The Spring Festival is a traditional Chinese festival and also the most important one of the whole year. Through the evolvement of thousands of years, a series of customs are spreading far and wide.
扫尘 Sweeping the Dust
      “Dust” is homophonic with “chen”（尘）in Chinese, which means old and past.
      In this way, “sweeping the dust” before the Spring Festival means a
      thorough cleaning of houses to sweep away bad luck in the past year. This
      custom shows a good wish of putting away old things to welcome a new life.
      In a word, just before the Spring Festival comes, every household will
      give a thorough cleaning to bid farewell to the old year and usher in the
      new.
贴春联 Pasting Spring Couplets
      “The Spring Couplet”, also called “couplet” and “a pair of antithetical
      phrases”, is a special form of literature in China. The Spring Couplet is
      composed of two antithetical sentences on both sides of the door and a
      horizontal scroll bearing an inscription, usually an auspicious phrase,
      above the gate. The sentence pasting on the right side of the door is
      called the first line of the couplet and the one on the left the second
      line. On the eve of the Spring Festival, every household will paste on
      doors a spring couplet written on red paper to give a happy and prosperous
      atmosphere of the Festival. In the past, the Chinese usually wrote their
      own spring couplet with a brush or asked others to do for them, while
      nowadays, it is common for people to buy the printed spring couplet in the
      market.
贴窗花和“福”字 Pasting Paper-cuts and “Up-sided Fu”
      Paper-cuts, usually with auspicious patterns, give a happy and prosperous
      atmosphere of the Festival and express the good wishes of Chinese people
      looking forward to a good life. In addition to pasting paper-cuts on
      windows, it is common for Chinese to paste the character “fu（福）”, big and
      small, on walls, doors and doorposts around the houses. “Fu（福）” shows
      people’s yearning toward a good life. Some people even invert the
      character “fu（福）” to signify that blessing has arrived because “inverted”
      is a homonym for “arrive” in Chinese. Now many kinds of paper-cuts and
      “fu（福）” can be seen in the market before the Festival.
守岁 Staying Up Late on New Year's Eve
      The tradition of staying up late to see New Year in originated from an
      interesting folk tale. In ancient China there lived a monster named Year,
      who was very ferocious. Year always went out from its burrow on New Year’s
      Eve to devour people. Therefore, on every New Year’s Eve, every household
      would have supper together. After dinner, no one dared go to sleep and all
      the family members would sit together, chatting and emboldening each
      other. Gradually the habit of staying up late on New Year’s Eve is formed.
      Thus in China, “celebrating the Spring Festival” is also called “passing
      over the year (guo nian)”. However, now there are less and less people in
      cities who will stay up late to see New Year in.
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贴年画 Pasting New Year Prints
      The custom of pasting New Year Prints originated from the tradition of
      placing Door Gods on the external doors of houses. With the creation of
      board carvings, New Year paintings cover a wide range of subjects. The
      most famous ones are Door Gods, Surplus Year after Year, Three Gods of
      Blessing, Salary and Longevity, An Abundant Harvest of Crops, Thriving
      Domestic Animals and Celebrating Spring. Four producing areas of New Year
      Print are Tɑohuɑwu of Suzhou, Yɑngliuqing of Tianjin, Wuqiɑng of Hebei and
      Weifang of Shangdong. Now the tradition of pasting New Year paintings is
      still kept in rural China, while it is seldom followed in cities.
  吃饺子 Having Jiaozi
      On New Year’s Eve, the whole family will sit together to make jiaozi and
      celebrate the Spring Festival. The shape of jiaozi is like gold ingot from
      ancient China. So people eat them and wish for money and treasure. The
      tradition of having jiaozi is very important during the Spring Festival.

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