The Chinese New Year customs of the Han people are generally based on eating rice cakes, dumplings, patties, dumplings, lotus eggs, meatballs, whole fish, wine, lucky oranges, apples, peanuts, melons, candies, tea and delicacies; and accompanied by dusting, washing the bedding, preparing the New Year's goods, posting Spring Festival couplets, stickers, sticking New Year's paintings, sticking paper cuttings, putting up window decorations, sticking up the Chinese characters of good fortune, lighting candles, pointing out the fireworks, setting off firecrackers, observing the New Year's Eve, paying New Year's money, visiting relatives, visiting ancestral graves, going to the flower market, making social fires and many other activities that are very joyful and entertaining. The Chinese celebrate the Spring Festival with many activities, such as paying New Year's greetings, visiting relatives, going to ancestors' graves, going to the flower market, and staging fireworks, etc., all of which are extremely enjoyable. It is also customary for Chinese people to hang Chinese knots during the Spring Festival. Before the New Year's Eve, people in Tianjin have the custom of asking for Chinese knots in Qiao Xiangge on the Ancient Culture Street, 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.
History:
Firecrackers
Chinese folk "open door firecrackers" said. That is, at the dawn of the new year, the first thing that every family opens the door is to set off firecrackers, to beep and blare the sound of 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, and is a kind of entertainment for festivals, which can bring joy and good fortune to people.
Posting Spring Festival Couplets
Spring Festival Couplets, also known as door pairs, spring stickers, couplets, pairs, peach symbols, etc., which depict the background of the times and express the good wishes in neat, pairwise, concise and exquisite words, is a unique form of literature in China. Every Spring Festival, whether urban or rural, every family should select a large red Spring Festival couplets pasted on the door, for the festival to increase the festive atmosphere. This custom began in the Song Dynasty, began to prevail in the Ming Dynasty, to the Qing Dynasty, the Spring Festival couplets of ideology and artistry have been greatly improved, Liang Zhangzhu prepared the Spring Festival couplets monograph "Threshold Lian series of words" on the origins of the couplets and various types of works of the characteristics of the discourse.
There are many types of spring couplets, which, according to their place of use, can be divided into door centers, frame pairs, horizontal phi, spring strips, and doufang. "Door" in the upper center of the door panel; "frame" on the left and right door frame; "Phi" on the horizontal wood of the door winks; "Chunzhi "According to different contents, posted in the corresponding place;" bucket catty "also called" door leaf "for the square diamond-shaped, mostly posted in the furniture, shadow wall.
Pasted the word "Fu"
At the same time as the Spring Festival couplets, some people have to paste the word "Fu" on the door, wall and lintel of the house, large and small. The Chinese New Year sticker "Fu" is a long-standing folk custom in China. The character "福" refers to good fortune and good luck, and it expresses people's desire for a happy life and their wish for a better future. In order to more fully reflect this yearning and wishes, some people simply stick the word "Fu" upside down, indicating that "happiness has arrived" and "good fortune has arrived". Folk there will be "Fu" word fine cut into a variety of patterns, patterns have longevity, longevity peach, carp jump Dragon Gate, five grains, dragon and phoenix, and so on.
Decorate the window
In the folk people also like to put all kinds of paper cuttings on the window - window flowers. Window flowers not only set a festive atmosphere, but also decorative, appreciative and practical in one. Paper cutting in China is a very popular folk art, for thousands of years by the people's favorite, because it is mostly affixed to the window, so it is also known as "window flowers". Window flowers with its unique generalization and exaggeration techniques will be auspicious events and good wishes of the New Year's picture "Yearly" performance to the fullest, will be decorated with festivals red hot and rich.