What are the customs of the ancient Chinese New Year

There will be a small year before the New Year, the small year, everyone will be in the stove next to some small couplets, written on some prayers to Zaowang master to heaven after the family can give the words of beauty. This custom in ancient times, every family will do, the ancient people more pursuit of good luck, put on the couplets at the same time, will also put a delicious meal. But nowadays people usually omit this ritual, in the small year this day will make a table of delicious meals, pack a dumpling, is to feel the joy of the new year in advance.

2, sweeping the house

This work is generally done before the first month of 289, ancient people all year round in the fields of farming, only a few days close to the Spring Festival can be free to clean up the home, so there is a sweeping the house of this tradition. Today, this custom has been preserved, and before the New Year, people will clean their homes from the inside out, scrubbing every place clean to welcome the New Year.

3, stick couplets

In ancient times, on New Year's Eve, door-to-door in the morning, the couplets will be posted, but also in the yard outside the two red lanterns, in order to pray for good luck. Nowadays, many people live in residential buildings, hanging lanterns slowly eliminated, each household in the New Year's Eve will be replaced with a new couplets, whenever the couplets posted home work will come to an end.

4, firecrackers, the New Year's Eve

Now due to the ban on fireworks, in the city almost do not see the shadow of the firecrackers, in ancient times people rumored that the sound of the firecrackers will scare away the "New Year", firecrackers can bless the family in the new year in good health. The year-end is said to be the family went to bed on the night of the New Year's Eve, directly to the first day of the New Year waiting for the arrival of the Spring Festival, the year-end is still relatively common in ancient times, for people nowadays, can watch the Spring Festival Gala and then go to sleep will not be easy.

5, New Year's Eve

New Year's Eve is preserved from ancient times to the present day, the first day of the New Year, parents take their children to walk the streets, send blessings to friends at the same time, but also reap the benefits of reunion.