What are the customs of Chinese New Year?

1, China's Spring Festival, generally from the opening of the sacrificial stove. Stove festival, is a folk in our country has a great influence, widely spread custom. In the old days, almost every family had a "Zao Wang" god in the stove.

2, "waxing twenty-four, dust sweeping house", according to "Lu Shi Chunqiu" records, China in the Yao and Shun era, there is a Spring Festival dust sweeping custom. According to folklore: because the "dust" and "Chen" harmonized, the New Year dust sweeping has "in addition to the meaning of Chen Bu Xin", the intention is to all poor luck, bad luck all swept out the door. This custom is a symbol of people's desire to break away from the old and bring in the new and their prayers for the old and the new. Whenever the Spring Festival comes, every household has to clean up the environment, wash all kinds of appliances, dismantle the bedding curtains, sprinkle clean the courtyard, dust dust cobwebs, dredge the nullahs and ditches. Everywhere overflowing with joyful health, clean and welcome the new year's atmosphere of joy.

3, the old custom that the God of the stove in the sky, the Emperor Jade Emperor in the lunar calendar on the 25th of December personally down to check the good and evil on earth, and set the coming year, so the family sacrifice to pray for blessings, known as the "Jade Emperor". On this day, people should be careful in their living and speaking, and strive for good performance in order to win the favor of the Jade Emperor and bring down blessings in the coming year.

4, traditional folklore in these two days to focus on bathing, laundry, remove the bad luck of the year, ready to meet the next year's New Year, the capital has a "twenty-seven wash guilt, twenty-eight wash scruffy" proverbs. Lunar New Year's Eve bath for "wash the blessing of Lu".

5, Lunar New Year's Eve on the thirtieth posting the God of the Door, posting Spring Festival couplets, the New Year's Eve, firecrackers, eat New Year's Eve dinner, to the New Year's Eve money, ancestor

New Year's Eve means "the month is poor, the end of the year", the people want to get rid of the old Department of the new, there is the old year to this year, the next year, another change in the new year's meaning, the lunar calendar throughout the year, the last night. Therefore, the activities during this period are centered around the old part of the new, eliminate disasters and pray for blessings as the center. Zheng Zheng declaration: the answer is for reference only, please do not blindly superstitious.