1, making rice cakes
Eating rice cakes is one of the customs of China people. Because "cake" and "high" are homophonic, eating rice cakes contains the good wishes of "high every year"
2, decals
On the 28th of the twelfth lunar month, people also pay attention to "decals", that is, New Year pictures, Spring Festival couplets and window grilles. Among them, the custom of pasting Spring Festival couplets originated from the ancient "Fu Tao". The ancients used peach wood to ward off evil spirits and carved peach symbols on it, which became the origin of Spring Festival couplets. Later, the custom of pasting Spring Festival couplets with red paper instead of mahogany appeared.
Step 3: steamed bread
Many skilled women make all kinds of dough sculptures on cakes, including flowers, dragons, phoenixes and butterflies. After cooking, it is dyed in various colors with various pigments, which is particularly festive.
Traditional sources
On the 26th and 27th of the twelfth lunar month, meat is prepared for the Chinese New Year. On the 28th, it's time to prepare pasta. In the past, the social development was low and there was no modern convenient baking powder. Ordinary flour is easy to go bad when it is prepared a few days in advance, but only dough will not go bad, so dough is made on the 28th to prepare the staple food from the first day to the fifth day of the first month. At the same time, it is also because of the old custom that steamed buns cannot be steamed with fire from the first day of the first month to the fifth day of the first month.
In addition to dough mixing, there are also "decals" on the 28th of the twelfth lunar month, that is, New Year pictures, Spring Festival couplets and decals. Among them, the custom of pasting Spring Festival couplets originated from the ancient "Fu Tao". The ancients used peach wood as a wood to ward off evil spirits. The Book of Arts said, "Peach is the essence of five trees, so it also suppresses evil spirits." In the Five Dynasties, Meng Changya, the monarch of the post-Shu Dynasty, was good at literature. Every year, he made people write inscriptions for Fu Tao, which became the origin of Spring Festival couplets in later generations. The inscription on the Fu Tao "New Year's Qing Yu, Spring Festival Changchun" became the first "Spring Festival couplets" in China's recorded history.
Later, with the appearance of papermaking, the custom of pasting Spring Festival couplets with red paper instead of mahogany appeared. Every household sticks the word "Fu" on doors, walls and lintels. Trust a happy life and wish a bright future.