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New Year's Eve to prepare which the New Year's goods

1, dry fruits: peanuts, melon seeds, pistachios, pine nuts and so on can be preserved for a longer period of time and is not easy to deteriorate dry fruits, is the family reunion together to watch the Spring Festival evening.

2, fruit: apples, bananas, oranges, kumquats. These fruits can be placed in the home on the coffee table with a fruit plate loaded up, conditions can also buy one or two kumquat tree in the waxing moon in front of the house and hanging on the kumquat tree with a small red envelope, looks festive, but also has the meaning of wealth.

3, candy: you can choose the kind of bulk candy, a variety of styles to have, such as chocolate, fudge, milk sugar and hard candy, jelly can also choose some. This can satisfy people of all ages to eat, especially when there are neighbors lead residence to pay homage to the New Year, you can grab a handful of candy.

4, cigarettes, alcohol, tea, beverages: these are the most important New Year's Eve goods to entertain guests when they visit.

Extended information:

The Chinese New Year has a long history, which has evolved from the ancient times of the first year of the year to pray for the year of sacrifice. The beginning of the Spring Festival contains profound cultural connotations, in the development of inheritance carries a rich historical and cultural heritage.

During the Spring Festival, all over the country, there are a variety of activities to celebrate the New Year, a lively and festive atmosphere overflowing; these activities to get rid of the old and bring in the new, welcome Jubilee to receive the blessing, worship the gods and ancestors, praying for a good year as the main content, the form of colorful and colorful, with a strong regional characteristics, cohesion of the essence of the traditional Chinese culture.

In ancient times, people from the end of the 23rd or 24th of the sacrificial stove will begin to "busy year", the New Year to the first month of the 19th before the end. In modern times, people set the Spring Festival on the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar, but generally at least until the first month of the first lunar month of the fifteenth (Lantern Festival) New Year's Day is considered to be the end.