1, paste Spring Festival couplets
Spring Festival couplets, people will stick spring stickers every Spring Festival to increase the festive atmosphere of the festival. Couplets are also called Spring Festival couplets.
Traditional spring stickers are handwritten with a brush, but there are also spring stickers printed by machines. There are many kinds of Spring Festival couplets, including street couplets and door couplets, but not every Spring Festival couplets has a horizontal batch.
Step 2 cut the window grilles
Window grilles are paper-cut pasted on window paper or window glass. In the past, whether in the north or the south, stick grilles was always visited during the Spring Festival. Now it is only posted in the south when you get married, and it is generally not posted during the Spring Festival. Stick grilles is still very popular in the north. In Fengning, Hebei Province, if there is no stick grilles during the Spring Festival, people will guess whether something happened to this family. One of the paper-cut varieties. In order to set off the festive atmosphere, the vast rural areas put paper-cuts on the windows before the Spring Festival. The style of window grilles is generally free, except for the "corner flowers" stuck in the four corners and the "group flowers" folded and cut, there is no restriction on their outer contour. The theme of window grilles is very wide, and there are a lot of drama stories. Window grilles are more common in the north.
Step 3 set off firecrackers
He Xinchun has set off firecrackers in China for more than 2,000 years. The earliest firecrackers refer to the burning and explosion of bamboo, which is called firecrackers because it makes the sound of "chip, chip and beep" when burning. Setting off firecrackers in the Spring Festival is a representative traditional form of China culture, which has entrusted people with a beautiful yearning for the new year. Setting off firecrackers is a custom in the Spring and Autumn Period. In Jin Wengong, Zitui took her old mother and hid in the mountains. In order to get her out of the mountain, Zhong Er chose Lianshan, where bamboo grew. When the mountain was burned, the bamboo broke. Later, some firecrackers increased the significance of commemorating meson push. The familiar firecrackers with gunpowder, or firecrackers, appeared in the Song Dynasty. Mangpin, sulfur roll and other minerals are made into gunpowder according to your example, wrapped in paper or bamboo doors, made into gunpowder, and become firecrackers.
Step 4 visit the temple fair
Temple fair, also known as "temple fair" or "festival field". It refers to gathering near temples, offering sacrifices to gods, entertaining and shopping, which is a traditional festival custom of China culture. Temple Fair is a traditional folk activity widely circulated in China. Folk custom is a life culture created, enjoyed and passed down by the broad masses of people in a country or a nation. Temple fair is an organic part of this life culture, and its emergence, existence and evolution are closely related to the lives of ordinary people.
5. New Year's Eve dinner
The New Year's Eve dinner is a family dinner at the end of the year, which originated from the ancient year-end sacrificial ceremony and is a reunion dinner after offering sacrifices to the gods and ancestors. People in China pay special attention to moral, so the food for the New Year's Eve is also very careful, such as chicken, fish, seaweed, making a fortune, sausages and so on for good luck.
No matter what kind of customs and habits, people's longing for a better life is pinned on them. Every festival has its own unique meaning and a sense of ceremony that belongs to us in China. I hope China's customs and culture can be passed down better, and will not end quietly in our generation.