What are the traditional customs of the Spring Festival knowledge summary of the traditional cultural knowledge of the Spring Festival are

(1) Spring Festival couplets, also known as door pairs, spring stickers, couplets, couplets, peach symbols, etc., it is neat, couplets, concise, sophisticated text depicting the background of the times, expressing the best wishes, is China's unique form of literature. Every Spring Festival, no matter in the city or in the countryside, every family has to choose a big red Spring Festival couplet to paste on the door, to increase the festive atmosphere for the festival.

(2) This custom began in the Song Dynasty, began to prevail in the Ming Dynasty, to the Qing Dynasty, the Spring Festival couplets of ideology and artistry have been greatly improved, Liang Zhangrui prepared the Spring Festival couplets of monographs, "Threshold Union Series of Words," the origins of the couplets and the various types of works of the characteristics of the discourse.

(3) There are many types of spring couplets, which, according to their places of use, can be divided into door centers, frame pairs, horizontal phi, spring strips, and doufang. "Door" in the upper center of the door panel; "frame" on the left and right door frame; "Phi" on the horizontal wood of the door winks; "spring bars "according to different contents, posted in the corresponding place;" bucket catty "also called" door leaf "for the square diamond-shaped, more in the furniture, shadow wall.

2, window decals

(1) In folklore, people also like to put all kinds of paper cuttings on the window - window flowers. Window flowers not only set a festive atmosphere, but also decorative, appreciative and practical in one. Paper cutting in China is a very popular folk art, for thousands of years by the people, because it is mostly affixed to the window, so it is also known as "window flowers".

(2) With its unique generalization and exaggeration, the window flower expresses auspicious events and good wishes to the fullest, and decorates the festival with red-hot splendor.

(3) At the same time as the Spring Festival couplets, some people have to put large and small "Fu" characters on the doors, walls and lintels of their houses. Chinese New Year sticker "Fu" character, is the Chinese folk custom for a long time. The word "Fu" refers to good fortune and luck, and it expresses people's desire for a happy life and their wish for a better future.

(4) In order to more fully reflect this yearning and wishing, some people simply put the word "Fu" upside down to indicate that "happiness has arrived" and "good fortune has arrived". Folk will also be "Fu" word fine as a variety of patterns, patterns have the star, longevity, carp jump Dragon Gate, the five valleys, the dragon and phoenix, and so on.

3, New Year's paintings

(1) the Spring Festival hanging stickers New Year's paintings in urban and rural areas is also very common, thick black colorful New Year's paintings to thousands of families added a lot of prosperity and joy of the festive atmosphere. New Year paintings are an ancient folk art in China, reflecting the people's simple customs and beliefs, and holding their hopes for the future. New Year's paintings, like spring scrolls, originated as "door gods".

(2) With the rise of woodblock printing, the content of the New Year's paintings is not only limited to monotonous themes such as the God of the Door, become colorful, in some of the New Year's paintings in the workshop produced the "Three Stars of Fortune and Longevity," "Heavenly Officials Provide Blessings," "Five Grains of Fortune," "Six Animals of Prosperity," "Welcoming the Spring Receiving Fortune," such as the exquisite colorful New Year's paintings to meet the people's joyful prayers of good intentions for the New Year.

(3) China has appeared in three important production areas of New Year's paintings: Peach Blossom Dock in Suzhou, Yangliuqing in Tianjin and Weifang in Shandong; the formation of three major schools of Chinese New Year's paintings, each with its own characteristics.

4, firecrackers

(1) Chinese folk "open door firecrackers". That is, the arrival of the new year, the first thing that families open the door is to set off firecrackers, to beep, bla bla bla firecrackers to get rid of the old and welcome the new. Firecrackers is a Chinese specialty, also known as "firecrackers", "cannonballs", "firecrackers". Its origin is very early, so far has a history of more than two thousand years.

(2) firecrackers can create a festive and lively atmosphere, is a holiday entertainment, can bring joy and good fortune. With the passage of time, the application of firecrackers is more and more widely used, varieties and colors are also increasingly numerous, whenever a major festival and festivities, and marriage, building, opening, etc., are to set off firecrackers to show celebration, figure a good luck.

(3) Now, Hunan Liuyang, Guangdong Foshan and Dongyao, Jiangxi Yichun and Pingxiang, Zhejiang Wenzhou and other areas is China's famous hometown of firecrackers, firecrackers produced by more color, high quality, not only sells well across the country, but also exported to the world.

5, sweeping dust

(1) "Lunar New Year 24, dust sweeping house", according to "Lv's Spring and Autumn Annals" records, China in the era of Yao and Shun on the Spring Festival sweeping the dust of the custom. According to folklore: because of "dust" and "Chen" harmonized, dust sweeping in the New Year has the meaning of "in addition to Chen Bu Xin", the intention is to sweep out all the poor luck, bad luck. This custom is the wish of the people to break the old and make the new and the prayer of the old and welcome the new.

(2) Whenever the Spring Festival comes, every household has to clean up the environment, wash all kinds of utensils, dismantle and wash the bedding curtains, sprinkle the courtyard of the six villages, dust the cobwebs and dredge the nullahs and ditches. Everywhere overflowing with joy to engage in health, clean and welcome the new year's happy atmosphere.