What's the date of the Spring Festival in 20 19? What's the date of the Spring Festival on 20 19 in the new calendar?
20 19 Spring Festival is Tuesday, February 5th.
The Spring Festival holiday is from New Year's Eve to the sixth day. Namely: February 4th to February 10, ***7 days. February 5th, 6th and 7th are legal holidays. Go to work on February 2 (Saturday) and February 3 (Sunday).
What to eat for the Spring Festival dinner?
(1) Eat fish on New Year's Eve. Fish is the most common and essential ingredient on the dinner table of New Year's Eve in all parts of the motherland, because it means auspiciousness, meaning "more than every year", meaning that there is money and surplus food in the new year, and everything goes well.
(2) Eat jiaozi on New Year's Eve. Yuanxiao, also called Tangyuan, is more common in the south. It is to knead glutinous rice into a round shape (different flavors of fillings can be added) and then cook it in a pot, which means round and round.
(3) Eat sweets on New Year's Eve. Candy often appears as the last dish of New Year's Eve, wishing the future sweet.
(4) Eat jiaozi on New Year's Eve. Northerners are used to eating jiaozi during the Spring Festival, which means "making friends when you are young". Because the white flour jiaozi is shaped like a silver ingot, the pots on the table symbolize the meaning of "getting rich in the New Year, and the ingots are rolling in". Some wrapped jiaozi and some coins sterilized with boiling water, saying that whoever ate first would make more money. The custom of eating jiaozi was handed down from the Han Dynasty. According to legend, Zhang Zhongjing, a medical saint, saw that the poor people's ears were frozen and rotten in the cold winter, so he made a kind of "cold-dispelling Joule soup" to treat frostbite for the poor. He used mutton, peppers and some herbs to dispel the cold and warm, made ear-shaped "dumplings" with flour bags, cooked them in a pot and distributed them to the poor. After eating it, people feel hot all over and their ears are hot. Since then, people have followed suit and spread it to this day.
(5) Eat wonton on New Year's Eve. Eating chaos is taking its original meaning. Legend has it that the world was in a chaotic state before it was created, and Pangu created the universe.
(6) Eat long noodles on New Year's Eve. Long noodles are also called longevity noodles. Eating noodles in the New Year means longevity for a hundred years. The purpose of the New Year's Eve dinner is not only to fill the stomach, but also to look forward to the coming year and wish the family a long life.
(7) Eat hot pot on New Year's Eve. Hot pot is also a dish popular all over the country, and a common figure is also eaten at the dinner table of New Year's Eve. Hot pot is boiling, steaming, warm and sultry, which indicates that the coming year will be booming!
The origin of eating New Year's Eve dinner during the Spring Festival
Family dinner on New Year's Eve is commonly known as New Year's Eve, also known as reunion dinner. At this time, the family should be as complete as possible, and many family members who are far away from home always have to get home before the New Year's Eve, so this New Year's Eve is also called "the Year of the Group".
As early as the Han Dynasty, China had the custom of having a reunion dinner on New Year's Eve. In the old society, because of the low standard of living, we couldn't make a rich diet at ordinary times, so we could only improve it during the New Year. Therefore, the quality and content of the New Year's Eve dinner are higher, and the food should be as rich as possible. First of all, it is to satisfy your desire. Second, this feeling of fullness indicates that you will have plenty of food and clothing in the coming year.
There are many interesting legends about the origin of New Year's Eve. Among them, a widely circulated story is about Qi Xin and Qi Xin's concerted efforts to fight against "Nian".
According to legend, in ancient times, there was a fierce monster with a lion-like head and a strong cow. In winter, when food is scarce in the mountains, we have to run out of the mountains and break into the village, seeing people hurting people and animals hurting people. So in winter, everyone is frightened and every village is uneasy. Everyone has to move to a distant place to escape the injury of 2008. After a long time, people find that Nian is fierce, but they are also afraid of three things: bright red color, bright fire and loud noise. So everyone discussed that as long as every family has these three things, "Nian" will definitely not dare to enter the village.
In winter, the fierce Nian is coming out of the mountains and invading the village. Everyone in the village agrees that big boards painted red are hung on the doors of every household, and the door is burning brightly. At night, everyone stays up late knocking at home, and there is a lot of noise everywhere. Late at night, Nian ran to the entrance of the village and saw red everywhere, bright everywhere and loud noises everywhere. He was so scared that he quickly turned and hid in the mountains and never came out to hurt villagers and animals again. Early the next morning, the whole village got together to congratulate each other on the victory of expelling wild animals. What a hard-won day!
Every winter, people can't forget the days they used to defend against village invasion in "2008". Every household still hung red boards, lit fires and knocked all night. The next day, they also congratulated each other and celebrated peace. In this way, from generation to generation, the custom of "Chinese New Year" was formed. In order to celebrate the New Year, the custom of eating New Year's Eve was handed down.