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What are the customs of New Year's Eve?
The significance of wearing red clothes on New Year's Eve
How to clean the house on New Year's Eve?
What are the customs of New Year's Eve?
stay up late or all night on New Year's Eve
The custom of observing age has a history of nearly two thousand years in China. Zhou people in Jin Dynasty mentioned the customs of Sichuan. At the end of the year, people give each other New Year gifts, which is called "giving gifts to the New Year". Banquet with each other, calling "don't be old"; Staying up late on New Year's Eve is called "Shounian". This is the earliest record of the custom of observing the age. At this time, however, it seems to have become a local custom. After Sui and Tang Dynasties, this custom spread all over the country.
paste up Spring Festival couplets
Spring Festival couplets, also known as "door pairs", "spring stickers", "couplets" and "couplets", belong to a kind of couplets and are a unique literary form. This pair of the world's earliest Spring Festival couplets, "Three Yang began to spread, and four orders began to open", was recorded on the Dunhuang suicide note unearthed in the Tibetan Sutra Cave in Mogao Grottoes, written by Liu in the Tang Dynasty in the eleventh year of Kaiyuan (723). The folk custom of sticking couplets on Spring Festival has been popular since Ming Dynasty, and the birthplace of this trend is Nanjing. Now people in Jiangnan pay attention to posting Spring Festival couplets on the morning of New Year's Eve.
offer sacrifices to ancestors
Sacrificing ancestors is an important activity in many festivals. In many parts of our country, on New Year's Eve, people will put a sumptuous meal and light incense sticks at home, and parents will lead their children and grandchildren to worship. In some rural areas in the north, paper money is burned at home. No matter how you worship your ancestors, the most important purpose is to educate future generations to remember filial piety and never forget your ancestors at any time and place.
Family reunion dinner on New Year's Eve
It is also an important custom for the whole family to have a reunion dinner on New Year's Eve. As the most important traditional festival in China, New Year's Eve is a rare time for family reunion, especially with many people getting busier and busier at work, the Spring Festival reunion is of even greater significance. Therefore, it is particularly important for children who are far away from home to have a reunion dinner with their parents on New Year's Eve.
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The significance of wearing red clothes on New Year's Eve
Red ward off evil spirits and is auspicious. This concept has existed since primitive society. Red is the color of the sun and the color of fire. With the changes of the times, this thought of respecting red has not changed. Put up red couplets for the New Year, as well as red wedding dresses, red hijabs, red candles, new red lists and so on. Whenever and wherever, people should use red to add joy.
Han people in China regard red as a symbol of happiness, success, loyalty and justice, and especially think that red has the functions of exorcism and health care. Therefore, on New Year's Eve, people put on red clothes or wear red belts early, and some accessories they wear are tied with red silk to welcome the New Year. It is believed that only in this way can we avoid disasters.
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How to clean the house on New Year's Eve?
1. It is suggested that friends who are ready to tidy up their homes should follow a certain order when cleaning up their homes. It is suggested that your home should be arranged in the order of kitchen, living room, bedroom and bathroom, so as to arrange and store your belongings more reasonably.
2. When cleaning, the storage location should be planned in advance, and the items should be placed in the appropriate location according to the purpose and frequency of use.
3. In the process of cleaning, to start the cleaning work, first clean all the things that need to be washed, and you can clean the sofa cushions, air conditioning covers and tablecloths at home. Then wipe all the places that need cleaning, such as tables, doors, TV cabinets, etc. Finally, drag everything that needs to be dragged at home. It is recommended to mop the floor and ceiling.
4. It is suggested that friends who live in a small apartment start cleaning from the deepest part of the room, put useful things in one place, and throw them away directly if they are useless, so that they can get to the door from the depths. Then sort out and summarize the useful things saved before, so that the cleaning work can be completed faster.
5. It is recommended that friends with babies at home design targeted solutions according to the baby's situation to help the baby develop the habit of storage. Parents can prepare a large storage box for their baby in advance and put all the toys that the baby usually plays in the box, so that the home will be cleaner and neater.
6. Pay attention when storing household items. Don't pile up dusty and difficult-to-clean items on the floor or high places, especially don't put the shoe box under the bed, and don't put the storage box in the cupboard to keep the whole room reasonable and transparent.
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