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On the Traditional Folk Culture of Spring Festival

1, eat jiaozi

Eating jiaozi is one of the folk cultures in the Spring Festival. Generally, jiaozi should wrap it up before 0: 00 or 2: 00 on New Year's Eve and eat it until midnight. At this time, it is the beginning of the first day of the first lunar month. Eating jiaozi means "making friends when you are young", which means "reunion and happiness" and "good luck".

2. Paste the New Year pictures

During the Spring Festival, New Year pictures are essential. It is an ancient folk art in our country, reflecting people's simple customs and beliefs, and pinning people's hopes for the future.

Step 3 post Spring Festival couplets

Get up in the morning on New Year's Day, you need to stick a door god and paste Spring Festival couplets. Spring Festival couplets are unique folk symbols in China. Sticking Spring Festival couplets is a very grand project.

Step 4 set off firecrackers

Setting off firecrackers has a history of more than two thousand years. Although it has been banned in many places for environmental protection reasons, it still exists in some remote areas.

5. New Year's Eve

In many areas of our country, "keeping watch" on New Year's Eve actually means that the whole family does not sleep on New Year's Eve regardless of age. And you have to wait until after eight o'clock on the first day of school to go to bed. The main moral is that I hope my family will be safe and healthy. Children, in particular, can grow up healthily only on New Year's Eve.