What day is the small year in the north of China

Lunar New Year's Eve.

The New Year's Eve is also known as the festival of the stove, the New Year's Eve has the custom of sacrificing to the king of the stove, sweeping the dust, cutting the windowpane and so on, which is set by the date of the lunar calendar, generally speaking, the Northern New Year is the 23rd day of the lunar month, the Southern New Year is the 24th day of the lunar month.

Almost every festival in the north will have the figure of dumplings, and the New Year's Eve to eat dumplings, the meaning of the "send-off The dumplings are eaten on Lunar New Year's Eve as a way of saying "send off" and "welcome the wind". When you make offerings, the dumplings should be placed squarely on the offering table. In addition, there is a popular saying that "dumplings are as good as they taste". Dumplings have become an indispensable delicacy during the Chinese New Year festivities.

Cutting the window is the most popular folkloric activity of the Lunar New Year. The content of a variety of animals, plants and other palindromes, magpies, peacocks play peonies, lions rolling embroidered balls, two dragons playing pearls, five blessings of longevity, Lotus (Lian) year with fish (Yu) and so on.

The folk have "money or no money, shaved head for the New Year". The activities of the bath and haircut, mostly concentrated in the small year before and after the New Year, in order to remove the dust and bad luck of the previous year, the new year's good luck.