What are the customs during the Spring Festival?

Spring Festival is a traditional festival with a long history in China. The origin of the Spring Festival contains profound cultural connotations, and it carries rich historical and cultural connotations in its inheritance and development. During the Spring Festival, various activities will be held all over the country to celebrate the Spring Festival. I have carefully arranged five Spring Festival customs below. Let's have a look.

1, post a blessing.

Sticking the word "Fu" in the Spring Festival is a long-standing folk custom. During the Spring Festival, every household should put the word "Fu" on the door and wall. The word "fu" is now interpreted as "happiness", but in the past it meant "good luck" and "good luck". No matter now or in the past, the word "Fu" posted in the Spring Festival has pinned people's yearning for a happy life and wishes for a better future. In order to fully reflect this yearning and wish, the people simply put the word "Fu" upside down, indicating that "Fu has fallen (to) and Fu has fallen (to)".

2. Post Spring Festival couplets

Spring Festival couplets, also known as couplets and peach symbols, are a unique literary form in China, which can express profound meanings in short words. According to research, the folk custom of pasting Spring Festival couplets began in Song Dynasty and prevailed in Ming Dynasty. The earliest prototype of Spring Festival couplets is "Fu Tao", which is used to ward off evil spirits. After several evolutions, the present Spring Festival couplets came into being.

Sticking Spring Festival couplets is a traditional custom in China. Whenever the Spring Festival comes, every family will put up couplets wherever they are. China people pay attention to it, where there is a god, there is a door sticker. The couplets on the gate are the facade of a family, which are particularly exquisite, lyrical or picturesque, rich in content and witty. In some places, people will put up door gods, which means to ward off evil spirits and disasters, welcome good luck, symbolize everyone's wishes and hopes for a beautiful year, and also set off the happy atmosphere of the New Year.

Step 3 hang lanterns

Lanterns originated in the Western Han Dynasty. In ancient times, people with conditions usually hung lanterns for lighting, but red lanterns were usually hung during the Spring Festival. In the traditional culture of China, people think that red lanterns have the auspicious meaning of "good luck". Every Spring Festival, people hang lanterns symbolizing family reunion and prosperous life in front of their doors until after the Lantern Festival to create a festive atmosphere for the Spring Festival.

Lanterns are closely related to people's lives in China. There are lanterns everywhere in temples and living rooms. Lanterns have rich meanings, and the warm atmosphere of the festival not only permeates every household, but also the streets and alleys. Lanterns hung during the Spring Festival are auspicious patterns and words of blessing. The color of lanterns is generally red, and red is the same as cinnabar, which is a very effective treasure in geomantic culture and is very popular among people.

Step 4 eat new year's eve dinner

New Year's Eve, also known as reunion dinner, reunion dinner and so on. Especially the New Year's Eve dinner. New Year's Eve is the highlight of the Spring Festival every year, which is not only colorful, but also has many implications. Some places eat jiaozi, pinning the good wishes of "reunion" and "perfection" in the New Year; Eating rice cakes in some places means that everything goes well every year.

Step 5 Eat jiaozi.

Eating jiaozi was originally the custom of northerners. Eating jiaozi in the New Year means "have a good year". Now many southerners have joined the ranks of eating jiaozi, all with a good wish of good luck for a year. During the Spring Festival, people will eat jiaozi, which means "you can't see the windward side of jiaozi". Jiaozi will be eaten on New Year's Eve, the first day, the fifth day and the seventh day. Some people wrap sterilized coins in jiaozi, and whoever eats them first indicates good luck in the new year.

Spring Festival is the biggest and most grand traditional festival in China. During this period, there were many folk beliefs and activities, which all reflected people's wishes for a better life in the future. I sorted out a few Spring Festival customs above. If you have anything to add or say, please leave a message in the comments below.