The Spring Festival can be said to be China's most grand and grand festival, with the passage of time, the flavor of the year has become more and more diluted, this is because some of the customs of the Spring Festival has been forgotten by us. What are the customs of the Spring Festival?

1, sacrificing Zaoshen

Sacrificing Zaoshen refers to the day of the 23rd day of the Lunar New Year, for the Zao Wangzhi pasted in the kitchen for the sugar melons. As the saying goes, on the twenty-third day of the Lunar New Year, sugar melons are sticky, so on the day of the Lunar New Year, sugar melons are a must-eat for us Beijingers. Why do we have to eat sugar melons on New Year's Day? There is a character that has to be mentioned - Master Zao Wang. In the past, it was customary to offer sacrifices to Zaowang on the 23rd day of the Lunar New Year, so we would buy some sacrificial candies made from maltose, such as sugar melons and Guandong candies, and offer them. It is said that every year on the day of the New Year, Zaowang master has to ascend to the Jade Emperor to report everyone's merits and faults of the year, so in order to ask Zaowang master more beautiful words, but also in order to not let the sticky Zaowang master's mouth to prevent him from saying more, so the day will be with sugar melons Kanto sugar offerings to him. Therefore, there is also such a saying: "Zao Wang Wang ascends to heaven - good words more talk".

2, stickers

In our country's lunar calendar, the beginning of the renewal of the occasion, people are concerned about the stickers for the room to increase the atmosphere of the New Year, but also the beautification of the residential environment, a symbol of the meaning of a happy and fulfilling life. In the old days, when the Chinese New Year was approaching, Beijing, in addition to some bookstores or stationery stores would sell New Year's paintings, you could often see some individual vendors carrying large baggage walking along the streets to sell New Year's paintings. They would wrap the paintings in a big cloth, choose a place with a lot of people, and open the big bag to sell them on the spot, and a lot of people would come to buy them when they heard the yelling. At that time, the main contents of the New Year paintings were "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai", "Liu Hai Chopping Wood", "Fat Doll Holding a Goldfish", and four-panel screen, etc., among which the woodblock prints of Yang Liuqing in Tianjin and Weifang in Shandong Province were the most popular. New Year's paintings are the most popular.

3, sesame straw "stepped on the year"

Lunar Lunar New Year's Eve, commonly known as "Lunar New Year's Eve". New Year's Eve before noon, some large families will be sesame straw from the courtyard of the house door of the canal, has been paved to the gate. Family members in and out, step on it, crackling. It is said that the earliest action is to prevent theft, and later evolved into the custom of "stepping on the year", which means stepping on the old year to welcome the new year. "Years" and "Sneaky" harmonized, so there is also the old and welcome the new occasion to step off, step on the meaning of the evil evil spirits. In addition, sesame straw is also auspicious, as the saying goes: "Sesame blossoms every day". Step on it, take the meaning of rising.

4, the New Year

One of the most important things on the first day of the New Year is to start the New Year's Eve, the temple fair also began on this day. According to the old custom, the first day, the son-in-law to see the father-in-law and mother-in-law first, and now are generally the second day of the daughter son-in-law to return to the bride's home to pay homage to the New Year. The old Beijingers paid great attention to the New Year's visit. People who received the New Year's greetings had to prepare food boxes with all kinds of dried fruits, called "jili fruits". No matter how many people come to pay New Year's call, the food box must be full to show respect and blessing to the guests.

5, posting Spring Festival

Spring Festival couplets, commonly known as the door, also known as "spring stickers" "couplets". Every year, the Spring Festival, households in the door on the big red Spring Festival couplets, adding to the festive atmosphere, is China's unique form of literature. Spring Festival couplets originated from the ancient peach symbols. Peach charms are rectangular peach wood panels hung on both sides of the front door. The names of two gods, "Shentian" and "Yubi", were written on them to drive away ghosts and evil spirits. Every Spring Festival, people always replace the old peach charms with new ones, which also expresses the good wishes of the Chinese working people to ward off evils and disasters, and to welcome auspiciousness and good fortune.

The above is my understanding of the Spring Festival customs, partners you know what else?