What are the festive customs of the Spring Festival?

1, posting spring couplets

According to the ancient calendar, the day of the 30th day of the Lunar New Year is called the "New Year". When you get up in the morning on the day of the New Year, you need to put up door gods and spring scrolls. Spring Festival couplets are a unique Chinese folklore symbol, and putting them up during the Spring Festival is a very grand project.

Posting spring scrolls, which in ancient times could also be called "posting the red color of the year," includes not only the spring scrolls on both sides of the door, but also the red "lucky" characters on the main door. Whether posting spring couplets or posting "Fu" character, in fact, is to express people's good wishes for the New Year. In some places, two "door gods", Qin Qiong and Yuchi Jingde, are also put on the door, which are believed to protect the family from evil spirits and disasters.

2, firecrackers

The custom of setting off firecrackers on New Year's Eve has a history of more than 2,000 years. Although this custom has been largely banned in many places for the sake of environmental protection, it is still practiced in some remote areas. According to legend, the firecrackers are set off at midnight on New Year's Eve to drive away the "New Year" beasts.

3, New Year's Eve and New Year's Eve money

In China, there are many areas of the New Year's Eve, "New Year's Eve", in fact, it is the whole family, no matter how young or old, New Year's Eve do not go to bed that night. And must wait until after eight o'clock on the first day to sleep. The main moral is to hope that the family peace and health. Especially for small children, only in the New Year's Eve, "to keep the New Year's Eve" in order to grow up healthy.

4, New Year's Eve New Year's Eve Dinner

The highlight of the evening of the Spring Festival is the New Year's Eve dinner, also known as the New Year's Eve dinner, reunion dinner, etc. The New Year's Eve dinner is held at the same time as the New Year's Eve dinner, and it is also called the New Year's Eve dinner. Whether the family is poor or rich, on the night of New Year's Eve, a sumptuous "New Year's Eve dinner" will be prepared. It's a very happy thing to sit around with the family and eat dumplings and sumptuous dishes, reminiscing about the past and looking forward to the future.

New Year's Eve dinners in the south are usually filled with seafood and vegetables, while in the north the table is filled with fish and meat. The family gathering and reunion dinner at the end of the year is actually one of the many Chinese New Year customs most worthy of being passed down to everyone.

The New Year's Eve dinner table is usually filled with fish and chicken, which symbolizes the idea of having a plan as well as a yearly surplus. The so-called "Yau Kei" refers to the livelihood, which is the most important thing in the new year. Lettuce and garlic symbolize wealth and calculation, and southerners also make a plate of Chinese sausage in the hope that the family will have a long and happy life.

5, drink Tu Su wine

Tu Su wine is a kind of medicinal wine. In the ancient custom, the whole family drinks Tusu wine on the New Year's Day to get rid of the unrighteousness. The method of making tusu wine is: with rhubarb a money, Chinese bellflower, Sichuan pepper each one and a half cent, cinnamon heart one and a half cent, cornelian cherry one and a half cent, one or two winds, with a reddish-red capsule hanging in the well, to the yuan day of the chen time to take up, to the wine decoction of four or five boils. In ancient times, drinking tusu wine, the method is very chic.

General people drink wine, always from the older drink; but drink Tu Su wine is just the opposite, from the youngest drink. Presumably, the youngest grows up day by day and drinks first to congratulate them, while the oldest grows up less and less, and then drinks later to show their retention.

Song Dynasty writer Su Zhe's poem "New Year's Day," which reads, "Drinking tusu at the end of the year, I don't realize that I'm more than seventy years old," is a reference to this custom. This unique order of drinking, in ancient times, every time people have all kinds of feelings, so people have a deep impression.