The custom of Lu Fengren

1. Buying New Year's Goods

As soon as the twelfth lunar month comes, all the downtown areas are crowded with people who buy new year's goods, but all kinds of things have also gone up a lot, so businessmen take the opportunity to make a good business, so there is a saying that "the soil and water in the twelfth lunar month are three points more expensive".

2. Sticking Spring Festival couplets

Sticking Spring Festival couplets expresses a good wish of the working people in China to ward off evil spirits and disasters, and to welcome good fortune. It is said that this custom originated in the Song Dynasty and became popular in the Ming Dynasty.

3. New Year's Eve

China people's New Year's Eve is a reunion dinner for their families, and it is the most abundant and important dinner at the end of the year.

4. Keeping the Year

On New Year's Eve, the whole family get together, eat New Year's Eve, light candles or oil lamps, sit around the stove and chat, and keep vigil all night, which symbolizes driving away all evil diseases and epidemics.

5. Lucky money

In ancient times, there was a fierce beast called Nian, which would come out every 365 days to harm people, animals and crops. Children are afraid, while adults use firecrackers to drive away Nian, and comfort children with food, which is called "suppressing shock".

As time went on, it evolved into money instead of food, and in the Song Dynasty, there was a "scare money". According to historical records, Wang Shaozi went south, was carried away by the bad guys, and exclaimed on the way, only to be saved by the imperial car, and Song Shenzong gave him the "gold rhinoceros money for the surprise". Later, it developed into a "lucky money".