What are the Spring Festival customs handed down by the ancients?

Since ancient times, the Spring Festival has been a grand and distinctive ancient festival in China, and there is a saying among the people that "after the off-year is a year". During the period around the Spring Festival, there were many classic traditional customs, some of which are still circulating today, decorating people's lives. So what customs do you know about the Spring Festival?

1. There is a well-known saying, "Twenty-three, cantaloupe sticks", which means that the stove is sacrificed every year on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month. On this day, old people usually "invite" Kitchen God, that is, buy a picture of Kitchen God and his grandmother and hang it in the kitchen. According to legend, this day is the day when Kitchen God plays with things in the sky. There are four plates of "dried fruits" in the kitchen, including red dates, walnuts, persimmons and kitchen candy. The first three can be changed at random, but there must be kitchen candy (sesame candy). This is because sesame candy is sticky and sweet, which can make the kitchen god "speak well in heaven and return to the palace for good luck". In the middle of the altar, in addition to the sweet and salty cakes made at home, there must be a killed rooster. Because according to legend, Kitchen God rode a rooster to heaven.

2, sweeping the dust "twelfth lunar month, sweeping the dust and sweeping the house", this custom of sweeping the dust pinned people's prayers to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new. Of course, this custom has been inherited to this day, and it has become the biggest headache for everyone at the end of the year. However, cleaning your home as clean as new after the New Year is the first thing that makes you feel fulfilled in the New Year.

3. Sticking Spring Festival couplets is a unique literary form in China. Also called door couplets, spring stickers, couplets, peach symbols, etc. Simple and clear, and neat. Sticking Spring Festival couplets is the most popular traditional custom in the Spring Festival, regardless of wealth. On the afternoon of the day before the Spring Festival, children will paste couplets on the door with paste and brushes, and then let the adults below see if they are pasted correctly.

4. Celebrating the Chinese New Year Festival China has a long history, and all kinds of Chinese New Year customs come from all over 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, clothes, use, stickers (New Year's Eve) and gifts, are collectively called "New Year's Goods", and the process of buying new year's goods is called "Buying New Year's Goods". Celebrating the Spring Festival is an important activity for China people.

On the first day of the new year, people will get up early, put on the most beautiful clothes, dress neatly, go out to visit relatives and friends and wish each other a happy new year.

Since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, China people have formulated unwritten rules for New Year greetings, in a certain order: first, worship the gods of heaven and earth, then worship the true shadow of ancestors, then worship the elders of Gaotang, and finally the whole family worships each other in the order of generations. Give gifts to elders and reward children. Now, the younger generation should first pay New Year greetings to their elders and wish them health and longevity.

6. New Year's Eve, also known as New Year's Eve, reunion dinner, reunion dinner, etc. Especially the New Year's Eve dinner at the end of the year. The New Year's Eve dinner originated from the ancient ritual vessels at the end of the year, and it is a reunion dinner after offering sacrifices to the gods and ancestors. New Year's Eve is the highlight of the year, which is not only colorful, but also very interesting. Worship the gods and ancestors before the reunion dinner, and eat after the worship ceremony.

The above is my understanding of the traditional customs of the Spring Festival. What else do you know, my friend?