Which countries celebrate the Spring Festival?

Foreign countries celebrating the Spring Festival include Vietnam, Indonesia, North Korea, South Korea, Singapore and Malaysia. Neighboring countries have always been influenced by our culture. In Korea, North Korea and Vietnam, the Lunar New Year is the most important festival of the year. On the Korean peninsula, the Lunar New Year is called "New Year's Day" or "Old Correction", and the first to third day of the first month is a national legal holiday. The Vietnamese Lunar New Year holiday lasts from New Year's Eve to the third day of the first month, plus Saturday and Sunday, ***6 days.

Some Southeast Asian countries where Chinese live in concentrated communities also make the Lunar New Year a legal holiday. In Singapore, the first to third day of the first month is a public holiday. Chinese in Malaysia account for a quarter of the total population, and the government has designated the first and second days of the first month as legal holidays. Indonesia and the Philippines, which have a large number of Chinese, designated the Lunar New Year as a national public holiday in 2003 and 2004 respectively, but the Philippines did not have a holiday.

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The folk sacrificial furnace originated from the ancient custom of worshipping fire. For example, Ming Shi said, "The kitchen. Make it, create food. " Kitchen God's duty is to take charge of the kitchen fire and manage the diet. Later, it was expanded to investigate human good and evil to reduce good and evil. Sacrificing to the Kitchen God has a history of thousands of years in China, and the belief in the Kitchen God is a reflection of China people's dream of "adequate food and clothing".

Step 2 clean the dust

In the folk, there is a custom of "sweeping the house on the 24th of the twelfth lunar month" on New Year's Eve. The folk proverb says "Twenty-four, sweep the house". Folk call it "Dust Day". Dust removal is year-end cleaning. Every household should clean the environment, clean all kinds of appliances, remove bedding curtains, clean the courtyard in Liu Lu, dust off cobwebs and dredge culverts in open channels.