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What to do before the Spring Festival

Pasted couplets and lucky words:

Generally people are thirty-one morning to paste couplets and lucky words, of course, there are some people is the night to paste, in short, to put the door on the festive couplets and upside down lucky words

Sacrifice:

Generally the rural areas will be in the Chinese New Year to go to the festival, the urban ones should be very few will be sacrificed, but it is still some people in the Chinese New Year night to go to the burning paper, but be sure to pay attention to safety. Every year there are because of burning paper and fire things happen, try not to choose the barren mountain grass place

Preparation for New Year's Eve dinner:

General family is a lot of people early in the morning to start preparing the New Year's Eve dinner. A family of more than a dozen people, there is bound to be a bunch of meals to prepare, so the New Year's Eve dinner many people are ready to be especially early

steamed sticky bean buns, rice cakes:

Over the New Year's Day began to steam a bunch of things, some places will be steamed some steamed dates steamed buns, as well as steamed sticky bean buns rice cakes, in short, all of them are noodle-based some good food, especially in rural areas of the Spring Festival, there are a lot of noodle delicacies! The first thing you need to do is to get your hands on some of the most popular products and services in the world!

Eating New Year's Eve dinner:

At four or five o'clock in the afternoon, the New Year's Eve dinner should start. Some people will eat until midnight, and some people will go back to their homes after eating. New Year's Eve dinner is mainly meat dishes, but some people are more sophisticated will go to the restaurant to eat New Year's Eve dinner, which makes a lot of restaurants to earn a big hand. However, it is still traditional to eat at home more people, but also more lively and safer

Eat rice cake:

New Year's cake is the symbol of the meaning of the year, so the Spring Festival is a must eat rice cake drops. Especially children and those in important positions in the white-collar workers must be eaten

Eat dumplings:

Dumplings in the Spring Festival is a must eat, and at midnight 12 o'clock in the meal can not be missing dumplings Oh! Dumplings in the general family will be wrapped in some things, such as money, such as peanuts, dates and so on, are some of the things that have a symbol Oh! Jujube and peanut symbolizes the early birth of a child, money of course is to mean that the next year to get rich, and packages of pistachios and so on, this is with their own mood

Watch the Spring Festival Gala:

and the family get together and wait around the TV until eight o'clock at the Spring Festival Gala began, but also have to keep guarding the TV until midnight 12 o'clock to disperse, so the Spring Festival Gala is a fixed custom, you can not watch but the TV must be turned on. The TV must be on the channel of the Spring Festival Gala

Launch firecrackers:

Launch firecrackers to get rid of the old and welcome the new, is that every family has to do in the Spring Festival, although the flavor of the New Year is not very strong, but the firecrackers are still indispensable. Now many people are more superstitious, so even if the flavor of the year is not enough will not stop firecrackers. Of course, firecrackers or less better, you can buy electronic at home, because the firecrackers on the environmental pollution can be very big, the haze is because of the pollution caused by these

Telephone New Year's Eve:

Now the communication is more developed, that is, far away from each other can be by phone to pay tribute to each other. At night, watching the Spring Festival gala to pay tribute to the New Year by phone.

Watch the New Year:

This is of course a must! At midnight at 12 o'clock, the end of the Spring Festival night immediately eat dumplings to go to bed. However, many children are afraid to adhere to so long, Yi Yi childhood is the middle of the night and then get up to eat dumplings, adhere to the twelve o'clock is really a little difficult

To the small children of the New Year's Eve:

The legend of the New Year's Eve money a lot of people have heard of, but now the New Year's Eve money is just a form of fun for the small children, just. Smaller children over a handful of red envelopes to parents, and older children generally have their own ideas are left to save up or buy books and toys. However, the new year's money are given to each other, in addition to the elderly to the grandchildren of other relatives which will have children, others give you naturally want to return how much, so in fact the pressure of the new year's money is just a meaning, but the children like to so the pressure of the new year's money is also considered a custom of the Spring Festival every year essential

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