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Customs of the Spring Festival (information collated)

The Spring Festival is an ancient festival in China, but also one of the most important festivals throughout the year, how to celebrate this festival, in the development of thousands of years of history, the formation of a number of more fixed customs, many of which are still passed down to the present day.

Sweeping

"Lunar New Year's Eve, dust sweeping the house", the intention is to sweep out all the poor luck, bad luck. This custom is a symbol of people's desire to break with the old and bring in the new and pray for the old and welcome the new. Whenever the Spring Festival is approaching, every household has to clean the environment, wash all kinds of appliances, dismantle and wash the bedding curtains, everywhere overflowing with joy to engage in sanitation, clean and welcome the new year's happy atmosphere.

Posting Spring Festival couplets

Spring Festival couplets, also known as door-to-door, spring stickers, couplets, couplets, peach symbols, etc., it is neat, couplets, concise, sophisticated text depicting the background of the times, expressing the best wishes, is China's unique form of literature. Every Spring Festival, whether urban or rural, every family should select a big red Spring Festival couplets pasted on the door, for the festival to increase the festive atmosphere.

Pasted window and upside down "Fu" character

In the folk people also like to put all kinds of paper cuttings on the window - window flowers. Window flowers not only set a festive atmosphere, but also decorative, appreciative and practical in one. Paper cutting in China is a very popular folk art, for thousands of years by the people's favorite, because it is mostly pasted on the window, so it is also known as the "window".

The Chinese New Year is a time-honored folk custom in China to post the word "Fu". The word "Fu" refers to good fortune and luck, and is a symbol of people's desire for a happy life and their wish for a better future. In order to more fully reflect this yearning and wishes, some people simply put the word "Fu" upside down, indicating that "happiness has arrived" "fortune has arrived".

New Year's Paintings

The Spring Festival hanging stickers in urban and rural areas is also very common, black and colorful New Year's Paintings to thousands of families added a lot of prosperity and joy of the festive atmosphere. New Year's paintings are an ancient folk art in China, reflecting the simple customs and beliefs of the people and holding their hopes for the future.

Vigil

New Year's Eve is one of the most important New Year's Eve activities, "one night even double the year, five nights divided into two days", New Year's Eve, the family reunion together, ate New Year's Eve dinner, lit candles or oil lamps, sitting around the fireplace chatting, waiting for the time to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new, the all-night vigil, the symbol of the evil plague of all the plague of disease, light Run away, looking forward to a new year of good luck.

Firecrackers

Chinese folk "open door firecrackers" said. That is, at the dawn of the new year, the first thing that families do when they open the door is to set off firecrackers, to beep and blare the sound of firecrackers to get rid of the old and welcome the new.

Welcome to the New Year

On the first day of the New Year, people get up early, put on the most beautiful clothes, dressed neatly, go out to visit friends and relatives, pay respects to each other, wishing good luck in the coming year. Worship a variety of ways, some of them are the same clan leader to lead a number of people to go door to door to pay tribute to the New Year; Spring Festival to pay tribute to the New Year, the younger generation should first give the elders to pay tribute to the New Year, wishing the elders a long life and well-being, the elders can be prepared beforehand the New Year's Eve money to the younger generation, it is said that the New Year's Eve money can be pressed to stop the evil spirits, because the "age" and the "spirits It is said that the money can keep evil spirits at bay, because "year" and "sun"(祟) sound alike, and the younger generation can spend the year in peace if they get the money. New Year's money can be in the younger generation after the New Year's Day public reward, can also be in the New Year's Eve when the child is asleep, by the parents secretly placed under the child's pillow. Now the elders for the younger generation to send the custom of the new year's money is still prevalent.