1. Sweeping dust "On the twenty-fourth day of the twelfth lunar month, dust and sweep the house." According to "Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals", my country had the custom of sweeping dust during the Spring Festival in the era of Yao and Shun.

According to folklore: because "dust" and "chen" are homophonic, sweeping dust in the New Year means "removing the old and spreading the new", and its purpose is to sweep away all bad luck and bad luck.

This custom entrusts people with their desire to destroy the old and establish the new and their prayers to say goodbye to the old and usher in the new.

Every Spring Festival comes, every household has to clean the environment, wash all kinds of utensils, remove and wash bedding and curtains, sweep the Liulv courtyard, dust away dirt and cobwebs, and dredge open ditches and ditches.

Everywhere is filled with the joyful atmosphere of doing hygiene and welcoming the new year cleanly.

2. Pasting Spring Festival couplets Spring couplets are also called door couplets, spring posts, couplets, couplets, peach charms, etc. They describe the background of the times and express good wishes with neat, dual, concise and exquisite words. They are a unique literary form in my country.

3. Paste window grilles and paste the word "福" upside down. Folks also like to paste various paper-cuts - window grilles - on their windows.

Window decorations not only enhance the festive atmosphere, but also integrate decoration, appreciation and practicality. 4. Posting New Year pictures During the Spring Festival, hanging New Year pictures is also very common in urban and rural areas. The thick black and colorful New Year pictures add a lot of prosperity and joy to thousands of households.

Festive atmosphere.

New Year pictures are an ancient folk art in my country, reflecting the people's simple customs and beliefs, and reposing their hopes for the future.

5. Keeping the year old on New Year’s Eve is one of the most important annual activities. The custom of keeping the year old has been around for a long time.

The earliest record can be found in the "Fengtu Zhi" of Zhouchu in the Western Jin Dynasty: On New Year's Eve, each person greets each other with gifts, which is called "giving the new year";

"Dividing the year old"; everyone stays up all night waiting for the dawn, which is called "keeping the year old".

6. Eating dumplings. The folk custom of eating dumplings during the Spring Festival has been quite popular in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Dumplings are usually made before 12 o'clock in the evening on New Year's Eve and eaten at midnight. This is the beginning of the first day of the first lunar month. Eating dumplings means "Gengsui Jiaozi", and "子" means "子".

"Shi" is homophonic with "dumpling", which means "happy reunion" and "good luck".

7. Set off firecrackers. There is a Chinese folk saying of "opening firecrackers."

That is to say, when the New Year arrives, the first thing every household does when they open the door is to set off firecrackers, with the sound of beeping firecrackers to get rid of the old and welcome the new.

Firecrackers are a specialty of China, also known as "firecrackers", "firecrackers" and "firecrackers".

8. New Year greetings On the first day of the New Year, people get up early, put on their most beautiful clothes, dress up neatly, go out to visit relatives and friends, pay New Year greetings to each other, and wish good luck in the coming year.

There are many ways to pay New Year's greetings. Some are led by the head of the same clan and several people go from house to house to pay New Year's greetings. Some are colleagues inviting a few people to pay New Year's greetings. There are also people who gather together to congratulate each other, which is called "group worship".

Since it was time-consuming and laborious to pay New Year greetings at home, some upper-class figures and scholar-bureaucrats later used various stickers to congratulate each other, and the later "New Year's greeting cards" developed from this.

9. Food customs during the Spring Festival: Eating rice cakes. The taste of rice cakes varies from place to place.

Beijingers like to eat red date rice cake, mince rice cake and white rice cake made from glutinous rice or yellow rice.

People in Hebei like to add jujube, red beans, mung beans, etc. to rice cakes and steam them together.

In northern Shanxi and Inner Mongolia and other places, it is customary to eat fried rice cakes made with yellow rice flour during the Chinese New Year. Some are also filled with bean paste, date paste and other fillings. Shandong people steam rice cakes with yellow rice and red dates.

Northern rice cakes are mainly sweet and can be steamed or fried. Some people even eat them dipped in sugar.

The rice cakes in the south are both sweet and salty. For example, the rice cakes in Suzhou and Ningbo are made from japonica rice and have a light taste.

In addition to steaming and frying, it can also be sliced ??and fried or cooked in soup.

The sweet rice cake is made of glutinous rice flour with ingredients such as sugar, lard, rose, osmanthus, mint, and sujiang. It is carefully made and can be steamed directly or dipped in egg white and fried.

The night before the actual Chinese New Year is called Reunion Night. People who are away from home have to rush home thousands of miles away, and the whole family sits together to make dumplings to celebrate the New Year.

10. Spring Festival Poems Tian Jiayuan Day (Tang Dynasty) Meng Haoran Last night I fought back to the north, today I am starting from the east; I am already strong, but I have no salary and still worry about the farmers.

The father plows the mulberry field, and the shepherd boy follows the hoe; the Tian family controls the climate, and the mother-in-law says it will be a good year.

"Selling Dementia Poems" (Tang Dynasty) Fan Chengda It's late on New Year's Eve and people don't sleep, and they are tired of being dull and waiting for the new year; the children call out to walk down the long street, and there is a cloud of dementia calling people to sell.

"New Year's Eve" (Tang Dynasty) Laihu: All the concerns have become empty, and I miss you for thousands of miles in one night.

I am so sad that after the sound of the rooster has stopped at dawn, I will be haggard and see the spring breeze again.

Yuan Day (Song Dynasty) Wang Anshi A year old is eliminated amidst the sound of firecrackers, and the spring breeze brings warmth to Tusu; Thousands of households always replace old talismans with new peaches.

Yuan Day Yulou Chun (Song Dynasty) Mao Pang One year all the lotus flowers are dripping, and Bijing slaughters Su to sink the frozen wine.

The cold weather in the morning is still deceptive, but the willows in spring arrive first.