Hanging New Year pictures during the Spring Festival is also very common in urban and rural areas. Thick black and colorful New Year pictures add a lot of prosperity and festive atmosphere to thousands of families. New Year pictures are an ancient folk art in China, which reflects people's simple customs and beliefs and places their hopes on the future. New Year pictures, like Spring Festival couplets, originated from "door gods".

2. Happy New Year:

On the first day of New Year's greetings, people must be elders or neighbors, and generally don't go far away to pay New Year's greetings. After New Year's Eve, people open the door on the first morning and congratulate each other "Happy New Year! Peace and good luck ... ". The younger generation pays New Year greetings to the elders, and the elders give lucky money to ward off evil spirits.

3, pick up the god of wealth:

On the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, it is spring in Niu Geng. Five roads lead to the god of wealth, east and west, north and south, and wealth is led by five roads.

The fifth day, also called "Breaking the Fifth Day", is a big day for businessmen. This day is to pray for a bumper year and meet the god of wealth. "The store will open its doors and set off firecrackers on this day."

On the fifth day of the first month, according to folk customs, it is the birthday of the five-way god of wealth. Therefore, it is natural to welcome the God of Wealth into the house and wish his family good fortune in the new year. It is a day to send away the "poor", so there is a saying of "sending the poor out of the house". At the same time, this day is also commonly known as "breaking five", which means that many taboos in the past few days are over.

4. Visit the temple fair:

Visiting temple fairs is the Spring Festival complex of most people in China, and it is also an indispensable custom. The temple fair in the Spring Festival was originally a folk religious ceremony. At temple fairs, monks and Taoists usually hold "ceremonies" or "Dojo" to offer sacrifices to gods and buddhas. People must also go on pilgrimage, make wishes, make wishes and seek blessings. During the temple fair, there were vendors selling and folk art performances.

5. Dragon dance

Dragon dance, also known as "playing with dragon lanterns" and "dragon dance", is one of the traditional dance forms of Han nationality. Every festival, there is a custom of dragon dancing everywhere.

6, lion dance

Lion dance, also known as "lion beating" and "lion dancing", is a traditional dance form in China. Like dragon dancing, it is a popular folk sports activity. They will also dance lions during the Spring Festival or celebrations.

Why do people especially like lion dancing during the Spring Festival? According to legend, in the early Ming Dynasty, a monster appeared in Foshan, Guangdong. At the beginning of the new year, it came out to destroy crops and hurt people and animals, and the people complained bitterly. Later, it was suggested to scare the monster with lion dance, and it really worked. The monster escaped. Locals believe that lions have the power to exorcise evil spirits and have auspicious omen, so they beat gongs and drums every Spring Festival and go door-to-door to dance lions to celebrate the New Year, so as to eliminate disasters and predict good luck.