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What are the customs during the Spring Festival?

1, cut the annual meat, the folk proverb says, "On the 26th day of the twelfth lunar month, kill pigs and cut the annual meat", which means that the meat on this day is mainly prepared for the Chinese New Year. The so-called killing pigs, of course, is to kill your own pigs; The so-called meat cutting means that poor families who don't raise pigs go to the market to buy meat for the New Year.

Lion dance is considered as an auspicious thing to ward off evil spirits. Every festival or major event will be accompanied by lion dances, which will last forever and be passed down from generation to generation. Lion dance activities are also widely circulated in overseas Chinese communities.

3. Paying New Year greetings is a traditional folk custom in China, and it is a way for people to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new and express their best wishes to each other. Generally speaking, the time to pay New Year greetings is from the first day to the fifth day. Visiting relatives and friends after the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month is a memorial to the early years, and visiting relatives and friends before the fifteenth day after the fifth day of the first month is a memorial to the old age.

4. Shounian, also known as Shounian Fire and Zhaonian, has a long history. Han people in China have the habit of observing the New Year's Eve.

Sticking "Nian Hong", also called "Waving Spring", is one of the Chinese New Year customs, which adds a festive atmosphere to the festival. On the 28th, 29th or 30th of each year, every household posts the Year Red (Year Red refers to the red festive elements such as Spring Festival couplets, horizontal banners, door gods, New Year pictures and the word "Fu").