What to do on New Year's Eve

1, New Year's Eve dinner

This day is meant to remove the old and welcome the new, of course, people have to get up early in the morning to do a big table of food, eat a reunion dinner. Plenty of New Year's dishes on the table, the whole family reunion, sitting around the table, *** to eat reunion dinner on the table there are large dishes, cold pots, hot fried, snacks. Generally, there are often round seeds, fish, stewed meat. The round symbolizes "reunion"; "fish" and "Yu" resonance, is a symbol of "auspicious celebration", but also a metaphor for "year after year".

2, dumplings

Dumplings on New Year's Eve is a Chinese tradition, the day of New Year's Eve must be eaten dumplings, so families will get up early to make dumplings, dumplings in a large number of packages only a few with peanuts or other nuts, who ate such dumplings will be a good luck in the new year, there is a good-luck meaning.

3, posting Spring Festival couplets

Spring Festival couplets, also known as the door, spring stickers, couplets, couplets, peach symbols and so on, it is neat, couplets, simple, sophisticated text depicting the background of the times, expressing the best wishes. Every Spring Festival, no matter in the city or in the countryside, every family has to choose a pair of big red spring couplets to paste on the door, to increase the festive atmosphere for this grand festival.

4, window decals

In the Han Chinese folk people also like to put all kinds of paper cuttings on the window - window flowers. Window flowers not only set off a festive atmosphere, but also decorative, appreciative and practical in one.

5, stick the word of blessing

In the posting of Spring Festival couplets at the same time, to the door of the house, the wall, the door on the large and small "Fu" character. Some people put the word "Fu" upside down, "Fu upside down" means "Fu arrived".

6, stickers

The Spring Festival hanging stickers in urban and rural areas is also very common, black and colorful paintings to thousands of families added a lot of prosperity and joy of the festive atmosphere.

7, firecrackers

Chinese Han 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 in addition to the old and welcome the new. Firecrackers are a Chinese specialty, also known as "firecrackers", "cannonballs", "firecrackers".