Shanxi New Year's Eve Customs What are the customs of Shanxi people for New Year's Eve?

1, eat hemp candy. Every Lunar New Year's Day 23 early morning, is Zaojun God reported to heaven at the moment, most people in the back of the pot stove couplet is written: "on the sky say good things, back to the palace drop auspicious", meaning that the Zaojun God after the sky, in front of the Jade Emperor, more beautiful words, often in the day to the Zaojun God of the offerings of hemp sugar a thing, hemp sugar is a kind of It is a kind of sticky and sweet sugar, and when one eats it, one's mood is very pleasant.

2, cleaning home. Lunar New Year's Eve 24 or 25, many people began to clean their homes, sweeping all the dust in the house, and then use white clay to paint two to three times. This is the people of the year after the unpleasant sweep, with a new clean home to welcome the new year.

3. Decorate the windows. While cleaning the home, the old windowpaper torn down, replaced with new windowpaper, at the same time, but also affixed to a variety of patterns of windowpane, windowpane is actually paper-cutting, most of the windows of the previous northern houses are wooden lattice, affixed to the windowpane is not only a festive atmosphere, but also colorful, varied subject matter also brings people the enjoyment of beauty.

4, do tofu, laundry. These two things should be completed before the twenty-eighth of the waxing moon, do the tofu from the twenty-eighth of the waxing moon to eat to the first month of the fifteenth around the twenty-eighth of the waxing moon, before the twenty-eighth of the waxing moon, all the clothes in the house to wash again, to meet the new year. To show respect for the new year.

5, sticking Spring Festival couplets. Lunar month between 28 and 29, to put the Spring Festival couplets posted, out of the door is generally "out of the door to see the joy", the roof is "head up to see the joy" and other Spring Festival couplets, year after year, simple and honest couplets, on behalf of the people of the new year's good things, the joy of longing and The ancient and honest couplets represent people's longing and yearning for the good and happy things in the new year.