New Year Customs in Shanxi

In Shanxi, Chinese New Year's customs include making New Year's Eve dinner, posting Spring Festival couplets, making sesame candy, cleaning housework, stick grilles, lighting a fire and paying New Year's greetings.

1, endure years:

Also known as observing the age, observing the age on New Year's Eve is the most important traditional custom. On New Year's Eve, people often stay up all night, get together to drink and enjoy family happiness.

2. Post Spring Festival couplets:

Every household should choose beautiful red Spring Festival couplets and stick them on the door to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, so as to increase the festive atmosphere.

3, making sesame candy:

Sesame candy made on the day of the Festival of Sacrificing Stove, the main component of which is maltose, has entrusted people with their longing for a happy life and prayed for family harmony, good luck and peace all the year round.

4, cleaning the housework:

On the 24th or 25th of the twelfth lunar month, clean up the dust at home and paint it with clay mud for two or three times.

5. Fastening tape:

Tear off old enough paper, replace it with new enough paper, and paste various patterns of window grilles at the same time.

6, the burning fire:

From five to six in the morning on the first day of the first month of the first month, people pile firewood and light a fire in their yard. This is called burning fire, which means that the new year is booming.

7. Happy New Year:

Visiting relatives and friends from the first day to the fifth day, after the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, is regarded as worshipping the early years, and visiting relatives and friends after the fifth day of the first month and before the fifteenth day is regarded as worshipping the old age.