What are the customs of Han nationality in China for the New Year?

The customs of Han nationality in China during the New Year are: giving out red envelopes, setting off firecrackers, dancing lions, putting up Spring Festival couplets and buying new year's goods.

1, red envelope

Giving out red envelopes is a custom in the New Year. We like red in the New Year because it symbolizes vitality, happiness and good luck. Giving a red envelope to a minor mistress means bringing them blessings and good luck. The money in a red envelope is just to make children happy. Its main meaning is in red paper, because it symbolizes good luck.

Step 2 set off firecrackers

Setting off firecrackers is a traditional custom in China. On the first day of the first lunar month, or throughout the Spring Festival, people will set off fireworks, that is, set off firecrackers to celebrate the Spring Festival.

3, lion dance

Lion dance is an excellent folk art in China. Whenever festivals or gatherings are held to celebrate, people always entertain themselves by dancing lions. Lion dance is divided into north and south, and the lion dance in Guangdong is the most famous in the south. Lions are made of colored strips of cloth.

4. Post Spring Festival couplets

Every Spring Festival, no matter in urban or rural areas, every household should take off beautiful red couplets and stick them on the doors to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, thus increasing the festive atmosphere. Another source of Spring Festival couplets is spring stickers. The ancients posted the word "Yichun" more and more at the beginning of spring, and then it gradually developed into Spring Festival couplets, expressing the good wishes of the working people in China to ward off evil spirits and avoid disasters and welcome good luck. This custom originated in the Song Dynasty and was popular in the Ming Dynasty.

Step 5 buy new year's goods

Buying new year's goods is an indispensable top priority for ordinary people in China, including food, clothing, housing and transportation, toys and gifts, fresh and dried, etc., which are collectively called "new year's goods", and the process of buying new year's goods is called "buying new year's goods".