The Spring Festival refers to the traditional lunar New Year in the cultural circle of Chinese characters, commonly known as "Nian festival", the traditional name is New Year, New Year, New Year, but verbally also known as the year, celebrate the New Year, New Year, is the most solemn traditional festival of the Chinese nation.During the Spring Festival, a variety of New Year activities are held all over the country. There are differences in custom content or details due to different regional cultures.

The origin of the Spring Festival

There are many theories about the origin of the Spring Festival, among which there are several representative theories, such as the Spring Festival originated from wax offerings, witchcraft rituals, ghost festivals, etc., but it is generally accepted that the Spring Festival arose in the period of Yu Shun.

One day in 2000 BC, Shun, the son of Heaven, led his subordinates to worship heaven and earth. Since then, people regard this day as the beginning of the New Year. It is said that this is the origin of the Lunar New Year, later called the Spring Festival.

Custom activities of Spring Festival

The Spring Festival has a long history. In the process of inheritance and development, some fixed customs have been formed, many of which are still passed on from generation to generation, such as buying New Year goods, sweeping the dust, pasting couplets, eating New Year's Eve dinner, keeping the year, worshipping the year, calling on the New Year, dragon and lion dancing, worshipping gods and ancestors, praying for good luck and fighting disasters, swimming gods, riding boats, temple fairs, swimming gongs and drums, vernier flags, drinking wine and appreciating lanterns. Traditional festival ceremonies and related custom activities are important elements of the festival, carrying the rich and colorful festival culture.

Wipe out the old and usher in the new 

The last day of the "year" is called "New Year's Eve", and that night is called "New Year's Eve".  It is connected with the end of the New Year, that is, "get close to late, poor month", is the eve of the New Year, is the important time junction point.  "New Year's Eve" is the meaning of the night of the New Year, also known as the eve, the New Year's Eve, the night, when the last night of the year.  During this period to remove the old and the new as the theme of the activity, since ancient times there have been stickers Nian red, ancestor worship, reunion dinner, Shousui and other customs, lasting.

Worship the gods and the ancestors

Ancestor worship on New Year's Eve is one of the important customs of the New Year. The Chinese nation has a tradition of being careful in the end of the year since ancient times. On New Year's Eve, people will put on dishes, pour wine and hold a grand sacrificial ceremony to express their memory for their ancestors and pray for the protection of their ancestors. This tradition has been passed down from generation to generation. Ancestor worship not only covers all the ancient traditional festivals in China, but also the eternal theme of Chinese folk festivals.

The forms of ancestor worship are different. Some go to the ancestral hall to worship ancestors, while most of the ancestral tablets are placed in the main hall in turn at home to display offerings, and then the worshippers worship according to the order of the elder and the younger. Ancestor worship, mostly do fish bowl dishes, filled with a high bowl, quite a bell meaning.

Pasted Red Posters

Pasted Spring couplets, door gods, New Year pictures, Fu characters, horizontal sections, window decorations, etc. collectively, because these are red festive elements pasted during the Chinese New Year, so collectively known as "stick New Year red". Sticking New Year red is a traditional Chinese New Year custom, it reflects the customs and beliefs of the people, add festive atmosphere, and put people on the New Year new life of good expectations.Every Spring Festival, whether urban or rural, every family will choose a red spring couplet pasted on the door, for the festival to increase the festive atmosphere;New Year pictures are also very common in urban and rural areas. The thick black and heavy color New Year pictures add a lot of prosperous and happy atmosphere to thousands of families. These have the folk function of praying for blessings and decorating homes. New Year pictures are an ancient folk art in China;During the Spring Festival, people in many areas like to paste various paper-cuts on their windows: paper-cuts. Window cut not only sets off the festive atmosphere, but also brings people the enjoyment of beauty, integrating decoration, appreciation and practicality.

