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Spring Festival is the China Lunar New Year, commonly known as Spring Festival, New Year, New Year's Eve and so on. And it is also called Chinese New Year and New Year's Eve verbally. The Spring Festival has a long history, which evolved from praying for the New Year at the beginning of the year in ancient times. Everything is based on heaven, and people are based on ancestors, praying for the elderly, respecting the ancestors of heaven, and returning to the original.

The origin of the Spring Festival contains profound cultural connotations, and it carries rich historical and cultural connotations in its inheritance and development. During the Spring Festival, various activities will be held all over the country to celebrate the Spring Festival, which has strong regional characteristics. These activities are rich and colorful, which have condensed the essence of China traditional culture, mainly to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, exorcise evil spirits and disturb disasters, offer sacrifices to gods and ancestors, and pray for the New Year.

Spring Festival is one of the top ten traditional festivals in China with a long history. The origin and development of the Spring Festival is a process of gradual formation, subtle improvement and popularization. It evolved from the time when ancient people prayed for the New Year, and it is related to ancient primitive beliefs, auspicious day sacrifices, astronomical phenomena, calendars and other humanities and natural cultural contents. In ancient times, people held sacrificial activities at the beginning of the new year after a year of farming to thank the gods of heaven and earth, repay the kindness of their ancestors and pray for a bumper harvest in the coming year.

There are many kinds of New Year's Eve dinners, including jiaozi, wonton, long noodles and Yuanxiao. , and each has its own emphasis. Northerners are used to eating jiaozi during the Spring Festival, which means "making friends when you are young". Because the white flour jiaozi is shaped like a silver ingot, the pots on the table symbolize the meaning of "getting rich in the New Year, and the ingots are rolling in". Some wrapped jiaozi and some coins sterilized with boiling water, saying that whoever ate first would make more money.