What are the traditional customs in the Spring Festival?

1. During the Spring Festival, people will set off lanterns, lighters and firecrackers.

Cut bamboo from the mountain and burn it on the fire. The bamboo is empty in the middle. With the burning, the pressure on the bamboo joint is getting bigger and bigger, and finally it will burst and make a sound. This is the earliest firecrackers. Before the popularity of gunpowder in the Song Dynasty, people used this method to make a loud noise and drive away the Year of the Animal.

2. Drive away the Year with door gods and idols.

During the Spring Festival, every household, rich or poor, will buy two door gods and stick them on the door. In people's traditional concept, Nian beast attacks during the Chinese New Year, and everyone hides in the house. Nian beast will definitely want to break into the house, so people put a door god on the door to prevent evil beasts from breaking in.

Legend of the year

A long time ago, there was a monster named "Xi" who came out to hurt people every year, and even the kitchen god could do nothing to protect the people, so the kitchen god invited a prodigy named "Nian" to heaven. The prodigy is very powerful. He wiped out the evening beast with the crackling red silk bamboo pole in the fire.

This day happens to be the last day of the twelfth lunar month. In order to thank and commemorate the New Year, people get rid of dusk on this day, so they call the last day of the lunar calendar "New Year's Eve" and the first day of the New Year's Day "New Year's Eve".

People hope that every household has red silk and firecrackers, so the red silk and bamboo poles burned in the fire gradually evolved into red couplets and firecrackers that every household has in the New Year. This legend about Nian can be said to be clear and orderly.