What are the customs of New Year's Eve in Henan

1, posting Spring Festival couplets

Spring Festival couplets, also known as the "door to", "spring stickers", "couplets", "Pair", belongs to a kind of couplets, is a unique form of literature. Hundreds of people in the Spring Festival to paste the Spring Festival folk custom from the Ming Dynasty only began to prevail, the trend originated in Nanjing. Now the people in the south of the Yangtze River pay attention to the morning of the New Year's Day 30 posting Spring Festival couplets.

2, posting the word "fortune"

The Spring Festival posting of the word "fortune" is a long-standing custom in Chinese folklore. The Chinese New Year sticker "Fu" word, sent people to the happy life of the desire, but also the wish for a better future. There is no uniform standard for how to post the word "Fu".

3, ancestral worship

Worshipping ancestral tombs, ancestral ancestral worship, or ancestral tablets and other forms of worship, are expressed the children and grandchildren on the occasion of the festival do not forget the ancestors, and pray for the blessing of the ancestors.

4, the New Year's Eve

The custom of observing the New Year's Eve has a history of nearly two thousand years in China. In the Jin Dynasty, Zhou Zhi's "Records of Customs and Landscape" talked about the yearly custom of Shu, in which people gave each other gifts at the end of the year, which was called "feeding the year"; feasting with each other, which was called "farewell to the year"; and staying up all night on the New Year's Eve, which was called "observing the year". "This is what we see nowadays about the custom of observing the New Year's Eve. This is the earliest record of the custom of observing the New Year's Eve. However, it seems that this is still a local custom, after the Sui and Tang dynasties, it has become a national **** with the annual custom.

5, to the new year's money

"Three stars in the south, the family worship, the younger generation kowtow, the older generation to give money. New Year's money is not only the elders of the care of the younger generation, but also the elders of the blessing, so that the children in the old and welcome the new occasion more than a few points of joy.