The customs of the Spring Festival include sweeping dust and worshiping the Kitchen God.

1. Sweeping dust

The main theme of the busy New Year is to remove the old and clothe the new. Sweeping the dust is one of the customs of dusting off the old and clothing the new. The folk proverb says, "On the twenty-fourth day of the twelfth lunar month, dust Clean the house.” Sweeping dust is the year-end cleaning. It is called "house sweeping" in the north and "house sweeping" in the south. Whenever the Spring Festival comes, every household has to clean up the environment, and there is a joyful atmosphere everywhere that they are happy to clean up and welcome the new year.

2. Worship the Kitchen God

On the 23rd or 24th day of the twelfth lunar month, the stove must be cleaned and the old Kitchen God must be removed and burned. On the morning of New Year's Eve, the new statue is put up, and wine and meat, candies, sugar cane, rice crackers, etc. must be placed, and incense, candles, and paper cannons must be set off. The folk activity of worshiping the stove can be traced back to the pre-Qin period, but at the beginning, the day of worshiping the stove was not on the small new year.

The origin of the Spring Festival

The Spring Festival is a major folk festival that integrates the removal of the old and the new, worshiping gods and ancestors, praying for blessings and warding off evil spirits, reuniting relatives and friends, celebrating entertainment and eating. The Spring Festival has a long history and originated in Primitive beliefs and nature worship of early humans. It evolved from the ancient rituals of praying for good luck at the beginning of the year, and carries a rich historical and cultural heritage in its inheritance and development.

The Spring Festival is the most solemn traditional festival of the Chinese nation. The activities of the New Year and the New Year are centered around offering sacrifices and praying for a good year, and are carried out in the form of removing the old and bringing in the new, worshiping gods and ancestors, exorcising evil spirits and fighting disasters, and praying for a good harvest. The content is rich and colorful, lively and festive, and has a strong flavor of the New Year. It embodies the essence of traditional culture of Chinese civilization. During the Spring Festival, various New Year celebration activities are held across the country. Due to different regional cultures, there are differences in customs or details.