What are the customs during the Spring Festival?

The Spring Festival is the time to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new. People say goodbye to the old and welcome the new, get rid of the fatigue of a year, feel the rich atmosphere of a year and enjoy happiness. With the most solemn sense of ceremony, express our attention to this festival and pray for an auspicious new year. The activities of the Spring Festival are colorful, such as cutting window grilles, writing Spring Festival couplets, putting up New Year pictures, hanging lanterns, setting off firecrackers, wrapping jiaozi, observing and welcoming the New Year, all of which give birth to the unique "flavor of the year" in China.

Customs of the Spring Festival:

Spring Festival custom 1: cleaning the house

The day before the Spring Festival, the whole family should do a general cleaning together to clean the whole house inside and outside, and stop using cleaning tools such as brooms on New Year's Day. This is a very common custom. The pronunciation of "sweeping dust" is "sweeping the old", which means sweeping away the old, dusting off the new, sweeping away all bad luck and bad luck, saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new, and appearing with a clean face.

Custom 2 of Spring Festival: Hanging New Year pictures

New Year pictures are an ancient folk art in China, which reflects people's simple customs and beliefs and places their hopes on the future. With the rise of block printing, the content of New Year pictures is not limited to monotonous themes such as door gods, but has become rich and colorful. Some New Year pictures workshops have produced classic color New Year pictures, such as Fu Lushou's Samsung, God bless the people, abundant crops, prosperous livestock and welcoming the New Year, to meet people's good wishes of celebrating and praying for the New Year.

New Year pictures are auspicious images of ancient China. In the long years, with the evolution of festival customs, the unique symbolic decorative art of China folk has been formed. China's early New Year pictures are closely related to the two themes of exorcism and blessing. In the process of praying for a bumper harvest, offering sacrifices to ancestors and exorcising evil spirits, corresponding festival decorative arts gradually appeared.

Custom 3 of Spring Festival: Write Spring Festival couplets and stick them on the door.

Spring Festival couplets have a history of thousands of years. According to the records in Jade Candle Collection and Yanjing Year, the original form of Spring Festival couplets is what people call "Fu Tao". In the Song Dynasty, people began to write couplets on mahogany boards, one for killing evil spirits, the other for expressing good wishes, and the third for decorating the portal for beauty. Later, people wrote couplets on red paper symbolizing happiness and auspiciousness and posted them on both sides of doors and windows during the Spring Festival to express people's good wishes for good luck in the coming year.

In addition to Spring Festival couplets, many places still keep the custom of sticking doors. In the folk, the door god is a symbol of justice and strength, and because the doors of the house are usually two opposite, the door god is always in pairs. After the Tang Dynasty, besides peace, people also regarded Qin and Weichi Gong, two military commanders in the Tang Dynasty, as gatekeepers. Since then, the custom of taking these two celebrities as door gods has begun to spread widely among the people.

Spring Festival custom 4: New Year's Eve dinner

On New Year's Eve, the whole family get together, have a good drink and enjoy family happiness. There is a custom of eating jiaozi on New Year's Eve in northern areas. Jiaozi's practice is to mix noodles first, and the word harmony is the combination; Jiaozi's jiaozi homonym means to get together and to make friends at a young age. Generally speaking, jiaozi in 1930s should be wrapped before 12 in the evening and eaten at midnight, because this is the beginning of the first day of the first lunar month. South China has the habit of eating rice cakes, which are sweet and sticky, symbolizing the sweetness of life in the new year and rising step by step.

Spring Festival custom 5: * * Drink Tu Su wine.

What is Tu Su wine? Tu Su is the name of a kind of grass. It is said that Tu Su wine was invented by Hua Tuo, a famous doctor in the late Han Dynasty, and the custom of drinking Tu Su wine was spread by Sun Simiao, a famous doctor in the Tang Dynasty. Every year in the twelfth lunar month, Sun Simiao always sends a pack of medicine to his neighbors, telling them to take medicine to soak wine and drink it on New Year's Eve, which can prevent the plague. Since then, after several generations, drinking Tu Su wine has become the custom of China New Year. Ancient people drank Tu Su wine in a unique way. Usually old people drink first, but young children drink first. The old man was in the back, and everyone only drank a little. The ancients explained: "Young people have achieved success, so congratulations; The old man lost his age and was punished. "

Spring Festival custom 6: Pay New Year greetings to each other

On the Spring Festival, families put on brand-new clothes and visit each other with relatives, which is one of the important activities of the Spring Festival. Many people work outside, which may not be seen several times a year. This custom can deepen the feelings between relatives and friends. Among them, children especially like to pay New Year greetings, because after children pay New Year greetings to their elders, elders usually give them a red envelope called "lucky money", which is said to ward off evil spirits and keep children safe in the new year. In addition to children greeting their elders, people of the same age will also congratulate each other and say some auspicious words to celebrate the New Year.

China has a profound cultural heritage. Many customs about celebrating the Spring Festival have been passed down from ancient times to the present, and there are many differences between different regions. It is these interesting customs that make this activity full of ritual.