About the origin of the Spring Festival:

Although ancient Chinese people had the custom of celebrating the New Year, it was not called the Spring Festival at that time. Because the Spring Festival mentioned at that time refers to the "beginning of spring" among the twenty-four solar terms.

In the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the Spring Festival generally refers to the entire spring. It is said that the Lunar New Year was officially named the Spring Festival after the Revolution of 1911. Since the solar calendar was to be switched to the Gregorian calendar at that time, in order to distinguish the agricultural and solar festivals, the first day of the first lunar month had to be renamed "Spring Festival".

As spring comes shortly after the Spring Festival, everything is renewed, and a new round of sowing and harvesting seasons is about to begin. There are plenty of reasons for people to celebrate this festival with singing and dancing. Therefore, before the festival, New Year messages with yellow characters on red paper were affixed to door couplets. When Miss Chun comes to the door, she will recite a sentence that expresses her good wishes for the new year. This thought will really bring good luck. Things with the same meaning include hanging red lanterns, pasting the word "福" and a statue of the God of Wealth.

Spring Festival customs:

1. Sweeping the dust

Sweeping the dust is also called sweeping the house, house sweeping, dust removal, debris removal, dusting, and dust removal. Dust, etc., is one of the traditional Chinese folk customs during the Spring Festival. The main theme of the busy New Year is to get rid of the old and put in the new. Sweeping dust is the year-end cleaning. It is called "house sweeping" in the south and "house sweeping" in the north.

2. Posting New Year Red

Posting New Year Red is the collective name for pasting Spring Festival couplets, door gods, horizontal batches, New Year pictures, blessing characters, window grilles, etc., because these are the red ones posted during the New Year. It is a festive element, so it is called New Year Red. Pasting New Year red is a traditional Chinese Spring Festival custom, which adds to the festive atmosphere and expresses people's good expectations for the New Year, New Year and new life.

Extended information:

The celebration activities during the Spring Festival are extremely rich and diverse, including lion dance, floating colors, dragon dance, wandering gods, boat racing, annual rituals, temple fairs, and flower streets. , viewing lanterns, burning fireworks, walking on stilts, running land boats, performing yangko and so on.

The custom of worshiping gods and ancestors is prevalent in the southern coastal areas. Inheriting ancient customs, during the Spring Festival, many places hold grand and grand ceremonies to offer sacrifices to the gods of heaven and earth, to welcome the new year and pray for blessings, etc. The content is rich and colorful. , lively and festive, full of flavor.

During the Spring Festival, sticking New Year's red cards, staying up late on the New Year's Eve, having reunion dinner, paying New Year greetings, etc. are common in various places, but due to different customs, each detail has its own characteristics. The folk customs of the Spring Festival are diverse in form and rich in content, and are a concentrated display of the essence of the life and culture of the Chinese nation.