What are the customs of celebrating the New Year?

1, stick grilles is an ancient traditional festival custom. During the Spring Festival, people in many places in China like to stick various paper-cut window grilles on their windows. Paper-cutting is a very popular folk art, which has been deeply loved by people for thousands of years. Most of them are pasted on windows, which people call "window grilles".

Setting off firecrackers is a traditional folk custom in China. At midnight, the New Year bell rang and firecrackers rang through the land of China. In this "three yuan" moment of "year yuan, month yuan, time yuan", some places still set up "Wang Huo" in the courtyard to show that the gas is soaring and prosperous.

Giving "red envelopes" is the custom of China New Year. People in China like red, which symbolizes vitality, happiness and good luck. The money in the red envelope is just to make the children happy. Its main meaning is written on red paper, symbolizing good luck.

Hanging New Year pictures is a unique custom during the Spring Festival in China. Popular all over the country. On New Year's Day, hang New Year pictures on the door or wall. Judging from the evolution of ancient door-sticking gods, it was originally for exorcism, and later it became a lively atmosphere to set off the New Year and express people's festive mood.

5, wearing new clothes, traditional folk culture. On the first day, people have to wear new clothes, which also means sending the old and welcoming the new. In the old society, the rich gentry and rich households wore woolen satin; Even the coarse and old clothes worn by poor households are neat and clean, which is different from ordinary days and welcomes the auspicious day of the new year.

6. Keeping the old age, also called wasting years, is one of the folk activities in China. The custom of observing the old age not only contains the feeling of farewell and nostalgia for the fleeting time, but also contains the good hope for the coming New Year. Lighting candles or oil lamps also symbolizes driving away all evil diseases and epidemics.

It is said that the first day of the first month is broom's birthday. You can't use a broom on this day, otherwise it will sweep away luck, break money, and attract "broom stars" and cause bad luck. If you must sweep the floor, you must sweep it from the outside to the inside. Don't throw water on the garbage on this day, for fear of breaking the money.

Children's Day is one of the traditional customs in China. The second day of the first month is the "legal day" for Tianjin son-in-law to pay New Year greetings to her parents-in-law. Tianjin people call it Children's Day. On this day, the streets were crowded with people, and restaurants and hotels were full.

9. There is a saying in folk songs that "Eleven is the' son-in-law's day', on which the father-in-law fetes his son-in-law. According to legend, the food celebrated on the ninth day will not be eaten until the tenth day, so on the eleventh day, it will be used to invite the son-in-law to dinner, and the bride's family will not have to spend any more money.

10, the god of wealth is a popular belief in China. Every year, on the second day of the first month (southerners are on the fifth day of the first month), they worship the god of wealth and set off firecrackers day and night. Southerners sacrifice to the god of wealth on the fifth day of the first month. According to China folklore, the God of Wealth is the Five Gods. The so-called five roads refer to the east, west, north and south, which means that you can get money when you go out of five doors.