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What are the Spring Festival etiquette books?

1, Happy New Year. The custom of greeting the New Year was first practiced in Kyoto in the Ming Dynasty. When dealing with officials, whether you know them or not, you should worship each other, while the people worship their relatives and friends. In the Qing Dynasty, it was popular to send "greeting boxes" during the Spring Festival, that is, to send New Year cards to relatives and friends in exquisite and beautiful decorative boxes to show solemnity. In today's China, "Happy New Year" has become a traditional custom. Dear friends and colleagues visit and greet each other.

2. Send lucky money. It is a traditional etiquette and folk custom in China to give children some lucky money during the Spring Festival. The lucky money is full of blessings from the elders to the younger generation. In China, there are some popular stories about the origin of lucky money. For example, in ancient times, there was a demon with black hands and white body called Chong, who came out to harm children every New Year's Eve.

3. Every family cleans the courtyard, with stick grilles, couplets and blessings. On the thirtieth day of the twelfth lunar month, every household erected a lantern pole more than six meters high. From the first day to the sixteenth day, the red light is hung high every day. Jiaozi is better for the New Year's Eve dinner. Pay attention to pleating. When cooking jiaozi, some of them are wrapped in copper coins, so people who eat it are lucky.