Kaifeng year vulgar:
Kaifeng folk called the Spring Festival as "Chinese New Year." However, the Chinese New Year not just the first month in lunar calendar started this also includes the year, the end of the year, from the old-year-old eighth day of December to the fifth day of the first month are the annual New Year's Day. Old, Kaifeng popular saying goes, said: "Laba, Jizao, New Year came, took the girl, kid should be shot." So, one of "Laba", Kaifeng urban and rural areas will have "annual taste" of.
23, Jizao officer. December 23 Festival of China's civil Jizao people to make stoves Wang Jade Emperor in heaven to talk about things, and everyone should be put on the kitchen god of the tablets, and some in pairs on both sides of the tablets inscribed with the words "God made a good thing lower bound to send good luck. " Farewell means kitchen god.
Jizao after the home buying every family have a very busy stocking up, cleaning the house to greet the New Year, especially tobacco, alcohol, fish, meat and visit relatives with gifts even less. Concern and preparation have been busy stocking the twelfth lunar month 30. Kaifeng is still today there is a popular folk song for the New Year: "23, Jizao officers; 24, sweeping the house; 25, playing tofu; 26, to flesh; 27, killing chickens; 2 18, killing ducks; 29, to fight wine; New Year's Eve children, sticking doors flag children. "
New Year's Eve New Year's Eve, said children are used, each household must be New Year's scrolls. The past, this day, Kaifeng, there are still many old customs. Such as "civil seal", "closed military attache parade", "Commercial closed doors," "story-telling seal board" and "beggar closure stick" and so on and so on. The public is most important events of the night New Year's Eve worship and Shou Sui. Now New Year's Eve, Kaifeng were still clinging to the past, many good practices. New Year's Eve, although no longer "ancestors" of. However, thanks to some mutual friends, watching TV, riddles until late at night, and some family got together to encourage each other to sum up the past year, harvesting, development of a new year of work and learning programs. "Shou Sui" in the new era has given new content. When the bell rang before midnight, it is an indisputable link placed first firecrackers, which in turn means that a person from opening the future of Kaifeng, the determination and drive.
Holiday movies, and everyone immediate-early wake up, change clothes, clean slate finished, first set off firecrackers, thanks to wish ancestor portrait. Then, younger to older New Year's, elders give the younger, "New Year's money." Years, the family ate dumplings, and then began the New Year with relatives and friends. Multi-old New Year's generally led by the parents, first thanks to their elders past family, neighbors and friends, after Zaiqu distance Gejia. Gejia for the reception greeting guests, at home standing tobacco, tea, melon seeds, peanuts, candy and so on. By Kaifeng "New Year's morning and evening birthday celebration," habits, started this afternoon, New Year's activities come to an end.
The first month the second year is the girl back to her family day. Old second year, Kaifeng Chengguan four townships, the sound of firecrackers whistle sound, whistle sound into one, mule carts shuttling between a constant stream.
To flood the temple for the ceremony grave, and worship Zongzu date, due to the old calendar, Huang said that this day "not everything go," third-year Kaifeng bogey came to visit relatives. Fifth day of the break five, civil society is the year that the fifth day after an auspicious day, another string of bogey among relatives and friends also visited. In addition to this two-day, the holiday period, take the pro-string folk Kaifeng friends, a few non-busy day.
Kaifeng flower, Longting park, memorial temple, The Painting Scroll lucid on the River Park, Yuwang Taiwan Park, Hanlin Forest of Stone Tablets, Song Du Yu Street, Kaifeng Tianbo YANG Fu -