Although New Year's Eve is the beginning of the New Year, the New Year's Eve is the official start of the New Year's Eve, known as the "Busy New Year", which means that people are busy preparing for the New Year's Eve. Preparing for the New Year's goods, dusting and welcoming the new year, every family is immersed in a busy and cheerful atmosphere. So what do you know about the customs of the Lunar New Year?

1, sacrificing to the God of the stove

Although each region has different customs, the date of the New Year is not the same, but the most representative custom of the New Year is to sacrifice to the God of the stove, that is, on the day of the New Year, families are prepared to sugar, baklava, and other offerings to send to the God of the stove to the Heavenly Court, to the Jade Emperor to report on the work of the Jade Emperor.

2, eat Zao sugar

As the saying goes, "twenty-three, sugar melon sticky", in the small year this day to eat Zao sugar is the custom of the northern region, over the small year people will buy some sugar melons, sugar and other offerings to Zao, praying for Zao to eat the sugar melons can be sweeter after the mouth, in front of the Jade Emperor more beautiful home a few sentences, the pair of the The "good things to say in heaven" is exactly the same.

3, bath, haircut

In folklore there is "money or no money, shaved head for the New Year," said the Spring Festival is the day of family reunion, no matter how the year goes by, to the New Year should be a haircut, bath, change into new clothes or clean clothes, and happy to have a big year, the New Year to have a new look. Some areas also have a first month haircut will be unfavorable to the uncle's statement, so the year before the haircut to wait until February 2 dragon head to get a haircut, such a statement is not scientific, but nowadays people still pay attention to this statement, so the year before the haircut is still very necessary.

4, clean up the dust, the old and welcome the new

After the New Year, less than a week from the Spring Festival, families will be end-of-year cleaning, cleaning all kinds of appliances, sprinkler sweeping courtyard, dusting and cobwebs, etc., everywhere overflowing with New Year's festive atmosphere, clean to meet the new year, which means the old and welcome the new, sweeping away bad luck.

5, marriage

In folklore, there is a ballad, "the year yan countryside marrying busy, Yichun post to tease the spring light", the people believe that after a small year, the folk of the many gods and goddesses have gone to heaven, this time there are no taboos, no matter whether it is to marry a daughter-in-law or marry a girl randomly choose a day is an auspicious day, so the small year to the end of the year, to carry out the marriage ceremony of the newcomers would be The new year will be the end of the year, so there will be a lot of new couples getting married.

What are the other traditional customs of the New Year in your hometown? Welcome to discuss in the comment section.