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Changes of Spring Festival during the epidemic period

During the epidemic prevention and control period, there were various forms of New Year greetings, but after the epidemic prevention and control was relaxed, the festive atmosphere became stronger.

Paying New Year greetings is a traditional folk custom during the Spring Festival in China. For a long time, people visited relatives and friends and expressed good wishes to each other. However, in the face of the severe epidemic last year, many governments put forward the initiative of "no New Year greetings". Many communities in the city restrict the entry and exit of outsiders, and many people also choose to spend the New Year with the cloud.

Cloud New Year greetings reduce the trouble of travel, and the elderly and children with mobility difficulties can also participate. Recording New Year greetings together is also a way of family entertainment. Through the cloud, friends and relatives who haven't seen each other for many years can send a blessing across the screen. Cloud New Year abandons the traditional triviality and makes the New Year simple and warm. Although we can't meet, cloud blessing is more enthusiastic.

Spring Festival:

As the most solemn traditional festival of the Chinese nation, the Spring Festival has a specific folk cultural connotation and is a cultural resource with special significance. As the core festival of the Chinese nation for thousands of years, the Spring Festival has rich connotations of festival customs. The Spring Festival first represents warmth and affection. Secondly, the Spring Festival is also the soul bond of China culture. She is an ancient lighthouse standing on the land of China. She reflects the social life with China characteristics with its unique and eternal light. Her light is bright and warm, old and fresh.

During the Spring Festival, there are many kinds of celebrations, such as lion dancing, floating colors, dragon dancing, worshipping gods, temple fairs, visiting flower streets, enjoying lanterns, beating gongs and drums, flying flags, lighting fireworks, praying for blessings, dancing spring dance, walking on stilts, running dry boats, dancing yangko and so on. The custom of offering sacrifices to gods (ancestors) prevails in the southern coastal areas, and it inherits the ancient customs. During the Spring Festival, there are many grand activities, such as offering sacrifices to heaven and earth and praying for the Spring Festival, which are rich in content, lively and festive, and full of flavor.