The Spring Festival is the most solemn traditional festival among Chinese people. It is a folk festival that integrates praying for blessings and warding off disasters, celebrating entertainment and eating.

The Spring Festival has a long history. It evolved from the beginning of the year and offered sacrifices to pray for good luck in ancient times. It carries rich historical and cultural heritage in its inheritance and development.

The activities of the New Year and the New Year are centered around offering sacrifices and praying for a good year, and are carried out in the form of removing the old and bringing in the new, worshiping gods and ancestors, exorcising evil spirits and fighting disasters, and praying for a good harvest. The content is rich and colorful, lively and festive, and has a strong flavor of the New Year. It embodies the essence of traditional culture of Chinese civilization.

During the Spring Festival, various New Year celebration activities are held across the country. Due to different regional cultures, there are differences in customs or details.

Spring Festival custom? The last 23rd or 24th day of the busy year is called "small year" among the people. It is from the small year that people start to "busy year".

Xiao Nian does not specifically refer to one day. Due to customs in various places, the days called "Little Nian" are also different.

The main folk activities during the Little New Year period include sweeping dust, offering sacrifices to stoves, etc.

Before the Qing Dynasty, the traditional folk day for worshiping kitchen stoves during the Small New Year was the 24th of the twelfth lunar month.

Since the middle and late Qing Dynasty, the emperor's family has held a ceremony to worship the heaven on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month. In order to "save expenses", they also worshiped the Stove God. Therefore, the people in the northern region followed suit and mostly celebrated Christmas on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month.

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In most parts of the south, the old tradition of celebrating the Small New Year on the 24th of the twelfth lunar month is still maintained.

Folding and sweeping dust before the busy New Year is mainly about removing the old and bringing out the new. Sweeping the dust is one of the customs of removing the old and bringing out the new.

Folk proverb says, "On the twenty-fourth day of the twelfth lunar month, dust the dust and sweep the house."

On the 23rd/24th day of the year, preparations for the New Year officially begin.

Sweeping dust is the year-end cleaning. It is called "house sweeping" in the north and "house sweeping" in the south.

Every Spring Festival comes, every household has to clean the environment, wash all kinds of utensils, remove and wash bedding and curtains, sweep the Liulv courtyard, dust away dirt and cobwebs, and dredge open ditches and ditches.

Everywhere is filled with the joyful atmosphere of doing hygiene and welcoming the New Year cleanly.

According to folklore: because "dust" and "chen" are homophonic, sweeping dust in the New Year has the meaning of "removing the old and spreading the new".

The purpose of sweeping dust is to sweep away all "bad luck" and "bad luck" in order to pray for good luck in the coming year. This custom entrusts people's prayers and wishes to ward off evil spirits and eliminate disasters, bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, and welcome good fortune and blessings.

Worshiping the Kitchen God is held on the 23rd or 24th day of the twelfth lunar month. The stove must be cleaned after nightfall, the old Kitchen God must be taken down and burned, and the new image must be put up on the morning of New Year's Eve.

Wine and meat, candies, sugar cane, rice crackers, etc. must be placed, incense, candles, and paper cannons must be set off.

The folk custom activity of worshiping stoves can be traced back to the pre-Qin period, but at the beginning, the days of worshiping stoves were not on small New Year's Days.

Zheng Xuan's annotation of "Book of Rites·Book of Rites" says: "(The Kitchen God) lives in the human world, and he is the one who oversees minor offenses and is the one who condemns." Legend has it that from the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month to New Year's Eve, the Kitchen God returns to the palace these days.

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On New Year's Eve, the Kitchen God must be invited to descend again. People will first put up the statue of the Kitchen God and then start preparing for the New Year's Eve dinner.

According to "Feng Tu Ji", a chronicle of local customs commissioned by Lan Jing, a celebrity from the Jin Dynasty in my country: "On the night of the 24th of the twelfth lunar month, the stove was worshiped. It was said that the stove god would go to heaven the next day and become a year old, so he was worshiped on the first day." Custom: Fan Chengdayou, a poet from the Song Dynasty in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, has handed down his "Poem for Sacrificing Stoves", which vividly describes the custom of sending stoves to people in Suzhou during the Song Dynasty. His poem says: "In ancient times, it is said that on the twenty-fourth day of the month of Lashebao, the Stove Lord looked up to the sky and wanted to speak. The young man is nostalgic for the clouds and the wind, and there are cups and plates for the feast. The pig's head is cooked well, and the bean paste and nard powder are round. Don't be angry if cats and dogs touch you. Send you drunk and full to the gate of heaven. Don't return with a long spoon and beg for profit. "According to the memories of old Suzhou people, the most important thing to send to the stove is "sugar ingots". There are other offerings, such as paper horses for the Kitchen God, kitchen curtains, kitchen ingots, etc.

Spring Festival Poems [Song Dynasty] Wang Anshi's "Yuan Ri" The sound of firecrackers marks the end of the year, and the spring breeze brings warmth to Tusu.

Thousands of households always exchange old talismans for new peaches.

2 [Song Dynasty] Su Shi's "Poetry of Watching the Year Old" If you want to know that the old age is over, it is like a snake going to slay, half of its scales are gone, who can cover up the intention of leaving?

If you want to tie it to its tail, even though you are diligent, you know what you can do!

Children will not eat if they are forced, but they should be happy when they are together.

Do not crow in the early morning when the rooster crows, and be afraid of the more trouble.

After sitting for a long time, the lights dimmed and I watched the Beidou tilt.

There won't be a year next year. I'm afraid that my worries will be wasted.

If you work hard today, you can still be proud of the young man.

3 [Tang Dynasty] Cui Tu's "The Big Night" travels all the way to Sanba Road, and is in danger for thousands of miles.

On a snowy night in the chaotic mountains, a lonely candle lights up the spring in a foreign land.

Expand the full text 4 [Tang Dynasty] Liu Changqing's "New Year's Works" The hometown is full of enthusiasm for the new year, and the sky is alone with tears.

When you grow old, you live among others, and when you return in spring, your guests come first.

Expand the full text 5 [Song Dynasty] Qin Guan's "Ruan Langgui·The wind and rain in Xiangtian broke through the cold at the beginning" The wind and rain in Hunan broke through at the beginning of the cold.

The deep courtyard is empty.

Li Qiao blew Xiao Chanyu away.

Far away in the clear night.

The dream of hometown is broken, and the soul is lonely.

The prosperous year is gone again.

There are still geese passing letters in Hengyang.

Chen Yang and Yan Wu.