The traditional folk culture about the Spring Festival includes:

1. Sweeping dust in the New Year

According to "Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals", as early as the era of Yao and Shun, my country had already There is a custom of sweeping dust during the Spring Festival. Because "dust" and "chen" are homophonic, sweeping dust in the New Year has given a new meaning, meaning to remove the old and spread the new, hoping to sweep away all bad luck and bad luck.

2. Pasting couplets, characters of blessing, and door gods

On the afternoon before the Spring Festival, children will step on stools, hold paste and brushes, paste couplets on the door, and then Let the adults below see if it is posted correctly. Some of them are also written horizontally and affixed to the horizontal head of the lintel, and couplets are affixed to the left and right sides of the door. Others paste the words "Fu" on house doors, walls, and lintels to express people's yearning for a happy life. Some people will put paintings depicting door gods on door panels to pray for a safe and sound year and add to the festive atmosphere.

3. Worshiping ancestors and worshiping gods

Worshiping gods during the Spring Festival is a custom that extends from east to west, north and south of my country. The customs of worshiping gods are similar across the country, but the purpose is basically the same, which is to pray for good weather, good harvests, good fortune, etc. in the coming year.

Ancestor worship is usually done after worshiping gods, and customs vary from place to place. In our hometown, before lunch every day, each household sends a representative to bring food and offerings to the ancestral hall. Paying homage to the ancestors lasts until the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, when the ancestral hall will be closed.

4. Eating dumplings, glutinous rice balls, and rice cakes

In most parts of the north, there is a custom of eating dumplings in the morning during the Spring Festival, and a coin is often placed inside the dumplings. If he eats the coin, everyone will say that he is the happiest person in the family that year. In Huai'an, Jiangsu, there is a custom of eating glutinous rice balls in the morning. In Kaifeng, Henan, both dumplings and glutinous rice balls are eaten on the Spring Festival. It is also customary to eat rice cakes during the Spring Festival, and the taste of rice cakes varies from place to place.

5. Staying up late on New Year’s Eve and giving New Year’s money

Staying up late on New Year’s Eve is also one of the most important Spring Festival activities. Neighbors and friends gather together, or as a family, some play cards, and some Watching the Spring Festival Gala, everyone stayed up all day long, waiting for dawn together to welcome the new year.

Giving lucky money is a favorite custom among children and younger generations. After the New Year's Eve dinner, the elders will present coins to the younger ones respectively, and weave copper coins into strings with red thread and hang them on the children's chests, which is said to ward off evil spirits and drive away ghosts. This custom has been popular since the Han Dynasty. Of course, there are no copper coins anymore, so you usually get cash in a red package.

6. Set off firecrackers

When the New Year is approaching, the first thing every household does when they open the door is to set off firecrackers to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new with the crackling sound of firecrackers as a sign of good luck. Of course, setting off firecrackers is now prohibited in many places, but we should still abide by national regulations and put safety first.

7. New Year greetings

New Year greetings are one of the most important activities and customs during the Spring Festival. On the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, adults and children all put on new clothes and hats, visit relatives and friends, say hello to each other, and wish each other good luck in the new year. New Year greetings usually start at home. After the younger generation pays New Year greetings to their elders, when people go out to meet each other, they congratulate each other on the New Year with a smile on their faces.

8. Visit temple fairs

During the Spring Festival, there are usually temple fairs in rural areas. The early temple fairs were just a grand sacrificial activity. However, with the development of economy and people's needs, temple fairs gradually added market trading activities and some colorful entertainment activities while maintaining sacrificial activities.

9. Dragon Dance and Lion Dance

The dragon is a legendary auspicious animal. It is said that it can move the wind and rain in the sky, and can also pray for blessings and eliminate disasters in the world. As early as the Han Dynasty, there was an activity of dragon dancing to pray for rain. In addition to dragon dance, there is also lion dance, which is also a relatively common custom during the Spring Festival. In our north, it is also called lion dance. It was often seen when I was a child, but it is less common now.

10. Walking on stilts

Walking on stilts is also an entertainment activity during the Spring Festival. It has a long history. It is recorded in "Liezi. Shuofu Chapter": There was Lanzi in the Song Dynasty. The limbs are twice as long as the body, belonging to the shin, and they run together. Walking on stilts is also called stilt walking or stilt walking. Performers tie wooden stilt sticks two or three feet high to their two feet and perform various weird and funny actions. When I was a child, this activity was held in almost every village. Later, it became popular Less and less.