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New Year's rites and rituals

Kowtow, i.e., kneeling and kowtowing, nowadays in some rural areas, the younger generation pays New Year's greetings to the elders, especially the minors to the elders of higher generation; bowing and making obeisance, the gesture of making obeisance is to hold both hands in front of the fist first.

The Spring Festival is one of the grandest, liveliest and most important ancient traditional festivals that is unique to us Chinese. Spring Festival is also known as New Year's Eve, and the custom of Spring Festival has continued since the Western Han Dynasty until today. The Spring Festival generally refers to New Year's Eve and the first day of the first month.