In the folk, people also like to stick various paper-cuts on the windows-window grilles.

Window grilles not only set off the festive atmosphere, but also integrate decoration, appreciation and practicality. With its unique generalization and exaggeration, window grilles show auspicious things and good wishes incisively and vividly, and decorate festivals with colorful colors.

While putting up Spring Festival couplets, some people have to put large and small "Fu" characters on doors, walls and lintels. The word "Fu" symbolizes good luck and wishes for a happy life and a bright future. Some people simply put the word "Fu" upside down, indicating that "Fu has arrived" and "Fu has arrived".

2. New Year pictures

New Year pictures are an ancient folk art in China, which reflects people's simple customs and beliefs and places their hopes on the future. New Year pictures, like Spring Festival couplets, originated from "door gods". With the rise of block printing, the content of New Year pictures is not limited to monotonous themes such as door gods, but has become rich and colorful. Some New Year pictures workshops have produced classic color New Year pictures, such as Fu Lushou's Samsung, God bless the people, abundant crops, prosperous livestock and welcoming the New Year, to meet people's good wishes of celebrating and praying for the New Year.

Step 3 set off firecrackers

There is a folk saying in China that "open the door and set off firecrackers". That is, when the new year comes, the first thing for every household to open the door is to set off firecrackers to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new.

With the passage of time, firecrackers are more and more widely used, and there are more and more varieties and colors. Every major festival and happy celebration, as well as marriage, building, opening, etc. We should set off firecrackers to celebrate and make good luck.

4. New Year's Eve dinner

Of course, we should prepare dinner for the Spring Festival. Among them, bacon is also a special dish in the New Year's Eve. Many provinces in China have the custom of curing bacon, among which Guangdong is the most famous.

In addition, the rice cake has become a necessary food for every family because of its homophonic "old age". The styles of rice cakes are square yellow and white rice cakes, which symbolize gold and silver and express the meaning of making a fortune in the New Year.

The night before the Chinese New Year is called Reunion Night, and wanderers who leave home have to travel thousands of miles to return home from thousands of miles away. Jiaozi is indispensable for the New Year's Eve dinner in the north. The whole family will sit around and celebrate the New Year in jiaozi. There are ways to eat, such as frying jiaozi and flipping jiaozi (fried dumpling). Because the word "he" in dough mixing means "he"; Jiaozi's "jiao" and "glue" are homophonic, and "harmony" and "glue" have the meaning of reunion, so jiaozi is used to symbolize the reunion of acacia; It is very auspicious to make friends with older people; In addition, jiaozi, which is shaped like an ingot, has the auspicious meaning of "making a fortune" when eating jiaozi in the New Year. All the families get together to pack jiaozi, so it's fun to celebrate the Spring Festival.