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Today, Chinese New Year's Eve, which of these customs do you know? Old traditions need to be passed on, auspicious and happy New Year!
In the prosperous Chinese year, today is the Chinese New Year's Eve, the last day of this year, and the most important part of the big year. On this day of Chinese New Year's Eve, customs vary from place to place. But every family's wish is the same, praying for a good harvest year in the coming year, and the family is safe and healthy, and all the best!
Celebrating the New Year is not only a sense of ritual in life, but also our yearning for a better life. With the development of society, many young people have not paid much attention to the customs, in fact, old traditions have the meaning of old traditions, and we need to pass them on from generation to generation. The region determines the difference in the customs of the New Year, let's take a look at the following customs you know?
Keep the year
Chinese New Year's Eve night vigil is also a long-standing custom, legend has it that the observance is to prevent the invasion of an animal called "Nian Beast", and this Nian Beast is most afraid of fire, red and sound, so people Chinese New Year's Eve wear red clothes, light red lights, paste red paper, set off fireworks and fireworks, burn incense and pray, and stay up all night at night, and there is a custom of "keeping the New Year". In our northern region, Chinese New Year's Eve night vigil is held, and the family sits together, chatting and eating snacks, and guarding until dawn, which also means peace and success in the coming year.
Paste couplets
Sticking couplets, is one thing we must do in the New Year, commonly known as "spring coupling" is also called "couplet", "couplet", etc., write some auspicious words, generally twenty-eight, twenty-nine or Chinese New Year's Eve pasted on the door, meaning auspicious luck in the coming year.
Window flowers
Paste window flowers, window flowers set off the festive atmosphere of the New Year, in the past window flowers were cut out with scissors, to now are buying window flowers, all kinds, joyful, paste window flowers on the windows at home, the atmosphere of the New Year is immediately there. The flowers of the window flowers are also auspicious paintings, which means that blessing has arrived!
ancestor worship
In Chinese New Year's Eve, ancestor sacrifice is the first major event in Chinese New Year's Eve, with fine wine, dishes, fruit offerings, etc., and the whole family holds a grand sacrifice ceremony to express the feeling of "prudent and long-term". Fruits are usually placed with apples, oranges and other fruits that symbolize good luck, hoping for peace and prosperity in the coming year!
Chinese New Year's EveChinese New Year's Eve rice is indispensable, and the dishes of our northern Chinese New Year's Eve rice often include fish, rice cakes, chicken, pig's trotters and so on. For example: "fish" and "yu" are homonymous, which has the auspicious meaning of "every year has more than "year"; Rice cake means "rising every year"; And "chicken" is auspicious and so on, taking an auspicious name, which means smooth sailing in the coming year.
Eat dumplings
In the north, the most eaten in the New Year is dumplings, the shape of dumplings is like an ingot, making dumplings means wrapping good luck, eating dumplings symbolizes a rich life, but also represents the coming year's wealth of prosperity. Therefore, it is said that eating dumplings in the New Year is considered a great fortune, and it must not be less.
Eat rice balls
Eating tangyuan is the main thing in the south, and in some areas in the north it is to eat tangyuan for the New Year, which means sweet and sweet, reunion!
red envelope
When the Chinese New Year's Eve arrived, in ancient times, the ancients were very particular about pressing money, and the copper money used was large money, new money, and then used red rope to wear into various shapes. Some wear hundreds of copper coins, taking their meaning of "long life and a hundred years". Now Chinese New Year's Eve night, the elders will use delicate red packages on red tickets, and then distribute them to the children, asking for a red and red color, which means that there will be money to spend and eat in the future.
The customs in many places are different, the above customs are only a small part, what kind of Chinese New Year's Eve customs do you have there, welcome to speak freely at the bottom of the article and inherit it together!
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