The Spring Festival in China's traditional culture colorful folk festival,main customs are cutting and pasting window, eat New Year's Eve dinner, firecrackers, New Year's Eve vigil, dragon and lion dances, distribution of New Year's Eve money and so on. Here are some traditional Chinese New Year customs to share with you~~

One, cut and paste the window

Cut and paste the window is the Chinese New Year in many of the customs of a kind. The content of the windowpane has a variety of animals, plants and other palindromes, such as magpies, swallows through the peach and willow, Lotus (Lian) years of fish (Yuyu), mandarin ducks playing in the water and so on, a variety of patterns, the appearance of pleasing to the festivities decorated with a joyful atmosphere. This is my favorite, I feel that hand-cutting window flowers is a very fun thing to do.

Second, write the Spring Festival couplets

This I like, I once also began to write. Spring Festival couplets, which depict beautiful images in neat, concise and sophisticated words. During the Spring Festival, every family, whether in the city or in the countryside, selects a pair of large red spring scrolls and pastes them on the door to celebrate the old and welcome the new, in order to add to the festive atmosphere of the festival, which is very lively.

Three, sweeping dust

Sweeping dust during the Spring Festival custom we are certainly not unfamiliar with, after all, has become the most headache for everyone. During the Spring Festival, every household has to be cleaned, both inside and outside the home, so as to welcome the arrival of the Spring Festival with a new look. This custom has been passed down to this day, and it is a way of saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new.

Four, pressure money

During the Spring Festival, the pressure money must be known to everyone, the New Year's blessing to add a way of happiness, although today's society into the era of red envelopes, but the ancient times passed down the "pressure age" and "pressure Soun "There are still, the New Year's money to the elders is the pressure of the year, I hope the elderly long life, years of peace; to the child is the pressure of the Soun, I hope the child is not a disaster, happiness and well-being.

V. Ancestor worship

Ancestor worship is one of the oldest elements of Chinese New Year customs. Ancestor worship is generally on the 30th day of the New Year, the people go to worship their ancestors, or the ancestors of the statue hung on the wall of the main wall of the center hall, set offerings, incense and candles for the next generation to pay homage to. The New Year ancestor worship is not only a tribute to the ancestors, but also to pray for the blessing of the ancestors for the coming year.

Sixth, New Year's Eve vigil

"New Year's Eve" that contains the old year to the end of the night, tomorrow that is another new year of meaning. The old man, the old man has a sense of the passing of time, and cherish the meaning of the years. For young people, it is a sense of new shoots growing strong, and a sense of striving to make progress. The year-end celebration reflects the family reunion, **** narrative affection, send the old and welcome the new beautiful vision.

Seven, New Year's Eve dinner

New Year's Eve dinner is the Chinese people eat throughout the year, "the longest" meal, but also the most important Chinese New Year's Day customs. In the 1960s and 1970s, due to the lack of materials, eating "clean", the New Year's Eve dinner is the most sumptuous meal of the year. In the 1980s, meat, eggs and poultry became more plentiful. In the 1990s, dishes became more varied. Into the twenty-first century, Western-style, farm-to-table, and table-pooling ...... New Year's Eve dinner eating styles are constantly being renovated.

Eight, pay tribute to the New Year

During the Spring Festival, on the first day of the New Year to pay tribute to the New Year, is every child's favorite thing, because after paying tribute to the New Year there will be a red packet to take ah. On the first day of the first month of the Spring Festival, when people meet, they will greet each other with "Good New Year", "Greetings to you" and other such New Year greetings. Traditional New Year's greetings are of three kinds: first, bowing. When a minor pays New Year's greetings to an elder of higher rank, he or she should bow. The second is bowing. Generally used by the younger generation to the elders to pay tribute to the New Year, commonly known as "Ji Bai". Third, the fist arch. Mostly between the peers of the New Year's greetings.

Legend of Chinese New Year story--Legend of New Year Beast

Long ago, there was a monster named "Xi", often at the end of the year to come out to harm people, even to protect the people of the gods have not been able to cure him, and the gods have not been able to overcome him. Even the gods, who protected the people, were unable to cure him, so the gods invited a helper named Nian, who was very powerful and wore red clothes and held a whip in his hand as he waited quietly for the beast to come. After the arrival of "Yu", "Nian" shook the whip, and the sound of the whip was so loud that "Yu" fled in fear. After that, "Nian" hung his coat on the door, and when "Xiu" came again, he thought that there was a monster at the door that was even more terrible than himself, so he turned back and fled in fear. After that, "Xiu" never appeared again, and this day is the last day of the twelfth month of the lunar calendar, the people in order to thank "Nian" in this day to get rid of "Xiu", the last day of the twelfth month of the lunar calendar called "the last day of the twelfth month". The last day of the month is called "New Year's Eve", and the first day of the first month is called the New Year, which is what people now call the Spring Festival.

The above is about the Spring Festival, some traditional cultural customs, stories and legends of the knowledge of the introduction, I hope to be able to help you Oh ~ ~ ~