What are the customs of Spring Festival in Beijing?

According to Beijing Local Treasure, Beijing's Spring Festival customs include:

1. Writing Spring Festival Couplets: Spring Festival Couplets are also known as "Spring Stickers" and "Door Pairs". It depicts beautiful images in neat and simple words. During the Spring Festival, whether urban or rural, every family should select a pair of red couplets posted on the door, the old and the new, in order to increase the festive atmosphere.

2, New Year's Eve vigil: the vigil, for the elderly, there is a sense of the passing of the years, there is the meaning of cherishing the years. For young people, there is a sense of new buds thriving, the intention to work hard to make progress. Year-end vigil reflects the family reunion, *** narrative affection, send the old and welcome the new beautiful vision.

3, the New Year's Eve money: In the old days, after sacrificing ancestors, held to meet the gods after the ceremony, the whole family should be together "resignation", the younger generation to the elders kowtow to wish the elders longevity, great blessings, great luck, the elders to give the younger generation of the red packet, that is, the "New Year's Eve money," which implies that "the New Year's Eve money" means "the new year's Eve money. New Year's money means "pressure year blessing", which sends the elders on the children's growth of good wishes, I hope they grow up healthy.

4, cut the window: cut and paste window is one of the many customs. The content of the window flowers have a variety of animals, plants and other palindromes, such as magpies, swallows through the peach and willow, a wide variety of patterns, the appearance of pleasing to the festive season will be decorated with joy.

5, New Year's greetings: "Good New Year" "to you to pay tribute to the New Year". On the first day of the first month, people meet, will give each other such New Year's greetings, the traditional New Year's Day rituals are divided into three: one is bowing. Minors to the higher generation of elders to pay New Year's greetings, to perform the bowing salute. The second is bowing. Generally used by the younger generation to the elders to pay tribute to the New Year, commonly known as "Ji Bai". Third, the fist arch. More than one generation between the New Year's greetings.