What are the customs during the Spring Festival?

The firecrackers of every household brought a lively and festive auspicious year. Spring Festival, commonly known as "New Year's Day" and "Chinese New Year", is a grand and distinctive ancient folk festival in China. Here I share five folk customs during the Spring Festival. How many do you know?

1, paste Spring Festival couplets, commonly known as door couplets, also known as "spring stickers" and "couplets". Every Spring Festival, every household sticks red couplets on their doors, which adds a festive atmosphere and is a unique literary form in China. Spring Festival couplets originated from ancient peach symbols. Fu Tao is a rectangular red board hanging on both sides of the gate. Write the names "Shen Tu", "Lei Yu" and "Er Shen" on it to ward off evil spirits. During the Spring Festival, people always replace the old ones with new ones, which also expresses the good wishes of the working people in China to ward off evil spirits and avoid disasters and welcome good luck.

2, send the stove to heaven, commonly known as the "small year" on the 23 rd of the twelfth lunar month, it is said that this day is the day when the kitchen god goes to heaven. On this day, every household will bake some sesame cakes wrapped in sesame sugar, which is called "cooking stove" or prepare kitchen candy. Kitchen god will report to the emperor at this time. It is sweet to the kitchen god, and people hope that he will "speak well in heaven and return to the palace for good luck."

3, push the mill to make tofu, the folk proverb says: "twelfth month, push the mill to make tofu." In some places, there is also the custom of eating tofu residue before New Year's Eve. It is said that when the Kitchen God dies, the Jade Emperor will go to the lower bound to see if every household is like the Kitchen God's performance, so every household will eat tofu dregs to show its poverty, so as not to be punished by the Jade Emperor, and something good will happen next year.

4. Killing pigs and cutting new year's goods folk proverb says, "On the 26th of the twelfth lunar month, we stew big meat", which means that meat is mainly prepared for the New Year, and poor families can only eat meat on the New Year's Day, which is also the beginning of running new year's goods. On the 26th of the twelfth lunar month, there are "the 26th of the twelfth lunar month, washing inside and washing outside" everywhere. There is a saying that the barn is cleaned on the 26th of the twelfth lunar month, and there is also a saying among the people that the meat is cut on the 26th of the twelfth lunar month. That is to say, from this day on, we will start buying new year's goods. In rural areas, this day is a big market day, and people in the surrounding villages go to the market to buy new year's goods.

5, sesame stalks "step on the year" December 30 of the lunar calendar is New Year's Eve, commonly known as "New Year's Eve". Before noon on New Year's Eve, some large families will sprinkle sesame stalks at the gate from Yonglu at the gates of the courtyard. Family members come in and out, step on them, and so on. It is said that this move was originally to guard against theft, and later it evolved into the custom of "stepping on the old year", which means stepping on the old year to welcome the new year. "Old" and "special" are homophonic, so it also means that when you say goodbye to the old and welcome the new, you should step by step and stamp out evil spirits. In addition, sesame stalks are also auspicious things. As the saying goes, "sesame blossoms are getting higher and higher." Step on it, and there is a sense of rising in taking stability.

The above is my understanding of the customs of the Spring Festival. What else do you know, my friend?