The content of the custom handwritten newspaper during the Spring Festival

Spring Festival, commonly known as "Chinese New Year Festival" and "Chinese New Year", is a grand and distinctive ancient folk festival in China, and it is also one of the most lively traditional festivals. There are many handwritten newspapers about the customs of the Spring Festival. Specific examples are as follows:

First, sweep the dust during the Spring Festival. According to Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals, as early as the Yao and Shun era, China had the custom of sweeping dust during the Spring Festival. Because "dust" and "Chen" are homophonic, sweeping dust in the Spring Festival has a new meaning, meaning "getting rid of the old and not being new", hoping to sweep all bad luck out of the house.

Second, paste couplets, blessings and door gods. On the afternoon of the day before the Spring Festival, children will paste couplets on the door with paste and brushes, and then let the adults below see if they are pasted correctly. Some are pasted on the crosshead of the lintel, and couplets are pasted on the left and right sides of the door. Others put blessings on doors, walls and lintels to express people's yearning for a happy life.

Third, sacrifice ancestors and gods. Sacrificing to God during the Spring Festival is a custom all over China. The customs of offering sacrifices to gods are similar all over the country, but the purpose is basically the same. They all pray for good weather, good harvests and good luck in the coming year.

Sacrificing ancestors is generally after offering sacrifices to gods, and customs vary from place to place. In our hometown, every day before lunch, every household sends a representative to the ancestral temple with food and offerings, and the ancestral temple will not close until the fifteenth day of the first month.