What are the customs of the Han Chinese New Year?

1, sweeping dust

"Lunar New Year 24, dust sweeping house", according to the "Lu Shi Chunqiu" records, China in the Yao and Shun era on the Spring Festival dust sweeping custom. According to folklore: because the "dust" and "Chen" consonant, dust sweeping in the New Year has "in addition to the meaning of Chen Bu Xin", the intention is to all the poor luck, bad luck, swept out the door. This custom is a wish for people to break up the old and bring in the new and a prayer for the old to welcome the new.

2, posting Spring Festival couplets

Spring Festival couplets, also known as door-to-door, spring stickers, couplets, couplets, peach symbols, etc., it is neat, couplets, concise, sophisticated text depicting the background of the times, expressing the best wishes, is China's unique form of literature. Every Spring Festival, whether urban or rural, every family should select a big red spring couplets posted on the door, for the festival to increase the festive atmosphere.

This custom began in the Song Dynasty, began to prevail in the Ming Dynasty, to the Qing Dynasty, the Spring Festival couplets of ideology and artistry have been greatly improved, Liang Zhangrui prepared the Spring Festival couplets of monographs, "Threshold Lian series of words," the origins of the couplets and the various types of works of the characteristics of the discourse.

3, New Year's paintings

The Spring Festival hanging stickers New Year's paintings in urban and rural areas is also very common, thick black colorful New Year's paintings to thousands of families added a lot of prosperity and joy of the festive atmosphere. New Year's paintings are an ancient folk art in China, reflecting the people's simple customs and beliefs, and holding their hopes for the future. New Year's paintings, like spring scrolls, originated from the "God of the Door.

4, year-end vigil

New Year's Eve is one of the most important New Year's Eve activities, the custom of year-end vigil has a long history. The earliest records are found in the Western Jin Dynasty, Zhou Zhi's "Land and Customs": New Year's Eve night, each with the gift, known as "feed the year"; wine and food invited, known as the "other year"; young and old get together to drink, wishing to complete, known as the "sub-year"; all night long to keep watch over the year. The first is the "New Year's Eve"; the second is the "New Year's Eve"; the third is the "New Year's Eve".

5, firecrackers

Chinese folk "open door firecrackers" said. That is, the arrival of the new year, the first thing that families open the door is to set off firecrackers, to beep, bla bla bla firecrackers to get rid of the old and welcome the new. Firecrackers is a Chinese specialty, also known as "firecrackers", "cannonballs", "firecrackers". Its origin is very early, so far, there are more than two thousand years of history.