Generally, we eat rice cakes, dumplings, patties, dumplings, eggs, meatballs, whole fish, wine, oranges, apples, peanuts, melons, candies, tea and delicacies; accompanied by dusting, washing bedding, preparing New Year's goods, posting Spring Festival couplets, posting New Year's paintings (Zhong Kui, the God of the Door), wrapping dumplings, sticking paper cuttings, sticking window decorations, posting Chinese characters of good fortune, lighting candles, light fires, firecrackers, and many other activities, The New Year's celebration, giving New Year's money, paying homage to the New Year, visiting relatives, giving New Year's gifts, going to ancestors' graves, going to the flower market, making fireworks, jumping on the Zhong Kui, and many other activities, which are extremely joyful and enjoyable.
Chinese people also have the habit of hanging Chinese knots during the Spring Festival. Before the New Year's Eve, Tianjin people have to the ancient culture street Qiao Xiangge please Chinese knot custom, take Qiao Xiang Nafu meaning; Wenzhou people have to go to their own faith religious devotional prayers, hoping to be able to get in the new year, with their families to happiness. Among them, mostly Buddhist.
Annually from the 23rd day of the lunar month to the New Year's Eve, the folk called this period of time "to welcome the Spring Festival", also known as the "dust day", in the Spring Festival before the dust to engage in sanitation, is the traditional habits of the people of our country have always been.
Households 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 sauce, North and South fried, sugar bait and fruits, to buy enough, but also to prepare for 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.
Prior to the festival in the residence of the door to paste the red paper and yellow letters of the New Year message, that is, written in red paper Spring Festival couplets. The house posted brightly colored auspicious New Year's paintings, clever girls cut out beautiful window decorations pasted on the windows, hanging red lanterns or sticking the word "Fortune" and the God of Fortune, the God of the Door (Zhong Kui, Qin Qiong, Jingde), etc., the word "Fortune" can also be pasted upside down, passers-by read the Fortune upside down, that is, the blessing of the arrival of the festival, all of these activities are to add enough to the festivities of the mood of festivities.
Burning firecrackers to create a lively scene, the Spring Festival, firecrackers, in the windows and doors of the posting of words and paintings to pray for blessings, decorate their homes, is the most common custom of this festival.
Firecrackers, Chinese folk "open door firecrackers" said. That is, at the dawn of the new year, the first thing to do when families open the door is to set off firecrackers, to beeping firecrackers to get rid of the old and welcome the new. Firecrackers is a Chinese specialty, also known as "firecrackers", "cannonballs", "firecrackers". Its origin is very early, so far has a history of more than two thousand years. Setting off firecrackers can create a festive and lively atmosphere, is a kind of entertainment for festivals, and can bring joy and good fortune to people.
The Spring Festival is a joyful and peaceful festival, and also a day of reunion of relatives, and children who are away from home have to go home to celebrate the Spring Festival.
The night before the New Year's Eve, is the old year's Lunar New Year's Eve, also known as New Year's Eve, also known as the reunion night, in this time of transition between the old and the new, the New Year's Eve is one of the most important year-end activities, New Year's Eve night, the whole family stay up to keep watch together, get together to drink soundly, *** enjoy the joys of heaven and earth, the northern region of New Year's Eve in the custom of eating dumplings, dumplings, dumplings, dumplings and the word is the first face, and is the word; dumplings and dumplings and cross the resonance! The word for dumplings is "he" and the word "jiao" harmonizes with each other, and the words "he" and "jiao" mean "to get together" and "to turn over a new year". In the south, it is customary to eat New Year's cake on New Year's Day. The sweet and sticky rice cake symbolizes the sweetness of life in the new year and the high quality of life.
To the first rooster crows, or New Year's bells ringing, the street firecrackers, loud and clear, family joy, the start of a new year, men and women, young and old, dressed in festive attire, the first to the elders in the family New Year's wishes, the festival there are to the children of the New Year's Eve money to eat New Year's Eve dinner, the second, the third on the beginning of the visit to relatives to see their friends, each other New Year's Eve, congratulations on the blessings, say something congratulations on new year's, congratulations, congratulations, good New Year's Eve and so on. The first two days of the New Year's Eve are the first days of the New Year's Eve.
The warm atmosphere of the festival is not only overflowing in every household, but also filled with the streets and alleys. Some places on the market and Nuo dance jump Zhong Kui, lion dance, play dragon lanterns, performing social fires, swim in the flower market, temple and other customs. During this period of lanterns all over the city, the streets are full of tourists, bustling, unprecedented, straight to the first month of the Lantern Festival after the Lantern Festival, the Spring Festival is really the end.
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