What are the customs during the Spring Festival?

During the Spring Festival, there are red stickers (placing people's good expectations for a new year and a new life), New Year's Eve (enjoying a full table of delicious food and a happy atmosphere), lucky money (meaning to ward off evil spirits and keep peace), eating jiaozi ("making friends in the New Year"), setting off firecrackers ("greeting the gods"), paying New Year's greetings ("group worship") and offering sacrifices to stoves ("New Year's greetings"). 1. Sticking Year Red Sticks Year Red: Every household sticks Year Red on the 28th, 29th or 30th of each year (Year Red is the general name of red festive elements such as Spring Festival couplets, door gods, banners, New Year pictures and blessings). Sticking New Year Red (waving spring) is a traditional Chinese New Year custom in China, which adds a festive atmosphere and places people's good expectations for the new year and new life. Eating New Year's Eve is the most lively and enjoyable time for every household in the Spring Festival. New Year's Eve. The sumptuous New Year's Eve dinner filled a table, and the whole family got together, sat around the table and had a reunion dinner. The sense of accomplishment in my heart is really unspeakable. People not only enjoyed a table full of delicious food, but also enjoyed a happy atmosphere. 3, lucky money lucky money: lucky money, one of the old customs, after the annual dinner, the elders should distribute the lucky money prepared in advance to the younger generation. It is said that lucky money can kill evil spirits, and the younger generation can spend a year safely with it. Lucky money has the meaning of exorcising evil spirits and keeping peace in folk culture. The original intention of lucky money is to suppress evil and drive away evil. Because people think that children are easy to be invisible, they use lucky money to suppress evil spirits. Step 4 Eat jiaozi

Eating jiaozi means "making friends when you are young" by alternating the old with the new. Because the white flour jiaozi is shaped like a silver ingot, pots and pans on the table symbolize the meaning of "getting rich in the New Year, and the ingots are rolling in". Some wrapped jiaozi and some coins sterilized with boiling water, saying that whoever ate first would make more money. 5. Setting off firecrackers China people have the custom of setting off firecrackers during the Spring Festival. Firecrackers are also called firecrackers, except for Chinese New Year. On New Year's Eve, people bid farewell to the old year and greet the new year with firecrackers. On New Year's Day, people set off firecrackers as soon as they open the door, which is called "opening firecrackers". After the firecrackers, the ground is broken red, which is the so-called "full house". At this time, the streets are full of anger and joy. The time to set off firecrackers is no longer limited to the early hours of New Year's Eve, which begins and reaches its climax at midnight, commonly known as "welcoming God". At this time, no matter rich or poor, firecrackers should be set off. 6. It is every child's favorite thing to pay New Year greetings on the first day of the new year. After the New Year, my face will turn red. It's really painful. People get up early, put on the tallest clothes, dress up in a neat row, go out to visit relatives and friends, and wish each other good luck in the coming year. There are many ways to pay New Year's greetings, some are led by the same patriarch from door to door, and some colleagues invite several people to pay New Year's greetings. Others get together to congratulate each other. This is called "group worship". 7. Offering sacrifices to stoves is a very popular custom in China. In the old society, almost every kitchen had a "kitchen god". People called this god "Bodhisattva commanding life" or "kitchen god commanding life". As the saying goes, "Men don't Yue Bai, women don't sacrifice to the kitchen". It is said that the kitchen god looks like a small white face and is afraid of women offering sacrifices to the kitchen stove, which is "suspected of men and women." People pay attention to eating jiaozi on the Festival of Sacrificing Kitchen, which means "Look at the windward side of jiaozi". 8. Keeping New Year's Eve has been one of the most important annual customs activities since the Han Dynasty. The custom of observing the age has a long history, which was first seen in the local chronicles of the Western Jin Dynasty and the Zhou Dynasty. On New Year's Eve, the whole family get together to keep vigil all night, symbolizing driving away all evil diseases and epidemics and expecting good luck in the new year. In ancient times, observing the age has two meanings: the old man's observing the age means "resigning from the old", which means cherishing time; Young people keep their age in order to prolong the life of their parents. 9. Stick to the door

In order to pray for a long life, people keep the habit of sticking up doors. The ancients thought that people with strange looks often had magical temperament and extraordinary skills, so the door gods always glared and looked ferocious. Because the doors of China's house are usually two opposite doors, the door gods are always paired. After the Tang Dynasty, besides peace, people also regarded Qin and Weichi Gong, two military commanders in the Tang Dynasty, as gatekeepers. 10. As early as the Song Dynasty, New Year greeting cards, a special way of greeting the New Year, were used among the royal family, aristocratic literati and relatives, and were called "famous thorns" or "famous stickers". It is to cut plum blossom stationery into cards about two inches wide and three inches long, and write your name and address on them. A red paper bag called "door book" is attached to each door, with the owner's name written on it to receive the name thorn (name sticker). The worshippers write their names on the register, which means to pay a New Year call. The festival of Spring Festival affects the Spring Festival, which is the most important and culturally significant festival in China, and it is also an important internal driving force to promote industrial economy and domestic consumption. With the rapid growth of the national economy and the continuous improvement of the disposable personal income of residents, the consumption of Spring Festival has also developed from the traditional purchase of new year's goods to holiday products and services with the characteristics of the times, such as new year's goods works, product technology, leisure and entertainment. During the Spring Festival, the large-scale flow of people, goods, information and art promoted the overall prosperity of culture, commerce, transportation, tourism, telecommunications, finance and catering, and formed a unique "Spring Festival economy". Chinese New Year is a concentrated expression of people's annual consumption. With the emergence of new consumption concepts, the Spring Festival is not only a "New Year" in the traditional sense, but also a "shutter" that drives the market economy. People began to turn from the traditional festival busyness to a new celebration trend.