1, buy New Year's goods
One into the month of Lunar New Year, the downtown are crowded, are buying New Year's goods, but all kinds of things have gone up a lot of merchants take advantage of the opportunity to make a good deal, so there is a "Lunar New Year's water and soil expensive three proverbs.
2, posting spring couplets
Posting spring couplets expresses a Chinese working people to ward off evil spirits, welcome the good wishes of auspiciousness and good fortune. This custom is said to have begun in the Song Dynasty and flourished in the Ming Dynasty.
3, New Year's Eve dinner
The Chinese New Year's Eve dinner is a family reunion dinner, which is the most sumptuous and important dinner at the end of the year.
4, the New Year's Eve
New Year's Eve, the whole family gathered together, ate the New Year's Eve dinner, lighted candles or oil lamps, sitting around the fireplace chatting, all-night vigil to symbolize all the evil plague and disease to drive away.
5, New Year's money
Said the ancient times there is a beast called "year", every 365 days after the night, will come out to harm people and animals, crops. Children are afraid, adults to fire firecrackers to drive away the "year", with food to comfort children, that is, "pressure".
Over the years, it has evolved into a currency instead of food, to the Song Dynasty, there will be "pressure money". According to history, Wang Shaozi south, because the bad guys back away, on the way to the alarm, only to be saved by the royal car, the Emperor of Song Shenzong that gave him "pressure alarm gold rhinoceros money". Later developed into the "New Year's money".