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What are the traditional customs in the Spring Festival?

The custom of New Year in China

1, buy new year's goods

There are many daily necessities in the new year, such as paper, bamboo, porcelain and so on from the south; Superstitious articles are the bulk of the old new year's goods, such as thread incense, tin foil, woodcut door gods, kitchen gods, Buddha flowers, honey sacrifices and so on. Among them, the tin foil folded into "ingots" and "ingots" all came from the south. 2. Sticking Spring Festival couplets is a unique literary form in China. When people post New Year greetings (Spring Festival couplets and blessings, etc.). ) put it at their doorstep, which means the official start of the Spring Festival. The New Year's Eve dinner is also called "reunion dinner" or "family happiness", because after this meal, we will bid farewell to the old year and usher in the new year, so it is also called "dividing the year". In ancient times, people thought that the New Year's Eve dinner also had the functions of expelling epidemic diseases, exorcising evil spirits and strengthening the body. The custom that elders give lucky money to their younger generation is still popular in modern times. Most of these lucky money are used by children to buy books, school supplies and daily necessities, taken away by their parents, or stored in the bank. The new fashion has given new content to the lucky money.