Significance of the Spring Festival: The Spring Festival is a folk festival that integrates the old with the new, offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors, praying for evil spirits, reuniting relatives and friends, celebrating entertainment and eating. The Spring Festival has a long history, which originated from the primitive belief and worship of nature of early human beings, evolved from the ritual of praying for the New Year at the beginning of ancient times, and carried rich historical and cultural connotations in its inheritance and development.
Legend of "Nian": Legend of the New Year: When the "Nian" beast was ready to break into the village and wreak havoc as in previous years, suddenly there came firecrackers from the white-haired old man. Nian beast trembled and never dared to move forward again. It turns out that Nian beast is most afraid of red, fire and explosion. At this moment, when Daimon Masaru opened the door, he saw an old man in a red robe laughing in the yard. The "Nian" beast was frightened to disgrace and fled in haste. The next day, when people came to the village from the depths of the mountains, they found the village safe and sound. It suddenly dawned on them that the white-haired old man was a fairy who helped everyone drive away the "Nian" beast, and people also found three magic weapons for the white-haired old man to drive away the "Nian" beast. From then on, every year on New Year's Eve, every family posted red couplets and set off firecrackers, and every family was brightly lit. This custom spread more and more widely and became the most solemn traditional festival in China.