Is New Year's Eve a traditional custom in our folklore?

The New Year's greeting is a traditional folk custom in China for a long time. New Year's Eve kowtow to salute is also passed down from ancient times, is the younger generation to parents, elders of a kind of respect, but also a form of gratitude to express. Nowadays, there are still a few places where the custom of kowtowing on New Year's Day is still popular.

New Year's greeting is a traditional folk custom in China, but also a long time, in the New Year's time most of the younger generation to go out to pay tribute to the New Year, go to relatives, friends, and other elders at home, to say some auspicious blessings to congratulate the New Year, and the younger generation will also be given to the elders to kowtow to the salute, such a form of called New Year's. The elders will mostly use snacks, and the elders will also use snacks to pay attention to the New Year. Most of the elders will use snacks, snacks and New Year's money to warmly treat the people who come to pay New Year's greetings. This is also a folk tradition of New Year's greeting, which is still popular in some areas.

The custom of paying homage to the New Year has survived for a long time, and legend has it that in ancient times there was a monster called Nian, which had horns on its head, and every Lunar New Year's Eve 30th would come out to wreak havoc and destruction, and sometimes hurt people, so people had no choice but to put food at the door to let Nian eat his fill and go back. Later, people realized that red things and loud noises can scare away the year, and also formed the New Year's wear red clothes, firecrackers to greet each other's customs. People of the younger generation give their parents and elders greetings, blessings, and kowtow to pay homage to the New Year to express their gratitude to their parents and respect for their elders. This also allows people to be more harmonious, but also allows the continuation of the seniority and inferiority. Now some people think that kowtow is a bad habit, in fact, can not be generalized, the ancient times of the complexity of the etiquette is indeed not quite in line with the current society. But New Year's kowtow to salute just for respect, in order to be grateful, or harmless. Now people do not need to be like the old days, that much more complicated rules, kowtow a few times, how to kowtow to salute, can be completely simplified. This can be grateful, respect, but also does not seem complicated.

New Year's greetings in various forms

The previous form of New Year's greetings can be said to be a lot of attention to detail, red tape in today's society seems to be inconsistent with the matter. Nowadays, the rapid development of society, so that people do not have enough time to properly meditate on the New Year, the flavor of the year has become much lighter. In ancient times, the pace of life was slower, and the custom of New Year's greetings, but also to deepen the communication between people and mutual care, not only is the parents of the younger generation of a kind of gratitude, but also the elders of the younger generation of a kind of hope. Between people can also do due to the order of the eldest and youngest, such a bow to salute, not to say that the difference between the noble and the lowly, more is a kind of New Year's time of a kind of communication, a way of life rhythm. New Year's atmosphere will also bring people happy mood, but also wish people can be happy, wish come true.