Chinese New Year handbills can write the following words:

1, over the small year:

Lunar Lunar month 23rd (the South is the 24th), is the festival of worship Zaojun. Folk legend has it that on this day, Mr. Zao is going to ascend to heaven to report to the Jade Emperor on the merits of a family, and to quit the stove is to send Mr. Zao on his way. Therefore, the folk are very pious and respectful to the god of the house. Sending the stove sends the Chinese working people's desire for a happy life, praying to the gods to bless the New Year with peace, good luck, and peace in every year.

Folk believe that after the twenty-third, the gods have gone to heaven and there are no taboos. Marrying a daughter-in-law, hiring girls do not have to choose the day, known as rush messy marriage. Until the end of the year, the marriage ceremony is held especially much. With only six or seven days left before the Spring Festival, the preparations for the New Year seem even more enthusiastic.

2, spring dust:

From the 23rd day of the Lunar New Year to the 30th day of the Lunar New Year, the folk called this period of time, "Spring Day", also known as the dust day, because the "dust" and "Chan "Harmony, the New Year dust sweeping "in addition to the meaning of Chen Bu Xin", the intention is to all the poor luck, bad luck all sweep out the door. This custom is to support people's desire to break the old and new and the old to welcome the new prayers.

Households have to clean up the environment, cleaning all kinds of appliances, dismantle the bedding curtains, sweeping the six barriers to the courtyard, dusting dust cobwebs, dredging nullahs and ditches. Everywhere overflowing with joy to engage in health, clean and welcome the new year's happy atmosphere.

3, the preparation of New Year's goods steamed rice cakes:

Ten days before the festival, people began to busy themselves with the procurement of goods, New Year's goods, including chickens, ducks, fish and meat, tea, wine, oil and sauce, North and South fried, sugar bait and fruits, should be purchased 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. Often prepared food, one is cured bacon, many provinces have the custom of salted meat, this food storage time is longer, not easy to deteriorate.

The second is steamed rice cakes, which have become a must-have for almost every family because of the sound "nian gao" and their varied flavors.

4, New Year's Eve dinner:

New Year's Eve dinner, also known as the reunion dinner, according to Zong Jing Jing "Jing Chu chronicles" records, at least in the North and South Dynasties have eaten New Year's Eve dinner custom. Because it is winter, the northern people often set up a hot pot in the middle of the table, so also known as around the stove

5, the traditional seating order:

"Facing the front door for the honors in accordance with the old rituals, New Year's Eve traditional seating order is" ShangZuoZhunDong "the chief of the annual banquet for the highest seniority of the elders, the end of the table for the The lowest. If you are inviting guests, the chief is the guest with the highest status, and the host is at the end of the table. If the chief is not seated, the rest cannot be seated, and if the chief does not make a move, no one can make a move.

6, dietary features:

Northern New Year's Eve dinner dishes often include dumplings, fish, rice cakes, long vegetables. Because the dumplings are shaped like a golden treasure, there is the meaning of wealth, fish this dish can not be eaten, because in the Chinese language, "fish" and "Yu" homophonic, there is a "year after year," the auspicious meaning of the rice cake has a The Chinese word for rice cake has the meaning of "rising year after year", and eating Lunar New Year vegetables has the connotation of longevity. In South China, there are more chickens, roasted meat, hairy vegetables, fly drums, etc., because "hairy vegetables" and "hairy good market" resonate with each other. The typical New Year's Eve dinner in Jiangnan must have fish and a hearty soup pot.

7, posting Spring Festival couplets:

Spring Festival couplets, also known as the "door", "spring stickers", "pairs", "couplets", belonging to a kind of couplets, is a unique literary form. The first is the "door", "spring stickers", "pairs", "couplets".

"Three suns began to cloth, the first four sequences" recorded in the Mogao Grottoes, excavated Dunhuang scripture cave, written by the Tang Liu Qiu, the world's earliest Spring Festival couplets, made in the eleventh year of the beginning of the Yuan (723 years). Hundreds of people in the Spring Festival to paste the Spring Festival folk custom from the Ming Dynasty only began to prevail, the trend originated in Nanjing. Now the people in the south of the Yangtze River pay attention to the morning of the New Year's Eve to post spring couplets.

