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What do you learn about the customs of the Spring Festival from the poem "The Day of the New Year

What do you know about the customs of the Spring Festival from the poem "The Day of the New Year": letting off firecrackers and bamboo, drinking tusu wine, and putting up spring scrolls.

Firecrackers: Firecrackers are a traditional Chinese folk custom that has a history of more than 2,000 years and is said to drive away a monster called Nian. When the clock strikes midnight, the New Year's bell rings, and the sound of firecrackers reverberates throughout the Chinese land. In this "year of yuan, the month of yuan, the time of yuan" of the "three yuan" moment, some places in the courtyard base "Wang Huo", in order to show that the prosperous gas through the sky, prosperous and prosperous.

Tusu wine: in ancient times, every New Year's Eve night, every family has to drink a brew of tusu wine Chinese medicine. It is said that the whole family ****drinking it can prevent the plague, and the name Tu Su is probably derived from it. It is also said that it is because Tusu wine can slaughter the filth and awaken the soul.

Pasted spring couplets: the beginning of the new year, the first thing is to paste the door god, couplets. Whenever the New Year's Day 30 (or 29, some areas may be earlier), families have to go to the street to buy Spring Festival couplets, have the pleasure of their own also spread the paper and ink waving spring, will be inside and outside of the gateway to the mansion decorated with a new look.