The Spring Festival is a traditional festival of our Chinese nation, and it is the most important festival for people. It represents reunion, happiness and peace. People will pay a lot of attention to the Spring Festival, and also form different customs and habits in different places. Next, I will introduce the dietary customs in my hometown. On the Spring Festival, people will wake up early. Before speaking, they will definitely take out the cakes placed under their pillows on New Year's Eve and have a bite or two. We call them "open cakes".
Thin cakes are soft and sweet when eaten in your mouth, which makes people want to eat more. If they pop out of your mouth, they must be sweet. "Gao" and "Gao" are homonyms, and children eat open cakes, which indicates that they will grow taller and get higher grades in the New Year. Adults eat it, and in the New Year, they must have "high fortune and high fortune"; Old people eat it and hope to "live a long life" in the coming year.
Chinese New Year refers to the "New Year Festival", which is now called the "Spring Festival". The main contents of New Year's greeting are to get rid of the old, worship the ancestors, exorcise evil spirits, and pray for the New Year. The forms are colorful, lively and festive, and the flavor of the year is rich, which embodies the traditional cultural essence of Chinese civilization.
According to the old custom, from the end of December 23rd/24th, the day of offering sacrifices to the stove (dust-sweeping day) to the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first month or the 19th day of the first month, the nearly one-month period is called "Chinese New Year", which is now called "Spring Festival period". If we start from the preparation of "new year's goods", we will enter the busy year from December 15 th at the end of the year.
Headed by the Hundred Festival, the Spring Festival is the most solemn traditional festival of the Chinese nation. It not only embodies the Chinese nation's ideological beliefs, ideals and aspirations, life, entertainment and cultural psychology, but also shows the carnival activities of praying for blessings, fighting disasters, eating and entertainment. During the Spring Festival, various New Year celebrations are held all over the country. Due to different regional cultures, there are differences in customs content or details, which have strong regional characteristics.