What are the customs and habits in China?

In fact, the most important activity on the day of off-year is not only to provide honeydew melons and cakes, but also to replace the portrait of Kitchen God. The old portrait of the kitchen god has been torn down, and every household must "please" come back with a new portrait of the kitchen god.

Step 2 cut the window grilles

There are many kinds of folk activities in the off-year, mostly preparing for the New Year, and cutting and pasting window grilles is one of them. There are all kinds of animal and plant anecdotes on the window grilles, such as magpies climbing plum blossoms, swallows wearing peach willows, peacocks beating peonies, lions rolling hydrangeas, three sheep (Yang) opening Thailand, two dragons playing with pearls, deer crane (Liuhe Tongchun), Yuanyang playing in water, playing golden toad, and Hehe Erxian. Various patterns and pleasing appearance.

Step 3: Clean

After twenty-three, there are only six or seven days left before the Spring Festival, and the preparations for the Spring Festival are even more enthusiastic. To thoroughly clean the room, commonly known as sweeping the dust, sweeping the dust is to go to the old and welcome the new, and remove the ominous. Every household should be carefully and thoroughly cleaned to make the windows bright and clean.

4. Celebrate the Youth League Year

The folk custom of Chinese New Year is different from "offering wax". According to folklore, "Nian" was originally a monster in Archaean times, and every winter it would be decorated with lanterns to welcome the new year. In order to prevent Nian from being preyed, the ancients gathered together, lit bonfires and threw bamboo into them, making them make a loud noise and scaring Nian away.

5. ancestor worship

Sacrificing ancestors in the New Year is not only a mourning for ancestors, but also a prayer for ancestors to bless the peace in the coming year. Ancestor worship is usually held on the 30th of a year. People in rural areas go to temple fairs, clean courtyards, change peach symbols and put up spring stickers, or the whole family goes to pay homage to their ancestors, or hang the portraits of their ancestors on the main wall of the nave, place sacrifices and light incense candles for future generations to worship.

References:

People's Network-Have a "off-year" today? Do you know some traditional customs?

References:

People's Network-Do you know what are the four traditional customs of the Spring Festival in China?