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Today's Chinese New Year's Eve, whether rich or poor, remember the "6 customs and 6 taboos", and do not forget the old tradition of receiving blessings
Today is the 30th Chinese New Year's Eve, this year's Chinese New Year's Eve is a bit unusual, from 2025, there will be no Chinese New Year's Eve for 5 consecutive years, because from 2025 to 2029, the Chinese New Year's Eve for five consecutive years is "New Year's Eve". However, whether Chinese New Year's Eve falls on the twenty-ninth or the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve, our old traditions and customs are still the same.
Chinese New Year's Eve is the last night of the year, also known as Chinese New Year's Eve, Chinese New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, and New Year's Eve.
Three. 10. Chinese New Year's Eve, etc. Chinese New Year's Eve is of special significance in the hearts of the Chinese people, and on the most important day at the end of the year, wanderers who are far away also have to rush home to reunite with their families, and on Chinese New Year's Eve, they will join their families to bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new year.
Chinese New Year's Eve is a big day, and there are a lot of rules on this day, but the old traditions inherited by the older generation should be respected. On Chinese New Year's Eve, whether rich or poor, keep in mind the "6 customs, 6 taboos", do not forget the old traditions, and welcome the New Year with Fu Naxiang.
Six Customs:
1. Have a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner
Chinese New Year's Eve is the most important day, eating Chinese New Year's Eve dinner is the focus, also called reunion dinner, which is also the most pleasant and lively time for families during the New Year. has been busy for nearly a month, and they are all preparing for the reunion dinner on this day. This table of Chinese New Year's Eve dinner is the most sumptuous, stir-fried, fried, and showcased, among which fish is a must-have dish for Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, symbolizing wealth and surplus every year.
This Chinese New Year's Eve dinner is the happiness and comfort of reunion, the happy taste of reunion after a long absence, and the infinite hope for future life.
2. Paste the New Year's red
New Year's red refers to the Spring Festival couplets, door gods, window flowers, New Year's paintings, blessing characters, etc., these red and festive elements are collectively called New Year's red. It is a long-standing Chinese folk custom to post a red for the New Year, which entrusts people's yearning for a happy life and wishes for a better future.
According to folk customs, when we paste the Spring Festival, we should choose to post it during the day on Chinese New Year's Eve.
3. Make dumplings
Dumplings are an indispensable holiday food for the Spring Festival. Northern customs, especially Chinese New Year's EveChinese New Year's Eve rice, dumplings must not be missing, called reunion dumplings. This dumpling is also called "welcoming the god dumplings", generally packed at 7-8 o'clock, the time to eat dumplings is generally between 10-12 o'clock, and before eating dumplings, the firecrackers should be lit, take the "meaning of welcoming the gods", the god here refers to the god of wealth.
Eating dumplings on Chinese New Year's Eve is very particular and has a good meaning, such as cabbage-stuffed dumplings meaning "hundred wealth", leek stuffing meaning "long-term wealth", and celery stuffing meaning "diligent wealth".
4. Light firecrackers
Firecrackers are a traditional Chinese folk custom to drive away evil spirits and welcome the arrival of the new year. The focus is on the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner at night, as soon as the dumplings are served here, the firecrackers are lit there, both to welcome the God of Wealth and the arrival of the New Year.
5. Give New Year's money
The elders will give the juniors money on Chinese New Year's Eve to bless safety. Before giving the New Year's money, the younger generations of the family should pay New Year's greetings to the elders, the boys kowtow, the girls salute, and then take the red envelopes given by the elders, and then touch the child's head and say, "Another year old, another year old, the year is safe".
6. Keep the year and stay up for the year
The Chinese New Year's Eve observance, also known as staying up, is one of the traditional activities of the year, and this custom has a long history. It is mainly manifested in the fact that all the houses are lit with the New Year's fire (lights on), the family gathers, and the "New Year's fire" is not extinguished, waiting for the time to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new year.
On Chinese New Year's Eve, the whole family gathers together, after the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, lights candles or oil lamps, sits around the fireside and chats, eats fruits and snacks, and keeps vigil all night, symbolizing the running and driving away of all evil plagues and diseases, and looking forward to the auspicious and prosperous new year.
Five taboos
1. The word blessing cannot be pasted upside down. The door of the house is the place to welcome the blessing, and the word blessing here should be pasted. And the place where the word Fu is pasted upside down should be the water tank and garbage bin at home. Know these rules, don't make jokes.
2. If the door of your own house is facing the door of your neighbor's house, then you should hang two red Chinese knots on the door frame outside the gate of your house to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages.
3. On the night of Chinese New Year's Eve, whether it is a New Year's celebration or not, do not turn off the lights, and keep it all night, which means that the future of the coming year will be brighter.
4, there must be fish on the table of the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, because "fish" is homophonic to "yu", which means that there is more than every year. In addition, when eating fish, tell your family to leave the head and tail of the fish on the plate and not eat it, so that it means that there is not only food and clothing for the coming year, but also leftovers.
5. On Chinese New Year's Eve, avoid sweeping the floor. Brooms are believed to sweep away fortune and good fortune, so it is not advisable to sweep the floor on Chinese New Year's Eve so as not to take away good luck.
6. Do not take out garbage on Chinese New Year's Eve. Garbage represents an unlucky item, and taking out the garbage is considered to be good luck and should be disposed of before Chinese New Year's Eve.