What are the Year of the Tiger customs?

The Year of the Tiger customs are:

1, send poor: the first five just welcomed the God of Wealth into the door, the first six to send the poor. Send poor, is a very distinctive Han folk custom of the year. This day in the home to carry out cleaning, sweeping out the garbage as well as do not want to throw away all the debris. Although the way to send the poor varies from place to place, but the meaning is basically the same, are to send away the old poverty and hardship.

2, cut and paste the window is one of the many customs. The content of the windowpane has a variety of animals, plants and other palindromes, such as magpies, swallows through the peach and willow, peacocks play peonies, lions rolling embroidered balls, three sheep (Yang) Kaitai, two dragons playing pearls, deer and crane Tongchun (six contracts spring), five bats (Blessed) hold life, rhinoceros looking at the moon, Lotus (Lian) year fish (Yu), mandarin ducks playing in the water, the Golden Cicada Liuhai play, and the two Immortals, and so on, a wide range of styles, the appearance of the delightful.

3, the Spring Festival before the cleaning is a traditional Chinese custom, but also to remove bad luck, welcome the joy of a way. On the day of the dust, the whole family together, cleaning houses, courtyards, scrubbing pots and pans, dismantling bedding, clean to welcome the New Year. According to the canonical records, in ancient times, there is the habit of year-end sweeping, people with the "dust" and "Chen" harmonies to express in addition to Chen, in addition to the old will.

4, welcome the God of Fortune: the wind of worship, the Han Dynasty has, after the Tang and Song dynasties are very popular, some do not have to go in person, can be used to throw congratulations on the post. The Eastern Han Dynasty is called "thorns", it is also known as the "name thorns". After the Ming Dynasty, many people in front of their homes to post a red paper bag specializing in the receipt of name badges, called "door book".

The Spring Festival when the New Year's greetings, the younger generation should first give the elders to pay tribute to the elders can be ready to the New Year's money to the younger generation, because the "age" and "Sneaky" consonant, so there is the New Year's money can be pressed the evil spirits that blessed the new year of health and safety.

5, open the door firecrackers: the first day of the New Year, the first thing that families open the door is to set off firecrackers, firecrackers in the beeping sound of the old and welcome the new. Firecrackers, also known as "firecrackers", "firecrackers", "firecrackers", has a history of more than two thousand years. Firecrackers can create a festive atmosphere, can bring people joy and good luck.