What are the customs of the Spring Festival in Wenzhou?

1, the New Year

The first day of the New Year, people get up early, put on the most beautiful clothes, dressed neatly, go out to visit friends and relatives, pay respect to each other, wishing good luck in the coming year. There are many ways to pay tribute to the New Year, some of them are the same patriarch to lead a number of people to pay tribute to the New Year from door to door; some are colleagues invited to pay tribute to the New Year; there is also a get together to congratulate each other, known as the "reunion worship".

Because of the time-consuming and labor-intensive door-to-door New Year's greetings, some of the upper-class people and the scholars used the posters to congratulate each other, which developed into the later "New Year's tablets".

2, posting Spring Festival couplets

Spring Festival couplets, also known as door-to-door, spring stickers, couplets, couplets, peach symbols, etc., which is a unique form of literature in China with neat, couplets, concise, sophisticated text depicting the background of the times, expressing the best wishes. Every Spring Festival, no matter urban or rural, every family has to select a big red Spring Festival couplets pasted on the door, for the festival to increase the festive atmosphere.

3, window decals

In folklore, people also like to put all kinds of paper cuttings on the windows - window flowers. Window flowers not only set off a festive atmosphere, but also decorative, appreciative and practical in one.

Paper cutting in China is a very popular folk art, for thousands of years by the people, because it is mostly affixed to the window, so it is also known as "window flowers". Window decoration with its unique generalization and exaggeration of auspicious events, good wishes expressed in the best, the festival decorated with red hot and rich.

4, stickers

The Spring Festival hanging stickers in urban and rural areas is also very common, thick black colorful paintings to thousands of families added a lot of prosperity and joy of the festive atmosphere. New Year's paintings are an ancient folk art in China, reflecting the simple customs and beliefs of the people and holding their hopes for the future.

5, to send the God Zao customs

Lunar Lunar 23, is an important folk festival before the Spring Festival, people call it "Zao Festival". At this time, people can not hold back the joy of welcoming the New Year mood, stop the hands of a variety of work, busy routine before the stove send God activities.