Origin of the Spring Festival:

1. There is an old legend about the origin of the Spring Festival.

In ancient China, there was a beast called "Nian". "The Nian had horns on its head and was very fierce and terrifying. "The Nian lived in the mountains for many years, and only climbed up to the shore on a certain day (New Year's Eve today) to devour livestock and harm human lives. Therefore, on New Year's Eve, all the people in every village fled to the mountains to escape from the Nin.

This custom was widely spread and became the grandest traditional festival of Chinese folklore, the Spring Festival.

2. It is generally believed that it originated in the Yin and Shang dynasties in China as a year-end ritual of offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors (the Lunar New Year Festival); legend has it that the Spring Festival was first celebrated at the time of Yao and Shun. The first month of the lunar calendar is the beginning of the year, and the first or middle of the first month, in most cases, coincides with the beginning of spring (in a few cases, the beginning of spring is in the second half of the lunar month).

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Customs about the Spring Festival:

1, sticking New Year's Eve

Customs about the Spring Festival:

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The Spring Festival hanging stickers in urban and rural areas is also very common, thick black colorful New Year's paintings to thousands of families added a lot of prosperity and joy of the festive atmosphere. New Year's paintings are an ancient folk art in China, reflecting the people's simple customs and beliefs, and holding their hopes for the future.

2, the New Year's Eve

New Year's Eve is one of the most important New Year's Eve activities, the custom of the New Year's Eve has a long history. People stay up all night to wait for the dawn, called the "New Year's Eve".

3, eating dumplings

The custom of eating dumplings at the Spring Festival has been quite popular in the Ming and Qing dynasties. Dumplings are usually wrapped before 12:00 pm on the night of the thirtieth year, to be eaten in the middle of the night, when it is the beginning of the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar, eating dumplings to take the meaning of "more years of intercourse," "Zi" for the "son of time! The "Zi" is "Zi Shi", and "Dumpling" is a harmonic sound, which means "joyful reunion" and "good luck".