What are the customs of celebrating the Spring Festival?

Customs and habits of the Spring Festival

Chapter One: Traditional customs of Spring Festival in China.

Chinese New Year traditions

paste up Spring Festival couplets

Sticking Spring Festival couplets is an activity during the Spring Festival, which has been very popular since the Song Dynasty. Every family has the custom of sticking Spring Festival couplets every year.

Spring Festival couplets, commonly known as "appropriate" and "Spring Post", are a kind of couplets. Because they are posted during the Spring Festival, they are called Spring Festival couplets. One source of Spring Festival couplets is Fu Tao. At first, people carved figures out of mahogany and hung them by the door to ward off evil spirits. Later, they painted the door god on the mahogany, simplified it and wrote the door god's name on the mahogany board. Another source of Spring Festival couplets is spring stickers. The ancients posted the word "Yichun" every day when they were in beginning of spring. The real popularity of Spring Festival couplets began in the Ming Dynasty, which was related to Zhu Yuanzhang's advocacy. According to historical records, one year before the Spring Festival, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered every household to post a pair of Spring Festival couplets to celebrate. At first, Spring Festival couplets were carved on mahogany boards, and later rewritten on paper. The color of mahogany is red, which means good luck and avoiding evil spirits, so most Spring Festival couplets are written in red paper.

Spring Festival couplets can be called the original artistic wonder of the Chinese nation, and they are deeply loved by generations because of their characteristics of appealing to both refined and popular tastes. Someone once summed up the Spring Festival couplets like this: "Two lines support heaven and earth; A pair of couplets, commenting on ancient Han. " Sticking Spring Festival couplets is an important folk custom in the New Year. On the eve of the Spring Festival, every household should put up red Spring Festival couplets. A pair of festive and warm Spring Festival couplets expresses people's good wishes to welcome the New Year and look forward to a new life.

Celebrate New Year's Eve.

New Year's Eve refers to the evening of the last day of the year, which is connected with the Spring Festival from beginning to end. It is an important moment of "one night for two years, five hours for two years". "Except" means "going", and New Year's Eve means "the month is poor and the old year is exhausted", which means that the old year will be replaced by the new year next year. New Year's Eve is the first climax of the New Year's Festival. Shounian, commonly known as "Enduring the Year", begins with eating New Year's Eve. New Year's Eve is the most intimate and warm family dinner in a year. At this time, people can not only enjoy a table of delicious food,