What are the traditional customs in the small holidays?

After twenty-three, there are only six or seven days left before the Spring Festival, and the preparations for the Spring Festival are even more enthusiastic. To thoroughly clean the room, commonly known as sweeping the dust, sweeping the dust is to go to the old and welcome the new, and remove the ominous. Every household should be carefully and thoroughly cleaned to make the windows bright and clean. Paint walls, scrub glass, put up windows, put up New Year pictures and so on.

Step 2 cut the window grilles

In all the preparatory work, window cutting and stick grilles are the most popular folk activities. There are all kinds of animal and plant stories here, such as plum blossoms of magpies, peach willows of swallows, peony of peacocks, rolling hydrangeas of lions, playing pearls of three sheep (Yang), playing pearls of two dragons, Toona sinensis of deer cranes (Liuhe Tongchun), longevity of five bats (Fu), moon-gazing of rhinoceros, Nianyu of Lotus (Lian) (the rest) and swimming of Yuanyang.

Step 3 eat stove candy

Xiaonian is the companion of Danian. On the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, it will send off the Lunar New Year to the world first to see who needs the supplement of auspicious energy and inform the situation. Off-year loves to eat stove candy, so people can "say good things in the sky" for off-year and kitchen god, thus forming the folk custom of China people eating stove candy in off-year.