What is about the Spring Festival

The Spring Festival (Spring?Festival), the Chinese Lunar New Year, commonly known as Xinchun, New Year, New Year's Day, etc., orally known as the New Year, the New Year.

The contents of the Spring Festival are colorful, let me introduce it.

1, buy New Year's goods:

Chinese people have always regarded the New Year as a big event for thousands of years. Before the New Year to do a lot of preparation, to buy a lot of things to eat, use, wear, wear, play, supply, fresh, raw, cooked and so on. They are collectively known as "New Year's goods".

2 Posting Spring Festival couplets:

Spring Festival couplets, also known as the "spring stickers", "door-to-door", "couplets", it is a neat and concise text to depict the beautiful image of a good wish, is China's unique form of literature. It is a unique literary form in China. It is an important symbol for Chinese people to celebrate the Spring Festival. When people put up Spring Festival couplets and lucky charms in front of their homes, it means that the Spring Festival is officially kicked off.

3Posting Spring Flowers:

In the past, regardless of the north and south, window flowers were posted during the Spring Festival. Now in the south, only when you get married, the Spring Festival is generally not posted.

4, hanging paintings:

New Year's paintings originated from the god of the door. It is an ancient traditional folk culture. As a microcosm of Chinese society, its works such as the god of the field, the god of the barn and the god of the well reveal the ancient working people's prayers for a good year, and are of great value to the study of the production development of Chinese society and folk customs, ideology and so on.

5 New Year's Eve dinner: one of the customs of the Spring Festival, also known as New Year's Eve dinner, New Year's Eve dinner, reunion dinner, etc., specifically refers to the end of the year on New Year's Eve of the whole family dinner. New Year's Eve dinner originated from the ancient end of the year ritual ritual, worship gods and ancestors after the reunion dinner.

6, the new year's money:

One of the customs of the Spring Festival after the New Year's Eve dinner, the elders will be prepared to share the new year's money to the younger generation, it is said that the new year's money can be pressed to stop the evil spirits, the younger generation to get the new year's money can be a year of peace and security.

7, the New Year's Eve:

Chinese folk customs in the New Year's Eve, also known as the "light consumption", "point of the year fire," "boiled year" and so on. The main manifestation of the New Year's Eve folklore is that the lights stay on all night, and the New Year's Eve refers to the family reunion on New Year's Eve, staying up all night to welcome the arrival of the Lunar New Year.

8Eating Dumplings:

Popular in the northern region. Generally New Year's Eve to eat meat-filled. On the first day of the New Year, we eat vegetarian dumplings. New Year's dumplings should be thin skin stuffing, pinch tight, can not be cooked, meat dumplings to have pork, mutton, beef, chicken, there are two kinds of meat mixed together in the mandarin duck dumplings, as well as a variety of flavors of the "dumpling feast".

I hope you, me, and everyone else have a great Chinese New Year ！！！！