spring festival custom

Spring Festival Custom

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The Spring Festival is the grandest and liveliest festival in Chinese folklore, and is traditionally known as the "New Year's Festival", commonly known as the "New Year's Eve".

The Spring Festival evolved from ancient times when people prayed for the New Year and sacrificed, the ancient stem and branch calendar provided the preconditions for the festival, and primitive beliefs and sacrificial culture were important factors in the formation of the festival. The New Year's festival is centered around the rituals and prayers for the New Year, and is carried out in the form of activities such as getting rid of the old and bringing in the new, welcoming the new, worshipping the gods and ancestors, and praying for a good harvest, etc., with a rich and colorful celebratory atmosphere and content, which cohesively embodies the essence of the history and culture of the Chinese civilization.

China's ancient folk custom of the New Year, the ancient New Year had referred to the twenty-four seasons of the dry calendar "spring".

The festival of spring, the transformation of yin and yang, Yang and hibernation, all things spring, meaning that a new cycle has begun. Later, due to changes in the calendar, the New Year usually refers to the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar.

The New Year has a long history, in the development and inheritance, has formed a number of more fixed customs, many of which are still handed down to this day, such as dust sweeping, do the New Year's goods, paste the New Year's red, New Year's Eve dinner, keep the New Year's Eve, the New Year's Eve money, pay tribute to the New Year, the Dragon Dance, the Lion Dance, the tour of the gods, ancestor worship, firecrackers, the New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, etc.?

Baidu Encyclopedia - Chinese New Year Customs