How to spend the Spring Festival?

Spring Festival is the most important traditional festival in China, and it is also the grandest, most lively and most important ancient traditional festival in China. Moreover, each place has its own laws, such as dragon dancing and drumming, lantern exhibitions and temple fairs, and the whole country is jubilant, jubilant and peaceful for the New Year. So, how should China people spend the Spring Festival?

First, clean the room in time.

Cleaning the house is to "bid farewell to the old and welcome the new", because China people think that before the New Year in China, they should clean up all the bad luck this year so that their homes can accommodate the good luck of the New Year, so they clean the house at this time of the year.

In some places, people are used to throwing away dustpans and brooms, so that they can bid farewell to the old and welcome the new more thoroughly.

Besides keeping the room clean, keeping the image fresh is also very festive. You can try a new hairstyle.

Don't clean after the Chinese New Year, such as sweeping the floor or cleaning the windows. Doing so will wipe away the good luck you just received in the new year. Don't sweep the floor and clean the windows before the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month. This may be a little dirtier than usual, but according to China tradition, you can accumulate good luck for your family! !

Second, decorate your home.

It is most recommended to decorate with red. In China culture, red is a festive color with the meaning of blessing. The number "8" also stands for luck and wealth, because in Chinese "8" is homophonic with "fat", which means luck and wealth (becoming rich). But don't overdo it. Exquisite and not demanding quantity, colorful and festive, and the decoration is full of annual flavor. Plant some flowers in the house, such as lotus. Lotus symbolizes a new life and a new year.

Third, sacrifice to the kitchen god.

When offering sacrifices to the stove, you should provide some food, such as fruit. Many traditional families hang a portrait of the kitchen god in the kitchen.

4. Eat traditional New Year's Eve dinner.

This is one of the most important parts of the Spring Festival, and the food eaten at this time has traditional significance related to the China New Year. Some people in China don't eat meat on the first day of the New Year, because every New Year has an animal name. There is no such restriction for the rest of the day. Traditional dishes include fish, chicken, rice cakes (glutinous rice cakes), noodles (longevity noodles) and various desserts.

I hope we can all be happy and lucky! !