Traditions and customs of the Spring Festival

Thousands of years ago, our ancestors turned the Spring Festival into a lively activity. Every year from the 23rd to 30th of the twelfth lunar month, people call this period "Spring Festival Day" or "Dust Day", which is the traditional habit of our people.

Then, every household prepares new year's goods. About ten days before the festival, people were busy shopping. New year's goods include chicken, duck, fish, tea, wine, oil sauce, North and South roasted seeds and nuts, and fruit with sugar bait. They should also prepare some gifts when they visit relatives and friends during the Spring Festival. Whenever this happens, children are happiest, because adults will buy new clothes for their children and give them lucky money.

2. Custom

Everyone will put red couplets on the windows and doorways during the New Year, that is, Spring Festival couplets written in red paper. Bright-colored and auspicious New Year pictures are posted in the house. Beautiful window grilles are cut out by ingenious girls and pasted on the windows. Red lanterns are hung in front of the door, and lucky characters and door gods can be pasted upside down. Passers-by are blessed when they think of it. All these activities are aimed at adding enough festive atmosphere to the festival.

Another name for the Spring Festival is China New Year. In the past legend, "Nian" is a fictional animal, which will bring bad luck to people. New Year's Eve. When the tree is dead, the grass will not grow; After the New Year, everything grows and flowers are everywhere. How to spend a year? Firecrackers are needed, so there is a custom of setting off firecrackers, which is also a way for people to enliven the atmosphere.