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How many days before the Spring Festival 202 1

As of June 2020 165438+1October16, there are still 88 days before 202 1 Lunar New Year.

In ancient times, people began to have a "busy year" on the 23rd or 24th of a year, and the New Year didn't end until January19th. In modern times, people set the Spring Festival on the first day of the first lunar month, but generally it doesn't end until at least the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. Holiday greetings convey family ethics between relatives and friends. It is an important festival for people to deepen their feelings, and it is a traditional festival of joy, peace and gathering of relatives and friends.

Headed by Hundred Festivals, the Spring Festival is the most solemn traditional festival of the Chinese nation. It not only embodies the Chinese nation's ideological beliefs, ideals and ambitions, life, entertainment and cultural psychology, but also shows the carnival of blessing, eating and entertainment activities. Influenced by China culture, some countries and regions in the world also have the custom of celebrating the Spring Festival.

According to incomplete statistics, nearly 20 countries and regions have designated the Spring Festival in China as a legal holiday in all or part of the cities under their jurisdiction. Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival are also called the four traditional festivals in China. The folk custom of Spring Festival was approved by the State Council to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list. ?

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Customs of the Spring Festival:

1, centennial

Paying New Year's greetings is one of the ancient activities. In the morning of the first year of the new year, welcome the new year, worship vegetarianism and worship the "Year God". "Sui", also known as "country" and "Tai Sui", is an ancient star name and a god of folk belief. At the age of 60, with the chronology of cadres and branches of 60 Jiazi as the running cycle, there are 60 people. There are old gods on duty every year. In those days, the traditional duty was called "traditional duty", which was the master of the year and was in charge of good and bad luck in the world.

2. Open the door and set off firecrackers

When the door is opened in the morning of the Spring Festival, firecrackers are set off first, which is called "opening the door to set off firecrackers". After the firecrackers, the ground is broken red, which is the so-called "full house". At this time, the streets are full of anger and joy. The saying of "setting off firecrackers" has existed since ancient times. When the new year comes, the first thing for every household to open the door is to set off firecrackers to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new.

3. fasting day

Worship God and set off firecrackers in the morning. On the morning of the first day, we worship Tai Sui God with vegetarian food. We must be vegetarian for breakfast, including vermicelli, yuba, Nostoc flagelliforme and mushrooms. Eat all the vegetarian dishes that should be eaten this year in the morning, so that you can eat big fish and big meat later.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Spring Festival