Spring Festival etiquette and customs

Spring Festival is the Chinese New Year in China, commonly known as Spring Festival, Chinese New Year and New Year's Eve, also known as Chinese New Year and New Year's Eve. It is a folk festival that integrates the old and the new, worships ancestors, prays for evil spirits, reunites relatives and friends, and entertains food.

Spring Festival is a new day to take off old cloth. Although it is arranged on the first day of the first lunar month, the activities of the Spring Festival are not limited to the first day of the first lunar month. Since the end of the year, people have been busy with the Chinese New Year: offering sacrifices to stoves, sweeping dust, buying new year's goods, putting up New Year's greetings, washing their hair and taking a bath, and decorating with lanterns. All these activities have the same theme, that is, "saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new". Let's take a look at the etiquette and customs of the Spring Festival:

First,? Spring Festival etiquette?

? One of the Spring Festival etiquette: Ask etiquette?

Parents can teach their children to greet with gestures in advance: make fists and bow, and see friends and relatives smile and say hello.

As shown in the above picture, since ancient times, the traditional New Year greeting gestures have been different between men and women. The standard man's bow posture is that his right hand is clenched, his left hand is wrapped, his wrist is tight and he shakes back and forth. Because the right hand is the attacker, it should be wrapped to show goodwill. Women, on the other hand, don't make a fist, just press their hands, don't touch their wrists and shake them back and forth.

In terms of greetings, parents can teach their children to say auspicious words and greetings such as "Congratulations on getting rich", "Happy New Year", "Good health" and "All the best". ?

? The second etiquette of the Spring Festival: receiving red envelopes?

The elders give red envelopes, and the children should take them with both hands and say thank you to the elders. If the child is too young to do it, parents can hold the child's hand, take the red envelope with both hands, and then say "thank you" with the child.

Parents should tell their children in advance that they should accept the red envelope and never open it in front of the guests. It is impolite to do so. The best way is to put the red envelope in mom and dad's bag or your own bag at once.

? The third etiquette of the Spring Festival: table manners?

When eating, taking a seat, and starting to eat, we should have an order, the old people first, and the young people later. Children should eat by themselves and finish all the food in the bowl, so as to cherish the food and not waste it!

And before eating, parents should educate their children: "Everyone likes delicious food, so there is something delicious to share at the dinner table!" "

? The fourth etiquette of the Spring Festival: Guest etiquette?

Parents should make an appointment by phone in advance and arrive on time before the New Year call. Knock on the door gently before you come home for the New Year. If the doorbell rings only once, you can.

After entering the door, parents should guide their children to take the initiative to tidy up their shoes after greeting. Remember to let the child say "thank you" when serving food to the child.

It is impolite to enter a relative's house and sit upright. Tell your child in advance that it is impolite to tamper with other people's things. If you want to play with toys or read books, you must get the owner's permission.

? The fifth etiquette of the Spring Festival: Hospitality?

When there are guests, parents should guide and encourage their children to greet them kindly and actively. After guests enter the room, older children can do some simple hospitality work, such as: when guests come, invite them into the room with the gesture of "please", ask them to sit down, make tea for them with both hands, and say "please have tea".

When adults are talking, let children understand that it is a good boy to do their own thing quietly, and it is disrespectful to interrupt casually.

When there are small guests, it will make them very happy to take out toys and play with them generously. When the guests leave, parents can lead their children to see them off for a while. Parents can say to their children, "Say goodbye to XXX and come back when you are free!" Even if parents teach their children to say it, if they say it from their children's mouths, they will make the guests feel very happy. After such contact, the child will certainly become a polite little master.

Second,? Spring Festival custom?

? One of the Spring Festival customs: Bao jiaozi?

New Year's Eve dinner includes jiaozi. It is one of the most important contents of the folk New Year in northern China. In jiaozi on the 30th, because it is an important part of festivals, many rules and established customs are stipulated. These customs are designed to cater to the needs of the New Year atmosphere.

When wrapping jiaozi, people usually wrap Jin Ruyi, sugar, peanuts, dates and chestnuts into stuffing. Eat the best and sugar, life will be sweeter in the coming year, eat peanuts, live a long and healthy life, eat dates and chestnuts, and have a baby early.

There is also an interesting story about this custom in folklore: a long time ago, in a poor mountain village, there was a poor family who often ate the last meal without the next one. On New Year's Eve, there is no white flour and vegetables at home, and I am worried when I listen to the neighbors cutting vegetables. Helpless, I had to borrow rice noodles from relatives and friends. After mending the noodles, I made some miscellaneous vegetables, stuffed them into the stuffing, and wrapped jiaozi. Because the noodles are borrowed, the wrapped jiaozi is particularly precious. When placed, it is circled from the inside out, which is very neat and beautiful. Kitchen God, who just came back from heaven, was very happy after seeing it. There is a rich man in the same village, and his family is very rich. He is used to eating delicacies on weekdays and doesn't care about jiaozi at all. On New Year's Eve, stuffing is made of meat, eggs and other materials, wrapped into jiaozi and placed on the curtain. Jiaozi, a small material, tastes completely different after being cooked in the pot. Pork stuffing became a radish dish. And the poor family's jiaozi turned into a stuffed egg. It turned out that the chef was very dissatisfied with the attitude of the rich man's family, Bao jiaozi. In order to punish him, he secretly changed two jiaozi. The next day, it spread in the village. From then on, no matter how busy people are, 30-year-old jiaozi should be neatly arranged to win a "happy circle".

? The second custom of the Spring Festival: New Year greetings

Paying New Year's greetings is the oldest folk custom in China. During the Spring Festival, the activities of exchanging feelings between relatives are a way for people to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, and express their good wishes to each other. New Year's greetings refer to visiting relatives and friends on the first day of New Year's Day and greeting each other. Origin of the custom of paying New Year greetings: In ancient times, the original meaning of the word "New Year" was to pay New Year greetings to the elderly, including kowtowing to them, congratulating them on a happy New Year and greeting their lives. In case of friends and relatives of the same generation, you should also salute and congratulate. On the first day of the new year, people get up early, put on new clothes, go out to visit relatives and friends, and wish each other good luck in the coming year. There are many ways to pay New Year's greetings. Some are householders leading several people from house to house. Some colleagues invited several people to pay New Year greetings. Others get together to congratulate each other. This is called "group worship".

In the Song Dynasty, friends and relatives would greet each other, which was an early New Year card. In the Ming Dynasty, the design of New Year cards was more perfect and exquisite. Not only the sender's name and address are printed on the email, but also "Happy New Year" and greetings are written. With the development of the times, the custom of New Year greetings is constantly adding new contents and forms. Nowadays, people not only follow the old way of paying New Year greetings, but also begin to pay New Year greetings by SMS and telephone.

The etiquette and customs of the Spring Festival are different between the north and the south, but one thing is basically the same, that is, family reunion, visiting relatives and friends, visiting elders and so on. I hope we can remember these customs full of affection and good wishes and pass them on from generation to generation.