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Customs of the Spring Festival

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 and habits, and there are many still passed down to the present day,

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1. dust sweeping

"Lunar month 24, dust sweeping the house", according to "Lv's Spring and Autumn Annals" records, China in the era of Yao and Shun on the Spring Festival dust sweeping custom. According to folklore: because the "dust" and "Chen" consonant, dust sweeping in the New Year has the meaning of "in addition to the new Chen Bu Xin", the intention is to all poor luck, bad luck, all sweep out the door.

2. 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 unique to China's literary form. Every Spring Festival, whether urban or rural, every family should select a large red Spring Festival couplets pasted on the door, for the festival to increase the festive atmosphere. This custom began in the Song Dynasty, began to prevail in the Ming Dynasty, to the Qing Dynasty, the Spring Festival couplets of ideological and artistic have been greatly improved, Liang Zhangzhu prepared the Spring Festival couplets monograph "Threshold Lian series of words" on the origins of the couplets and various types of works of the characteristics of the discussion.

3. Window Decorations and Posting the Word "Fortune"

People also like to put all kinds of paper cuttings on the windows in folklore - window decorations. 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 affixed to the window, so it is also known as "window flowers". Window decoration with its unique generalization and exaggeration of the auspicious events, good wishes expressed in the best possible way, will be decorated with festivals red hot and rich.

4. Stickers

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Festival hangers 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 people's simple customs and beliefs, and holding

their hopes for the future. New Year's paintings, like spring scrolls, originated as "door gods". With the rise of woodblock printing, the content of the New Year's paintings has not only limited to monotonous themes such as the God of the Door, become colorful, in some of the New Year's paintings

Workshop produced the "Three Stars of Fortune and Longevity," "Heavenly Officials Provide Blessings," "Five Grains and Plenty of Prosperity," "Six Animals", "Welcome to the Spring to receive the blessings of" and other classic colorful New Year's paintings to meet the people's joyful praying for the New Year's good wishes. China's New Year paintings

Three important places of origin: Peach Blossom Dock in Suzhou, Yang Liu Qing in Tianjin and Weifang in Shandong; the formation of the three major schools of Chinese New Year paintings, each with its own characteristics.

5. The New Year's Eve New Year's Watch

The New Year's Eve New Year's Watch is one of the most important New Year's Eve activities, and the custom of watching the New Year's Eve has a long history. The earliest records are found in the Western Jin Dynasty, Zhou Zhi's "customs": the night of New Year's Eve, each with the gift, known as "feed the year"; wine and food invited, known as the "other year"; young and old get together to drink, wishing to celebrate the completion of the year, known as the "share the year"; everyone stay up all night to wait for the day to be bright, known as the "year-end vigil".

6. Eating Dumplings

. The custom of eating dumplings at the Spring Festival has been quite popular in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Dumplings are usually wrapped before 12:00 pm on New Year's Eve and eaten at midnight, which is the beginning of the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar, eating dumplings to take the meaning of the "change of the year," "Zi" for the "Zi Shi", and "dumplings" and "dumplings" harmonized with "celebratory reunion" and "good luck," meaning.

7. Firecrackers

Chinese folk "open door firecrackers" said. That is, the arrival of the new year, the first thing to open the door of every household is to set off firecrackers to beeping and blazing firecrackers to get rid of the old and welcome the new,

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Crackers are a Chinese specialty, also known as "firecrackers", "cannonballs", "firecrackers". Its origin is very early, so far has a history of more than two thousand years. Firecrackers can create a festive and lively atmosphere, is a kind of festival entertainment, can bring people joy and good luck. With the passage of time, the application of firecrackers is more and more widely used, varieties and colors are also increasingly numerous, whenever a major festival and festivities, and marriage, building, opening, etc., are to set off firecrackers in order to show the celebration, Figure a good luck. Now, Hunan Liuyang, Guangdong Foshan and Dongyao, Jiangxi Yichun and Pingxiang, Wenzhou, Zhejiang and other areas is China's famous hometown of firecrackers, the production of firecrackers colorful, high-quality, not only sells well across the country, but also exported to the world.

8. New Year's Day

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, each other, wishing good luck for the coming year. Worship a variety of ways, some of them are the same patriarch led a number of people to go door to door to pay tribute to the New Year; some colleagues invited a few people to pay tribute to the New Year; there are also get together to congratulate each other, known as the "group worship". Because of the time-consuming and labor-intensive door-to-door New Year's greetings, some of the upper-class people and the scholarly elite later used the posters to congratulate each other, which developed into the later "New Year's greeting tablets".

9. Chinese New Year food customs

In the ancient agricultural society, about since the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, housewives will be busy with the New Year's food. Because it takes a long time to pickle the preserved meat, it must be prepared as early as possible. Many provinces in China have the custom of pickling preserved meat, of which the preserved meat in Guangdong Province is the most famous.

Steaming rice cakes, which are known as "nian gao" (yearly high) and have a wide variety of flavors, has become a must-have food for almost every family. There are square-shaped yellow and white rice cakes, symbolizing gold and silver, which are meant to bring wealth in the New Year.

The flavor of rice cakes varies from place to place. Beijingers like red date rice cake, white rice cake and white rice cake made of river rice or yellow rice. People in Hebei like to add jujubes, small red beans and mung beans to their rice cakes and steam them together. Northwestern Shanxi in Inner Mongolia and other

Land, New Year's Eve is used to eating yellow rice flour fried rice cakes, some also wrapped in bean paste, date paste and other fillings, Shandong people with yellow rice, red dates steamed rice cakes. Northern rice cakes are mainly sweet, or steamed or fried, some people simply dip sugar to eat. In the south, rice cakes

are both sweet and salty, such as those from Suzhou and Ningbo, which are made from round-grained rice and have a light flavor. In addition to being steamed or fried, they can be sliced and stir-fried or boiled in soup. Sweet rice cakes are made from glutinous rice flour with sugar, lard, roses, osmanthus, mint, and veggie paste, and are so well-made that they can be steamed or dipped in egg white and deep-fried.

The night before the real New Year is called the Night of Reunion, when people who are away from home have to travel thousands of miles to come back home, and the whole family has to sit together to make dumplings for the New Year. The dumpling method is to make dumpling skin with flour, and then use the skin to wrap the filling, which can be filled with a variety of meats, eggs, seafood, and seasonal vegetables, etc. The orthodox way of eating the dumplings is to boil them with clear water and cook them, and then lift them up and fry them with vinegar and garlic. The traditional way of eating dumplings is to boil them in water and then dip them in soy sauce mixed with vinegar, garlic and sesame oil. There are also ways to eat fried dumplings and branded dumplings (pot stickers). Because the word "and" means "together"; the dumplings "dumplings" and "cross" harmonize

sound, "together" and "cross" and have the meaning of getting together, so the use of dumplings to symbolize the reunion of the happy; and to take more years of the meaning of cross the child, very auspicious; in addition, dumplings because of the shape of the Yuanbao, New Year's Eve to eat dumplings, but also with the "wealth into the treasure" of the lucky

Auspicious meaning. Families get together to make dumplings and talk about the New Year in a happy way.

[Spring Festival Essay and Customs in Shanxi. With the words of the essay: without short steps, there is no way to reach a thousand miles; without accumulating small streams, there is no way to become a river and an ocean. --XunFang