Chinese cultural customs ——Spring Festival （2）

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Now continue to tell you about the customs and habits of the Spring Festival
Traditional folklore
Sweep the dust
The twelfth lunar month twenty-four, dust and sweep the house "," LvShiChunQiu ", according to the records, there is the Spring Festival Chinese dust custom in the era of Yao and shun. According to the folk saying: homophonic because of "dust" and "Chen" spring sweep dust "except chenbu meaning, its purpose is to make all the poortransportation bad luck were all swept out. Every Spring Festival, every family will clean up the environment, cleaning tools, washable bedding, curtains, sweep the courtyard six Lu, dusting grime cobweb, dredging channel ditch.

There is a happy atmosphere filled with joy and joy for the new spring.

Staying-up late on new year's Eve
Stay up for second days on New Year's Eve

Pay New Year's call
Go to every elders, relatives at home.

Post new year's scrolls
The custom of sticking to the spring festival couplet began about one thousand years ago in the post Shu period, which has been proved by history. Also treats the Spring Festival couplets and spring stickers, antithetical couplet, subsidiary, Taofu etc, it neatly, dual, concise, delicate words describe background, to express good wishes, is a unique literary form China. Every Spring Festival, whether the city or the countryside, every household should select a big red spring festival couplet on the door, to increase the festival atmosphere for the festival. This custom originated from the Song Dynasty, became popular in the Ming Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, the ideological and artistic Scrolls have been greatly improved, the origin of Liang Zhangju writing couplets monograph "a threshold on the couplet" Liancong words and characteristics of various works are discussed. The more variety of new year, according to the use of premises, can be divided into the door of heart, box, Hengpi, chuntiao, Doufang etc.. "The door" affixed to the door at the top center position; "box to" stick around two posts; "Hengpi" affixed to the door of the crossbar of Mei; "spring" according to different contents, stick to the corresponding place; "catty" is also called "door leaf", as Affirmative diamond many stickers in the furniture, in the screen.

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