What are the traditional New Year's Day customs?

The customs of New Year's Day are eating dumplings, eating rice cakes, enjoying lanterns and ancestor worship, as well as firecrackers, of course, now many areas in order to protect the environment have been expressly prohibited fireworks, the focus is on reunion.

New Year's Day customs and the division of the north and south, the north people popular eating dumplings, the south people popular eating rice cakes, every New Year's Day festival, the north people will eat dumplings, New Year's Day to eat dumplings, the custom of flourishing in the Ming and Qing dynasties.

The custom of eating dumplings on New Year's Day flourished during the Ming and Qing dynasties. The dumplings come in a variety of patterns, with fillings such as pork, fish, sanshen, chives, beef, mutton, shiitake mushrooms, and tomato and egg, as well as in various forms, such as crown dumplings, butterfly dumplings, goldfish dumplings, and lace dumplings.

New Year's Day rice cakes were popular in the Ming and Qing dynasties, and were very popular in the southern region. In the late Ming Dynasty, it was recorded in Volume 2 of "The Emperor's Beijing Scenery and Scenery" that "the long-awaited lavatory excitement, eating jujube cakes, and the day of the year rice cakes".

Nian gao and year high harmonized, has a very good meaning, but also sends people a very good hope, there is a poem called the rice cake: "rice cake meaning a little deep clouds, white as silver yellow gold. Years of hope for high time to profit, pious silent wishing wealth coming." In the early days, rice cakes were used to worship gods and ancestors, and then gradually developed into a household favorite.