What are the customs during the Spring Festival?

According to the ancient calendar, December 30th of the lunar calendar is called "New Year". Get up in the morning on New Year's Day, you need to stick a door god and paste Spring Festival couplets. Spring Festival couplets are unique folk symbols in China. Sticking Spring Festival couplets is a very grand project.

Sticking Spring Festival couplets can also be called "Sticking Year Red" in ancient times, including not only the Spring Festival couplets on both sides of the gate, but also the scarlet letter "Fu" on the gate. Regardless of posting Spring Festival couplets or the word "Fu", it is actually to express people's good wishes for the New Year. In some places, two "door gods", Qin Qiong and Wei Chijingde, are labeled, believing that families can ward off evil spirits and avoid disasters.

Step 2 set off firecrackers

The custom of setting off firecrackers on New Year's Eve has a history of more than two thousand years. Although this custom has been basically banned in many places for environmental protection reasons, it still exists in some remote areas. Legend has it that firecrackers are set off on New Year's Eve to drive away the "Nian" beast.

3. New Year's Eve and lucky money

In many parts of our country, New Year's Eve is actually the New Year's Eve when the whole family, old and young, don't sleep. And I don't go to bed until after eight o'clock in the first day. The main moral is that I hope my family will be safe and healthy. Children, in particular, can grow up healthily only on New Year's Eve.

4. New Year's Eve dinner

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.

There are usually fish and chicken on the dinner table, indicating that there are plans for more than a year. The so-called plan refers to people's livelihood, and people's livelihood is the most important thing in the new year. Lettuce and raw garlic mean making money and calculating. Southerners can also make a plate of sausages, hoping that the family will live a long and healthy life forever.

Step 5 Drink Tu Su wine.

Tu Su wine is a kind of medicinal liquor. In the ancient custom, the whole family drank Tu Su wine on January Day to eliminate unhealthy tendencies. Tu Su wine is made by hanging rhubarb, platycodon grandiflorum, Zanthoxylum bungeanum, Cinnamomum cassia, Cornus officinalis and Saposhnikovia divaricata in a well, picking them at the end of Yuan Dynasty and cooking them with the wine for four or five times. In ancient times, Tu Su wine was drunk in a unique way.

Most people drink alcohol, always starting from the elderly; But drinking Tu Su wine is just the opposite, starting with the smallest. Perhaps young people grow up day by day, drinking first to congratulate them, and old people drinking late to retain them.

Su Zhe, a writer in the Song Dynasty, wrote in his poem "In addition to Japan" that "it has been more than 70 years since Tu Su drank the last drink every year", which is a custom. In ancient times, this unique drinking order often caused people to have various emotions, so it left a deep impression on people.