Sentences about Chinese New Year customs

The Spring Festival is an ancient festival in China, but also one of the most important festivals throughout the year, how to celebrate this festival, in the development of thousands of years of history, the formation of a number of more fixed customs, many of which are still handed down to this day.

1. Ancestor worship

The annual ballad says: "Lunar New Year's Eve, on the grave, please ancestors on the big offerings". The worship of ancestors has a long history in China. Treating the dead as if they were alive is not only an important symbol of filial piety, but also a virtue of honoring the elderly. As the Spring Festival is a big festival, the ceremony of inviting ancestors to their graves is particularly solemn. In most areas, the ceremony is held on the morning of the 29th day of the Lunar New Year. According to Cui Shi's "The Four People's Monthly Orders" of the Han Dynasty, "The first month of the first month is the first month, and I rate my wife and offspring to clean the ancestors. On the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar, they would take their wives and offspring to clean the ancestor. On the day of the festival, they would drink wine to the gods, and then they would list their ancestors in order of precedence, and their children and great-grandchildren would drink wine in the parent's house, and then they would goblet their lives, and then they would be happy to do so." This shows that as early as the Han Dynasty China's ancestor worship has been a very important activity in the Spring Festival.

2. Sweeping the dust

The folk proverb says, "On the twenty-fourth day of the Lunar New Year, dust and sweep the house". After the festival, the preparations for the New Year began in earnest. Dusting is the end of the year cleaning, the north is called "sweeping house", the south is called "dusting". Sweeping dust before the Spring Festival is a traditional habit of the Chinese people. On the day of the dust, the whole family together, cleaning houses, courtyards, scrubbing pots and pans, dismantling bedding, clean to welcome the New Year. In fact, people use "dust" and "Chen" of the harmonic expression of the will to get rid of the old, in addition to the old.

3. Posting Spring Festival Couplets

The Spring Festival Couplet is a unique form of literature in China. It depicts the background of the times and expresses good wishes in neat, pairwise, concise and exquisite words. During the Spring Festival, every family, whether in the city or in the countryside, selects a pair of big red Spring Festival couplets and pastes them on the door to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, so as to add to the festive atmosphere of the festival.

4. Decorating window flowers and upside down "lucky"

Decorating window flowers is an ancient traditional holiday customs, the Spring Festival, people in many parts of China like to put all kinds of paper cutouts on the window window. Window flowers not only set a festive atmosphere, but also bring people the enjoyment of beauty, decorative, appreciative and practical in one. Paper cutting is a very popular folk art, has been loved by people for thousands of years, because it is mostly affixed to the window, so people generally call it "window flowers".

5. New Year's Paintings

New Year's Paintings are part of traditional Chinese culture. In ancient times, people would make and post beautiful New Year's paintings on New Year's Day, which were colorful and added to the festive atmosphere. Spring Festival hanging stickers 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.

6. Year-end vigil

Chinese folk in the New Year's Eve has the habit of year-end vigil, commonly known as "boiled year". Year-end vigil from the beginning of the New Year's Eve dinner, this New Year's Eve dinner to eat slowly, from the time of the lantern into the table, some people have to eat late into the night. New Year's Eve New Year's Eve is one of the most important New Year's activities, the custom of New Year's Eve has a long history. The earliest records are found in the Western Jin Dynasty Zhou Zhi's "Land and Customs": New Year's Eve night, each with the gift, known as "feed the year"; wine and food invited, known as "another year"; young and old get together to drink, toast is complete, known as the "share the year"; we stay awake all night to wait for the dawn, called "keep the year".

7. Firecrackers

Chinese folk "open door firecrackers" said. That is, the arrival of the new year, the first thing to open the door of every household is to set off firecrackers, to beep, bla bla bla firecrackers to get rid of the old and welcome the new. Firecrackers is a traditional Chinese folklore, has more than 2,000 years of history, is said to be to drive away a monster called the year. When the clock strikes midnight, the New Year's bell rings, and the sound of firecrackers reverberates throughout the Chinese land. In this "year of yuan, the month of yuan, the time of yuan" of the "three yuan" moment, some places also in the courtyard of the base "Wang Huo", in order to show that the prosperous gas through the sky, prosperous and prosperous.

8. New Year's Eve

New Year's Eve is a traditional Chinese folk custom, is a way for people to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new, and express good wishes to each other. In ancient times, the original meaning of the term "paying homage" was to greet the elders for the New Year, including bowing to the elders, congratulating them on the New Year, and greeting them for a good life. Early and late are to avoid regret emergency or remedial nature, folk proverb: have the intention to worship fifteen is not late.

Additionally, Chinese New Year customs include: eating rice cakes, dumplings, dumplings, meatballs, whole fish, wine, apples, peanuts, melon seeds, candy, tea and cuisine; and accompanied by washing bedding, preparing New Year's goods, wrapping dumplings, and red envelopes and other activities. However, the most important thing is the New Year's Eve, when a big family reunion is held to welcome the new year together happily and enthusiastically!