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How to write the traditional customs of the New Year?

The custom of the Spring Festival is:

Red couplets should be posted at the door of every household, and some people hang red lanterns, set off firecrackers and pay New Year greetings. Some parents give us lucky money. People put on new clothes, dance dragons and climb mountains for fun. It's the same every Spring Festival. In the New Year in China, we wear new clothes to greet our elders. We should say good wishes. It's very lively to have a reunion dinner. Children all like to celebrate the Spring Festival.

According to "Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals", China had the custom of sweeping dust during the Spring Festival in the Yao and Shun era. According to the folk saying: Because of the homonym of "dust" and "Chen", sweeping dust in the Spring Festival means "getting rid of the old and not being new", and its original intention is to sweep away all bad luck and bad luck. This custom has placed people's desire to break the old and create new ones and their prayers to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new.

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.