New Year wishes gestures

New Year's Greeting Gesture: The standard gesture for a man to make a bow is to form a fist with his right hand and wrap his left hand around it. Because the right hand is the attacking hand, it should be wrapped to show goodwill. The opposite is true for women, but women do not clasp their fists, they only press their hands.

New Year's greeting gestures that is to pay homage to the New Year, also known as the arch. Greetings are divided into "auspicious worship" and "fierce worship" two kinds: "auspicious worship" of the basic gesture is the right hand into a fist, the left hand into the palm of the right fist or package or cover; on the contrary, the right hand into the palm of the left hand into a fist for the "fierce worship". "bad worship", generally used for mourning.

With the Western handshake gradually becoming the main etiquette of social occasions, the traditional ritual of bowing is gradually forgotten by the general public, many men pay homage to the New Year with the right hand holding the left fist that is an example, but according to the old rituals, this posture will only be used in the occasion of mourning.

Introduction of the arching hand salute:

As a kind of etiquette, it is also a kind of folklore, and the people of China pay attention to the distance between people to show "respect". Therefore, the arching hand salute is not only the most reflective of the Chinese humanistic spirit of meeting, but also one of the most appropriate etiquette of interaction.

This kind of cupping of fists is only a form of New Year's greeting between peers. The old rule is to kowtow to the elders, and children usually kneel and kowtow, while adults squat and bend their knees.