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What are the customs during the Spring Festival?

1, Chinese New Year's customs include: sweeping dust, holding new year's goods, having a reunion dinner, observing the new year, giving lucky money, putting up Spring Festival couplets, setting off firecrackers and paying New Year's greetings.

2. Chinese New Year is not a day. In addition to new year's eve, it also includes preparations for the year before. For example, sweeping the dust on the 24th of the twelfth lunar month means cleaning the house. "Dust" and "Chen" are homophonic. Sweeping dust means cleaning up all the old things, sweeping the floor and welcoming the new year.

It is a big project to buy new year's goods around the 26th of the twelfth lunar month. Basically, the new year's goods before last year have to be prepared several times. Chicken, duck, fish, fruits and vegetables, snacks and new clothes for children and adults need to be purchased.

4, the twelfth lunar month, New Year's Eve reunion. On this day, Spring Festival couplets will be posted before dark. Red paper and auspicious words are full of people's beautiful expectations for the coming year. Besides Spring Festival couplets, door stickers or window grilles are also very popular in some places. Warm colors can immediately set off the lively atmosphere of the New Year.

On this day, everyone will prepare a rich reunion dinner together and the whole family will get together. Eat the New Year's Eve dinner slowly, from dark to late at night. Everyone stayed up until twelve o'clock and set off firecrackers to welcome the New Year. This night, the lights are on all night, which means "burning lights every year", which means that the family will be rich in wealth in the coming year.

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Han nationality-On the first day of New Year's Day, people don't sweep the floor, splash water outside, enter through the back door, beat and scold children, and congratulate each other on good luck and prosperity in the new year.

Manchu-As the Chinese New Year approaches, every family cleans the courtyard. stick grilles writes couplets and wishes. On the thirtieth day of the twelfth lunar month, every household erected a lantern pole more than six meters high. From the first day to the sixteenth day, the red light is hung high every day. Jiaozi is better for the New Year's Eve dinner. Pay attention to pleating. When cooking jiaozi, some of them are wrapped in copper coins, so people who eat it are lucky. Worship twice during the Spring Festival and once on New Year's Eve to bid farewell to the old year; Worship again on the first day of the new year to welcome the new year. There will be vault and camel jumping before the Spring Festival. There is also the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month.

What are the Chinese New Year customs?

Celebrate the Spring Festival

Koreans-every family sticks Spring Festival couplets, cooks all kinds of sumptuous meals and eats "eight-treasure rice". On New Year's Eve, the whole family stayed up all night, playing gayageum and playing the flute. At the dawn of the first day, people put on holiday costumes to pay New Year greetings to their elders. During the festival, men, women and children indulge in singing and dancing, springboard pressing and tug-of-war. On the fifteenth night of the first month, a traditional celebration party is held. Several elected old people boarded the wooden "moon-watching frame", singing and dancing with long drums, flutes and suona.

Oroqen-On New Year's Eve, the whole family sits around for dinner. Taste delicious food, drink wine and have New Year's Eve dinner. Young people salute and kowtow to their families and relatives and elders. At midnight, people hold birch bark boxes or iron boxes and walk around the stables several times to pray for the prosperity of the six animals. On the first day of junior high school, we pay New Year greetings to each other in new clothes. Young men and women get together to dance in groups. There are hunting dances, "red fruit" dances and "black bear fighting" dances.

Hezhe nationality-On New Year's Eve, everyone is busy cooking New Year's Eve, cutting window grilles and putting up lanterns. On the first day of junior high school, girls, women and children put on new clothes embroidered with clouds, went to relatives and friends' homes to pay New Year greetings and entertained guests with a "fish feast". Raw fish with hot and sour flavor, crispy fried fish hair, salmon roe. Folk poets offer poems and tell stories to people. Women play "touching paste" and "throwing bones". Teenagers take part in skiing, skating, shooting grass targets and crossing grass competitions.

Mongolian people eat jiaozi and set off firecrackers, just like Han people. Besides, we should eat "hand-grabbed meat" on New Year's Eve to show family reunion. In the early morning of the first day, the younger generation presented "farewell wine" to their elders. Then the young men and women got on their horses, rode on yurts, kowtowed to their elders first, then drank and danced, and then the men and women took this opportunity to hold horse races.

Naxi people visit relatives and friends in the first month of the lunar calendar and take turns to be guests. Young men organize lantern festivals to compete with other villages. Lantern Festival is held in cities and villages to show their national stories, such as A Niu's banter, longevity, social drama night pearl, lion rolling hydrangea, phoenix dance and so on.

Tibetans-On New Year's Eve, a grand "God Jumping Meeting" was held, and people wore masks to sing and dance to show that they would bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, so as to eliminate disasters and reduce happiness.

Yi people-during the Spring Festival, people will get together and dance "Xi jumps over the moon". In some villages, men take water to cook on the first day of the lunar new year to give women a rest and express their condolences for their hard work for a year.

Miao people-call the Spring Festival "Hakka Year", and everyone slaughters pigs and sheep and bakes wine to celebrate the harvest, hoping that the weather will be good and the crops will be bumper in the coming year. Also need to sing "Song of Spring", the lyrics are: longing for spring, longing for spring, cherishing spring and embracing spring.

What are the Chinese New Year customs?

Celebrate the Spring Festival

Bai people-Bai people began to worship each other and give each other gifts on New Year's Eve. New Year's Eve vigil. After midnight, young men and women rushed to fetch water as a sign of thrift. In the morning, the whole family drinks sugar water soaked with rice fragrance, wishing a sweet life. We may visit places of interest together, or play dragon lantern, lion dance and overlord whip.

Zhuang nationality-On New Year's Eve, every household will light a fire on the fireplace and it will not go out all night, which is called "welcome fire". The folk custom is to wrap zongzi for the New Year. During the festival, we will also organize various national cultural and sports activities to celebrate, such as singing "tea picking", lion dancing, pole dancing, playing gongs, playing top, playing ball games and performing local operas.

Jing people-on New Year's Day, they should go to the well with incense sticks to worship, which is called "buying new water". On the first day of the first day, Tibetan women should carry "auspicious water" from the river before dawn. People believe that the new water in the first day of junior high school can bring good news and good luck, and can keep good luck for a year.

Dongxiang people-like to have a land war during the Spring Festival to show their love for raising their own land.

Qiang people-every household should make all kinds of fried calf, lamb, chicken and other sacrifices to worship ancestors and gods. During the New Year, they should drink and sit around the altar. The oldest person sings "opening the altar" and then sucks it from left to right with a straw about two feet long.

Ewenki people-on the first day of the first month, pay New Year greetings to each other, especially to their elders and relatives. On the first night of the new year, men, women and children gather in a big house to have fun. Generally, the elderly call this an entertainment party. The woman starts dancing or singing first, and then everyone dances together, regardless of sex.

Daur nationality-At the dawn of the first day of the first month, women prepare breakfast, and men burn incense and worship God, praying for God to bless their peace and prosperity. After worshipping God, they toast their elders and kowtow to accept the greetings from the elderly. After eating jiaozi and putting on new clothes, close relatives of men and women get together and are led by their elders to carry out various entertainment activities according to their generations.