What are the traditional customs of Chinese New Year?

The customs of the Spring Festival include many, such as such as buying New Year's goods, dust sweeping, posting couplets, eating New Year's Eve dinner, observing the New Year's Eve, paying homage to the New Year, New Year's Eve worship, dragon and lion dances, worshipping the gods and sacrificing to the ancestors, praying for blessings and calamities, touring the gods, betting on the boats, temple fairs, touring the gongs and drums, touring the standard flags, going up to the lanterns to drink wine, and appreciating the lanterns, and so on.

Traditional festival ceremonies and related customary activities are important elements of the festival, carrying the rich and colorful cultural heritage of the festival.

The Lunar New Year celebrations are centered on praying for the New Year, and are carried out in the form of getting rid of the old and bringing in the new, worshipping the gods and ancestors, driving away evil spirits and disasters, and praying for a good harvest, etc., which are rich in colorful content, bustling with joy and festivity, with a strong taste of the New Year, and cohesive with the essence of the traditional culture of the Chinese civilization.

During the Spring Festival, various activities are held all over the country to celebrate the New Year, and there are differences in the content or details of the customs depending on the regional culture.

Songs of Chinese New Year culture:

Beijing: "Twenty-three, sugar gourd sticking; twenty-four, sweeping day; twenty-five, push millet; twenty-six, go hang meat; twenty-seven, slaughter a chicken; twenty-eight, put the noodle hair; twenty-nine, steamed buns; thirty nights to keep the night, the first day of the New Year twisted a. " The first day of the New Year, the sister pulled the brother twisted

Shanxi: twenty-three, sacrificial stove officer, twenty-four, sweeping the house, twenty-five, grinding tofu, twenty-six, to cut meat, twenty-seven, kill a chicken, twenty-eight, steamed jujube flower, twenty-nine, go to beat the wine, the New Year's Day thirty pinch dumplings, the first day of the pouting ass messy bowing children.

North East: 23 sugar melon sticky, 24 sweep the house, 25 make tofu, 26 stewed meat, 27 kill the stove chicken, 28 windowpane, 29 to play wine, New Year's Eve dumplings.