What are the customs of the Spring Festival

The Spring Festival is the oldest and grandest festival of the Chinese nation, cutting and pasting window flowers, eating New Year's Eve dinner, setting off firecrackers, New Year's Eve vigils, dragon and lion dances, handing out New Year's Eve money, and paying homage to the New Year....... The Spring Festival is coming soon, and how much do you know about these traditional customs of the Spring Festival? Take a look.

1, cut and paste window

The Spring Festival, people in many areas like to stick a variety of paper cuttings on the window a window. Window flowers not only set off a festive atmosphere, but also for people to bring the enjoyment of beauty, decorative, appreciative and practical in one.

For the festive atmosphere, before the Spring Festival in the window posted on the style of the window is generally more free, in addition to sticking in the four corners of the "corner flowers" and folded and cut the "group of flowers", its outline are not very restrictive. Due to adapt to the general pane and avoid affecting the lighting, its size is not too large, and pay attention to the hollow through the light. In order to enhance the artistic effect to create a strong atmosphere, a window often paste many window, or in the content of matching, or in the form of echo.

Nowadays, window decals are more common in the north, we basically do not have the habit of sticking window decals in the south, partners, your family will still stick window decals?

2, eat New Year's Eve dinner

The main event of the evening of the Spring Festival is the "New Year's Eve dinner", also known as the New Year's Eve dinner, the reunion dinner. Whether the family is poor or rich, on the night of New Year's Eve, we have to prepare a sumptuous "New Year's Eve dinner". It's a very happy thing to sit around with the family and eat dumplings and sumptuous dishes, reminiscing about the past and looking forward to the future.

New Year's Eve dinners in the south are usually filled with seafood and vegetables, while in the north the table is filled with fish and meat. At the end of the year when the family gathered together, reunion dinner, which is actually one of the many Chinese New Year customs, one of the most worthy of everyone's heritage.

3, dragon and lion dance

Dragon and lion dance is a traditional New Year's Eve custom, generally the second day of the New Year, the People's Square will be crowded, festive drums and gongs, golden dragons and colorful lions dance, staged in a full of New Year's Eve dragon and lion dance activities. At the performance site, the lions and dragons dance and the gongs and drums are noisy. Actors will wear colorful costumes, hand dance long dragon, weaving forward, dragon swimming in all directions, soaring into the sky, not a real dragon is better than a real dragon. The golden dragon sometimes tumbling and leaping, sometimes around the circle, two lions also in the lion beads lead back and forth through the dragon formation, dragon and lion complement each other, expressing people's blessings on the Chinese New Year festival and the desire for a better life.

4, send new year's money

New year's money, also known as pressure Sneaky money ("Sneaky" is unlucky things.), the ancient people borrowed this custom to express the new year's money. Ancient people used this custom to express the coming year do not have any unlucky things happen). After the New Year's Eve dinner, the elders would hand out pre-prepared New Year's Eve money to the younger generation, which is said to be able to suppress evil spirits, and the younger generation would be able to spend the year in peace if they get the money. In folk culture, New Year's money is meant to ward off evil spirits and blessings. The original purpose of New Year's money was to keep evil spirits away. People believed that children were vulnerable to ghosts and spirits, so they used New Year's money to repel evil spirits and drive away evil spirits.

On the morning of the first day of the first month of the new year, the younger generation should pay tribute to the elders, and the elders give the younger generation New Year's money. Usually, on New Year's Eve, mothers put the new year's money, which is sealed with red paper, under children's pillows. When she puts the New Year's money, the mother will say something like wishing the children peace and healthy growth.

5, New Year's Eve

China's New Year's Eve custom has been quite a long time. In ancient times, there are congratulations and pay tribute to the New Year: pay tribute to the elders of the deduction of the year; congratulations is between the generation of mutual congratulations. Now, some organizations, groups, enterprises, schools, we get together to congratulate each other, called "reunion".

Today's New Year's greetings generally begin at home. On the morning of the first day, the younger generation to get up, we should first to the elders to pay tribute to the New Year, blessing the elders a long and healthy life, all the best. After the elders are worshipped, the "New Year's money" prepared in advance will be distributed to the younger generation. After paying New Year's greetings to the elders in the family, people should also greet the New Year with smiles on their faces when they meet each other, saying "congratulations on wealth", "four seasons as you wish", "Happy New Year" and other auspicious words. The neighbors, relatives and friends will also visit each other to pay their respects or invite each other to drink and have fun.

These are the 5 customs I know about Chinese New Year, what else do you know about it? Leave a comment in the comments section.