Customs of Spring Festival and Lantern Festival

Sweep the dust "On the 24th of the twelfth lunar month, the dust sweeps the house". According to Lu Chunqiu, China had the custom of sweeping the dust during the Spring Festival in the Yao and Shun era.

Post Spring Festival couplets. Spring Festival couplets are also called door couplets, spring stickers, couplets, couplets and peach symbols. They depict the background of the times and express good wishes with neat, dual, concise and delicate words, which are unique literary forms in China.

Stick grilles, put the word "Fu" upside down. In the folk, people also like to stick various paper-cuts on the windows-window grilles. Window grilles not only set off the festive atmosphere, but also integrate decoration, appreciation and practicality.

Lantern Festival customs

Eat Yuanxiao. This kind of food was originally called "Floating Zi Yuan", later called "Yuanxiao", and merchants also called it "Yuanbao". It can be boiled, fried and steamed, which means happy reunion.

Be careful with the lights. On the fifteenth day of the first month, urban and rural areas were brightly lit all night.

A mouse. This activity is mainly aimed at sericulture families. Because mice often eat silkworms in large areas at night, it is said that they can stop eating silkworms by feeding them rice porridge on the fifteenth day of the first month.