Spring Festival custom in my hometown

The custom of Spring Festival in my hometown is as follows:

1, sweeping the dust, "24, sweeping the house", according to records, there was a custom of sweeping the dust during the Spring Festival in the Yao and Shun era. Because of the homonym of "dust" and "Chen", sweeping dust in the Spring Festival means "getting rid of the old and not being new", which is intended to sweep away all bad luck and bad luck. This custom gives people a prayer to break the old and establish the new, to bid farewell to the old and to welcome the new. Whenever the Spring Festival comes, we should clean the environment, clean the bedding curtains, clean the willow green courtyard, dust off the cobwebs and dredge the culverts of open channels. Everywhere is filled with the joy of sanitation and cleaning to welcome the new year.

2. Keeping the old age, keeping the old age on New Year's Eve is one of the most important annual custom activities, and the custom of keeping the old age has a long history. The earliest record can be found in the New Year's Eve of the Western Jin Dynasty, when all parties gave gifts to each other, which was called "the year of giving back". Wine and food are invited, which is called "not old"; Young and old get together to drink and wish a complete song called "age division"; Everyone stays up all night, waiting for dawn. This is the so-called "shou sui". Since the Han Dynasty, the time for the alternation of the old and new years is generally at midnight.

3, firecrackers, folks have the saying of "opening firecrackers." 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. Setting off firecrackers can create a festive and lively atmosphere, which is a kind of entertainment in festivals and can bring happiness and good luck to people.