What is the traditional culture of New Year's Day?

The traditional culture of New Year's Day is to set off firecrackers, visit the annual meeting and have a reunion dinner.

Food is the most important thing for people. In ancient China, after harvesting crops, people who worked for one year would prepare abundant food to welcome the spring, that is, the year of bumper harvest, commonly known as the Year of the Year. In Lu Yuanming's Annals of the Northern Song Dynasty, it was mentioned that on New Year's Day, people in Beijing eat more rice cakes, so-called New Year's Eve dinners, or something similar. This shows that people in the capital of Song Dynasty will prepare noodles and other food for the New Year. The custom of New Year's Day gradually took shape.

In China, the calendar method is adopted, and New Year's Day is the Gregorian New Year. There are three days off on New Year's Day (this year's holiday reform has only one day), and New Year's Day has become an important holiday in China. The joy of New Year's Day lasted until the Lunar New Year. Reunion, ancestor worship, eating jiaozi and enjoying lanterns have become the habit of every China family for the New Year.

The custom of New Year's Day in the north is different from that in the south.

The winter weather in northern China is cold, with short days and long nights. Since New Year's Day, people who are idle in farming have been killing pigs and sheep, sitting cross-legged on the heatable adobe sleeping platform, talking about their homes and mouths, and not working until the 15th day of the first month. Due to the cold weather, the Northeast New Year's Day diet is mainly frozen products, pickles and stews. Frozen jiaozi, stewed vermicelli with sauerkraut, preserved sherbet, etc. are all essential foods for Chinese New Year.

Children in Beijing want to eat candied haws in the New Year, which symbolizes the prosperity of the New Year. Folklore: Yangko, stilt walking and Errenzhuan in the northeast will be performed at the temple fair one after another. Tianjin is full of paper-cuts, couplets and entertainment activities. On New Year's Day, students in Shandong Province burn incense and worship the statue of Confucius, hoping to be the first in the coming year.