What are the customs of Chinese New Year?

The Spring Festival is the oldest and most solemn festival of the Chinese nation, including cutting and pasting window grilles, eating New Year's Eve dinner, setting off firecrackers, staying up late on New Year's Eve, dragon and lion dances, and distributing lucky money... 1. Cutting and pasting window grilles is one of many New Year customs.

The window flowers contain anecdotes of various animals and plants, such as magpies climbing plum blossoms, swallows piercing peach willows, peacocks playing with peonies, lions rolling hydrangeas, three sheep (yang) Kaitai, two dragons playing with beads, deer, cranes, and tongchun (liuhehechun).

), five bats (blessings) holding longevity, rhinoceros looking at the moon, lotus (continuous) fish (remaining), mandarin ducks playing in the water, bangs playing with golden cicadas, harmony of two immortals, etc. There are many kinds of patterns and pleasing looks, which decorate the festival.

Be beaming.

Second, Spring Festival couplets are also called "Spring Posters" and "Door Couplets".

It depicts beautiful images with neatly contrasted, concise and exquisite words.

During the Spring Festival, every household, no matter in the city or in the countryside, selects a pair of red Spring Festival couplets and sticks them on the door to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, to increase the festive atmosphere of the festival.

For thousands of years, the form of Spring Festival couplets has continued to evolve from writing with a brush to printing on colored paper.

However, it remains true to its origins, and the flavor of the New Year is forever treasured in the hearts of the Chinese people.

Third, cleaning before the Spring Festival is a traditional Chinese custom, and it is also a way to get rid of bad luck and welcome happiness.

On the day of sweeping, the whole family works together to clean the house and courtyard, scrub pots and dishes, unpack and wash bedding, and welcome the new year cleanly.

According to ancient records, there was a custom of year-end cleaning in ancient times. People used the homophonic pronunciation of "dust" and "chen" to express their wish to get rid of the old and the old.

Fourth, the New Year’s Eve dinner is the “longest” meal that Chinese people eat throughout the year, and it is also the most important family banquet for Chinese people.

In the 1960s and 1970s, due to the scarcity of supplies, people had to eat "everything is clean". The New Year's Eve dinner was the most sumptuous meal of the year.

In the 1980s, meat, eggs, poultry, etc. became increasingly abundant.

In the nineties, the cuisine became more diverse.

Entering the 21st century, Western-style, farmhouse, shared tables... the ways of eating New Year's Eve dinner are constantly being updated.

Five, "Happy New Year" and "Best New Year to you."

On the first day of the first lunar month, when people meet, they will exchange such New Year greetings.

There are three traditional New Year greeting rituals: one is kowtow.

When minors pay New Year greetings to their senior elders, they must kowtow.

The second is to bow and bow.

It is generally used by younger generations to pay New Year greetings to their elders, commonly known as "Jibai".

The third is to cup your fists and hold your hands.

Most of them are New Year greetings between ordinary people.

Legend has it that one day more than 2,000 BC, Shun became the emperor and led his men to worship heaven and earth.

From then on, people regarded this day as the beginning of the year and called it the first day of the first lunar month.