Who knows about the customs of the Spring Festival?

Everything is based on the sky, people are based on the ancestors, praying for the year sacrifice, honoring the sky and the ancestors, the report of the beginning of the beginning of the opposite also. The origin of the Spring Festival contains profound cultural connotations and carries a rich historical and cultural heritage in its development. During the Spring Festival, all over the country are held a variety of activities to celebrate the New Year, with a strong local characteristics.

The customs of the Spring Festival include: sacrificing to the stove, making candy for the stove, sweeping the dust, receiving the Jade Emperor, posting the door god, posting the Spring Festival couplets, keeping the New Year's Eve, paying homage to the New Year, watching the Spring Festival Gala, and paying for the New Year.

Sacrificing Zaos: In ancient times, people believed that the good words spoken by the god of Zaos in front of the Jade Emperor would bring happiness to the family and bless the family for the coming year. So every year on the 23rd day of the Lunar New Year, families would worship the god of the stove and ask him to say more good and auspicious words after last week.

Zao sugar: a kind of malt sugar, also called hemp sugar, very sticky. The ones that grow into strips are called "Kanto sugar" and the ones that grow into flat circles are called "cantaloupe". In winter, when they are placed outside the house, because of the cold weather, the melons are firm, and there are some tiny bubbles inside. It tastes crunchy and sweet, and has a unique flavor.

Sweeping the dust: There is a folk saying that "sweeping the dust and cleaning the house on the 24th day of the Lunar New Year". After the kitchen rituals are over, we officially start preparing for the New Year. The big cleanup is the end-of-year cleaning, called "big sweeping" in the north and "dusting" in the south. It is a traditional Chinese custom to clean the house before Chinese New Year. On the day of dusting, the whole family starts cleaning the house and yard, scrubbing pots and pans, taking down bedding, and welcoming the New Year with a clean slate. In fact, people use the harmonics of "Chen" and "Chan" to express their will to eliminate the old and the stale.

Receiving the Jade Emperor:Both old and new customs believe that when the god of the stove goes up to heaven, the Jade Emperor in the sky will come down to earth personally on the 25th day of the lunar calendar to observe the good and evil on earth and to foretell the coming year's good fortune and bad luck. This is why every family offers blessings, called "welcoming the Jade Emperor". On this day, you should be prudent in your daily life and speech and strive for good performance to win the favor of the Jade Emperor and bring happiness in the coming year.

Posting the Door God: At first, the Door God was carved from peach wood and hung around people. Later portraits of the door gods were painted and pasted on the doors. Legend has it that the brothers Shentu and Yu Lei were associated with ghosts. They watched the door and evil spirits big and small dared not enter. After the Tang Dynasty, there appeared portraits of Qin Qiong and Yuchi Jingde as door gods, and Guan Yu and Zhang Fei as door gods. One for each household and one for the left and right households. Later generations often painted a pair of door gods as wugong, sending the Han working people to ward off evil spirits, eliminate disasters and welcome the good wishes of fortune.

Posting Spring Festival couplets: Spring Festival couplets, also known as "door couplets", "couplets", "peach symbols", is a kind of couplets, because in the Spring Festival posted and named. It is a unique form of literature in China, which depicts the background of the times and expresses good wishes in neat, pair-wise, concise and delicate words. During the Spring Festival, every household, whether in the city or in the countryside, picks a pair of bright red Spring Festival couplets to put on their doors.

Watch the New Year's Eve:Chinese people have the habit of watching the New Year's Eve, which is commonly called "staying up for the New Year". New Year's Eve begins with the New Year's Eve dinner. This dinner should be eaten slowly, and the dinner should be held at the time of the Lantern Festival. Some families had to eat late into the night. Celebrating New Year's Eve is the most important event.

Welcoming the New Year:One of the important activities of the Spring Festival is going to the houses of friends and neighbors to pay respect to the New Year, which used to be called paying respect to the New Year. Han Chinese people pay tribute to the New Year, since the Han Dynasty. After the Tang Dynasty, it is very popular. If you are not convenient to go there personally, you can use a famous card to express your congratulations. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, it was called "thorn", so the business card was also called "famous thorn".

Watching the Spring Festival Gala:Variety shows have become a large-scale form of media culture. It provides the most basic model and blueprint for the development of Chinese TV variety culture. New Year's Eve is a time for family reunions. Friends and relatives can get together and happily sit in front of the TV to watch the Spring Festival Gala! As the clock strikes 12 o'clock in the TV series, the whole family reunites to welcome the New Year.

New Year's money:It is given by the elders to the younger ones. In some families, everyone is not allowed to leave the table after the New Year's Eve dinner. After everyone has finished eating, the elders will give it to the younger ones to encourage their children and grandchildren to learn and grow and be good people in the new year. Some people will put the new year's money under their pillows at night after their children go to sleep, which reflects the love of elders for their juniors and the respect of juniors for their elders. It is a folklore activity integrated into family ethics.