What does Spring Festival mean? What are the traditional customs of Spring Festival?
Introduction: Although Spring Festival is relatively unfamiliar to people, it is an ancient traditional festival. So what does Spring Festival mean and what are the traditional customs of Spring Festival? Follow the editor to find out! Shuimoxiansheng.com provides you with more content related to the second month of the lunar calendar in 2019. Everyone is welcome to learn about it together!What does Spring Festival mean?The day to worship the land god in spring. There was no fixed date in ancient times, and the dates chosen in the pre-Qin, Han, Wei and Jin dynasties were different. Since the Song Dynasty, the fifth day after the beginning of spring has been regarded as the community day. However, thereafter there was a distinction between official societies and private societies. The date for the official community remains unchanged, and its worship is a national sacrificial ceremony, held at the Altar of Land and Grain. On the Spring Festival in ancient times, officials and ordinary Han people would offer sacrifices to the community god and pray for a good harvest. There would be customs of drinking, sharing meat, holding competitions, and women stopping needlework.There are relevant records of Spring Festival in oracle bone inscriptions, which has a history of more than 2,000 years. Before the Yuan Dynasty, it has always been a very important traditional festival in China. However, at present, only some areas in mainland China and Taiwan have the custom of worshipping the God of Land on February 2, and they call this day the Birthday of the Land or the Birthday of Fortune, etc., but it is not exactly the same as the traditional Spring Festival. In some parts of northern mainland China, some Han folk customs during the Dragon Raising Festival on February 2 are also inherited from the Spring Festival. Regarding the rise and fall of the Spring Festival, some scholars attributed it to "originating in three dynasties, first flourishing in the Qin and Han Dynasties, continuing in the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, flourishing in the Tang and Song Dynasties, and declining in the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties." What are the traditional customs of Spring Festival?Traditional customs of Spring Festival: Community OperaIt is also known as community fire, and is a legacy of the Southern Song Dynasty. In many areas (such as Zhili, Huozhou, Fenxi, and Jingzhou), people would pool money to perform community operas during the Spring Festival based on the size of the village and its social status. In Linfen, Shanxi, there is also a custom of holding incense-burning meetings and performing community fire performances. Community opera is not only popular in mainland China, but also in Taiwan, in addition to the Han people, even the local indigenous people have the custom of hanging lanterns and performing community opera during the Spring Festival to celebrate the birthday of the land god. Because community drama consumes a lot of financial resources, some local chronicle writers have criticized it. For example, the criticism of community operas was that they "could easily cause trouble and waste a lot of money", "would cause harm to the business and shake people's spirits". However, some writers believe that if the community drama is improved, it will have the meaning of "social education." Traditional customs of Spring Festival: witchcraft In the local chronicles of the Qing Dynasty, there were also many customs of inviting shamans to offer sacrifices to the community on local community days. During the shamanic rituals, many places (such as Luotian, Zhongxiang, Shishou, and Yongding) often welcomed the gods by beating gongs and drums. Traditional customs of Spring Festival: drinking together After the sacrificial ceremony, it is a custom for men, women, old and young to sit together and drink, such as in Huangzhou, Wuchang, Qishui, Huanggang, Mianyang, etc. It is said that drinking community wine can cure deafness and is beneficial to the growth of offspring. Spring Festival traditional customs: community sacrifice As the original purpose of the Spring Festival, community sacrifice is also a custom during the Spring Festival in many places. For example, during the Spring Festival in Liuhe, Jingshan, Xuan'en, Yingshan (now Guangshui County, Hubei Province), the common people would gather together gold utensils and wine, or steam rice to make cakes or rice cakes to worship the land god. During community sacrifices, the community gods are mostly worshipped with wine cakes, chickens and pigs, but some places also use other offerings. For example, in Wugang area, the community gods are worshipped with "complex cakes" made by pounding smoked fragrant vines and steaming them with glutinous rice flour. The community meals during community sacrifices mostly have local characteristics. For example, in the Jingchu area, the community meals are mainly made of pork, mutton and rice, and are placed in gourds (gourd means many children and grandchildren) and given to others. In Fenghuang County, glutinous rice is steamed with wormwood and herbs. In Huangzhou and Laifeng, glutinous rice, chopped wormwood, bacon slices and pork fat are steamed. In Zhijiang, rice and dried meat are wrapped in wormwood leaves and steamed. Traditional customs of Spring Festival: Other customs In many places, there are some special customs, such as the custom of flying kites in Qianyang, the custom of repairing new tombs in Huojia and Chongyang, and the custom of walking around the community in Licheng and Lu'an, that is, visiting relatives and friends or carrying the community god and walking around. Fortunes in life can be good or bad, and calculating the direction of your fortune in advance can help you nip problems in the bud, reverse unfavorable situations, and make your life smoother and brighter. To calculate your life fortune over the next ten years, please click on the [Premium Calculation] button below for accurate calculation. I wish you all the best in your life! |
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