The Spring Festival of 20021year is on February 12, Friday, the first day of the first month of the Year of the Ox. The Spring Festival, that is, the Lunar New Year, is the beginning of the year and a traditional festival. The Spring Festival usually begins on the first day of the first month (Spring Festival) and ends on the fifteenth day of the first month (Lantern Festival), with *** 15 days.

The Spring Festival has a long history, which evolved from praying for the New Year at the beginning of the year. In ancient times, people held sacrificial activities at the beginning of the new year after the end of farming at the age of one (year) to pay homage to the gods and ancestors in heaven and earth and pray for a good year. The origin of the Spring Festival contains profound cultural connotations, and it carries rich historical and cultural connotations in its inheritance and development.

The custom of the Spring Festival

Opening guns is a traditional custom in China. In the early morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, people get up at dawn. The first thing for every household is to rush to "open the door", bang at midnight, and the guns are ringing all over the sky, which means opening the door and announcing the beginning of the new year. The whole city is full of firecrackers, symbolizing sending the old to welcome the new and receiving the blessings, which is commonly called "receiving the new year".

Worshiping the New Year is one of the activities of annual customs. Welcome the new year in the morning of the first year of the year and worship the "God of the Year". "Sui", also known as "Sheti" and "Tai Sui", is the star name of ancient times. Tai sui is also a god of ancient folk beliefs. At the age of 60, the chronology of the cadres and branches of 60 Jiazi is used as the operation cycle, and there is a year-old god on duty every year. In that year, the duty of Tai Sui is called "the duty of Tai Sui".