This custom has placed people's desire to break the old and create new ones and their prayers to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new. Whenever the Spring Festival comes, every household should clean the environment, clean all kinds of electrical appliances, remove and wash bedding curtains, sweep six yards, dust cobwebs and dredge culverts in open channels. Everywhere is filled with the joyful atmosphere of cleaning and welcoming the Spring Festival cleanly.

2. Post Spring Festival couplets

Spring Festival couplets are also called door couplets, spring stickers, couplets, couplets and peach symbols. They depict the background of the times and express good wishes with neat, dual, concise and delicate words, which are unique literary forms in China. Every Spring Festival, no matter in urban or rural areas, every household should choose a pair of red Spring Festival couplets and stick them on the door to add festive atmosphere to the festival.

This custom began in the Song Dynasty and was popular in the Ming Dynasty. By the Qing Dynasty, the ideological and artistic quality of Spring Festival couplets had been greatly improved. Liang Zhangju's monograph Poetry of Spring Festival couplets discusses the origin of couplets and the characteristics of various works.

3. stick grilles and the word "Fu" are pasted backwards.

In the folk, people also like to stick various paper-cuts on the windows-window grilles. Window grilles not only set off the festive atmosphere, but also integrate decoration, appreciation and practicality.

4. New Year pictures

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.

Step 5 Eat jiaozi.

Jiaozi must be eaten for the first meal in the New Year. Jiaozi's moral is "gold ingot", which makes you rich. Jiaozi, also known as the reunion dinner, symbolizes a happy family reunion. When wrapping jiaozi, you should wrap a coin with two jiaozi. Whoever wants to eat means he is lucky, and he will have good luck this year.

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Regional culture

Jiaozuo is the starting point of Shang Tang revolution; It is the frontier base of King Wu's cutting; It is the base camp of Guangxu Zhongxing in the later Han Dynasty. It is the source of "Zhengshi Feng Xuan" and the birthplace of Taiji culture with Feng Ba as its soul. It is the root of water conservancy culture and resort culture; It is the root of China's 46 surnames and Japanese three surnames: Sakamoto, Okura and Harada.

The place where Shennong sacrificed to heaven and tasted herbs and the remains of Sun Simiao, the king of medicine, show the origin of ancient agriculture and medicine. Many ceramic cultural relics and Dangyangyu ceramic sites have been unearthed, which shows that Huaichuan is the source of the developed ceramic culture.

Xia Zhengxiao, first promulgated by Dayu, is the root of China calendar, which originated from Tai Ji Chuan in Chenjiagou, Baji Boxing in Yueshan Temple and Ape Boxing in Elite Temple, proving that Huaichuan is the root of martial arts in China, the center of Taoism and the holy land of Buddhism.

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