What are the customs of the Spring Festival?

Celebrate festivals and practice customs.

Pay new year's call

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New Year greeting is a traditional folk custom in China, and it is a way for people to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, and express their best wishes to each other. With the development of the times, the custom of New Year greetings is constantly adding new contents and forms. Nowadays, people not only follow the old New Year greetings, but also pay New Year greetings through the Internet and telephone.

Open the door and set off firecrackers.

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When the door is opened in the morning of the Spring Festival, firecrackers are set off first, which is called "opening the door to set off firecrackers". After the firecrackers, the ground is broken red, which is the so-called "full house". This is a street full of auspicious spirit and celebration.

Tiehua chicken

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China folks compared the first eight days of Xinzheng to six kinds of animals, people and valleys. The first day of the first month is the Year of the Rooster, which is an auspicious day. The method of using chickens to ward off evil spirits is to kill chickens at the door or paste chickens at the door, which is called paste chicken, and it has pinned the good wishes of the working people in our country to eliminate disasters and avoid disasters.

Eat rice cake

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Because of its homophonic "old age" and diverse tastes, rice cakes have almost become a must-have food for every household. The styles of rice cakes are square yellow and white rice cakes, which symbolize gold and silver and express the meaning of making a fortune in the New Year.

Eat zongzi; eat rice dumplings; eat glutinous rice balls

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Eating glutinous rice balls on the morning of New Year's Day is of special significance, which means: all the best, happy family. Eating jiaozi in the New Year is not called "jiaozi" or "Yuanbao", and eating jiaozi is not called "eating jiaozi" but "getting Yuanbao".

Drink Tu Su wine.

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According to legend, Tu Su wine was created by Hua Tuo, a famous doctor at the end of Han Dynasty, and its formula was made by soaking rhubarb, Atractylodes macrocephala, Cinnamomum cassia twig, Saposhnikovia divaricata, Zanthoxylum bungeanum, Radix Aconiti Lateralis and Radix Aconiti Lateralis in the wine. This medicine has the effects of tonifying yang, expelling wind and cold, and avoiding epidemic diseases, and was later spread by Sun Simiao, a famous doctor in Tang Dynasty. Every year in the twelfth lunar month, Sun Simiao always sends a pack of medicine to the villagers, telling them that it is possible to prevent the plague by soaking in wine and drinking it on New Year's Eve. Sun Simiao also named his house "Tu Su House". Later, generations later, Drinking Tu Su wine has become the custom of New Year in China.

Give lucky money

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It is a traditional folk custom in China to give children some lucky money during the Spring Festival. The lucky money is full of blessings from the elders to the younger generation. In China, there are some popular stories about the origin of lucky money. For example, in ancient times, there was a demon with black hands and white body called Chong, who came out to harm children every New Year's Eve. So people burn lights all night and put copper coins on children's pillows to ward off evil spirits. This is called "protecting the special" and "suppressing the special", and later it is called "protecting the old" and "suppressing the old".