New Year Lucky Money

Lucky money, one of the customs of Spring Festival. New Year's money is sent by the elders to the younger generation, after the New Year's dinner elders will be prepared in advance New Year's money sent to the younger generation, it is said that New Year's money can suppress evil, the younger generation get New Year's money can spend one year in peace; Some parents put their children under their pillows at night when they are asleep. Giving New Year's money reflects the elders' concern for the younger generation and sincere wishes. New Year's money in folk culture meaning to ward off evil spirits, bless peace. The original purpose of lucky money is to suppress evil and exorcise evil spirits, because people believe that children are easy to be harmed by evil spirits, so they use lucky money to suppress evil spirits.

New Year's Eve dinner

Chinese New Year's Eve Dinner is a family reunion dinner, which is the biggest and most important dinner at the end of the year.The New Year's Eve dinner is one of the customs of the New Year Festival. It is also called the New Year's Dinner, the Reunion dinner, the reunion dinner, etc. It refers to the family dinner at the end of the New Year's Eve. New Year's Eve dinner originated from the ancient year-end sacrifice ceremony, worship gods and ancestors after a reunion dinner. The Reunion dinner is the centrepiece of the year before, not only rich and colorful, but also pay attention to the meaning of the first. Before eating the Reunion dinner, worship the gods and ancestors, and eat after the worship ceremony.

Stay up Late or All Night on New Year's Eve

Shou Sui, also known as according to depletion, Shou Sui fire, according to the year, its long history, is one of the Chinese folk annual custom activities. New Year's Eve night Shousui, folk activities mainly for the point of fire, Shousui fire. Every room should be lit up all night to welcome the New Year. On New Year's Eve, the candle burning all night, called "according to the depletion", it is said that after the age of so, will make the next year home wealth enrichment. In ancient times, the customs of the north and the south are different, and some local customs mainly for the night, that is, overnight vigil.In some places on the New Year's Eve, the whole family gets together, eats the New Year's dinner, lights candles or oil lamps, sits around the stove chatting, vigil all night, symbolizing all evil plague and disease according to run away, looking forward to the New Year good luck.

New Year's Visit

New Year's visit is a traditional Chinese folk custom, the New Year to relatives and friends home and neighbors there to congratulate the New Year, called Bainian. New Year greetings are a way for people to say goodbye to the old year and welcome the New Year and express good wishes to each other. The second and third day began to walk relatives to see friends, each other's New Year, congratulations, say some congratulations, congratulations, happy New Year and so on. The meaning of happy New Year is to visit and contact feelings between relatives and friends, to congratulate each other on the New Year, to express the feelings of relatives and good wishes for the New Year life.

Chinese New Year is a form of traditional national culture, which is the historical inheritance of the farming culture of the mother river Yellow River. At the beginning of the New Year is after a year's hard work, the grain has been returned to the warehouse, in order to celebrate the harvest, and pray for the next year to be able to harvest grain, to achieve a larger harvest, on the day at the end of the year, worship the ancestors to the God, set off fireworks, to avoid bad luck, celebrate the harvest, post spring couplets of peach symbols, hope that the New Year can be good weather, all the best. In addition, the Spring Festival just happens to be the cold farming season, in addition to the family reunion, everyone can also visit relatives and friends, mutual communication, can not only leisure entertainment, but also can harmonize the family. Therefore, the Chinese New Year in traditional culture is a kind of reverence and sustenance for the ancient people's belief in nature and gods, but also a powerful symbol and direct reflection of the courageous unity of the Chinese nation, strengthening family affection, national cohesion and the power of hope.

The reason why Chinese people celebrate the Spring Festival is to carry on the traditional customs and culture of the Chinese civilization for thousands of years. It can be said that the Spring Festival is a need for the unity of the Chinese nation and the development of spiritual and cultural activities. It is also a need for people to pursue a better life in the future, and it fully reflects the need for the Chinese nation to advocate a better civilization and progress.

Finally, I wish all of you a happy New Year, good luck, in the New Year, peace and health, all the best!

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