Cold winter companionship for love! How should I guide my children to understand folklore and Chinese New Year customs?

The Spring Festival is a joyous occasion. It is the grandest festival of our nation. People have been busy for a year and finally have a reason to relax during the Spring Festival.

There are a lot of traditional, Chinese New Year customs that still need to be preserved for children. In order for them to grow up better.

"On the 24th day of the Lunar New Year, dusting and sweeping the house"". Nowadays, children, basically in the elders carefully cared for under the growing up, can be said to be clothed and fed, what work has not done. This can take advantage of the Spring Festival, the adults physically, let the children help to clean up the home. This can be said to be a custom passed down from the ancestors for many years. Even the laziest people usually clean the house and the outside of the house on New Year's Day.

"Twenty-nine, stick to the door". It is also known as the "Spring Festival couplets". The posting of lucky charms signifies good luck and prosperous days in the coming year. You can let the children help to paste, tell them the origin of the Spring Festival couplets, which is also part of the traditional Chinese culture. It's also part of traditional Chinese culture. Not to mention, once you put up the spring scrolls on the door, you'll immediately have the festive atmosphere of the New Year.

"Ancestor worship". This means paying homage to the ancestors. This is also an important traditional ritual. In our area, on the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, families will burn paper on the graves of their deceased elders to console their spirits in heaven. They also pray for the blessing of their children and grandchildren. This actually has a warning effect, cautioning the children and grandchildren, do not "counting the history and forgetting the ancestors," otherwise, how to be a person?

"Table manners". There is also a lot of etiquette when visiting relatives on New Year's Day. For example, to toast to the elders, can not be raised over the elders of the wine glass, to the elders of the rice, can not use one hand. Before the people at the table arrive, the children will be in the plate to pull rice. And so on, although this seems to be a small thing, but also reflects a person's cultivation.

So, taking advantage of the Spring Festival's rare time to get together, let us in the happy reunion of the family, these traditional etiquette, passed on to our children. Because, this is also part of the splendid culture of the Chinese nation.