Please talk about some habits of Chinese New Year, you know.

There is a saying in the north: "After Laba, it is the year". Indeed, after drinking Laba porridge, the pace of 2008 is approaching. When the twelfth lunar month is delivered to the kitchen, the atmosphere of the New Year is getting stronger every day. The land of China is full of exciting "nian" flavor everywhere.

Sacrificial furnace

It originated very early in China. Legend has it that people are afraid of the kitchen god and bribe him with food and wine if they say it is not good for their families. However, the days of offering sacrifices to stoves vary from place to place. Sending stoves is also a time when debt collectors and debt collectors are in an endless stream. However, the most debt collection is New Year's Eve. After dinner, even if the debt is not collected, when the host and guest meet, they should bow their hands and congratulate each other.

Sweep for a year

After the sacrifice, before the end of the year, we must choose a good day to do a general cleaning, commonly known as "sweeping the annual sacrifice." The custom of sweeping graves to celebrate the New Year has a long history. Before cleaning every year, conservative families should turn over the imperial calendar in advance and choose an auspicious day to do it. Sweep away the dust accumulated for many years and greet the new year cleanly.

Read poetry

Catching up with the Spring Festival is one of the most important tasks of the New Year. People often go to the market to buy new year's goods from the 25th to 30th of the twelfth lunar month. There are countless things to buy, from daily necessities for food, clothing, housing and transportation to firecrackers and Spring Festival couplets for the New Year. It is always good to return home with a full load.

cash cow

In order to ignite the joy of the Spring Festival, inserting a pot of flowers in the hall is also an essential decoration. Therefore, the year is approaching, and the flower market transaction is particularly lively. The most common flowers are peach, plum, plum, peony, peony, narcissus and so on. Some people also like to take a pot of kumquat home during the Spring Festival. Quick-thinking businessmen will tie red firecrackers and shiny gold ingots to the trunk, which are called "cash cows".

paste up Spring Festival couplets

Spring Festival couplets are auspicious couplets with red paper as the bottom and written in ink, which are posted at gates, walls, doors, warehouses, kitchens and other places during the New Year. The content of Spring Festival couplets should pay attention to the neatness of antithesis, which means auspiciousness. It is a special style of China literature.

New Year picture

It is a printed matter related to the custom of the New Year and a unique folk craft during the New Year. The characteristics of New Year pictures vary from place to place, but the colors are lively and bold, which means auspiciousness. "Paper-cutting" is to carve patterns on paper with a knife, and the design of the picture is very clever. The content of "paper painting" New Year pictures is mainly immortals. Zhong Kui, the God of Wealth and the Blessing of Heaven are all very popular themes.

Pick up the god of wealth

It is said that New Year's Eve is also a day for immortals to descend to earth, so "receiving gods" is also an important task of this day. Among the gods, the most popular is the god of wealth. On the afternoon of New Year's Eve, "sending the God of Wealth" became the hottest temporary industry among the little boys. They bought a stack of paintings of the God of Wealth at a low price, and then shouted "Send God of Wealth" and "Send God of Wealth" in the street. Usually, when the god of wealth comes to the door, the owner will definitely spend a few copper coins to "please" come in. Even if you already have it at home, answer "please" and never say "no" to avoid cutting off your financial resources.

Family reunion dinner on New Year's Eve

The climax of Chinese New Year is the New Year's Eve dinner. The most important significance of New Year's Eve, also known as the reunion dinner, is family reunion. No matter where you struggle for your life on weekdays, on New Year's Eve, wanderers scattered all over the country will surely travel and travel and go home for reunion. Members of the family must wait for the whole family to arrive before moving chopsticks. In some places, people are used to putting a pair of chopsticks on the table and some dishes in the bowl. Even if a family member fails to go home for a reunion dinner, it shows that his family is waiting for him to go home. Traditionally, the longer you eat New Year's Eve, the better. Some people eat late into the night.

lucky money

After the New Year's Eve dinner, the moment the children are most looking forward to is coming. Usually at this time, the elders will sit in the class and accept the resignation of the younger generation. When retiring, children should say auspicious words to their elders, and elders will give their children and grandchildren red envelopes prepared in advance. This red envelope is "lucky money"

Shousui

On New Year's Eve, most people stay up until dawn. This custom was first seen in the local custom: "The custom of Shu, not sleeping until New Year's Eve, is called Shousui". According to legend, keeping old can make you or your parents live longer. Therefore, on New Year's Eve, families are usually brightly lit and stay up all night. At that time, firecrackers came one after another, and the New Year arrived.