The Spring Festival is the grandest, most lively and most important ancient traditional festival in China. In China, the traditional Spring Festival refers to the sacrificial ceremony from the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month or the 23rd or 24th of the twelfth lunar month to the 15th of the first lunar month in La Worship, with New Year's Eve and the first day of the first lunar month as the climax.
During the Spring Festival, Han people and some ethnic minorities in China will hold various activities to celebrate. The main contents of these activities are offering sacrifices to ancestors, paying homage to ancestors, saying goodbye to the old year and welcoming the new year, and praying for a bumper harvest. The Spring Festival activities are colorful and full of national characteristics. Influenced by China culture, some countries and nationalities belonging to the Chinese character cultural circle also have the custom of Spring Festival.
The significance of the Spring Festival:
In the traditional farming society, beginning of spring, the first year of the year, is of great significance, and a large number of festivals and customs related to it have been derived. Although festivals and festivals have been separated since then due to the promotion of the system of the combination of Yin and Yang in the historical development, many festivals and folk customs have remained.
Although the situation of ancient sacrificial ceremonies is unknown, we can still find some ancient custom relics from later festivals. For example, in some areas of Lingnan, during the New Year's Day and the New Year, there are grand and grand activities such as offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors, exorcising evil spirits, accepting blessings and saving the nation, which shows the clues of ancient first-year sacrifices.
The origin and development of the Spring Festival is a process of gradual formation, subtle improvement and popularization. As an important part of China's traditional culture, Spring Festival culture bears profound Chinese cultural heritage and records the rich and colorful cultural contents of ancient people's social life.