When the Spring Festival comes, every household has different customs and habits. What about yours?

The real popularization originated from the Ming Dynasty and was related to Zhu Yuanzhang's advocacy. According to historical records, one year before the Chinese New Year, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered every household to post a pair of Spring Festival couplets to express their congratulations. It turned out that the Spring Festival couplets were written on mahogany boards, and later they were changed to paper. The color of Sophora japonica is red. Bright red means good luck and avoiding evil spirits, so most Spring Festival couplets are written in red paper.

Spring Festival couplets can be called the original plastic arts of the Chinese nation. Because of its vulgarity and elegance, it is loved by generations. Someone once summed up the Spring Festival couplets like this: "Two lines of words support heaven and earth; A pair of couplets, commenting on ancient Han. " Sticking Spring Festival couplets is an important folk culture in the Spring Festival. On the eve of the Spring Festival, every household needs to paste red Spring Festival couplets. A pair of festive and warm Spring Festival couplets expressed everyone's good wishes to welcome new students and look forward to a better life.

Spring Festival custom: paste New Year pictures

New Year pictures, like Spring Festival couplets, all begin with "pasting doors". With the prevalence of engraving and papermaking, the content of New Year pictures is not limited to sticking to the door, and the god of wealth is gradually invited to the home, thus creating colorful New Year pictures in some small workshops of New Year pictures, such as three stars of Fu Lushou, God bless the people, abundant crops, prosperity of six animals and welcoming the new year, so as to achieve everyone's good wishes of celebrating and praying for the New Year. Because Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding father of the Ming Dynasty, advocated posting Spring Festival couplets during the Spring Festival, New Year pictures also became popular under its influence.

Customs of Spring Festival: Keeping the Year and Stepping on the Year on New Year's Eve

New Year's Eve refers to the evening of the last day of the year, which is connected with the Spring Festival. It is a critical moment of "one night for two years, five hours for two years". "Except" means "going", and New Year's Eve means "the month is poor and the old year is exhausted", which means that the old year is removed here, and the new year will be replaced next year. New Year's Eve is the first peak in Spring Festival travel rush. Shounian, alias "Enduring Year", is gradually having a reunion dinner. Reunion dinner is a warm and harmonious banquet full of affection in a year. At this time, everyone can not only enjoy delicious food, but also feel deep feelings and festive celebrations.

After the reunion dinner, except for the young baby, the family gradually kept the old year and celebrated the New Year together. There was a custom of keeping old on New Year's Eve in Jin Dynasty, which was very common in Han Dynasty. After the Sui Dynasty, it was very popular, and it was even more popular to inherit tang style in the Song Dynasty. In addition, the Han Dynasty also had the custom of drinking pepper and cypress wine on New Year's Eve to ward off evil spirits and diseases. Later generations changed to Tu Su wine, and Wang Anshi wrote a poem "Spring Breeze Warms Baili Tusu". At present, in the south of China, there is still the custom of a big family getting together to drink Tu Su wine during the Spring Festival.

On the eve of New Year's Eve, an annual outing in China folk custom will be held, that is, in the courtyard, white sesame stalks will be stained with gold coins folded with yellow paper and saved into a bundle, which is called "cornucopia". Later, the family crushed it with their feet, wishing the family prosperity and expressing their wishes and prayers for the new year with the auspicious meaning of "leading all the way, rising steadily".