What are the preparatory activities before the Chinese New Year?

The preparatory activities before the new year include buying new year's goods, offering sacrifices to stoves, sweeping dust, preparing and keeping the New Year's Eve dinner.

1. Buying new year's goods: Buying new year's goods is an indispensable top priority for ordinary people in China, including eating, wearing, wearing, using, playing, offering, sending, drying, fresh, raw and cooked. In short, the necessary items for the Spring Festival are called new year's goods.

2. Sacrificing a stove: Sacrificing a stove is a traditional custom with great influence and wide spread among the Han people. The folk sacrificial furnace originated from the ancient custom of worshipping fire.

3. Dust removal: Dust removal, also known as house cleaning, house cleaning, dust removal, slag removal, dust removal and dust removal, is one of the traditional folk Chinese New Year customs in China.

4. Prepare New Year's Eve: also known as New Year's Eve, reunion dinner, reunion dinner, etc. Especially on New Year's Eve (the day before the Spring Festival). People who work outside will go back to their hometown to reunite with their families before New Year's Eve.

5. Keeping old: Keeping old on New Year's Eve is one of the annual customs, and the custom of keeping old has a long history. The folk custom of observing the old year is mainly manifested in that every household lights the old year fire and the whole family gets together, and the old year fire is not allowed to go out, waiting for the moment to bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new year.