Information about Chinese New Year customs

New Year's Money

When paying New Year's call on the Spring Festival, the elders have to distribute the prepared New Year's Money to the younger generation, which is said to be able to suppress the evil spirits, because "year" and "spirit" are homophonic, and the younger generation can spend the year in peace and security if they get the money. It is said that the money can keep evil spirits at bay, because the word "year" is a homonym of "spirit", and the younger generation can spend the year in peace if they get the money.

Posting Spring Festival Couplets

Spring Festival Couplets, also known as door pairs, spring stickers, couplets, couplets, peach symbols, etc., which depict the background of the times and express the best wishes in neat, pairwise, concise and subtle words, is a unique form of literature in China.

Plastering Window Decorations and Posting "Fu" Characters Inverted

While posting Spring Festival couplets, some people put large and small "Fu" characters on the doors, walls and lintels of their houses. It is a long-established custom in China to put up the Chinese character "福 "on the Spring Festival.

New Year's Paintings

The Spring Festival is also very common in urban and rural areas, thick black colorful New Year's Paintings to thousands of families added a lot of prosperity and joy of the festive atmosphere. New Year's paintings are an ancient folk art in China, reflecting the people's simple customs and beliefs, and holding out their hopes for the future.

Watch the New Year's Eve

Watch the New Year's Eve is one of the most important New Year's Eve activities, and the custom of watching the New Year's Eve has a long history. The earliest records are found in the Western Jin Dynasty Zhou Chu's "Land and Customs": New Year's Eve night, each with the gift, known as "feed the year"; wine and food invited, known as the "other year"; young and old get together to drink, wishing to complete, known as the "sub year"; all night, everyone is the most important thing. The first is the "New Year's Eve"; the second is the "New Year's Eve"; the third is the "New Year's Eve".

Crackers

Chinese folk "open door firecrackers". That is, at the dawn of the new year, the first thing that families do when they open the door is to set off firecrackers, to beep and blare the sound of firecrackers to get rid of the old and welcome the new.

Expanded Information

The Spring Festival, one of the four major traditional Chinese festivals, is traditionally the Lunar New Year. The Spring Festival is commonly known as the "New Year's Day", and is traditionally known as the New Year, the Great Year, the Heavenly Lunar New Year, and the New Year, and is also known orally as the Dusui, the Celebration of the New Year, and the New Year's Day.

The Chinese people have been celebrating the Spring Festival for at least 4,000 years. In folklore, the Spring Festival in the old traditional sense refers to the period from the Lunar New Year's Lunar New Year festival or the Lunar New Year's twenty-third or twenty-fourth stove festival, until the nineteenth day of the first month. In modern times, people set the Spring Festival on the first day of the first month of the Lunar Calendar, but the New Year generally does not end until at least the fifteenth day of the first month of the Lunar Calendar (Shangyuan Festival).

During the Spring Festival, the Han Chinese and some ethnic minorities in China hold various celebrations. These activities, which focus on worshipping gods and spirits, paying tribute to ancestors, getting rid of the old and bringing in the new, welcoming good fortune, and praying for a good year, take colorful forms and are characterized by a strong sense of ethnicity. Influenced by Chinese culture, some countries and nations belonging to the Chinese cultural circle also have the custom of celebrating the Spring Festival.

The Spring Festival is a festival of joy and harmony, and a time for family reunions. People return home as much as possible to be with their loved ones during the Spring Festival, and during this festival, friends and relatives visit each other to express their affection for each other and their best wishes for the new year.

The Spring Festival is the grandest traditional festival of the Chinese nation, and it is also an important carrier for the release of Chinese people's emotions and the fulfillment of their psychological demands, as well as the annual carnival and the eternal spiritual pillar of the Chinese nation. The Spring Festival, together with the Qingming Festival, the Dragon Boat Festival and the Mid-Autumn Festival, are known as the four major traditional festivals in China. "The Spring Festival folklore was approved by the State Council to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.

References

Baidu Encyclopedia - Spring Festival