Spring Festival is the beginning of the year, the Lunar New Year, the traditional "festival of the year". Traditional names include Spring Festival, New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, etc., which are also called "New Year's Eve" and "New Year's Eve" verbally.

The Spring Festival has a long history, which evolved from the sacrificial activities at the beginning of the year in ancient times. Its origin contains rich and profound humanistic and natural cultural connotations. According to the Chinese lunar calendar, the first day of the first month was called Yuanri, Yuanchen, Yuanzheng, Yuanshuo, New Year's Day, etc., commonly known as the first day of the first month. In the Republic of China, it was changed to the Gregorian calendar. The first day of the Gregorian calendar was called New Year's Day, and the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar was called the Spring Festival.

The Spring Festival is a day to get rid of the old and get rid of the new. Although it is scheduled on the first day of the first lunar month, the activities of the Spring Festival are not limited to the first day of the first lunar month. From the Lunar New Year's Day on the 23rd (or 24th) of the twelfth lunar month, people began to "be busy": sweeping houses, buying new year's goods, putting up Spring Festival couplets, washing their hair and bathing, etc. All these activities have the same theme, that is, "saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new". The main customs are:

1. New Year's Eve dinner

The annual New Year's Eve dinner is also called the reunion dinner. It is extremely important for China people. The whole family respects and loves each other, * * * reminisces about their family, and feels very happy sitting around the dining table.

Second, pasting Spring Festival couplets

Sticking Spring Festival couplets is also called pasting door couplets, spring couplets, couplets, peach symbols, etc. It depicts the background of the times and expresses good wishes with neat, dual, concise and exquisite words, which is a unique literary form in China.

Third, lucky money

Every year on New Year's Eve, the elders can give the lucky money prepared in advance to the younger generation. It is said that the lucky money can suppress evil spirits, and the younger generation can spend their first year safely with it.

Fourth, set off firecrackers

There is a saying in China that "open the door to firecrackers". That is, at the arrival of the new year, the first thing for every household to open the door is to set off firecrackers to eliminate the old and welcome the new with the sound of firecrackers. Firecrackers are a specialty of China, also known as "firecrackers", "firecrackers" and "firecrackers".

Extended information:

Spring Festival and "Year"

In ancient China, there was a monster named "Year", whose head had long tentacles and was fierce and abnormal. Nian has been living in the depths of the sea. Whenever he climbs ashore on New Year's Eve, he devours livestock and endangers human life. Therefore, every New Year's Eve, people in the village have to flee to the mountains, the old and the young, to avoid the harm of the "Nian" beast.

On New Year's Eve one year, news of begging for the elderly came from outside the village. When the villagers were anxious to panic, only an old woman in the village gave the old man some food and advised him to go up the mountain to avoid the Nian beast. The old man smiled and said, "If my mother-in-law asked me to stay at home all night, I would definitely send the Nian beast away." The old woman continued to persuade and begged the old man to laugh but said nothing.

In the middle of the night, Nian beast broke into the village. It found that the atmosphere in the village was different from previous years: the old woman's house in the east of the village, with red paper on the door and candlelight in the house. "Nian" beast trembled and cried strangely. Approaching the door, the yard suddenly heard the sound of "bang". Nian trembled and dared not move forward. It turned out that Nian was most afraid of red, fire and explosion.

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