What are the customs of the Spring Festival and what are their meanings?

The customs of the Spring Festival are:

1. Sticking New Year's Red is a general term for sticking Spring Festival couplets, door gods, New Year pictures, blessings, horizontal bars and window grilles. Because these are all red festive elements pasted during the New Year, they are collectively called "Sticking New Year Red". Sticking New Year Red is a traditional New Year custom in China, which reflects people's customs and beliefs, adds festive atmosphere and places people's good expectations for the new year and new life.

2. New Year's Eve is one of the customs of New Year's Eve, also known as New Year's Eve, reunion dinner, etc. Especially the New Year's Eve dinner. The New Year's Eve dinner originated from the ancient sacrificial ceremony at the end of the year, and it is a reunion dinner after offering sacrifices to the gods and ancestors. Reunion dinner is the highlight of the year ago, which is not only colorful, but also very meaningful. Worship the gods and ancestors before the reunion dinner, and eat after the worship ceremony.

Generally, there are chicken (representing a plan), fish (more than enough every year), oyster sauce (good for the market), Nostoc flagelliforme (rich), yuba (rich), lotus root (smart), lettuce (rich) and raw garlic (calculated). China people's New Year's Eve dinner is a family reunion dinner, which is the most abundant and important dinner in a year.

3. Fast Day: Worship God and set off firecrackers in the morning. On the morning of the first day, we worship Tai Sui God with vegetarian food. We must be vegetarian for breakfast, including vermicelli, yuba, Nostoc flagelliforme and mushrooms. Eat all the vegetarian dishes that should be eaten this year in the morning, so that you can eat big fish and big meat later.

4. Burning doorman's paper: In the old society, the pine and cypress branches hung on the New Year's Day were burned together with the doorman's house number on the third day to show that the New Year's Day had passed and it was time to start business. As the saying goes, "if you burn the janitor's paper, one will seek physiology."

5. Sending the poor: The sixth day of the first lunar month, also known as Horse Day, is a distinctive custom of the Han people to send the poor on this day. There are different ways to send the poor to all parts of China. But the moral is basically the same, they all send away the poor. It reflects the traditional psychology that ancient people generally hope to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, send away the old poverty and hardships, and welcome a better life in the new year.

According to the ancient customs recorded in Dong Fangshuo's Sui Exhibition in Han Dynasty, the first day of the first month is chicken day, the second day is dog day, the third day is pig day, the fourth day is sheep day, the fifth day is ox day, the sixth day is horse day, and the seventh day is human day. According to China folklore, this is because when Nu Wa created everything, she created six animals first and then people, so the first day to the sixth day is the day of six animals.