The customs of the Spring Festival include offering sacrifices to stoves, sweeping dust, having a reunion dinner, observing the New Year, posting couplets and setting off firecrackers. The customs of Lantern Festival include sending children's lanterns, offering sacrifices to doors, offering sacrifices to households, eating glutinous rice balls and having Lantern Festival.
offering sacrifices to stoves, a folk sacrifice to stoves originated from the ancient custom of worshipping fire. Explanation of Name: stoves create food. The duty of the Kitchen God is to take charge of the kitchen fire and manage the diet. Later, it was expanded to investigate the good and evil in the world, so as to reduce the good and evil. The belief in the Kitchen God is a reflection of the people's dream of having enough food and clothing in China.
sweeping dust, among the people, there is a custom of sweeping dust on the 24th of the twelfth lunar month on New Year's Eve. Folk proverbs call it twenty-four, sweeping the house, and folks call it dust-cleaning day. Sending children's lanterns is short for sending lanterns, also known as sending lanterns, etc., that is, before the Lantern Festival, the bride's family sends lanterns to the newly married daughter's house, or ordinary relatives and friends give them to the newly married infertile house in order to add good luck. Because the lamp is homophonic with Ding, this custom is found in many places.
the impact of the spring festival
the spring festival is the most important festival with the most cultural connotation in China, and it is also an important internal driving force to promote industrial economy and domestic consumption. With the rapid growth of the national economy and the continuous improvement of disposable personal income residents, the consumption of Spring Festival has also developed from the traditional purchase of new year's goods to holiday products and services with the characteristics of the times, such as new year's works, products and crafts, leisure and entertainment.
Chinese New Year is a concentrated expression of people's consumption in one year. With the emerging consumption concepts, the Spring Festival is not only a traditional Chinese New Year, but also a shutter that drives the market economy. People began to turn from the traditional festival busyness to a new celebration trend. The Spring Festival economy has injected new vitality into the lives of ordinary people. Although it is impossible for people to wait until the New Year to wear new clothes and enjoy delicious food, it is still an eternal holiday tradition of the Chinese nation to buy new year's goods, honor the elders and care for the younger generation.