On the Traditional Culture of China New Year

1 The custom of sweeping dust in the Spring Festival is "the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month, cleaning the house". According to "Lu Chunqiu", during the Yao and Shun period, China had the custom of sweeping dust during the Spring Festival. Whenever the Spring Festival comes, every household should clean the environment, clean all kinds of electrical appliances, remove and wash bedding curtains, sweep six yards, dust cobwebs and dredge culverts in open channels. Everywhere is filled with the joyful atmosphere of cleaning and welcoming the Spring Festival cleanly.

2 paste Spring Festival couplets

Stick grilles and folks who post the word "Fu" upside down also like to post all kinds of paper-cuts on the windows-window grilles.

Celebrating the New Year's Eve is one of the most important annual customs, and the custom of celebrating the New Year's Eve has a long history. On New Year's Eve, the whole family get together, eat New Year's Eve, light candles or oil lamps, sit around the stove and chat, wait for the time to bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new year, and keep vigil all night, which symbolizes expelling all evil spirits and expecting good luck in the new year. This custom gradually became popular. At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin, Emperor Taizong, wrote a poem "Shou Sui": "Cold words and winter snow, warm with spring breeze". To this day, people are used to celebrating the New Year's Eve.

5 Firecrackers There is a saying in China that "open the door and set off firecrackers". That is, when the new year comes, the first thing for every household to open the door is to set off firecrackers to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new.

On the first day of the new year, people get up early, put on the most beautiful clothes, dress neatly, go out to visit relatives and friends and wish each other good luck in the coming year. There are many ways to pay New Year's greetings, some of which are led by the same patriarch from door to door. Some colleagues invited several people to pay New Year greetings; Others get together to congratulate each other. This is called "group worship".

During the Spring Festival, the younger generation should first pay New Year greetings to their elders, wishing them a long and healthy life, and the elders can distribute the lucky money prepared in advance to the younger generation.

7 Spring Festival Dietary Customs In ancient agricultural society, housewives were busy preparing food for the Spring Festival from the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month. Because curing bacon takes a long time, it must be prepared as soon as possible. Many provinces in China have the custom of curing bacon, among which Guangdong is the most famous.

Steamed rice cake, because of its homophonic "high year" and diverse tastes, has almost become a must-have food for every household.

The night before the real Chinese New Year is called Reunion Night. Wanderers who are away from home have to travel thousands of miles to go home, and the whole family has to sit around and wrap up jiaozi for the New Year.

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