Every year when it comes to the Spring Festival, it is the happiest, because you can get the New Year money, not to mention how happy, so for the convenience of everyone, the following will share with you what activities are there on the Chinese New Year's Eve, welcome to read!
1. Eat Chinese New Year's Eve dinner.
First of all, on Chinese New Year's Eve, we will have a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, adults will make a table of sumptuous dishes, the family will sit around the table and eat a reunion dinner together, everyone's heart is full of happiness, and the family is happy to enjoy the happy atmosphere of the New Year next to the table. There are not only delicious meals on the table but also delicious snacks, and generally the family will make chicken and fish, because these two dishes are very auspicious, chicken represents good luck, and fish represents more than every year.
2. Paste Spring Festival couplets.
In addition, every Chinese New Year's Eve, whether in the city or in the countryside, every household will choose to paste the Spring Festival, and the red Spring Festival will bring a festive atmosphere to the Chinese New Year's Eve, as early as the Song Dynasty, this custom has begun to be popular.
3. Paste window grilles.
In addition, each family will also carry out an activity of pasting window flowers, because spring flowers not only have a certain degree of decoration, but also bring a festive atmosphere to the home, and the family can live together to carry out this activity, which will bring us all a joyful atmosphere.
4. Paste the word blessing.
The word "Fu" refers to good fortune and good fortune, which entrusts people's yearning for a happy life and wishes for a better future. In order to more fully reflect this yearning and wishes, some people simply paste the word "blessing" upside down, indicating that "happiness has arrived" and "blessing has arrived".
5. Ignite firecrackers.
There is a saying in Chinese folk that "open the door and firecrackers". That is, when the new year arrives, the first thing every household does when they open the door is to set off firecrackers to remove the old and welcome the new with the sound of beeping firecrackers.
1. Paste Spring Festival couplets.
Before the arrival of the Chinese New Year's Eve, for every household, other door decorations can be ignored, but must be pasted with a pair of red tongtong, joyful spring couplets, whether urban or rural, every household should select a pair of big red spring couplets to paste on the door, in order to increase the festive atmosphere, but also indicate a good omen for the coming year.
2. Make dumplings.
Chinese New Year's Eve dumplings dumplings are a Chinese tradition, Chinese New Year's Eve must eat dumplings on this day, so every family will get up early to make dumplings, in many dumplings only a few with peanuts or other nuts, who eat such dumplings will indicate good luck in the new year, auspicious.
3. Light the lantern.
On the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, red lanterns should be hung in front of the house, and during the Spring Festival, it should be lit all night. From the 30th day of the Chinese New Year's Eve to the 15th Lantern Festival of the first month, the lights cannot be turned off during the period, which means that life is prolonged and incense is continuous.
4. Eat Chinese New Year's Eve dinner.
The Chinese New Year's Eve is the most important day of the year and a day for family reunion. On Chinese New Year's Eve, the whole family gathers together for a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, waiting for the time to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new. Chinese New Year's Eve In addition to asking the whole family to dine together to express harmony and reunion, the ancestors must also be offered before the meal and pray for the blessing of the ancestors' gods.
5. Watch the Spring Festival Gala.
The least family reunion is to watch the annual Spring Festival Gala, the Spring Festival Gala has gradually become an indispensable part of the Chinese New Year's Eve, the whole family gathers in front of the TV to watch the Spring Festival Gala, this joyful atmosphere can be compared to He Weikou Chun.
1. Paste Spring Festival couplets.
Wang Anshi's poem in the Song Dynasty "Thousands of households always exchange new peaches for old charms." It describes the traditional folk custom of pasting Spring Festival couplets. Spring Festival couplets, also known as "door pairs" and "spring posts", are a kind of couplets that are popular during the folk Spring Festival. It represents people's good wishes to pray for blessings and welcome spring. Spring Festival couplets are usually pasted before the Spring Festival, and most people choose to post them on Chinese New Year's Eve, the time when the old and the new alternate. Every Chinese New Year's Eve, families clean the windows of the courtyard and post all kinds of Spring Festival couplets, door stickers, window flowers, New Year paintings, etc., which not only express good wishes, but also create a festive atmosphere.
2. Don't sweep the floor.
I don't know if there is such a custom in the place where everyone is, but in many areas there is a custom and exquisiteness of "not sweeping the floor on Chinese New Year's Eve, leaving the God of Wealth". That is, on Chinese New Year's Eve and the first day of the new year, they basically do not sweep the floor, in order to be able to keep the blessing and keep the God of Wealth. The older generation felt that on Chinese New Year's Eve, if they swept the floor, they would take away the God of Wealth at home, and some blessings would be taken away, and slowly the custom of not sweeping the floor on Chinese New Year's Eve was formed.
3. Keep the year. Keeping the year, commonly known as "boiling the year". The custom of keeping the year has a history of nearly 2,000 years in China, and it was first seen in the "Fengtuzhi" in the Western Jin Dynasty on the night of Chinese New Year's Eve, each phase and gift, called "giving the year", inviting wine and food is called "other years", the old and young gather to drink, the blessing is complete, called "dividing the year" Everyone sleeps all night long, waiting for the dawn, called "keeping the year". In ancient times, there were two meanings of keeping the New Year: the elderly kept the New Year as "saying goodbye to the old year", which meant cherishing the time, and the young people kept the New Year to prolong the life of their parents.
Chinese New Year's Eve 2024 is Friday, February 9, the 30th day of the lunar month. Chinese New Year's Eve is the last day of the lunar year, also known as the Great Year.
Three. 10. New Year's Celebration, Chinese New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, etc.
Chinese New Year's Eve is connected to the Spring Festival (the first day of the first lunar month). The word "except" in "Chinese New Year's Eve" means "go, easy, alternate", and Chinese New Year's Eve means "the end of the month", people have to remove the old and welcome the new, there is the meaning of the old year and the new year.
1. You can't borrow or repay money.
Money is wealth, and every household in the Chinese New Year's Eve pays attention to gathering wealth, so on this day, whether it is borrowing money or repaying money, it is taboo in folk customs! Because, whether borrowing money or repaying money, it is the act of scattering money, so remember, from the day of the Chinese New Year's Eve until the end of the first month, it is not appropriate to have money repayment with friends!
2. Don't say unlucky things.
On Chinese New Year's Eve, both adults and children should say auspicious words, not swear words and disrespectful words, avoid swearing, shouting, and children crying, according to legend, this attitude is disrespectful to God, and the person concerned may be unlucky for a year. On Chinese New Year's Eve, you should not say unlucky words such as "broken", "dead", "sick", "lost" and "defeated". Friendly reminder, after spitting, remember to wipe the floor.
3. Don't throw garbage.
At the beginning of the Chinese New Year's Eve, the family can no longer throw garbage outside, and you can not throw garbage until the New Year! In folklore, the meaning of the new year is to welcome the new year and welcome the gods from all walks of life; Therefore, after the new year, no more garbage can be thrown, which means that dirty garbage should not touch the gods.
4. Don't turn off the lights.
Although every family in the Chinese New Year's Eve will keep the New Year and say goodbye to the old and welcome the new, but staying up late is not for everyone after all, so some friends may rest after eating and watching the Spring Festival Gala. But whether it's a friend who keeps a New Year's Day or a friend who is resting, don't turn off the lights at home.