What to do on Chinese New Year

The Spring Festival is a traditional Chinese festival, also known as the New Year and the New Year, it has a very long history, it evolved from the rituals that people held at the beginning of the year in ancient times. There are a lot of things you can do on Chinese New Year, which is a national holiday and everyone will have a longer vacation. Before the start of the Spring Festival, people will buy new year's goods, dust, hanging couplets, on New Year's Eve, the family will get together to eat New Year's Eve dinner, the Spring Festival people will visit friends and relatives, door to door to say goodbye to the small children will have red envelopes to take, adults can get together to talk about family life and so on, the following let me start to talk about it.

1, Spring Festival cleaning.

There is a Chinese proverb that says: "the 24th day of the month of Lunar New Year, dusting the house", the north is called "sweeping", the south is called "dusting". Sweeping this process from the Lunar New Year's Eve around the 24th can last until the end of the year, during this period of time, families are one after another to clean up. Folk say is "dust" and "Chen" harmonized, dust sweeping is to sweep away the old, the bad luck out, so as to welcome the New Year, sent people to the new year's good expectations. The modern New Year's Eve dust sweeping is more in line with the good habits of hygiene. Before the New Year, the family is always busy adults busy figure, I can not escape, every time always be my mom pulled up to clean the house.

2, the Spring Festival will buy New Year's goods.

With the approach of the Spring Festival, the purchase of new year's goods has been put on the agenda by many people, green spinach, bright red tomatoes, fresh meat, and my favorite snacks, a wide range of varieties. Shopping for New Year's goods, is every year the Spring Festival must have a sense of ceremony, food, wear, wear, use, send, dry, fresh, raw, cooked ...... When parents began to busy big bags to home to carry things, the strong taste of New Year's Eve is like the unique aroma of steaming dishes, in the home to spread out, which is one of my favorite items in the Spring Festival, this is the time to You can pester your mom to buy things you can't usually eat .

3, Spring Festival will eat dumplings.

Dumplings are essential for the Spring Festival, no matter what you eat, you can't have less dumplings. It is according to the ancient custom, dumplings are the food eaten after the New Year's sacrifice. New Year's Eve, pay attention to the year-end package, eat at the end of the year, that is, to eat at the time of the child, at this time for the turn of the two years, to welcome the new and resignation of the old moment, has a special significance, to take the meaning of the "change of the year to hand over the child," the "child" for the "son of the time! The word "zi" means "time of the year", and "jiao" harmonizes with "dumpling", which means "joyful reunion" and "good luck", and signifies good luck in the new year. I especially like my mother's dumplings, I feel that is my memory of the most familiar flavor, New Year's Eve, there will be a few coins in the dumplings, who ate the coins will be able to get the grandmother's red envelope, everyone together in red hot and lively.

Conclusion: Whenever the Spring Festival comes, the whole country is filled with a festive atmosphere, all over the world will hold a variety of celebrations, the Spring Festival expresses the people's love of traditional festivals, as well as the expectation of a new year of good life, Happy New Year!