Customs of Chinese New Year

Customs of Chinese New Year: Buying New Year's goods, sweeping dust, eating New Year's Eve dinner, observing the New Year's Eve, paying homage to the New Year's Eve, dragon and lion dances, traveling to the gods, betting on boats, eating dumplings, and enjoying lanterns.

Customs of the Spring Festival are the customs of the Chinese people during the Spring Festival, and there are differences in the content or details of the customs in different parts of China due to different regional cultures, with strong regional characteristics.

Buying New Year's goods

Chinese people have always regarded New Year's Eve as a big event for thousands of years. Before the New Year, they have to make a lot of preparations and buy a lot of things to eat, use, wear, wear, play, offer, dry, fresh, raw, cooked and so on. The first thing you need to do is to buy a lot of things, such as food, clothes, clothes, jewelry, supplies, dry goods, fresh goods, raw goods and cooked goods.

Sweeping dust

Sweeping dust, also known as sweeping, sweeping, dust, dust, dust, dust, dust, etc., is one of the traditional Chinese folk New Year's custom. Sweeping dust is the end of the year cleaning, the south said "sweeping house", the north said "sweeping room". The intention is to sweep out all the "poor luck" and "bad luck", which is a good wish of the Chinese people to ward off evils and disasters and to welcome good fortune.

Eating New Year's Eve dinner

New Year's Eve dinner, 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 (the day before the Spring Festival) of the whole family meal.

New Year's Eve dinner is the main event before the New Year every year, which is not only colorful but also has a lot of meanings. Traditionally, New Year's Eve dinner is eaten on New Year's Eve after the ancestors have been worshipped. Before eating the New Year's Eve dinner, you have to worship the gods and ancestors, and only after the worship ceremony is finished, you can start the dinner and other customs.

Watch the New Year

Watch the New Year's Eve, also known as watch the fire, according to the age, etc., which has a long history, the Chinese Han Chinese folk in New Year's Eve has the habit of watching the New Year's Eve, commonly known as the "boiled year". New Year's Eve night before the New Year's Eve vigil, folk activities are mainly manifested in the point of the year-old fire, keep the year-old fire, that is, all the houses are lit all over the lamps and candles, the family get-together, to meet the New Year.

Worshipping

Worshipping, one of the New Year's customs, refers to worshipping and sacrificing to the god of the year (taiyou) on the occasion of the New Year's Day, which is the first day of the New Year, when the old year is over. Worshipping is one of the oldest traditional customs of the Chinese nation, and this traditional custom has been passed down from generation to generation, with people holding ceremonies on the first day of the new year to welcome the new year, pray for the new year, and receive blessings.

Dragon and Lion Dance

Dragon and lion dance is a traditional Chinese folk custom. Dragon dance is also known as playing dragon lanterns and dragon lantern dance. The dragon is an ancient totem. Legend has it that the dragon can move clouds and rain, eliminate disasters and bring down blessings, symbolizing auspiciousness, so praying for peace and a good harvest by means of the dragon dance has become a custom all over the country.

Eating Dumplings

Eating dumplings is popular in the north. They are usually filled with meat on New Year's Eve and vegetarian on the first day of the year. New Year's dumplings should be thin, stuffed, pinched tightly, can not be cooked, meat dumplings should be pork, mutton, beef, chicken dumplings, there are two kinds of meat mixed together in the mandarin duck dumplings, as well as a variety of flavors "dumpling feast.

What about lanterns?

Lantern-viewing is an ancient Chinese folk culture that usually takes place during the Lantern Festival and is literally interpreted as viewing lanterns. During the Southern Dynasty, the national capital of health appeared the custom of organizing the traditional Lantern Festival, and its grandeur was the top of the country. Lantern fair rise in the Tang Dynasty, flourished in the Song Dynasty, reached its peak in the Ming Dynasty.