One, post new year's scrolls -- Post new year's scrolls

Every Spring Festival, no matter in the city or in the countryside, every family has to pick the beautiful red Spring Festival scrolls to paste on the door, to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new, and to increase the festive atmosphere. Another source of Spring Festival couplets is spring 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 welcome the good wishes of auspiciousness and good fortune. This custom began in the Song Dynasty, began to prevail in the Ming Dynasty.

Eat dumplings

The first meal of the Spring Festival is dumplings. When the dumplings are cooked, firecrackers are fired. In order to drive away evil and seek good luck, some regions use sesame straw to cook the dumplings, which means that the new year will be like a blossoming sesame seed, and the days will be better and better. Dumplings to cook more, there must be a surplus, meaning that there is a surplus head. When dining, in addition to a bowl per person, but also one or two more bowls, meant to hope that the prosperity of the people.

Three, watch in the New Year -- watch in the New Year

Watch in the New Year's Eve is a custom of Chinese folk in New Year's Eve, also known as shine vain consumption, boiled year, boiled night. It refers to a family reunion on New Year's Eve, when the family stays up all night to welcome the arrival of the Lunar New Year. New Year's Eve is one of the most important New Year's Eve activities, the custom of the New Year's Eve has a long history.

Four, firecrackers -- touch off the firecracker

Firecrackers is a traditional Chinese folklore, has a history of more than 2,000 years, according to legend, is to drive away a kind of beast called the year. When the clock strikes midnight, the New Year's bell rings, and the sound of firecrackers reverberates throughout the Chinese land. In this "year of yuan, the month of yuan, the time of yuan" of the "three yuan" moment, some places also in the courtyard base "Wang Huo", to show that the prosperous gas through the sky, prosperous and prosperous.

Five, pay a New Year's call -- pay a New Year's call

Paying New Year's call is a traditional Chinese folk custom, is a way for people to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new, and express good wishes to each other. In ancient times, the original meaning of the word "pay a New Year's call" was to greet the elders for the new year, including kowtowing to the elders, congratulating them on a happy new year, and greeting them for a good life.