What are the customs during the Spring Festival?

It's another spring with gongs and drums and firecrackers. For everyone in China, celebrating the Spring Festival is definitely the biggest and most important of the traditional festivals in China. The common customs of the Spring Festival are:

Make window decorations and paper cuts

Stick grilles is an ancient traditional festival custom. During the Spring Festival, people like to stick holiday paper-cuts on the windows. In addition, during the Spring Festival, every family will put up new beautiful Spring Festival couplets on their doors. Another source of Spring Festival couplets is spring stickers. When the ancients were in beginning of spring, they posted the word "Yichun" more and more. Later, it gradually developed into Spring Festival couplets, expressing the good wishes of the working people in our country to ward off evil spirits, bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, and accept blessings and blessings.

Dragon and lion dance performance

Dragon and lion dancing is the most famous traditional dance in China, and it is still one of the indispensable folk cultural activities in every important festival in China, so as to pray for the prosperity of the country and people, which is of great significance to avoid disasters and reduce happiness.

Family reunion dinner on New Year's Eve

New Year's Eve, also known as family reunion dinner, is the most important family banquet in China. On New Year's Eve, the whole family eats a rich and delicious New Year's Eve dinner together, showing mutual respect and love, expressing gratitude and celebrating family happiness. What a happy thing it is. There are generally auspicious dishes on the dining table, such as chicken (meaning planned), fish (meaning more than one year), lettuce (meaning making money), pig hands (meaning getting started) and other dishes, in order to be auspicious in the New Year.