春节民俗（Spring Festival folk custom）.doc

春节民俗（Spring Festival folk custom） Spring Festival folk custom Spring Festival is a traditional Chinese festival, the 1th day of the first month of the Chinese lunar calendar, commonly known as the new year. The Spring Festival is a traditional sense from the beginning of the eight month of the la la festival or the twelfth lunar month twenty-three people, until the fifteen, with new years Eve and is at the beginning of the month for a climax. During the Spring Festival this traditional festival, Chinas Han majority and ethnic minorities have to hold various celebration activities, these activities are to worship deities, worshiping ancestors, Fu Ying Hei then, pray for a good harvest as the main content. The form of activities is rich and colorful, with strong ethnic characteristics. I. The Origin of the Spring Festival: it is said that there is a kind of beast called Nian. Whenever the winter is approaching, cannibalism is made and people are unable to make peace. People in the struggle with the year, the ferocious beast is afraid of light and sound, so people thought of a way, in the years appears, will ignite the fire, put bamboo, raging fires, years to hear the sound of firecrackers, they fled. Later, people began to hang up red, firecrackers, eat dinner to celebrate the new year. Two, before the Spring Festival preparations: 1.: the kitchen god, sacrifice to the kitchen god called kitchen, commonly known as the kitchen god. The twenty-three or twenty-four year the twelfth lunar month to return to the palace, the emperor. Return to earth on New Years eve. People worry to the emperor into the left, so when he went to the temple to worship him, hope he God made a good thing, under the peace. 2. other preparation activities: writing couplets, preparing meat, preparing pasta, and cutting hair, bathing and cleaning. Three, folk activities -- Static folk couplets: 3. (1): the source of ancient couplets called taofu. It is said that Wang Chong in the Eastern Han Dynast