According to our traditional customs, before and after the Spring Festival, people will have traditional customs such as paying New Year's greetings, pasting Spring Festival couplets, hanging New Year pictures, pasting window decorations, setting off firecrackers, sending red packets, eating dumplings, keeping vigil, hanging lanterns, kowtowing, and so on. The customs vary from place to place. Why do we stick couplets on the Spring Festival? In fact, there is an allusion. It is said that before the Five Dynasties, people did not paste Spring Festival couplets, but only peach charms [Details]

The lion is powerful in appearance, vigorous in movement and changeable in demeanor. People believe that the lion is a lucky animal, and lion dancing can bring good luck. Therefore, every Spring Festival or festival, people will pray for luck with the help of lion dancing amid the sound of gongs, drums and firecrackers. Lion dancing has also become an excellent folk art and traditional custom. Why do we dance lions during the Spring Festival? There are myths and legends in the folk [Details]

Setting off firecrackers means saying goodbye to the old and welcome the new, implying a beautiful yearning for the new year. It is said that in ancient times, there was a fierce monster called Nian, which was in the deep sea all the year round. But at the turn of the old and the new, it came out to trample crops, hurt people and animals, and the people complained bitterly. Once it ran to the village again to do evil and was scared away by the bright red clothes hanging at the door of a family [Details]