How many years have passed since the beginning of the year?

Generally speaking, it won't end until the 15th day of the first month (Shangyuan Festival), but among the people, the traditional Spring Festival refers to the sacrificial furnace from La Worship on the 23rd or 23rd or 24th of the twelfth lunar month to the 19th of the first month.

The main contents of New Year greetings are to bid farewell to the old, worship ancestors, exorcise evil spirits and pray for a new year. The form is rich and colorful, lively and festive, and the annual flavor is rich, which embodies the essence of traditional culture of Chinese civilization.

Holiday customs:

1, janitor

Door-keeper, that is, the doorkeeper, is a kind of painting posted on the door during the New Year. As guardians of folk beliefs, people stick idols on doors to drive away evil spirits and ghosts, defend their homes, maintain peace, help public utilities and bring good luck. It is the beloved patron saint of China people. According to traditional customs, every household is busy writing couplets and door gods on the eve of the Spring Festival to pray for the coming year.

Step 2 post Spring Festival couplets

Spring Festival couplets are also called door couplets, spring stickers, couplets, couplets and peach symbols. They are antithetical sentences written on paper, cloth or carved on bamboo, wood and columns. During the Spring Festival, every household should choose Spring Festival couplets and stick them on the door to add festive atmosphere to the festival. There are many kinds of Spring Festival couplets, which can be divided into door heart, frame pair, horizontal bar, spring bar and bucket according to the place of use.

Step 3 hang new year pictures

New Year pictures are an ancient folk art in China, which reflects people's simple customs and beliefs and places their hopes on the future.

There are three important traditional New Year pictures in China: Yangliuqing in Tianjin, Taohuawu in Suzhou and Weifang in Shandong, which form three schools with their own characteristics. In the early years of the Republic of China, Zheng combined the month plate with the New Year pictures and created a new form of New Year pictures. This new year's picture, which was combined into one, later developed into a calendar and has been popular all over the country.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Chinese New Year