Chinese traditional holiday dress custom

Wearing new clothes is an ancient custom, in the North and South Dynasty customs, there is such a record, New Year's Day this day, "young and old all correct clothing". In the Song Dynasty, "Tokyo Dreaming Records" is also recorded in the Song Dynasty, this dynasty is very interesting, is the public of the wind is very prosperous, every New Year's Day, everyone is dressed clean, to go around. To the Republic of China, "Pinggu County Records" also records that on the first day of the first month of the year, "the young and the young are decorated to worship their elders for the birthday". So this new clothes almost became the brand of the Spring Festival. Once the New Year is over, everyone wears new clothes.　　In the Chinese tradition, wear new clothes for the New Year has a long history, it and the dragon dance, lion dance, gongs and drums, sticking Spring Festival couplets, firecrackers, hanging lanterns, is an indispensable part of the festivities, colorful Spring Festival new clothes, the festive atmosphere baked more intense, more beautiful, then wear new clothes for the New Year this tradition is actually how to form? Why do people wear new clothes on New Year's Day? Wear new clothes because of China's ancient farming society, the past farming society, especially in the Yellow River Basin, a year, that is, to the end of the year to summarize, only to send a little salary, that is, to sum up, so unlike now a month on the expenditure once a week expenditure you can buy new clothes week after week, or even every day, so to the beginning of the New Year, to be renewed, from the inside to the outside there is a kind of new weather, so wear new clothes, clothes are very good, so the New Year, clothes are very good. Therefore, when you wear new clothes, the clothes are very much like the Spring Festival couplets that you wear on your body to express the celebration of spring. Wearing new clothes is also a way of warding off evil spirits, and it is a symbol of good luck and exorcism. Whether rich or poor, to this New Year's time, he had to put on new clothes.