What are the customs of the Spring Festival?

The customs of the Spring Festival include buying new year's goods, setting off firecrackers, posting New Year's greetings, eating New Year's Eve, observing New Year's greetings, and dancing dragons and lions.

1, do new year's goods

China's annual custom culture has a long history, and all kinds of Chinese New Year customs originate from all parts of the country, and the north and the south have their own characteristics. Although customs vary from place to place, it is almost a "must-have" for Chinese New Year to prepare new year's goods and send new year's gifts all over the country. Buying new year's goods, including food, clothing, use, stickers (New Year's Eve) and gifts (New Year's Eve), is collectively called "New Year's goods", and the process of buying new year's goods is called "New Year's goods", which is an important activity for China people to celebrate the Spring Festival.

Step 2 set off firecrackers

There is a folk proverb in China. When the New Year comes, the first thing that every household opens the door is to set off firecrackers and greet the New Year with firecrackers. Fireworks are a specialty of China, also known as "firecrackers", "firecrackers", "firecrackers" and "firecrackers". With its strong festive color, firecrackers have developed into a symbol of resigning the old year and welcoming the new year. Setting off firecrackers can create a festive and lively atmosphere, which is a kind of entertainment in festivals and can bring happiness and good luck to people.

3, paste the year red

On the 28th, 29th or 30th of each year, every household puts up "Year Red" (Year Red refers to red festive elements such as Spring Festival couplets, door gods, banners, New Year pictures and the word "Fu"). Sticking New Year Red is a traditional Chinese New Year custom in China, which adds a festive atmosphere and places people's good expectations for the new year and new life.

Origin of the festival

The Spring Festival is the biggest traditional folk festival in China, and it is a folk festival integrating blessing, celebration, entertainment and food. The Spring Festival has a long history, which evolved from the sacrificial rites of praying for the New Year at the beginning of ancient times, and bears rich historical and cultural connotations in its inheritance and development.

The New Year greeting activities are centered on offering sacrifices and praying for a good year, and are carried out in the form of offering sacrifices to ancestors and praying for a good year. The content is rich and colorful, lively and festive, and the annual flavor is rich, which embodies the essence of traditional culture of Chinese civilization. During the Spring Festival, various New Year celebrations will be held all over the country. Due to different regional cultures, the content or details of customs are also different. Chinese New Year has a long history, and some relatively fixed customs have been formed in the process of inheritance and development, many of which have been passed down to this day.