Beijing folk custom: Exchange of visits between Chinese New Year
Acquaintance meet the first sentence: you have a good New Year!
Don't ask, this is Beijing people, this is the Spring Festival.
In the form of a visit to each other, there are four types of mutual visits:
One is to visit relatives.
The first must come to father-in-law, must bring a gift.
After entering the door, the first of the Buddha, the ancestor, the memorial, the first three, and then to the elders on their knees.
You can stay for dinner and play.
The second is a courtesy call.
As to colleagues, friends, happy New Year, the room door, only to the Buddha three proffering flaming, such as system with the host peers are simply lost a yi, such as older than himself, still should take the initiative to worship, the master should do down the seat to assist, even says that the free gift show humility.
This situation is generally not suitable for long sitting.
After the host has been worshiped, it should be returned.
The third is the visit of gratitude.
Anyone who has been in a bad situation for a year (such as a lawyer, doctor, etc.) should buy some presents and pay a visit to the machine.
Four is a visit with a series of doors.
For neighbors neighborhood, not much close contact, meet but can be on good terms, in the year of jubilee, just to the theater, to meet each other a fuels to say: "congratulations to get rich", "YiShun shun", take a seat in the house, too little etiquette.
But from the beginning of the first month to the fifth day, most families do not receive women.
Only for men to visit the New Year, women have to wait until the sixth day of the first month to visit, so the time limit can be extended to the 15th day of the first lunar month.
If there is no such thing as the ritual, then it will be done in the future.
Since the republic of China, friends and relatives have exchanged greetings with each other, the younger generation has paid a visit to the elders, the mutual visits of colleagues, and the celebration of the New Year in the form of reunion, banquet, party, tea party and so on.