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What are the southern customs?

Southern customs include offering sacrifices to kitchen gods, pasting couplets, New Year's Eve dinner, holding new year's goods and sweeping dust.

1, Kitchen God

Sacrifice a stove on the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month. The folk sacrificial furnace originated from the ancient custom of worshipping fire. "Ming Shi": "Kitchen. Make it, create food. " Kitchen God's duty is to take charge of the kitchen fire and manage the diet. Later, it was expanded to investigate human good and evil to reduce good and evil. Sacrificing to the Kitchen God has a history of thousands of years in China, and the belief in the Kitchen God is a reflection of China people's dream of "adequate food and clothing".

2, paste couplets

Sticking New Year's Red is the general term for sticking Spring Festival couplets, door gods, New Year pictures, blessings, horizontal criticism and window grilles. Because these are all red festive elements pasted during the New Year, they are collectively called "Sticking New Year Red". Sticking New Year Red is a traditional New Year custom in China, which reflects people's customs and beliefs, adds festive atmosphere and places people's good expectations for the new year and new life.

3. New Year's Eve dinner

New Year's Eve is one of the customs of New Year's Day, also known as New Year's Eve, reunion dinner, reunion dinner and so on. Especially the New Year's Eve dinner. The New Year's Eve dinner originated from the ancient sacrificial ceremony at the end of the year, and it is a reunion dinner after offering sacrifices to the gods and ancestors. Reunion dinner is the highlight of the year ago, which is not only colorful, but also very meaningful. Worship the gods and ancestors before the reunion dinner, and eat after the worship ceremony.

4, do new year's goods

Buying new year's goods, including food, clothing, clothes, use, stickers (New Year's Eve) and gifts, are collectively called "New Year's Goods", and the process of buying new year's goods is called "Buying New Year's Goods". Celebrating the Spring Festival is an important activity for China people.

Step 5 clean the dust

It's the end of the year, and I'm officially preparing for the Spring Festival. Dust removal is a year-end cleaning, which is called "cleaning" in the south. 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.

Refer to the above? Baidu Encyclopedia-paste couplets, Baidu Encyclopedia-Sacrifice to the Kitchen God, Baidu Encyclopedia-New Year's Eve, Baidu Encyclopedia-New Year's Eve, Baidu Encyclopedia-Sweep the Dust.