5. New Year's stepping activity: On Chinese New Year's Eve, Chinese people also hold a stepping activity, that is, gluing sesame stalks in the courtyard into the shape of ingots rolled with yellow paper and collecting them into a bundle, which is called a "cornucopia".

Then, the whole family crushes it with their feet to "break" and harmonize "year", and borrows the auspicious meaning of sesame blossoming festival to wish the family prosperity and express blessings and prayers for the new year.

6. Keeping the New Year: The Chinese New Year's Eve vigil is also a long-standing custom, as early as the Western Jin Dynasty's "Records of the Wind and Soil" is clearly recorded: "Sleepless all night, waiting for the dawn to keep the year." ”

Legend has it that the New Year is kept to prevent the attack of a unicorn, which is most afraid of fire, red and sound.

Therefore, on Chinese New Year's Eve, people wear red clothes, light red lights, paste red paper, set off fireworks, burn incense and pray, and stay up all night, which is why there is a custom of "keeping the New Year".

"Ji Sheng in the Years of Dijing" recorded: "Burn silver candles high, drink pine mash, sit for Dadan, and the name is called Shou Sui, and the year is extended by Zhao." ”

Many places also call Chinese New Year's Eve "auspicious night".

On this night, both adults and children should speak auspicious words, and do not say unpleasant words, swear words and disrespectful words, otherwise they will have bad luck for the year.

Therefore, joy, harmony, and reunion are the biggest themes of Chinese New Year's Eve.

？ 7. Turn on the lights to sleep: When you go to bed on Chinese New Year's Eve, you can't turn off the lights, and you can only turn off the lights until the first day of the new year.

Throughout the night of Chinese New Year's Eve, the lights are generally not turned off at home, especially in the house where the ancestors are fed.

8. Do not break utensils: Chinese New Year's Eve also has the custom of taboo breaking utensils.

Folks believe that if the dishes and cups are broken on this day, it means that there will be "bad luck" in the new year.

Sometimes, if a cup or plate is accidentally broken on this day, the elders will quickly wrap it in red paper and recite auspicious words such as "Sui Sui Ping" to remedy it.

Folks believe that a possible disaster can be resolved by placing the pieces wrapped in red paper on the god case for a few days.

Therefore, on Chinese New Year's Eve, in order to win a good fortune, people will be cautious in their words and deeds in order to achieve an auspicious year.

9. Paste Spring Festival couplets: Spring Festival couplets, also called "door pairs", "spring stickers", "couplets", "pairs", belong to a kind of couplets,

It is a unique form of literature. This is the world's earliest Spring Festival couplet, "the beginning of the three yangs, the beginning of the four prefaces" recorded in the Dunhuang testament unearthed in the Mogao Grottoes, the writer is Liu Qiuzi of the Tang Dynasty, made in the eleventh year of the Kaiyuan Dynasty.

The folk custom of sticking Spring Festival couplets for the common people began to prevail in the Ming Dynasty, and the birthplace of the trend was Nanjing.

At present, the people in the Jiangnan area pay attention to posting Spring Festival couplets on the morning of the Chinese New Year's Eve.

10. Paste New Year's paintings: New Year's paintings, like Spring Festival couplets, originated from the "door god".

With the rise of engraving printing, the content of New Year's paintings is not limited to the door god and the like, and gradually invites the God of Wealth to the home.

In addition, in some New Year's painting workshops, colorful New Year's paintings such as "Three Stars of Fu Lu Shou", "Heavenly Official Blessing", "Harvest of Five Grains", "Prosperity of Six Animals", and "Blessing of Spring" were produced to meet people's good wishes for the New Year.

11. Window flowers: In the folk, people also like to paste various paper-cuts on the windows - window flowers.

Window grilles not only set off the festive atmosphere, but also set decoration, appreciation and practicality.

Paper-cutting is a very popular folk art in our country, and it has been loved by people for thousands of years, because it is mostly pasted on the window, so it is also called "window flower".

With its unique generalization and exaggeration, the window flowers vividly express the auspicious mascots and good wishes, and decorate the festival with prosperity and magnificence.

12. Sticking blessing words: Sticking blessing characters during the Spring Festival is a long-standing custom of Chinese folk.

The Spring Festival sticks the word "Fu", which entrusts people's yearning for a happy life and wishes for a better future.

There is no unified standard for how to paste the word "Fu".

13, zero o'clock must go home: the reunion Chinese New Year's Eve dinner is finished in a burst of laughter,

The family will sit around the TV and watch the Spring Festival Gala,

Or go to a relative's house to chat, but you have to get home before midnight.

At midnight, the whole family has to stay at home to "keep the New Year", and when the hands of the clock pass 12 o'clock, people will set off firecrackers that have been prepared to celebrate the arrival of the new year.

14. Lighting firecrackers: Chinese folk have a saying of "opening the door and firecrackers".

That is, when the new year comes, the first thing every household does when they open the door is to set off firecrackers, and the sound of beeping firecrackers will remove the old and welcome the new.

Its origins are very early, with a history of more than 2,000 years.

Firecrackers can create a festive and lively atmosphere, and it is a kind of entertainment for the festival, which can bring joy and good luck to people.

The old man was shocked, he didn't see it, Lu Xiaodonkey, this kid is so unreliable, he actually knows so much about Chinese New Year's Eve, and he is stunned when he listens to it.

"Little donkey, yes!" The old man praised from the bottom of his heart, and now he was even more satisfied with Lu Xiaodonkey.

In this day and age, there are too many young people who worship foreign cultures, and it is a bit bad to want to learn about foreign cultures, but turn around and despise the traditional culture of your own nation for thousands of years.

There are not many people like Lu Xiaodon who have such a deep understanding of their traditional culture.

"Concession, hehe." Lu Xiaodonkey silently put the phone in his pocket.

Xiao Baixing listened with relish, smacked her fingers and asked Lu Xiaodonkey if the Nian Beast would come tonight, she was afraid that the Nian Beast would rob her of her snacks to eat.

“...”

"Brother will accompany you until twelve o'clock today, and the Nian Beast will leave."

"Hmm!" Little Shirahoshi nodded heavily, looking like he was vowing to defend his snacks.

The Chinese New Year's Eve dinner in the evening was the main event, and after eating lunch and resting for a while, the mother took Huahua and Xiaoluo to work again.

Except for the steamed mandarin fish, which means that there is more than enough every year, the other dishes have been eaten and all have to be remade.

If this had been placed in the past, when the old mother and Lu Xiaodonkey were at home, they would definitely have eaten the leftovers at noon.

Xiao Baixing also made a fuss to help his godmother, but after he was busy, he was too busy.

Lu Xiaodonkey had no choice but to put down his mobile phone, take Xiao Baixing to make dumplings together, and find something for her to do, otherwise she would be embarrassed to just eat and not work.

and above, put it in the basin and woke up, Lu Xiaodonkey picked up the kitchen knife and crackled and chopped up the meat filling.

The meat filling of dumplings is exquisite, in the past, Lu Tisha said, to half a catty of fine meat, finely cut to make a cheek, not a little bit of fat on it.

Then you need half a pound of fat, finely cut it into a zi, and don't have a little lean meat on it.

If you want to make a good, you need to cut more and chop less, which means that you should cut it evenly, and waving the knife indiscriminately will affect the taste.

Obviously, Lu Xiaodonkey didn't have this technique, and he didn't pay so much attention to it, anyway, he got the meat filling.