Spring Festival (nickname: Spring Festival, Lunar New Year, Lunar New Year, Lunar New Year, Spring Festival) is one of the four traditional festivals in China, and the date is set on the first day of the first lunar month every year.
The Spring Festival has a long history, which evolved from praying for the New Year at the beginning of the year in ancient times. Everything is based on the sky, and people are based on their ancestors. Pray for the ancestors who respect the sky and return to the truth. The origin of the Spring Festival contains profound cultural connotations, and it carries rich historical and cultural connotations in its inheritance and development.
During the Spring Festival, every household will hold various celebrations, most of which focus on offering sacrifices to gods and buddhas, ancestors, saying goodbye to the old year, welcoming the new year and praying for a bumper harvest.
The activities are rich and colorful, with strong national characteristics, which embodies the essence of China traditional culture. According to incomplete statistics, nearly 20 countries and regions have designated the Spring Festival in China as a legal holiday in all or part of the cities under their jurisdiction. The folk custom of Spring Festival was approved by the State Council to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.
The specific arrangement of the holiday date for the Spring Festival in 2023 is: 65438+10.21-27 in 2023, with a total of 7 days. 65438+1Saturday, October 28th, 65438+1Sunday, October 29th.
What are the unique customs of Chinese New Year in the north?
The unique customs of Chinese New Year in the north include offering sacrifices, pasting Spring Festival couplets, sweeping away the old, pasting New Year pictures, pasting stickers, setting off firecrackers, celebrating the New Year, dancing yangko, offering sacrifices to ancestors, sending kitchen gods and so on. During the Spring Festival, people will prepare tributes to pay homage to their deceased relatives.