Several customs of the Spring Festival

There are many traditional customs in the Spring Festival. At present, the most popular customs are: buying new year's goods, sweeping dust, posting New Year greetings, eating New Year's Eve, keeping New Year's Eve, giving lucky money, dancing dragons and lions, offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors, praying for disaster relief, visiting gods, racing boats, temple fairs, drumming, cursor flags and offering wine. Below I will choose five traditional customs: cutting window grilles, hanging lanterns, setting off firecrackers, celebrating the New Year, and dancing dragons and lions. Interested friends come and have a look.

First, cut the window grilles.

Cutting window grilles is one of many customs. After the Song and Yuan Dynasties, it began to rise, with the meaning of saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new. There are different styles of window grilles in the north and south. The south is beautiful and exquisite, and the north is naive and simple. In the days before New Year's Eve, every door and window is decorated with various shapes of window grilles, which makes the atmosphere of the New Year more intense. During the Spring Festival, people spend time in stick grilles to decorate the environment and render the atmosphere, and hope to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new.

Second, hang lanterns.

Hanging lanterns is to drive away the legend of Nian beast. According to legend, there was a monster named Nian in ancient China, which was very fierce and even hurt people's lives. Later, it was discovered that Nian animals are afraid of red things, so on New Year's Eve, everyone hangs red lanterns, sticks red couplets and sets off firecrackers.

Third, set off firecrackers.

There is a folk saying in China that "open the door and set off firecrackers". That is, when the new year comes, the first thing for every household to open the door is to set off firecrackers to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new. Firecracker is a specialty of China, also known as "Firecracker", "Firecracker" and "Firecracker". Its origin is very early, and it has a history of more than two thousand years.

Fourth, New Year greetings.

New Year's Day is celebrated in the first month. Friends and family are really happy. Let's meet and congratulate. Congratulations on your good luck. Being rich and having more children is happy and healthy ... Visiting relatives and friends is an ancient Han folk culture and an activity for relatives to exchange feelings during the Spring Festival. Visiting relatives and friends and going home during the Spring Festival is a custom handed down from generation to generation in China. It is a great kind of family communication to contact feelings and exchange condolences between relatives. In some areas, visiting relatives and friends is called "visiting relatives".

Five, dragon and lion dance

Dragon and lion dancing is a traditional folk custom in China. Dragon dance is also called dragon lantern play and dragon lantern dance. Dragon is an ancient totem. It is said that dragons can spread clouds and rain, eliminate disasters and reduce happiness, symbolizing good luck. Therefore, praying for peace and harvest through dragon dancing has become a custom all over the country.

Our country is vast and rich in natural resources. People will cook different foods to welcome the New Year. For example, the South will pound rice cakes, while the North will steam flowers and steamed buns ... The difference is customs and food, and people are enjoying the joy of Qi Xin's cooperation in welcoming the New Year. The heat emitted by thousands of households is also a wish for a prosperous life in the coming year.