Customs of New Year and Lantern Festival in China

1, sweeping the sun dust

Sweeping dust means year-end cleaning, which is called "house sweeping" in the north and "house sweeping" in the south. Whenever the Spring Festival comes, every household should clean the environment, clean all kinds of electrical appliances, remove and wash bedding curtains, sweep six yards, dust cobwebs and dredge culverts in open channels.

2. Worship God and ancestors

Sacrificing ancestors on New Year's Eve is one of the important customs of China New Year. The Chinese nation has a tradition of pursuing the future with caution, and never forgets to worship the ancestors and repay them.

3, paste the year red

Sticking New Year Red is a general term for sticking Spring Festival couplets, door gods, New Year pictures and window grilles. Because these are all red festive elements pasted during the New Year, they are collectively called "Sticking New Year Red".

4. New Year's Eve dinner

New Year's Eve is one of the customs of New Year's Day, also known as New Year's Eve, reunion dinner, reunion dinner and so on. Especially the New Year's Eve dinner.

Second, the Lantern Festival custom

1, eat Yuanxiao

Eating Yuanxiao on the fifteenth day of the first month, as a kind of food, has a long history in China. In the Song Dynasty, a novel Lantern Festival food was popular among the people.

2. lanterns

The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the Lantern Festival, also known as the Lantern Festival, because there are folk customs of hanging lanterns, lighting lanterns and watching lanterns.

Step 3 solve the riddle on the lantern

It is a unique traditional folk entertainment form with rich national style in China, and has been a characteristic activity of the Lantern Festival since ancient times.