The similarities and differences between the north and the south of the Spring Festival customs, understanding the cultural traditions, and implying the happiness of the New Year
What are the customs during the Chinese New Year? What is the difference between the North and the South?
As one of the largest traditional festivals in China, it has a very rich custom, including sticking couplets, windows, ancestors, keeping the New Year, eating Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, setting off firecrackers, greeting the New Year, giving red envelopes and so on.
Here are a few common customs about the New Year::
1.Paste Spring Festival couplets: Before the Chinese New Year, everyone will hang Spring Festival couplets in front of their homes to welcome the new year. Spring couplets are generally written on red paper with good wishes.
2.Pasting window decorations: Window decorations are a kind of decorative patterns pasted on the window, mostly flowers, animals, people, etc., with good wishes and festive atmosphere.
3.Sacrifice: Every year during the Lunar New Year, we go to the ancestral tomb to worship the ancestors to show respect and gratitude to the ancestors.
4.New Year's Eve: On the eve of the Chinese New Year, family members sit together, chatting, playing cards, watching TV, and looking forward to the arrival of the new year. This custom is called "keeping the year", which means to cherish time and cherish time.
5.Eating New Year's Dinner: The dinner on the evening of the Chinese New Year's Eve is called "New Year's Dinner", and the dinner is very large, generally with fish, meat, vegetables, as well as traditional dumplings, rice cakes and other foods.
6.Set off firecrackers: On Chinese New Year's Eve, everyone should set off firecrackers to drive away bad luck and usher in the new year.
7.New Year's greetings: On New Year's Day, everyone goes to the homes of relatives and friends to pay respects to the early years and send good wishes.
8.Giving red envelopes: The elderly will give small red envelopes, which is an auspicious meaning.
During the Chinese New Year, there is also a certain difference between the customs and habits of the north and the south. Here are a few differences:
1.Food: There are certain differences in food between China and the south during the Chinese New Year. For example, in China, people will have the meaning of "rising every year" during the Chinese New Year, while in the north, people will have the meaning of "changing the age and making children".
2.Methods of Sacrifice: The methods of sacrifice in the south and in the south are also different. For example, in the south, flowers and paper money are used to pay tribute to their ancestors, while in the north, paper money and firecrackers are burned on ancestral graves.
3.Leisure activities: During the Chinese New Year, the leisure activities of the people of the South and the South also vary. For example, in the southern region, people will have some entertainment projects, such as: playing cards, mahjong; In the northern region, people can choose to twist Yangko and walk on stilts.
4.Clothing customs: During the Chinese New Year, the customs of clothing in the south and the south are also different. For example, in the southern region, people will wear red underwear, red socks, symbolizing good luck, while in the northern region, people can wear red coats, scarves, and so on.
In general, although there are certain differences between the South and the South New Year, they are both a valuable heritage of China and a special inheritance for the Chinese. Whether it is eating rice cakes in the south or zongzi in the north, it is a traditional custom in China. Therefore, we should respect and inherit this custom and make it a part of Chinese civilization.