The main customs of the Spring Festival in China

1, the Spring Festival in China usually begins with a sacrificial furnace. Sacrificing a stove is a kind of custom with great influence and wide spread among the people in our country. In the past, almost every kitchen had a kitchen god.

2. "On the 24th of the twelfth lunar month, dust sweeps the house". According to "Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals", China had the custom of sweeping dust during the Spring Festival in the Yao and Shun era. According to the folk saying: Because of the homonym of "dust" and "Chen", sweeping dust in the Spring Festival means "getting rid of the old and not being new", and its original intention is to sweep away all bad luck and bad luck. This custom has placed people's desire to break the old and create new ones and their prayers to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new. Whenever the Spring Festival comes, every household should clean the environment, clean all kinds of electrical appliances, remove and wash bedding curtains, sweep six yards, dust cobwebs and dredge culverts in open channels. Everywhere is filled with the joyful atmosphere of cleaning and welcoming the Spring Festival cleanly.

According to the old custom, after the kitchen god went to heaven, the Jade Emperor personally descended to earth on December 25th of the lunar calendar to investigate the good and evil in the world and decide the fortune for the coming year. Therefore, every household worships it as a blessing and calls it "receiving the Jade Emperor". On this day, we should be careful in our daily life and words, strive for good performance, win the favor of the Jade Emperor and bring good luck for the coming year.

In the traditional folk custom, it is necessary to take a bath and wash clothes intensively these two days to get rid of the bad luck for one year and prepare for the Spring Festival next year. There is a saying in Beijing that "twenty-seven washes the sick, twenty-eight washes the sloppy". Taking a bath on the 26th of the twelfth lunar month is "washing Fulu".

5. On New Year's Eve of the twelfth lunar month, we will stick up door gods, put up Spring Festival couplets, celebrate the New Year, set off firecrackers, eat New Year's Eve, give lucky money and worship our ancestors.

New Year's Eve means "the month is poor and the year is over". People want to get rid of the old department, get rid of the old department, and the next year means getting a new department. This is the last night of the Lunar New Year. Therefore, the activities during this period are all around changing the old for the new, eliminating disasters and praying for blessings. Solemnly declare: the answer is for reference only, please don't be blindly superstitious.