Chinese New Year Customs

Watch the Spring Festival Gala

Spring Festival Gala, usually referred to as "Spring Festival Evening", is
China's Central Television in the last day of the evening to celebrate the
Lunar New Year held a variety of art show.




Firecrackers, paste couplet legend in ancient times, there is a monster called
"years", all year round in the deep sea, but every old and new, it
will come out bad tread crops, hurt people and animals. Once again, it went to
the village for all kinds of evil, was red clothes, lights, fire and loud voice
scared away. So people have mastered the "year" afraid of the sound,
afraid of red, afraid of the weakness of the fire. Every year to the end of the
year, people at the door to paste red, firecrackers, hanging red light, the
"year" scared to flee the sea. Over time will become the New Year's
customs.

Spring Festival Diet 1. Dumpling Dumpling is a long history of folk eating, welcomed
by the people, the people have "delicious but dumplings" proverb.
Every spring festival, dumplings become an indispensable food. 2. Lantern
Festival south called "dumpling", in Jiangsu, Shanghai and other
places, New Year's Day morning have eaten dumplings custom. 3. Laba porridge
"La eight" this day in the Chinese folk to eat Laba porridge customs.
The eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, all over China have drunk Laba
porridge customs. "Laba porridge" also known as "eight treasure
porridge" "five flavor porridge", not only fragrance sweet, and
can Changwei gas, raw fluid, and thus popular people eat. 4, rice cakes Chinese
New Year to eat rice cakes, meaning all yearends high. The types of rice cakes
are: the North has white cakes, yellow rice cakes; Jiangnan Shuimo rice cakes;
Southwest has waxy Baba; Taiwan has red tortoise cake. Rice cake with the north
and south of the flavor of the difference: the North rice cake steamed, fried
two kinds of rice in the South in addition to steaming, fried, there are still
fried, soup and other methods. 5. Spring rolls spring rolls also called spring
cake, spring to eat spring cake is an ancient Chinese customs.

New year's first year, people are early, no matter how many children, always
receive the gift of the red envelope of the relatives, the amount of Chinese New Year Red Envelopes is generally auspicious figures, meaning the adults of the children's good expectations. In addition to adults donated red envelopes to children, in most
of China's enterprises, the boss will give their employees to send Enterprise Red Envelopes, this red envelopes will generally be printed on the enterprise Logo and some auspicious patterns and text, on behalf of the boss of their own
Business and employee expectations.