The New Year is the condensation of Chinese culture. Chinese New Year customs have endless stories and endless customs. For every Chinese, the Spring Festival is definitely the most grand and lively of the year. It is a traditional festival. So China

What are the traditional Spring Festival customs?

Customs of the Spring Festival: 1. Posting Spring Festival couplets There are different opinions about the origin of Spring Festival couplets. One theory is that Spring Festival couplets originated from peach symbols.

When the ancients said goodbye to the old and welcomed the new, they would draw the images of the two gods "Shen Tu" and "Yulei" on peach boards or write their names, hang or post them on the door to pray for blessings and avoid misfortunes.

Since the Song Dynasty, peach charms written with upper and lower sentences became popular.

The Song poem "Always replace old talismans with new peaches" is a proof of this.

So when did paper Spring Festival couplets emerge?

It was the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

After thousands of years of evolution, the Spring Festival couplets have changed their forms and names, but what remains unchanged is the good wishes they carry.

2. Posting blessings Posting Spring Festival couplets is not enough. People will also post the word "福". Some places have a lot of particularities.

The time to affix the word "福" should be on the afternoon of New Year's Eve, before the sun completely sets. The order of affixing the word "福" should be first to the outside of the house and then to the inside of the house. The implication is that the blessings of the year flow in from the outside.

In ancient times, people would also paste "rice noodles are like mountains" on the rice noodle vat. What should they paste on the shaft of the cart?

"A day travels a thousand miles"!

3. Welcome the Stove Prince According to folklore, the Stove Prince will check the household registration on the fourth day of the first lunar month, so every household should stay at home, prepare rich fruits, burn incense, light candles and set off firecrackers to show their welcome.

Chen Jing said that although many folk opinions are unfounded, they themselves carry people's good wishes to pray for blessings and avoid disasters, which is why they can be passed down.

I also have to put together a hodgepodge of leftover meals from several days and clean up the New Year’s goods.

The dust was dusted indoors, the floor was swept, and the garbage was piled in the courtyard to be "thrown away to the poor."

4. Hanging lanterns Lanterns are also called "lanterns" and have a long history.

According to archaeologists, Chinese lanterns are the earliest portable lighting tools invented in the world.

Later, lanterns became a symbol of joy in the hearts of Chinese people, a good sign of family reunion, prosperous career, prosperity, happiness and light.

5. Staying up late is also called staying up late, lighting up the fire, staying up late, staying up late, etc.

The folk custom of staying up late on New Year's Eve is mainly manifested in keeping the lights on all night long on New Year's Eve. Staying up late is called "burning lanterns to illuminate the New Year", that is, lighting candles all over the New Year's Eve. It is said that after such lighting, the family's wealth will be enriched in the coming year.

Staying up late also refers to family reunions on New Year's Eve and staying up late to welcome the arrival of the Lunar New Year.

7. New Year’s Money Distributing New Year’s Money to the elders is the children’s favorite part!

It is said that in the Song Dynasty, people would use plates and boxes to serve fruits and food as New Year's plates for younger generations.

Later, lucky money basically replaced the lucky plate.

I believe everyone has heard the legend about the Nian beast. People believe that if the Nian beast attacks on New Year's Eve, the New Year's money can be used to "bribe" it to keep children safe.

8. Welcome the God of Wealth on the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, commonly known as Po Wu, and we must "catch up with the five poor", including "poor in intelligence, poor in learning, poor in literature, poor in life, and poor in communication".

People get up at dawn, set off firecrackers and clean the house.

The firecrackers were set off from the inside out, and they were set off while walking out the door.

It is said to blast away all unlucky things.

On this day, the popular food custom among the people is to eat dumplings, which is commonly known as "pinch the little man's mouth".

9. Eat Yuanxiao on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. "Yuanxiao" has been a food in China for a long time.

In the Song Dynasty, a novel food eaten during the Lantern Festival became popular among the people.

This kind of food was first called "Fu Yuanzi" and later "Yuanxiao". Businessmen also euphemistically called it "Yuanbao".

Yuanxiao is "tangyuan", which is filled with sugar, rose, sesame, bean paste, cinnamon, walnut kernels, nuts, jujube paste, etc., and is wrapped into a round shape with glutinous rice flour. It can be meat or vegetarian and has different flavors.

It can be cooked in soup, fried or steamed, and has the meaning of happy reunion.

Our country is vast and rich in resources, and people also prepare different foods to welcome the New Year, such as pounding rice cakes in the south and steaming flower buns in the north... The difference is in customs and food, but the same thing is that people enjoy the joy of working together to welcome the New Year.

The steaming heat wafting out from thousands of households is also a wish for a prosperous and prosperous life in the coming year.