The Spring Festival is getting closer and closer, what do you know about the customs of the New Year?

The Spring Festival is the concentration and promotion of the excellent traditional Chinese culture, contains people's gratitude to nature's bounty and harvest after the pride and joy, full of happiness, the pursuit of a better life and the pursuit of hope, embodied in the excellent traditional Chinese culture and the achievements of the ancestors of the recognition and remembrance of the family and even between people care about the deep feelings of love and care. So do you know what are the customs of the Spring Festival?

1, stickers

The Spring Festival hanging stickers in urban and rural areas is also very common, thick black colorful paintings to thousands of families added a lot of prosperity and joy of the festive atmosphere. New Year's paintings are an ancient folk art in China, reflecting the people's simple customs and beliefs, and holding their hopes for the future. New Year's paintings, like spring scrolls, originated as "door gods". With the rise of woodblock printing, the content of the New Year's paintings has not only limited to monotonous themes such as door gods, become colorful, in some of the New Year's paintings in the workshop produced the "three stars of fortune, luck and longevity," "Heavenly officials to give blessings," "the five valleys," "the six animals," "to welcome the spring to receive the blessing of the" and other classic colorful New Year's paintings, in order to satisfy people's good intentions of the New Year's celebration and prayers.

The most widely circulated folk painting is one of "The Mouse Marries Her Family". It depicts an interesting scene in which a mouse marries a bride in accordance with the customs of the earth. In the early years of the Republic of China, Zheng Mantuo in Shanghai combined the calendar and New Year's paintings. This is a new form of New Year's paintings. This combination of two and one of the New Year's paintings, later developed into a calendar, and is still popular throughout the country.

2, posted Chunlian

Chinese New Year couplets, also known as door-to-door, spring stickers, couplets, couplets, peach symbols, etc., it is the New Year's Eve posted in the red festive elements of the "red" in a category. It is a unique form of literature in China, and is an important custom of New Year's Eve. It depicts beautiful images and expresses good wishes with neat and simple words. When people put up Nianhong (Spring Festival couplets and lucky charms) in front of their homes, it means that the Spring Festival has officially begun. Every Spring Festival, no matter in the city or rural areas, every family has to pick beautiful red spring couplets to paste on the door, to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new, to increase the festive atmosphere.

3, firecrackers

Folk have "open door firecrackers" said. That is, the arrival of the new year, the first thing that families open the door is to set off firecrackers, to beep, bla bla bla firecrackers to get rid of the old and welcome the new. Firecrackers is a Chinese specialty, also known as "firecrackers", "cannonballs", "firecrackers". Its origin is very early, so far has a history of more than two thousand years. Setting off firecrackers can create a festive and lively atmosphere, is a kind of entertainment for the Spring Festival, and can bring joy and good fortune to people. With the passage of time, the application of firecrackers is more and more widely used, varieties and colors are also increasingly numerous, every major festival and joyous celebration, and marriage, building, opening, etc., are to set off firecrackers in order to show the celebration, figure a good luck. But now the country has not allowed firecrackers, can also say a little regret it.

4, New Year's

New Year's Day, people get up early, put on the most beautiful clothes, dressed neatly, go out to visit friends and relatives, pay respect to each other, wishing good luck in the coming year. Worship a variety of ways, some of them are the same patriarch led a number of people to go door to door to pay tribute to the New Year; there are colleagues invited a few people to pay tribute to the New Year; there are also get together to congratulate each other, known as the "group worship". Because of the time-consuming and laborious New Year's visit, some upper-class people and scholars later used the posters to congratulate each other, which developed into the later "New Year's Pieces". Spring Festival to pay tribute to the New Year, the younger generation should first pay tribute to the elders, wishing the elders a long life and well-being, the elders can be prepared in advance of the New Year's money to the younger generation, it is said that the New Year's money can be pressed to the evil spirits, because of the "age" and the "spirit" harmonic, the elders to get the New Year's money can be peaceful and safe! The year is over.

5, New Year's Eve dinner

In fact, the main event of the evening of the Spring Festival is the "New Year's Eve dinner", also known as the New Year's Eve dinner, the reunion dinner, and so on. Whether the family is poor or rich, in the evening of New Year's Eve, to prepare a table of sumptuous "New Year's Eve dinner". It's a very happy thing to sit around with the family and eat dumplings and sumptuous dishes, reminiscing about the past and looking forward to the future.

New Year's Eve dinners in the south are usually filled with seafood and vegetables, while in the north the table is filled with fish and meat. The family gathering and reunion dinner at the end of the year is actually one of the many Chinese New Year customs most worthy of being passed down to everyone.

These are the 5 customs I know about Chinese New Year, what else do you know, guys? Tell us about them in the comments section.