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What are the customs during the Spring Festival?

1, dust removal

Folk call the period from the 23rd to 30th of the twelfth lunar month "Spring Festival", also called "Dust-cleaning Day". On the occasion of the Spring Festival, every household should clean up, clean all kinds of utensils, remove and wash bedding curtains, clean the willow green courtyard and dust off cobwebs. Everywhere is filled with a happy atmosphere of being willing to do sanitation and welcoming the Spring Festival.

Step 2 prepare new year's goods

Before the Spring Festival, every household should prepare new year's goods, including chicken, duck, fish, tea, wine, oil sauce, roasted seeds and nuts, sugar bait fruit and so on. At the same time, we should prepare some gifts for visiting relatives and friends during the Spring Festival, and buy new clothes and hats for our children to wear during the New Year.

3, paste couplets

Couplets are also called "Spring Festival couplets", "Door Pairs" and "Spring Stickers". They should be posted on the front door before the Spring Festival, and auspicious New Year pictures should be posted in the house, with red lanterns hanging in front of the door, or auspicious characters, such as the god of wealth and the door god.

4. stick grilles

People also like to stick various paper-cuts on the windows-window grilles, which not only set off the festive atmosphere, but also decorate the festival magnificently.

5, shou sui

On New Year's Eve, the whole family get together, eat New Year's Eve, light candles or oil lamps, sit around the fire and chat, waiting for the time to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new. The all-night vigil symbolizes driving away all evil diseases and epidemics and looking forward to good luck in the new year.

6. Happy New Year

On the first day of the new year, people get up early, put on the most beautiful clothes, dress up neatly, go out to visit relatives and friends, and pay New Year greetings to each other. I wish the younger generation good luck in the coming year. When paying New Year greetings during the Spring Festival, the younger generation should first pay New Year greetings to their elders and wish them health and longevity. The elders can distribute the lucky money prepared in advance to the younger generation, and the younger generation can spend the first year safely with the lucky money.