The Spring Festival is approaching. What do you know about the customs of the Spring Festival?

The Spring Festival is the condensation and publicity of Chinese excellent traditional culture, which contains people's gratitude for nature and their pride and joy after harvest, full of expectation and pursuit of happiness and a better life, condensing the recognition and memory of Chinese excellent traditional culture and the achievements of our ancestors, and conveying affection and even the deep affection of mutual care among people. So, do you know any customs during the Spring Festival?

1. Hanging New Year pictures during the Spring Festival is also very common in urban and rural areas. Thick black and colorful New Year pictures add a lot of prosperous and joyful festive atmosphere to thousands of families. 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. New Year pictures, like Spring Festival couplets, originated from "door gods". With the rise of block printing, the content of New Year pictures is not limited to monotonous themes such as door gods, but has become rich and colorful. Some New Year pictures workshops have produced classic color New Year pictures, such as Fu Lushou's Samsung, God bless the people, abundant crops, prosperous livestock and welcoming the New Year, to meet people's good wishes of celebrating and praying for the New Year. ?

The most popular folk painting is the Year of Marrying the Rat. It depicts an interesting scene in which a mouse marries a bride according to human custom. In the early years of the Republic of China, Zheng of Shanghai combined the monthly calendar with the New Year pictures. This is 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.

2. Sticking Spring Festival couplets is also called door couplets, spring stickers, couplets, couplets and peach symbols. It is one of the red holiday elements posted during the New Year. It depicts a beautiful image and expresses good wishes with neat, concise and exquisite words. It is a unique literary form in China and an important custom in China New Year. When people post New Year greetings (Spring Festival couplets and blessings, etc.). ) put it at their doorstep, which means the official start of the Spring Festival. Every Spring Festival, no matter in urban or rural areas, every household should take off beautiful red couplets and stick them on the doors to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, thus increasing the festive atmosphere.

There is a saying among people who set off firecrackers called "setting off firecrackers". That is, when the new year comes, the first thing for every household to open the door is to set off firecrackers to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new. Firecracker is a specialty of China, also known as "Firecracker", "Firecracker" and "Firecracker". Its origin is very early, and it has a history of more than two thousand years. Setting off firecrackers can create a festive and lively atmosphere. It is an entertainment activity during the Spring Festival and can bring happiness and good luck to people. With the passage of time, firecrackers are more and more widely used, and there are more and more varieties and colors. Every major festival and happy celebration, as well as marriage, building, opening, etc. We should set off firecrackers to celebrate and make good luck. But now the country is not allowed to set off firecrackers, which is a bit regrettable.

On the first day of the new year, people get up early, put on the most beautiful clothes, dress neatly, go out to visit relatives and friends and wish each other a happy new year. There are many ways to pay New Year's greetings, some of which are led by the same patriarch from door to door. Some colleagues invited several people to pay New Year greetings; Others get together to congratulate each other. This is called "group worship". Because it takes time and effort to pay New Year greetings at home, some elites and scholars later congratulated each other with stickers, thus developing the later "New Year cards". When paying New Year greetings during the Spring Festival, the younger generation should first pay New Year greetings to their elders and wish them health and longevity. The elders can distribute the lucky money prepared in advance to the younger generation. It is said that lucky money can kill evil spirits, because "old" and "special" are homophonic, and the younger generation can spend a year safely with lucky money.

5, New Year's Eve in fact, the highlight of the Spring Festival night is "New Year's Eve", also known as reunion dinner, reunion dinner and so on. No matter whether the family is rich or poor, we should prepare a sumptuous "New Year's Eve". It is a very happy thing for the family to sit around and eat jiaozi and rich dishes, recall the past and look forward to the future.

In the south, the New Year's Eve dinner is usually dominated by seafood and vegetables, while in the north, big fish and big meat are put on the table. At the end of the year, families get together for a reunion dinner, which is actually one of the most worthwhile customs in the Spring Festival.

These are five customs I know about the Spring Festival. What else do you know, my friend? Say it in the comments section.