8, posting the word "Fu":

The Spring Festival posting the word "Fu" is a long-standing Chinese folk custom. Posting the Chinese character "福" on the Spring Festival is a sign of people's desire for a happy life and a wish for a better future.

9, the New Year's Eve:

The custom of observing the New Year's Eve has a history of nearly 2,000 years in China. The Jin Dynasty, Zhou Zhi, "the record of customs and places," said Shu customs, the end of the year, people feed each other New Year's gifts, known as "feed the year," and mutual feasts, known as "don't year," New Year's Eve sleepless nights, known as the "year-oversight "This is what we see nowadays about the custom of observing the New Year's Eve. This is the earliest record of the custom of observing the New Year's Eve that can be found today.

10, worship the New Year:

Men, women and children are dressed in festive attire, the first to the elders of the family to pay tribute to the New Year's Eve, to the children of the New Year's Eve money, the second and third began to go to the relatives to see their friends, and congratulate each other on New Year's Eve and blessings, say some words of congratulations on the New Year's Day, congratulations on the fortune, the New Year's Eve, good words, and offerings to the ancestors, and other activities.

Chinese New Year handbook information text:

It is said that the custom of posting Spring Festival couplets, about a thousand years ago, began in the period of the latter Shu, which is historically attested. In addition, according to the Jade Candle Canon and the Yanjing Yearly Record, the original form of the Spring Festival couplets is what people call "peach symbols".

In ancient Chinese mythology, there was a world of ghosts and spirits, and in the middle of it there was a mountain with a big peach tree that covered 3,000 miles, and on the top of the tree there was a golden chicken. Whenever the golden rooster crowed in the morning, the ghosts that had gone out to roam at night would be rushed back to the ghostly world. The gate of the Ghost Spirit was situated in the northeast of the peach tree, and by the gate stood two divine beings named Shentan and Yubi.

If a ghost did something harmful at night, the gods would immediately find it, catch it, tie it up with a rope made of reeds, and feed it to the tigers. As a result, all the ghosts in the world were afraid of Shentian and Yubi. So the folk used peach wood to carve into their likeness and put it at the entrance of their house to avoid evil and prevent harm. Afterwards, people simply carved the names of God Tantui and Yubi on the peach wood boards, believing that this can also suppress evil spirits. This kind of peach wood board was later called "peach talisman".

During the Song Dynasty, people began to write couplets on the mahogany boards, not to lose the meaning of mahogany as a means of suppressing evil spirits, but to express the perfect wish of the self, and to decorate the gateway for the sake of aesthetics. They also wrote couplets on red paper to symbolize the joy and auspiciousness, and pasted them on both sides of doors and windows at the time of the New Year to express people's perfect wish of praying for good luck in the coming year.

In order to pray for a family's well-being, people in some places still retain the custom of sticking door gods. It is said that when two door gods are posted on the front door, all demons and ghosts will look away. In folklore, the door god is a symbol of righteousness and force, and the ancients believed that people with strange looks often had magical natures and extraordinary skills.

They are upright and kind-hearted, to catch ghosts and demons is their nature and duties, people look up to the ghost hunter Zhong Kui, that is, this kind of strange looks. So the folk god of the door are always angry, grim-looking, holding a variety of traditional weapons, ready to fight with the ghosts and demons that dare to come to the door. Since the doors of our houses are usually two open doors, the door gods are always in pairs.

After the Tang Dynasty, in addition to the previous two generals Shentian and Yubi, people also took Qin Shubao and Yuchigong, two Tang Dynasty military generals, as door deities. Legend has it that when Emperor Taizong of Tang Dynasty was sick, he heard the ghosts and demons outside his door calling out and had no peace all night. So he had these two generals stand beside the door with weapons to guard it, and the next night there were no more ghosts to harass. Later, Emperor Tang Taizong let the two generals image painted down on the door, this custom began to be widely spread in the folklore.