The custom of Huzhou people celebrating the Spring Festival

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

Step 2: keep your age

Shounian, also known as Shounian Fire and Zhaonian, has a long history and is one of the folk activities in China. On New Year's Eve, folk activities are mainly manifested in keeping the old age by making a fire, that is, every household lights candles and the whole family gets together to welcome the New Year.

3. Lantern Festival

The custom of Lantern Festival includes a series of custom activities, such as turning on lights, throwing lanterns and drinking lanterns and wine. Since ancient times, there have been customs of turning on lights, hanging lights, singing lights and setting up lanterns after the Spring Festival.

4. Send Vulcans

On the seventh day of the first month, children will also send Vulcan. The child chooses a wooden stick about two meters long and binds it with wheat straw. This is called Vulcan. At dusk, one end of Vulcan is lit at home, and the children run away from home with the other end of Vulcan until it burns out.

5, eat Qibao soup

Seven kinds of fruits and vegetables are used every year on the seventh day of the first lunar month (also called People's Day). ) Mixed rice noodle soup is eaten by the whole family together. People think it can ward off evil spirits and cure all diseases, so as to get a good omen.