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What are the customs of Chinese New Year Introduction

Customs of Chinese New Year: buying New Year's goods, sweeping the dust, eating New Year's Eve dinner, observing the New Year's Eve, paying respect to the New Year, and so on.

Customs of the Spring Festival are the customary customs of the Chinese people during the Spring Festival, and there are differences in the content or details of the customs in different parts of China due to the different regional cultures, with strong characteristics of each region.

1, buy New Year's goods: Chinese people have always regarded the New Year as a big event for thousands of years. Before the New Year, they have to make a lot of preparations and buy a lot of things to eat, use, wear, wear, play, offer, dry, fresh, raw, cooked, etc.

2, buy Chinese New Year goods: Chinese people have always regarded the New Year as a big event for thousands of years.

2, dust sweeping: dust sweeping, also known as sweeping the house, is one of the traditional customs of Chinese folk New Year. The intention is to sweep all the "poor luck" and "bad luck" out of the door, which is a good wish of the Chinese people to ward off evils and disasters, and to welcome auspiciousness and good fortune.

3, eat New Year's Eve dinner: New Year's Eve dinner, also known as New Year's Eve dinner, specifically refers to the end of the year on New Year's Eve of the family dinner. New Year's Eve dinner is the main event before the New Year every year, not only colorful, but also pay attention to a lot of symbolism. Traditionally, New Year's Eve dinner is eaten on New Year's Eve after offering sacrifices to ancestors. Before eating the New Year's Eve dinner to pay homage to the gods and ancestors, to wait until the worship ceremony is completed before the meal and other customs.

4, year-end: year-end, also known as the fire, etc., which has a long history, the Chinese Han Chinese folk in the New Year's Eve has the custom of year-end. New Year's Eve night before the New Year's Eve vigil, folk activities are mainly manifested in the point of the year-old fire, keep the year-old fire, that is, all the houses are lit all over the lamps and candles, the family get-together, to meet the New Year.

5, worship: one of the New Year's customs, refers to the first year of the New Year, when the old and the new, to worship the god of the year. Worship is one of the oldest traditional customs of the Chinese people, this traditional custom has been passed down from generation to generation, people in the first of the year to hold a sacrificial ceremony to welcome the new year, pray for the New Year, to receive the blessing.