Paper-cutting, window-dressing, sticking Chinese characters of good fortune, lighting candles and firecrackers, observing the New Year's Eve, giving New Year's money, paying homage to the New Year's Eve, visiting relatives, sending New Year's gifts, going to ancestors' graves, strolling through the flower market, making a scene, and jumping on the Zhong Kui, among other activities, which is a great pleasure for the whole family. Chinese people also have the habit of hanging Chinese knots during the Spring Festival. Before the New Year's Eve, people in Tianjin have the custom of going to Qiao Xiangge on Ancient Culture Street to ask for Chinese knots, taking the meaning of Qiao Xiang Nafu; people in Wenzhou have the custom of going to their own religious devotions and praying, hoping to be able to obtain happiness with their families in the new year. Among them, mostly Buddhism. For thousands of years, people make the New Year celebrations become very colorful, every year from the 23rd day of the Lunar Lunar New Year's Eve to the 30th, the folk this period of time is called "Welcome Spring Day", also known as the "Dust Day", in the Spring Festival before the dust to engage in sanitation, is the people of our country has always had a traditional habits of our people. Then is the family to prepare for the New Year's goods, about ten days before the festival, people began to busy purchasing items, New Year's goods, including chickens, ducks, fish and meat, tea, wine, oil and soy sauce, North and South fried goods, sugar bait fruit, are to buy enough, but also to prepare some of the New Year's Eve when visiting friends and relatives when the gift, the children to add a new coat and a new hat, ready for the New Year when to wear. Before the festival in the residential door to paste the red paper and yellow characters of the New Year's message, that is, written in red paper Spring Festival couplets. Inside the house posted brightly colored auspicious New Year's paintings, clever girls cut out beautiful window decorations and paste them on the windows, hanging red lanterns or sticking the word "Fu" and the God of Fortune, the God of the Door (Zhong Kui, Qin Qiong, Jing De), etc., the word "Fu" can also be posted upside down, passers-by read the Fu upside down, that is, the blessing of luck to the holiday, all of these activities are intended to add enough festive atmosphere.
In the countryside, New Year's Eve, the children of all families wear new clothes, firecrackers. Families go from house to house to pay homage to the New Year, and every time you go to a house, a house will give you candy, nuts and other trinkets. Without visiting a few houses, the small pockets will not be able to fit. They also had a New Year's Eve vigil and baked glutinous rice poop to eat, which was very cozy!
Now it's very different from the past, when we used to put up couplets, post lucky charms, eat all kinds of delicious food, set off firecrackers, and wear new clothes at home only on New Year's Day. But now we eat the same as usual and wear nothing new or old.