1. New Year's Eve Dinner
The New Year's Eve dinner originated from the ancient year-end rituals, where the gods and ancestors were worshipped and then reunited for a meal. New Year's Eve dinner is the highlight of the year before, not only colorful, but also very meaningful. Before eating the New Year's Eve dinner, the gods and ancestors are worshipped, and the meal is served only after the worship ceremony is completed.
2, Spring Festival
Every Spring Festival, whether in urban or rural areas, families 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 the auspicious and blessed.
Expanded Information
Legend of Spring Festival Couplets: According to the ancient Chinese myth, in the Classic of Mountains and Seas, there is a world of ghosts, and in the middle of it there is a mountain, which is covered with a big peach tree covering 3,000 miles, and on the top of the tree there is a golden chicken. Whenever the golden rooster crows early in the morning, the ghosts that have gone out to roam at night must be rushed back to the Ghost Realm. The gate of the Ghost Realm was situated in the northeast of the peach tree, and by the gate stood two divine beings named Shentan and Yubi.
If a ghost did something harmful at night, the gods would immediately find it, catch it, tie it up with a rope made of mango reeds, and feed it to the tigers. Therefore, all the ghosts in the world were afraid of God Tantui and Yubi. So Chinese folk carved their likenesses out of peach wood and put them at the entrance of their houses to protect themselves from evil spirits and harm.
Later, people simply carved the names of God Tantui and Yubi on the peach wood boards, believing that this could also quell the evil spirits. This was later called the "Peach Amulet".
To the Song Dynasty, people began to write couplets on the mahogany board, without losing the significance of the mahogany to suppress evil, the second is to express their good wishes, the third is to decorate the portal, in order to beautiful. And write couplets on red paper to symbolize the joy and good luck, the New Year stickers on both sides of the windows and doors, to express people's prayers for good luck in the coming year.