1, Spring Festival
Every Spring Festival, whether urban or rural, every family will pick beautiful red Spring Festival couplets to paste on the door, to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new, to increase the festive atmosphere. Another source of Spring Festival couplets is the Spring Festival stickers, the ancients in the Spring Festival more stickers "Yichun" two words, and gradually developed into Spring Festival couplets, expressing the Chinese working people a kind of warding off evils and disasters, and to 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.
2, firecrackers
Every Spring Festival, bright lights, drums and gongs. The sound of firecrackers rise and fall, for the boiling earth played the song of the New Year. The air stream of colorful, colorful flowers, for the festival composed a happy chapter. Firecrackers to celebrate the New Year has a history of more than two thousand years in China. The earliest firecrackers, refers to the burning of bamboo and burst, because the bamboo burning crackling sound, so called firecrackers.
3, the New Year's Eve money
Pressing the New Year's Eve money, one of the New Year's Eve dinner elders will be prepared in advance to send the New Year's Eve money to the elders, it is said that the New Year's Eve money can be pressed to stop the evil spirits, elders get the New Year's Eve money can be safe and sound through the year. In folk culture, New Year's money is meant to ward off evil spirits and blessings. The original purpose of New Year's money was to keep evil spirits away. It was believed that children were vulnerable to ghosts and spirits, so the money was used to ward off evil spirits and spirits.
4, New Year's Eve dinner
New Year's Eve dinner, also known as New Year's Eve dinner, New Year's Eve dinner, reunion dinner, etc., specifically refers to the end of the year New Year's Eve of the family dinner. New Year's Eve dinner originated from the ancient year-end rituals, worship of gods and ancestors after the reunion dinner. New Year's Eve dinner is the highlight of the year before, not only colorful, but also very concerned about the meaning.
5, New Year's paintings
The Spring Festival hanging stickers New Year's paintings in urban and rural areas is also very common, thick black colorful New Year's paintings to thousands of families added a lot of prosperity and joy of the festive atmosphere. New Year's paintings are an ancient folk art in China, reflecting the people's simple customs and beliefs, and holding their hopes for the future. With the rise of woodblock printing, the content of New Year's paintings has not only been limited to monotonous themes such as the God of the Door, but has become colorful.
Baidu Encyclopedia - Chinese New Year Customs
Baidu Encyclopedia - Spring Festival