What are the Spring Festival customs in Hangzhou?

1. Sacrificing to the Kitchen God is a widely spread and influential custom among Chinese people. Legend has it that on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, the Kitchen God will ascend to heaven and report the good and evil of this family for a year to the Jade Emperor. According to Kitchen God's report, the Jade Emperor will give the family the good and bad fortune they deserve in the new year to Kitchen God.

Second, posting Spring Festival couplets, commonly known as "door-to-door" or "spring post", is a kind of couplets. Because it is posted during the Spring Festival, it is called Spring Festival couplets. One source of Spring Festival couplets is Fu Tao. At first, people carved figures out of mahogany and hung them by the door to ward off evil spirits. Later, they painted door gods on mahogany.

In China, people often use the word "Fu" to express their yearning and pursuit for auspiciousness, good luck and happiness. Whenever we bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new year, every household should put the word "Fu" on the door, which means that we are blessed to enter the house.

The history of beginning of spring:

In the early era of image-watching, with "bucket handle returning to Yin" as the beginning of the year and "bucket handle returning to Yin" as the spring return, everything was renewed, which meant that everything began and everything was reborn, and a new cycle was opened.

In the traditional farming society, beginning of spring, the first year of the year, is of great significance, and a large number of festivals and customs related to it have been derived. In the historical development, although the calendar is different and the date of the first festival is different, its festival framework and many folk customs have been passed down.

In modern times, people set the Spring Festival on the first day of the first lunar month, but generally it doesn't end until at least the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. The Spring Festival is a folk festival that combines offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors, praying for evil spirits, family reunion, celebration, entertainment and food.