Customs of the New Year

1, dusting cloth new: China in the era of Yao and Shun on the Spring Festival dust custom. Whenever the Spring Festival comes, every household has to clean up the environment, wash all kinds of utensils, dismantle and wash the bedding and curtains, sprinkle and clean the courtyard, dust and brush the dirt and cobwebs, and dredge the nullahs and ditches. The intention is to sweep out all the poor luck and bad luck.

2, New Year's Eve: 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. New Year's Eve night, each with the gift, known as "feed the year"; wine and food invited, known as the "other year"; young and old get together to drink, wishing complete, known as the "sub-year"; we stay awake all night, to wait for the day to dawn, known as the "old age"! The first is called the "New Year's Eve".

3, mutual greeting cards: as early as the Song Dynasty, the royal aristocrats and scholars of the family and relatives have been used between the special New Year's greetings piece, called the "name of the prick" or "name stickers". The door of each family stick a red paper bag, called "door book", on which is written the master's name, used to receive the name prick (name post). The worshipper throws his name sticker in the door book, which means to pay tribute to the New Year, the meaning of which is the same as that of the modern New Year's card.

Expanded Information:

Origin of New Year's Eve:

There is a legend that has been passed down in folklore. There is a legend: In ancient times, there was a demon called "Nian", often disturbing the people, killing and setting fire to all sorts of evil. The people thought of a lot of ways are not able to invade and kill it. When the people were ready to move their families out of the city, a strong man appeared and willingly gave his life to die with Nian in exchange for the people's peace and happiness.

Afterward, the strong man fought with Nian in a life-and-death struggle in the place where Nian frequented. In the end, Nian was killed, and the strong man also died.

People in order to remember the strong man, congratulations on getting a new life, will be in the "year" was killed on this day to hold a variety of grand celebrations, and burning firecrackers, posting couplets to drive away the evil, and gradually formed a habit, passed down, since then, human beings will have a "New Year's" said. The New Year" is said.

Baidu Encyclopedia - Chinese New Year