What are the Chinese New Year customs?

Chinese Chinese New Year's Eve customs are as follows:

1, dust: in folklore, on the eve of the New Year, there is a "Lunar New Year's Eve 24th, dust (also known as sweeping the house) custom. Proverbs say "twenty-four, sweep the house". Folk called "dust sweeping day". Sweeping dust is the end of the year cleaning, every family should clean their homes, cleaning all kinds of appliances, washing bedding curtains, sweeping six village courtyard, dusting dust cobwebs, dredging nullahs and ditches.

2, paste the Spring Festival couplets: Spring Festival couplets, also known as door to door, spring stickers, couplets, couplets, peach symbols, etc., it is neat, couplets, concise, sophisticated text depicting the times, expressing the best wishes, is unique to our country's form of literature. Every Spring Festival, every family will put up couplets to celebrate the arrival of the New Year.

3, do the New Year's goods: China's New Year's culture has a long history, the whole country derived from a variety of New Year's customs, the north and south is very different, each with its own characteristics. Although customs vary from place to place, but the preparation of New Year's goods, New Year's gift is almost the whole country's "New Year's Eve must". To purchase New Year's goods, including food, wear, wear, use, stickers (red), send (New Year's) gifts, etc., collectively known as the "New Year's goods", and the process of purchasing New Year's goods is called "to do New Year's goods".

4, ancestor worship: one of the most important things in the New Year is ancestor worship, which is also a traditional Chinese custom. Due to cultural differences in each place, the form of ancestor worship is also different in each place, some go to the field to sweep the tomb, some are the ancestral hall to bow to worship, regardless of the form, it is to honor the ancestors.

5, the tour of the gods: also known as the camp God, the tour of the old man, that is, the statue of the gods from the temple to invite out in the community tour, with the purification of evil spirits, to protect the realm of peace and pray for a bumper crop of folklore significance. Every year during the Spring Festival, according to the chronological order, the villages and towns take turns to hold folk tour of the gods, the scene is lively and extraordinary, praying for the coming year, the country and the people are safe, the wind and the rain, the pressure of the evil and the disaster, all the good luck.