What are the customs of Spring Festival in China?

The Spring Festival, that is, the Lunar New Year, is the beginning of a year and also the traditional Spring Festival in China. Commonly known as the Spring Festival? New Year, New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, etc. It is also called "New Year's Eve" and "New Year's Eve" verbally.

1 cut window grilles

Cutting window grilles is one of many customs. After the Song and Yuan Dynasties, it began to rise, with the meaning of saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new year. There are different styles of window grilles in the north and south. The south is beautiful and exquisite, and the north is naive and simple. In the days before New Year's Eve, every door and window is decorated with various shapes of window grilles, which makes the atmosphere of the New Year more intense. During the Spring Festival, people spend time in stick grilles to decorate the environment and render the atmosphere, and hope to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new.

Double-paste Spring Festival couplets

There are different views on the origin of Spring Festival couplets. One view is that the Spring Festival couplets originated from the symbol of peach. When the ancients bid farewell to the old year and ushered in the new year, they would draw two immortals, "Shen Tu" and "Lei Yu", or write their names on mahogany boards, hang them on doors and stick them on them to pray for blessings and avoid disasters.

Since the Song Dynasty, the peach symbol of writing a sentence has become popular. The Song Dynasty's "Always Exchange New Peach for Old Peach" is a proof. When did paper Spring Festival couplets rise? It was the Ming and Qing Dynasties. After thousands of years of evolution, the forms and names of Spring Festival couplets have changed, but what remains unchanged is the good wishes it carries.

3- Clean the house

In ancient times, the Spring Festival cleaning was called "Sweeping the Year Festival", which originated from a religious ceremony of the ancient people to drive away the epidemic. Later it gradually evolved into a year-end cleaning. According to early folklore, "dust" is homophonic with the old "Chen". Nowadays, before the first lunar month, sweeping away all the dust at home means getting rid of the old things, sweeping away all bad "bad luck" and "bad luck" and welcoming the arrival of the New Year.

4- Welcome to Kitchen God

According to the folk saying, on the fourth day of the first month, Kitchen God should check the household registration, so every household should stay at home, prepare rich fruits, burn incense, light candles and set off firecrackers as a welcome. Kurnaedi said that although many folk sayings have no basis, they carry people's good wishes to pray and avoid disasters, which is why they have been handed down.

We have to put together a hodgepodge of leftovers from a few days and clean up the new year's goods. Dust indoors, sweep the floor indoors, dump garbage in the yard, and prepare to "throw the poor".

5- New Year's Eve

New Year's Eve, also known as New Year's Eve, reunion dinner, reunion dinner and so on. Especially the New Year's Eve dinner. Reunion dinner is the highlight of the year ago, which is not only colorful, but also very meaningful. There are usually chickens (indicating a plan) and fish (more than enough every year) for good luck. China people's New Year's Eve dinner is a family reunion dinner, which is the most abundant and important dinner in a year.

6- Eat jiaozi

The custom of eating jiaozi during the Spring Festival was quite popular in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Generally, jiaozi should wrap it up before New Year's Eve 12, and eat it at midnight. At this time, it is the beginning of the first day of the first lunar month. Eating jiaozi means "making friends when you are young", and "Zi" is homophonic with "jiaozi", which means "reunion" and "good luck". Today, jiaozi has become an indispensable holiday food for the Spring Festival. The reasons are as follows: First, jiaozi is shaped like an ingot. People eat jiaozi in the Spring Festival and take the sound of "the way to make money"; Secondly, jiaozi has stuffing, which is convenient for people to put all kinds of auspicious things into stuffing and place people's hopes for the new year.

7- Happy New Year

"Happy New Year" and "Happy New Year to you". On the first day of the first month, when people meet, they will exchange such New Year wishes with each other. There are three traditional new year greetings: first, worship. Minors should pay New Year greetings to their elders. The second is to bow and scrape. Generally speaking, the younger generation uses it to pay New Year greetings to their elders, commonly known as "Bai Ji". The third is boxing. Most of them are New Year greetings between peers. Legend has it that one day more than two thousand years BC, Shun became emperor and led his men to worship heaven and earth. Since then, people have regarded this day as the beginning of a year and called it the first day of the first month.

8- Setting off firecrackers

Firecrackers, also known as firecrackers, are traditional folk customs during the Spring Festival and have a history of more than 2,000 years. When the papers are handed in at midnight, the New Year bell rings and firecrackers ring over the land of China. In this "three yuan" moment of "year yuan", "month yuan" and "time yuan", some places still set up "prosperous fire" in the courtyard, which means prosperity.

China folks are known as "setting off firecrackers", that is, when the New Year comes, the first thing for every household to open the door is to set off firecrackers. With the sound of firecrackers, they are pinning their hopes of welcoming good luck.

However, due to the current environmental factors, most cities prohibit the discharge of fireworks and firecrackers, so electronic firecrackers are used instead to imitate the sound and flash of discharge and increase the festive atmosphere and sense of ceremony.

Our country is vast and rich in natural resources. People will cook different foods to welcome the New Year. For example, the South will pound rice cakes, while the North will steam flowers and steamed buns ... The difference is customs and food, and people are enjoying the joy of Qi Xin's cooperation in welcoming the New Year. The heat emitted by thousands of households is also a wish for a prosperous life in the coming year.