24 Customs of the Lunar New Year

Customs of the Lunar New Year:

1, window decals

After the twenty-third day of the Lunar New Year, families began to put up window decals. In the past, the windows are usually cut by themselves, the old man with grandchildren cut beautiful window stickers. Nowadays, most people are going to buy window flowers, it seems that there will be less a trace of joy and the flavor of the year.

2, posting spring couplets

In many places, the New Year began to post spring couplets, is considered to be relatively early into the Spring Festival. The more traditional family, but also used to ask a good writer to write spring scrolls. Usually use the most common red paper and black ink, simple but full of New Year's flavor.

3, eat dumplings

Northern New Year's Eve is used to eating dumplings, meant to send off the king of the stove, meaning "send off dumplings to meet the wind face". The family sits down together and eats the hot dumplings, which makes for a happy and festive evening.

Introduction to the New Year

The New Year, a traditional Chinese festival, is also known as the "Festival of the New Year", the "Festival of the God of the Zao" and the "Festival of the Zao". "etc. Folklore activities in the small year are mainly dust sweeping, sacrificial stoves and so on. China is a vast country, there are great differences in customs, due to the different customs, known as the "small year" of the day is not the same.

Most areas in the south is the 24th day of the lunar month, the northern region is the 23rd day of the lunar month, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai areas of the "24th day of the lunar month" and "the night before New Year's Eve" are known as the small year, Nanjing, the Lantern Festival of the first month of the 15th day of the lunar month for the small year, part of Yunnan Province! The date of the New Year is the sixteenth day of the first month, the date of the New Year's Eve in some areas of the southwest and north.