Spring Festival is an ancient festival in China, and it is also the most important festival in a year. How to celebrate this festival has formed some relatively fixed customs and habits in thousands of years of historical development, and many of them have been passed down to this day.

lucky money

When visiting the New Year during the Spring Festival, the elders should distribute the lucky money prepared in advance to the younger generation. It is said that lucky money can kill evil spirits, because "old" and "special" are homophonic, and the younger generation can spend the first year safely when they get lucky money. There are two kinds of lucky money, one is to make the shape of Jackie Chan with colored rope and put it at the foot of the bed; The other is the most common, that is, parents wrap the money distributed to their children in red paper. The lucky money can be given to the younger generation in public after the New Year, or it can be secretly placed under the child's pillow while the child is asleep on New Year's Eve.

Folk believe that giving children lucky money can make them turn evil into good when they are hurt in a year. Lucky money is tied to children's hearts, and children's lucky money is mainly used to buy firecrackers, toys and candy and other things needed for festivals.

At present, the custom of elders giving lucky money to younger generations is still prevalent, and the lucky money for New Year's Eve dinner ranges from dozens to hundreds. Most of these lucky money are used by children to buy books and school supplies, and the new fashion has given new content to the lucky money.