1, sacrificial stove

December 23rd of the lunar calendar sacrificial stove, is the day after nightfall to brush the stove clean, take down the old Zaojun burned, in addition to to the early morning of the evening of the new like paste, a send a welcome, are to be set up with wine and meat, sweets, sugar cane, rice and fruit, etc., burning incense, candles, put paper cannon. [25]? Folk sacrificial stove, from the ancient fire worship customs, sacrificial stove in China has thousands of years of history, stove god beliefs are Chinese people on the "food and clothing have more than" dream pursuit of reflection.

2, dust sweeping

New Year's Eve, "Lunar New Year's Eve 24, dust sweeping the house" (also known as sweeping the house) of the custom. According to folklore: because "dust" and "Chen" consonant, dust sweeping in the New Year has the meaning of "in addition to Chen Bu Xin", the intention is to sweep out all the poor luck, bad luck. Whenever the Spring Festival comes, every household has to clean up the environment, cleaning all kinds of appliances, dismantle and wash the bedding curtains, sweeping the courtyard, dusting dust cobwebs, dredge the nullahs and ditches. Everywhere overflowing with joyful health, clean and welcome the new year's atmosphere of joy.

3, New Year's Eve dinner

New Year's Eve dinner, also known as the New Year's Eve dinner, the annual New Year's Eve dinner is extremely important to the Chinese, a family of mutual respect and love, *** narrative of family, sitting around the table, doubly happy. People pay great attention to the New Year's Eve "New Year's Eve dinner", in addition to family reunion, gather the joy of heaven, but also pray for the safety of the family, working outside the home are rushed back to spend the New Year. New Year's dinner is the main event of the Spring Festival, not only colorful, but also pay attention to the meaning.

4, the year-end vigil

New Year's Eve vigil is one of the most important New Year's activities, the custom of the year-end vigil has a long history. In the existing literature, the earliest record is found in the Western Jin Dynasty Zhou Chu's <>: New Year's Eve night, each with the gift, known as "feed the year"; wine and food are invited, known as "don't year"; young and old get together to drink, wishing to complete, known as the "sub year"; all night, everyone is the most important activities. "

Since the beginning of the year, the Chinese people have been waiting for the daybreak to come, which is known as the "New Year's Eve".

Since the Han Dynasty, the time of the transition between the old and new year is usually the middle of the night. "One night even double the year, five days divided into two days", the night of New Year's Eve, the whole family gathered together, ate the New Year's Eve dinner, light up candles or oil lamps, sitting around the stove chatting, waiting for the time to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new, the all-night vigil, symbolizing all the evil plague and disease Zhao ran away, looking forward to a new year of good luck.

5, New Year's Day

The Spring Festival visit to pay tribute to the New Year is one of the traditional customs of the Spring Festival, is a way for people to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new, and to express their good wishes to each other. With the development of the times, the custom of paying New Year's visit is also constantly adding new content and form. The significance of New Year's greetings is that friends and relatives visit and contact each other, congratulate each other on the New Year, and express their feelings for their friends and relatives and their good wishes for the new year. There are many ways to pay homage to the New Year, some of them are the same patriarch to lead a number of people to pay homage to the New Year; some are colleagues invited to pay homage to a number of people; there are also people get together to congratulate each other, known as the "reunion worship".

Expanded:

On the historical origins of the Chinese New Year, there is a lack of documents from the Ancient Age (Qin Shi Huang burned books). Among them, there are a few representative sayings that the Spring Festival originated from the ancient "Lunar New Year Festival", from "the Emperor's fixed age", from "witchcraft rituals", from "ghost festivals", from "the Ghost Festival", from "the Ghost Festival", from "the Ghost Festival", from "the Ghost Festival", from "the Ghost Festival", from "the Ghost Festival".

Some people say that Shun succeeded the Son of Heaven, but the "Son of Heaven" is not the same as the "Son of Heaven", which is the same as the "Son of Heaven", and is not the same as the "Son of Heaven". The title "Son of Heaven" first began in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and became popular only in the Han Dynasty, from the "Wannian Youth Creation of Perpetual Calendar", and from the legend of the "Nian" beast, and so on.

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