The Spring Festival is the condensation and publicity of Chinese excellent traditional culture, which contains people's gratitude to nature and their pride and joy after harvest, full of expectation and pursuit of happiness and a better life, reflecting the recognition and memory of Chinese excellent traditional culture and the achievements of ancestors, and conveying the deep affection of mutual care between families and even people. So, do you know what customs there are during the Spring Festival? 1. Posting New Year pictures

Hanging New Year pictures in the Spring Festival is also very common in urban and rural areas. The thick black and colorful New Year pictures add a lot of prosperous and happy festive atmosphere to thousands of families. New Year pictures are an ancient folk art in China, reflecting people's simple customs and beliefs and pinning their hopes for the future. New Year pictures, like Spring Festival couplets, originated from "door gods". With the rise of woodblock printing, the content of New Year pictures is not limited to monotonous themes such as door gods, but has become rich and colorful. In some New Year pictures workshops, classic color New Year pictures such as Three Stars of Fu Lushou, heavenly god blesses the people, Harvest of Five Grains, Prosperity of Six Livestock, and Greeting the Spring with Happiness have been produced to meet people's good wishes of celebrating and praying for the New Year. ?

The most popular picture among the people is a New Year picture of Marrying a Mouse. It depicts an interesting scene in which a mouse marries a bride according to human customs. In the early years of the Republic of China, Zheng Mantuo of Shanghai combined the calendar with the New Year pictures. This is a new form of New Year pictures. This new year's picture, which combines two into one, later developed into a calendar and has been popular all over the country. 2. Sticking Spring Festival couplets

Spring Festival couplets are also called door couplets, spring stickers, couplets, couplets, peach symbols, etc. They are one of the red festive elements "Nian Hong" pasted during the New Year. It depicts beautiful images and expresses beautiful wishes with neat, concise and exquisite words. It is a unique literary form in China and an important custom for Chinese New Year. When people put up New Year's greetings (Spring Festival couplets and blessings, etc.) on their doorsteps, it means that the Spring Festival officially begins. Every Spring Festival, no matter in urban or rural areas, every household should pick beautiful red couplets and stick them on the doors to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, so as to increase the festive atmosphere. 3. Setting off firecrackers

There is a folk saying that "opening the door to set off firecrackers". That is, at the arrival of the new year, the first thing for every household to open the door is to set off firecrackers to eliminate the old and welcome the new with the sound of firecrackers. Firecrackers are a specialty of China, also known as "firecrackers", "firecrackers" and "firecrackers". Its origin is very early, and it has a history of more than two thousand years. Setting off firecrackers can create a festive and lively atmosphere, and it is an entertainment activity in the Spring Festival, which can bring happiness and good luck to people. With the passage of time, the application of firecrackers has become more and more extensive, and the varieties and colors have become more and more numerous. Every major festival and happy event celebration, as well as marriage, building a house, opening a business, etc., firecrackers should be set off to celebrate and make a good luck. But now the country is not allowed to set off firecrackers, which can be said to be a little regrettable. 4. Happy New Year

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, and wish each other a happy New Year. There are many ways to pay New Year's greetings, some of which are led by the same clan leader to pay New Year's greetings door to door. Some colleagues invite several people to pay New Year greetings; There are also people who get together to congratulate each other, which is called "group worship". Because it took time and effort to pay a New Year call at home, some elites and scholars later used stickers to congratulate each other, thus developing the later "new year card". When paying New Year greetings during the Spring Festival, the younger generation should first pay New Year greetings to their elders, wishing them a long and healthy life. The elders can distribute the lucky money prepared in advance to the younger generation. It is said that the lucky money can suppress evil spirits, because "old" and "special" are homophonic, and the younger generation can spend one year safely with the lucky money. 5. New Year's Eve

In fact, the highlight of the Spring Festival night is "New Year's Eve", also known as reunion dinner, reunion dinner and so on. No matter whether the family is poor or rich, a rich "New Year's Eve" table should be prepared. It is a very happy thing for the family to sit around eating jiaozi and rich dishes, recalling the past and looking forward to the future.

In the south, seafood and vegetables are the main dishes for the New Year's Eve dinner, while in the north, big fish and meat are emphasized to fill the table. At the end of the year, families get together and have a reunion dinner, which is actually one of the most worthy customs of the Spring Festival.

These are the five customs I know about the Spring Festival. What else do you know, my friends? Say it in the comments section.