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What is the custom culture of New Year's Eve?

New Year's Eve is one of the important traditional festivals in China, with rich and colorful customs and culture. The following is an introduction to the custom of New Year's Eve, with related pictures.

1. New Year's Eve: On New Year's Eve, families will get together for a New Year's Eve dinner, which is a time for reunion. The table is full of all kinds of delicious food, which symbolizes the richness and happiness of life in the coming year.

2. Post Spring Festival couplets: Before and after New Year's Eve, people will post Spring Festival couplets on their doors, with auspicious couplets written on them, praying for peace and good luck in the coming year.

3. Shounian: On New Year's Eve, families will keep vigil together and wait for the arrival of the New Year. People will set off firecrackers, watch the Spring Festival Gala and play cards to ward off evil spirits and welcome the New Year.

4. Happy New Year: On the first day of the new year, people will pay New Year greetings to each other, and the elders will give lucky money to the younger generation, wishing them a happy, healthy and safe New Year.

5. Setting off firecrackers: Setting off firecrackers is to ward off evil spirits and avoid disasters and welcome the arrival of the New Year. Firecrackers symbolize driving away all ominous and evil forces.

6. ancestor worship: on new year's eve, people will worship their ancestors, thank them for their cultivation and blessing, and pray for their ancestors to bless the whole family with peace and happiness in the spirit of heaven.

The above is an introduction to the custom of New Year's Eve. Through these customs, people are eager for the New Year to bring good luck and happiness, and at the same time, they also show the traditional culture of the Chinese nation.