What are the customs in Yuyao for the New Year?

Yuyao's Chinese New Year customs include dust removal, writing Spring Festival couplets, setting off firecrackers, eating bean tea rice cakes and dancing dragons. Dust removal is one of the traditional customs in China. This ceremony later evolved into a year-end cleaning, which pinned the good wishes of the working people in China to ward off evil spirits and eliminate disasters and welcome good luck. Write Spring Festival couplets: couplets made to celebrate the Spring Festival. Most of their contents express good wishes and wishes for the new year and the new year. Generally, it can be divided into general couplets, rural couplets, urban couplets and industrial couplets.

Yuyao's Chinese New Year customs include dust removal, writing Spring Festival couplets, setting off firecrackers, eating bean tea rice cakes and dancing dragons.

1. Dust removal: This is one of the traditional customs in China. This ceremony later evolved into a year-end cleaning, which pinned the good wishes of the working people in China to ward off evil spirits and eliminate disasters and welcome good luck.

2. Write Spring Festival couplets: couplets made to celebrate the Spring Festival. Most of their contents express good wishes and wishes for the new year and the new year. Generally, it can be divided into general couplets, rural couplets, urban couplets and industrial couplets.

3. Setting off firecrackers: It is a traditional folk custom in China with a history of more than 2,000 years. According to legend, it was to drive away a monster named Nian.

4, eat bean tea rice cake: rice cake is also called "rice cake", which is homophonic with "year after year", indicating that everyone's work and life are getting better every year. Bean tea is mainly cowpea or red bean, which means "head to head downstream".

5, dragon dance: Dragon dance is also known as playing dragon lantern and dragon lantern dance. Dragon is an ancient totem. It is said that dragons can spread clouds and rain, symbolizing good luck. Therefore, praying for peace and harvest through dragon dancing has become a custom all over the country.