What should we pay attention to during the Spring Festival?

An important activity in the Spring Festival is to go to friends, relatives and neighbors to congratulate the Spring Festival, which was formerly called New Year. Do you know the etiquette of New Year greetings during the Spring Festival? Below, I have carefully arranged the relevant information about the etiquette of Spring Festival greetings, hoping to help you!

Etiquette of New Year greeting

1. Appointment before New Year greeting: Make an appointment in advance before New Year greeting, and don't "crash" with other New Year greeting guests of the host or make an empty trip because the host also goes out to pay New Year greetings

. At the same time, give the host a time to prepare in advance. It's best to give the host a choice when making an appointment. Don't set a time unilaterally. It's better for both parties to be more convenient when it is agreed.

2. Timing of New Year greetings: Generally speaking, people should choose the morning when greeting their elders, and don't get up too early during festivals, because people usually get up late during festivals. If you visit the door too early to pay New Year's greetings, the host is often caught off guard. If the New Year's greetings are hosted by the New Year's greetings, the time for the New Year's greetings can be determined according to the time of the dinner. Arrive ahead of time, and don't wait for the dinner time. Time should be reserved for greeting and chatting.

3. Gift preparation for New Year's greetings: You should choose appropriate gifts according to the main objects of New Year's greetings. If you know the objects of New Year's greetings well, you can choose the gifts that the other party likes, which is also a good choice. If you don't know much, you can choose flowers, fruits and food ... and you won't go wrong. Tobacco and alcohol should be determined according to the objects, such as giving grandma a New Year greeting, but giving her cigarettes and alcohol that grandma doesn't use, which is meaningless. If the host has children at home, he can also choose the gifts that the children like appropriately.

4. New Year's clothes: New Year's new atmosphere. When visiting relatives and friends, you should pay attention to your proper clothes. The holiday clothes are mainly urban leisure and fashion. Don't wear too much exercise or evening dress. If the clothes are dark or depressed, you can add some small ornaments to embellish them and increase the festive atmosphere. The colors of a family's clothes should be coordinated as much as possible to increase the warmth of the family.

5. Etiquette of being a guest: when entering the door, you should request to change shoes according to the environment of relatives and friends; Say hello to friends and family one by one to know the family members and their names in advance; Politely send gifts; Visit relatives and friends, take the living room as the main activity place, and don't take the initiative to visit each room without the owner's permission; When visiting relatives and friends, we should focus on the living habits of the host family, not as casual as our own. The content of chatting with the host is mainly greeting, greeting and enhancing each other's feelings.

6. Control of New Year greeting time: If there is no dinner, it is generally appropriate to control it within half an hour to one hour. If there is a dinner, you can arrive about one hour before the dinner and leave one hour after the dinner. There is no fixed time limit, so you can choose it according to the relationship with New Year greeting objects, so as not to increase the reception burden of New Year greeting objects.

7. Table manners: When attending the host's New Year reception banquet, we should give priority to the elderly, and humbly give them the main seat. Generally, the main seat in the hotel is the one farthest from the door, or the one with its back to the podium. At home, it is mainly facing the kitchen door, and the position of the main seat can also be seen because of the home furnishings, with the left as the largest. China's dining table culture is a platform for communication, so don't eat without talking, but don't talk too much. Let the dishes not be mixed, and the toasts not be persuaded. The food in the Spring Festival pays attention to more than one year, so don't eat all the dishes on the table.

New Year greetings

Nowadays, there are various ways to pay New Year greetings, such as sending short messages, greeting cards, courtesy calls and telegrams. When you send a greeting card, you will also send your own business card.

in ancient times, if there were too many relatives and friends in the neighborhood to visit all over the house, it was called "flying post" to send servants with business cards to pay New Year greetings. A red paper bag with the word "Jiefu" written on it was put in front of each house, which was the purpose of flying the post. This custom began in the upper class of the Song Dynasty. The Qing Dynasty's "The Moon Order of Yantai" describes the Beijing New Year Festival: "It's the moon, the film flies, and it's empty, which has become fashionable." Families set up a special door book to record the guests' exchanges and flying photos. The front page of the door book is mostly virtual relatives of four people: one is a centenarian, who lives in a centenarian lane; One said that he was rich and lived in Yuanbao Street; One day, you promise someone and live in the university archway; One day, Fu Zhao visited his master and lived in Five Blessingg Building. In order to get lucky. So far, giving new year card and New Year cards in the Spring Festival is the legacy of this ancient exchange of flying cards.

The ancient literati were popular in exchanging New Year's greetings. New Year's greetings drill is new year card today, which evolved from ancient business cards. According to Zhao Yi's research in the Qing Dynasty, there was no paper in the Western Han Dynasty, so cutting bamboo and wood was a thorn, and the name of the book was named "Ming thorn". Later, red wool was used to embroider the words "business cards" on the brocade. After the Eastern Han Dynasty, wood was replaced by paper, which was called "famous paper". In the Six Dynasties, it was called "Ming" for short, and in the Tang Dynasty it was called "Door-shaped". In the Song Dynasty, it was also called "hand thorn" and "door thorn".

As early as the Song Dynasty, friends and relatives had already sent greetings to each other. This was the early new year card. Zhou Hui, a Song Dynasty poet, said in Qingbo Magazine: "During the reign of Emperor Yuanyou of Song Dynasty, the New Year's greetings often made servants hold names and stab them." At that time, the scholar-officials had a wide circle of friends, so it would take time and energy to pay New Year's greetings everywhere. Therefore, some friends who were not closely related did not go there in person, but sent servants to take a card cut with plum blossom stationery, two inches wide and three inches long, with the name, address and congratulations of the recipient written on it.

Pay attention to New Year's greetings during the Spring Festival

Gifts are also very particular, which is also one of the elements of gifts and New Year's greetings.

the gift must be delivered appropriately. When giving New Year greetings to elders, teachers and teachers, you should bring some gifts appropriately. Gifts should not be too expensive and luxurious, but should also be "accessible". Holding a bouquet of flowers and sending a beautiful greeting card has become a romantic and warm way for urban modern people to pay New Year greetings in recent years.

New Year greeting gifts should also pay attention to hygiene and safety. For example, cakes given to you by others should generally not be transferred to others, otherwise the food will inevitably rot and deteriorate during "tourism"; Pay a New Year call to the elderly or sick, and the fruits sent should be beneficial to the other party's health, so as not to cause waste or even misunderstanding; If you give fireworks and the like, you must never buy fake and inferior products.