What are the Spring Festival customs in Sichuan?

The Spring Festival customs in Sichuan are as follows:

1, avoid cutting.

"The new year, cut and cut, it is inevitable that there are right and wrong." During the Spring Festival, it is forbidden to move the knife and cut it. Knives and scissors are too sharp, and it is easy to hurt people and bleed. On this festive occasion, many people think it is unlucky to see red blood, so there is this saying.

There is also a popular saying that "I shaved my head in the first month and died", which is also taboo. Because many old people will ask their families to cut their nails and shave their heads in advance before the Spring Festival, so as not to delay until the first month.

Step 2 clean the dust

After the Lunar New Year on the 23rd, the dust can be swept away. It is said that the Kitchen King Bodhisattva on the 23rd reported a year's meritorious service in the sky, so the traces before the 23rd can't be swept away, and it can be cleaned on the 24th of the twelfth lunar month. The folk saying in Sichuan is that sweeping away all unclean things also means sweeping away bad luck, diseases and so on.

3. Visit Du Fu Caotang

The seventh day is People's Day, and there is a unique custom in Chengdu, which is to go to the thatched cottage to spend time with Du Fu. On the eighth night, temples, halls and neighborhoods light "sky lanterns"; On the fifteenth day of the first month, every family eats Yuanxiao, worships God and sends the New Year, which is another hot day.

4. Mobile families

During the Spring Festival in Sichuan, "visiting people" is needed during the day from the first day to the third day. Generally, we should visit the elderly and senior relatives and bring gifts, such as chicken, eggs, noodles, wine and leaf tobacco. Daughter-in-law and son-in-law will go back to their parents' home and live in the countryside for a few days.

5. Go to see the Lantern Festival

Lantern Festival is a traditional folk cultural activity of the Chinese nation. During the Spring Festival holiday, many places have the tradition of hanging lanterns and holding lantern festivals. For lively and peaceful Sichuanese, Lantern Festival is indispensable, and it has also become an indispensable "new year's goods" for Sichuanese.

Extended data:

The Spring Festival Gala, referred to as "Spring Festival Gala", is a variety show held by China Central Television every New Year's Eve to celebrate the Lunar New Year. 1983, it should be said that CCTV held the Spring Festival Evening by accident. From the perspective of cultural development, CCTV Spring Festival Gala initiated the first variety show on TV, which triggered a major change in the content and expression of China TV media.

Subsequently, local television stations of all sizes in the country. Taiwan Province imitates frequently and strives for innovation. CCTV Spring Festival Gala covers a variety of art forms, such as sketches, songs, dances, acrobatics, magic, traditional Chinese opera and cross talk. Bring the audience on the scene and the audience in front of the TV into the carnival and create a festive scene of "Celebrating the whole world and singing in the prosperous times". ?

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