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What other customs are left over from the old society in rural areas?

Many rural customs are actually handed down from the old society and passed down from generation to generation. Some of these customs include excellent traditional culture, and some are bad habits handed down from the old society. Next, let's briefly talk about the excellent traditional culture and bad habits.

For example, during the Chinese New Year, it is a traditional culture of our country to invite the kitchen god into the house and then offer sacrifices to the kitchen god, so as to ensure that the family can be safe and well-fed from the beginning of the year to the end of the year. As for now, it is also a more annual custom. These are one of the customs left over from the countryside in the old society.

There are also some customs in cities, such as eating jiaozi on New Year's Eve, and then setting off firecrackers outside at 12 to welcome the New Year and drive away the Nian animals. These are excellent traditional cultures, such as wearing new clothes for the New Year, giving red envelopes to the younger generation by elders, visiting relatives and friends on the morning of the New Year's Day, greeting each other and connecting feelings.

In addition, there are still some backward customs in rural areas. For example, it is said that people should kowtow to their elders in the new year. This custom is not common now, and few people still need to kowtow to celebrate the New Year. Another bad custom is burial, but it will gradually improve with the development of the times.