The Spring Festival is a traditional festival of our Chinese nation, and it is also the most important festival for people. It represents reunion, happiness and peace. People will pay great attention to the Spring Festival, and different customs will be formed in different places. Next, I will introduce the eating customs in my hometown. During the Spring Festival, people will wake up early. Before speaking, they will definitely take out the cake put under the pillow on New Year's Eve and have a bite or two. We call it "open cake".
Pancakes are soft and sweet in the mouth, which makes people want to eat more. If they jump out of your mouth, they must be sweet. "Gao" and "Gao" are homophonic. Children eating open cakes indicates that they will grow taller and get better grades in the new year. Adults eat it, and in the new year, they must be "high fortune and high fortune"; Old people eat it and hope to live a long life in the coming year.
Chinese New Year means "Chinese New Year Festival", and now it is called "Spring Festival". The main contents of New Year greetings are to bid farewell to the old, worship ancestors, exorcise evil spirits and pray for a new year. The form is rich and colorful, lively and festive, and the annual flavor is rich, which embodies the essence of traditional culture of Chinese civilization.
According to the old custom, from1the end of February 23rd/24th, that is, the day of offering sacrifices to the stove (dust-sweeping day) to the Lantern Festival on the 15th or 19th day of the first month, nearly one month is called "Chinese New Year", and now it is called "Spring Festival". If we start from the preparation of "New Year's Goods", we will enter a busy year from1February 15 at the end of the year.
Headed by Hundred Festivals, 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 ambitions, 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 will be held all over the country. Due to different regional cultures, there are differences in the content or details of customs, which have strong regional characteristics.