair rock paintings in the ditch and the sun symbol that appears relatively nets life symbols, are still in the western Gannan, Qinghai and Tibet and Qiang regions on both sides of buildings and tents as Jixiangruyi Symbol widely popular. With the introduction of Buddhism from India, the Jixiangruyi as a symbol of Buddhism, "Babao" one of the symbols, widespread in China. Wen painted pottery and dance "five dolls" paper-cut in 1973, in Datong County, Qinghai Sun Wen Jiazhai unearthed painted pottery pots of dance, Neolithic Majiayao type is a typical representative of one of the Yangshao culture, its main symbol is hand in hand The doll, a group of five, a total of three sets of symbols. In Chinese folk art and are often seen in this pictorial. The dance was named Wen painted pottery pieces of design, by some scholars as the dance scene dancing hand in hand, but I see it show in northern Shaanxi Lao Tainiang, they said this is "five dolls", not " Dancing dolls. " In northern Shaanxi it called the "five dolls", that is what God five parties in the north and south, in northern Shaanxi is the witch customs activities over the past frequently used in paper-cut. Doll disease, with five yellow sheet of paper cut hand in hand "five dolls", with wicker provoked, Niannianyouci from patients lying on the Kangshang拂过, and then claimed 22 American lives and a bowl of water, the five parties of God burning Cheng Hui, scattered over the bowl, while holding a doll clothes, dolls shouted the name of the way, the water pouring in five Road, and then shouted the name of dolls come back. At that time, people believe, so that the disease will be good dolls. This paper-cut Some also Xuanyu lintels cast for the home town of evil spirits, called "handle dolls", the number of some seven, some three, five or nine, but must be a positive singular. Some of pumpkin and black bean component, called "melon seeds dolls", affixed to the interior, the town is also home to evil spirits.