What are the New Year's customs in the north

The Spring Festival hanging stickers in urban and rural areas is also very common, thick black colorful New Year's paintings to thousands of families added a lot of prosperity and joy of the festive atmosphere. New Year's paintings are an ancient folk art in China, reflecting the people's simple customs and beliefs, and holding their hopes for the future.

2, the New Year's Eve

New Year's Eve is one of the most important New Year's Eve activities, the custom of the New Year's Eve has a long history. The earliest records are found in the Western Jin Dynasty Zhou Zhi's "Land and Customs": New Year's Eve night, each with the gift, known as "feed the year"; wine and food invited, known as the "other year"; young and old get together to drink, wishing to complete, known as the "sub-year"; we all end of the year to keep the year.

3, eating dumplings

The custom of eating dumplings at the Spring Festival in the Ming and Qing Dynasties has been quite prevalent. Dumplings are usually wrapped before 12:00 pm on the night of the thirtieth year, to be eaten in the middle of the night, when it is the beginning of the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar, eating dumplings to take the meaning of "more years of intercourse," "Zi" for the "son of time! "The cross and" dumplings "resonate," with the meaning of "joyful reunion" and "good luck".