The origin and customs of the Spring Festival and Lantern Festival are:

1, Spring Festival:

The Spring Festival originated in the ancient primitive beliefs, sacrificial culture, as well as astrology, calendars, and other humanities and natural cultural content related.

The Spring Festival is the evolution of the year from the first year of praying for the year of sacrifice, people in ancient times in the spring, the end of the year and the beginning of the year, the renewal of all things, held sacrifices to pay tribute to the gods of the heavens and the earth, the ancestors of the benevolence, to drive away the evil spirits and disasters, praying for the year of good fortune.

Chinese New Year folk customs:

Chinese New Year celebrations are extremely rich and varied, there are lion dances, floating colors, dragon dances, the tour of the gods, temple fairs, stroll in the flower streets, lanterns, swimming drums, swimming flag, fireworks, praying for blessings, guanchuanchun, but also on stilts, running boats, twisting rice-planting songs, and so on. During the Spring Festival, there are different ways to celebrate the New Year, such as sticking New Year's red, observing the New Year's Eve, eating New Year's dinner, and paying New Year's call, etc. However, due to the different local customs, each of them has its own characteristics in the subtle ways. Spring Festival folklore in various forms, rich in content, is the essence of the Chinese people's life and culture of the concentrated display.

2, Lantern Festival:

Lantern Festival rooted in the folk lamps to pray for blessings ancient custom. Lantern Festival in the early formation of the process, only called the first month of the fifteenth, the first half of the first month or the month of hope, sui later called yuan xi or yuan night. In the early Tang Dynasty, under the influence of Taoism, also known as the first year, the end of the Tang Dynasty only occasionally called the Lantern Festival. But since the Song Dynasty, it is also called Lantern Festival. In the Qing Dynasty, it was also called the Lantern Festival.

Folk customs of the Lantern Festival:

China's vast territory, a long history, so the customs of the Lantern Festival are not the same throughout the country, which ate the Lantern Festival, lanterns, dragon dances, lion dances and so on is the Lantern Festival several important folk customs. The Lantern Festival is a traditional Chinese festival, so all over the country, most of the region's customs are more or less the same, but each region also still has its own characteristics.