What are the customs of Spring Festival in China?

The customs of the Spring Festival mainly include buying new year's goods, pasting Spring Festival couplets, cutting window grilles, hanging New Year's pictures, New Year's Eve dinner, lucky money, observing the New Year, eating jiaozi, eating glutinous rice balls, setting off firecrackers, watching the Spring Festival Evening, paying New Year's greetings, pasting blessings, dancing yangko, visiting temple fairs, walking on stilts, dancing lions and changing peach symbols.

The Spring Festival is the biggest traditional folk festival in China, and it is a folk festival integrating blessing, entertainment and food. The Spring Festival has a long history, which evolved from ancient times praying for the New Year at the beginning of the year, and carries rich historical and cultural connotations in its inheritance and development.

What are the customs during the Spring Festival?

Chinese New Year has a long history, and some relatively fixed customs have been formed in the process of inheritance and development, many of which have been passed down to this day, such as buying new year's goods, sweeping dust, posting couplets, eating New Year's Eve, keeping New Year's Eve, dancing dragons and lions, offering prayers, setting off firecrackers, setting off fireworks, visiting gods, racing boats, holding temple fairs, beating gongs and drums, waving flags, lighting and enjoying wine.

Traditional festival ceremonies and related custom activities are important contents of festival elements, bearing rich and colorful festival cultural connotations. Ancestor worship not only covers all the ancient traditional festivals in China, but also is the eternal theme of folk festivals in China.

What are the customs during the Spring Festival?

Spring Festival is also called China New Year. In the historical development, it has integrated a variety of folk customs and formed some relatively fixed customs and habits. During the Spring Festival, the main contents of celebrating the New Year are to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, to worship ancestors, to exorcise evil spirits and to pray for a bumper harvest. Rich and colorful forms, with strong regional characteristics.