What are the activities of the traditional Spring Festival in China?

1, paste Spring Festival couplets: Spring Festival couplets originated from peach symbols. "Fu Tao" is a rectangular red wooden board hanging on both sides of the door in the Zhou Dynasty. In the Song Dynasty, people began to write couplets on mahogany boards, which could play the role of exorcism and suppression. Also expressed his best wishes; Another function is to decorate the portal, which looks beautiful.

2. New Year pictures: In many places, in order to pray for happiness and well-being, the custom of pasting New Year pictures is still preserved. It is said that putting two gatekeepers on the gate will scare away all monsters.

3. Stick the word "Fu": During the Spring Festival, every household should stick the word "Fu" on the door and wall. Sticking the word "Fu" means "good luck" and "good luck". Some people paste the word "Fu" upside down, meaning "Fu is here" and "Fu is here"

4. Set off firecrackers: firecrackers are also called "firecrackers". In ancient times, people put bamboo into the fire after getting up on the morning of the first day of the first month, and the bamboo burst and made a loud noise, which could scare away monsters and protect the safety of the whole family.

5, lion dance: the lion is a god beast in people's minds, symbolizing auspiciousness, happiness and well-being. China folk tradition holds that lion dancing can exorcise evil spirits. Therefore, every festive festival, gongs and drums will be played and lions will be danced to entertain.

6, New Year's Eve Shounian: Shounian is the custom of not sleeping on the last night of the old year and staying up late to welcome the arrival of the New Year. After Qin and Han Dynasties, people regarded midnight as the beginning of the day. Therefore, people light candles or oil lamps and wait for this moment. It symbolizes driving away all evil and diseases and looking forward to good luck in the new year.

7. Sacrifice to the gods and ancestors: On the morning of the first day of the first month, people respectfully offer offerings and light incense, and sincerely thank the gods and ancestors for their blessings over the past year. And pray that they will bless everyone's happiness and health in the new year.

8. New Year's greetings and lucky money: The custom of New Year's greetings was on New Year's Eve in the Han Dynasty, especially in the Tang and Song Dynasties. In modern China, New Year greetings have become a traditional custom. On the first day of the first month, people get up early, put on beautiful clothes, dress neatly, visit relatives and friends to pay New Year greetings and exchange greetings. In ancient times, after offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors, the younger generation should pay New Year greetings to their elders and kowtow to them three times. After the elders accept the new year greetings from the younger generation, they will take out the food such as melon seeds, peanuts and candy prepared in advance for the younger generation to taste, and distribute the red envelopes prepared in advance to the younger generation. This is lucky money. Lucky money can be given in public, or it can be secretly placed under the child's pillow while the child is asleep on New Year's Eve.

9. Diet: On New Year's Eve, no matter how far away from home, people always want to go home for a reunion dinner. Traditionally, the diet of Spring Festival usually includes rice cakes, chaos, jiaozi, long noodles, glutinous rice balls, chickens, ducks and geese.

10, Lantern Festival: The fifteenth day of the first month is the first full moon night in a year, so it is called Lantern Festival. To show respect for the Buddha, Emperor Han Ming in eastern China ordered the Lantern Festival to be lit. By the time of the Tang Dynasty, the activities of the Lantern Festival were unprecedented.