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 ShouSui
New Year's eve ShouSui is the most important one in the common ShouSui, has a long history. The earliest recorded in the western zhou place of the customs on New Year's eve, each: "feed, and presented as age", Especially to invite, called "" don't, His praise, complete, drink together; called "points" Everybody all morning, sleepless, called yue "shou sui".
"Night, he even age 12 points double, New Year's eve, the family reunion together, eat meal, candles, sitting beside lamp or chat, wait for furnace of special moments, all-night vigil, symbolizing the disease according to run all evil blast away, and looking forward to the New Year auspicious blessings. This custom has prevailed, to the tang dynasty, emperor taizong li shi-mm writing "shou sui" poem: "cold, warm breeze into the strong-minded.it quit." Until today, people still used in the New Year's eve ShouSui orientation.
ShouSui in two meanings: ShouSui seniors ", "old hymns of time; have cherished Young man, is to extend their parents ShouSui life. Since the han dynasty, the New Year is the time alternating midnight.

 Newyearpicture (year) is a Chinese paintings. The ancient "painting" the keeper of qing dynasty, formally known as pictures, China is a kind of special painting style, is China's rural people popular art form. Mostly used in New Year, zhang, containing new environmental adornment blessing, auspicious festive. Traditional folk pictures multi-purpose wood watermarking. Main origin have TaoHuaWu, suzhou, tianjin new and shandong weifang, Shanghai has "was" pictures, other and sichuan province, fujian province, shanxi, hebei and zhejiang provinces. Because of the old year picture size and how many different appellation processing. The big name ", "a paper pointed palace called" three three open only ". Processing and meticulous called "painting palace" and "a picture 3 pointed to". The color with gold painted called "golden palace" and "JinSanCai pointed. The product before June called "green" seven or eight months later, the product is called "autumn" version.
Traditional paintings by woodcut watermark, pursue the style and lively cairn atmosphere, thus painting line is pure, bright colours. Content have flower, fat boy, golden, ChunNiu, myths and legends and historical stories, people wish to harvest the mood and happy life, has the strong ethnic characteristics and agrestic breath.
The four famous Chinese paintings "township, mianzhu New Year posters:" is TaoHuaWu suzhou, tianjin and shandong weifang green willows. These places are produced new rural people's favorite.
The appellation of "all pictures, Beijing is called" picture "and" wei, "suzhou called" painting ", zhejiang, fujian, "" paper flowers" rune ", "sichuan DouFang"... Vary. Today, all pictures of conventional gradually to referred to as the "pictures".
Chinese New Year is a blessing, folk crafts bearing is a kind of the broad masses of the people for a better future for the folk art forms. Historically, a variety of folk paintings to address: song called "paper", "picture" Ming dynasty, the qing dynasty ", "qing miniature daoguang years, scholars until LiGuangTing wrote:" after Saul, and gave ZhiZi pictures, stick the ear. "play This year.
Newyearpicture picture line is pure, bright colours, atmosphere, the NiuTu spring, graph, fine grain, baby, drama, lanterns medium-grade fat doll, etc, and have with fairy tales, history, as the theme of the drama. A picture of a door, mingled with the post "divine shield curtilage" concept, such as "tu yu lei", "TianGuan", "QinQiongJing DE" etc, the genre (or form); painting (alone) four BingTiao outside and single drive alone and any of etc. The song has recorded on posters, see a picture of the song of engraving wood engraving new-year paintings are in the sui dynasty and the advance of tilt. In the middle of qing dynasty, especially saw. After the founding of traditional paintings, in Chu fresh and rich and colorful, more people love.
Posters, China folk art is the art of Chinese society, but also the history, life, beliefs and customs. Whenever the lunar New Year after year buy two posted in the gate, and almost every family, the door is dining to put up various colorful, symbol propitious, the lunar New Year paintings of riches and honour, the joy of atmosphere in the year plays a role. Generally, thick is always likes to hang in the dining LaoShouXing, purple, so, and etc. With the plum flower to such, chrysanthemum also welcomed the nature.
For thousands of years, the year is not only a colorful festival ornament, or cultural moral education, aesthetic circulation and spread of belief, carriers and tools, Also is a kind of viewing the public reading literacy, For the current theme of the pictures, or a popular media people. This content enough for an encyclopedia of folk art, however, a complete Chinese folk spirit.
Newyearpicture is a regional culture, which can be found in the dictionary of the regional cultural characteristic each character. These personality factors, not only in subject matter, each year from the origin of the custom colors, styles, and different edition lines, can one identify. By the year all may know the Chinese folk.

 Firecrackers,
China folk have opened the door. "" firecrackers, In the New Year is coming, households door first thing with fireworks, the act of riddance went PaPa beep firecracker orientation. Fireworks are Chinese products, also called "BaoZhang", "the firecracker went off" and "off". Its origin, since the early history of more than 2,000 years. Put the rockets can create a festive lively atmosphere, the festival is a kind of entertainment, can bring joy and giovanni cobolli gigli. With the passage of time, firecracker extensively, and also became more and more wide variety, every major festivals and happy marriage celebration, and build, and etc, firecrackers, good luck to celebrate. Now, hunan, guangdong foshan and eastern liuyang, jiangxi, zhejiang wenzhou yichun and pingxiang area such as the famous Chinese township of firecrackers, production, high quality and firecrackers, not only sell well in the whole country, but also exported to the world.

 Spring Festival is the most important festival in China .
 
It’s to celebrate the lunar calendar ‘s new year .
 
In the evening before the Spring Festival ,families get together and have a big meal .
 In many places people like to set off firecrackers .

Dumplings are the most traditional food .

Children like the festival very much ,because they can have delicious food and wear new clothes .
They can also get some money from their parents. 

This money is given to children for good luck .

People put New Year scrolls on the wall for good fortune .
The Spring Festival lasts about 15 days long . 

People visit relatives and friends with the words “Have all your wishes ”. 

People enjoy the Spring Festival ,during this time they can have a good rest . 

(二)Probably more food is consumed during the New Year celebrations than any other time of the year. 

Vast amounts of traditional food is prepared for family and friends, as well as those close to us who have died. 

On New Year's Day, the Chinese family will eat a vegetarian dish called jai.
Although the various ingredients in jai are root vegetables or fibrous vegetables, many people attribute various superstitious aspects to them. 

Other foods include a whole fish, to represent togetherness and abundance, and a chicken for prosperity. 

The chicken must be presented with a head, tail and feet to symbolize completeness. Noodles should be uncut, as they represent long life.

In south China, the favorite and most typical dishes were nian gao, sweet steamed glutinous rice pudding and zong zi (glutinous rice wrapped up in reed  leaves), another popular delicacy.
In the north, steamed-wheat bread (man tou) and small meat dumplings were the preferred food.
The tremendous amount of food prepared at this time was meant to symbolize abundance and wealth for the household