Festival tabloid about the Spring Festival

The first day of the first lunar month is the Spring Festival, also known as the lunar year, commonly known as "Chinese New Year". This is the biggest and most lively ancient traditional festival among China people. It originated from the activities of offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors throughout the Shang Dynasty. There are also many legends about this year. The ancient Spring Festival was called "January Festival", "New Year's Day" and "New Year's Day". After the Revolution of 1911, the first day of the first lunar month was officially named Spring Festival.

The Spring Festival, as its name implies, is the Spring Festival. Spring has come, Vientiane is renewed, and a new round of sowing and harvesting season is about to begin again. People have enough reasons to welcome this festival by singing and dancing. So, before the festival, a New Year message with red paper and yellow characters was posted on the frontispiece. When Miss Chun comes to the door, she will read a sentence to express her best wishes for the New Year. With this idea, good luck really came. Also meaningful are hanging red lanterns, pasting the word "Fu" and the statue of God of Wealth. The word "Fu" must be posted backwards, and passers-by read "Fu has fallen", which means "Fu has arrived". Another name for the Spring Festival is China New Year. What is "year"? It is a fictional animal, which will bring bad luck to people. When the Year comes, the trees will wither, but the grass will not grow. A year has passed, everything grows and flowers are everywhere. How to spend a year? Firecrackers are needed, so there is a custom of setting off firecrackers.

The customs of the Spring Festival

The long historical years have made the content of the annual custom activities extremely colorful. Among them, the superstitious content of offering sacrifices to heaven and gods has been gradually eliminated, while those interesting contents, such as posting Spring Festival couplets, New Year pictures, pasting the word "Fu", cutting window grilles, steaming rice cakes, wrapping jiaozi, setting off firecrackers, vigil on New Year's Eve and paying New Year's greetings, are still very popular today.

Keeping old age on New Year's Eve is the most important custom, which was recorded in Wei and Jin Dynasties. On New Year's Eve, the descendants of China people still attach great importance to staying up late with their families, getting together for drinking and enjoying family happiness, which is a custom. After the first cock crow, the new year began. Men, women and children wear holiday clothes. First, they celebrate the New Year's birthday for their elders. Then they visit their relatives and friends and congratulate each other. At this time, the land of China is shining everywhere. From the first day to the fifteenth day, people are immersed in a festive atmosphere of joy, peace and civilization.

New Year greeting is a traditional folk custom in China, and it is a way for people to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, and express their best wishes to each other.

In ancient times, the original meaning of the word "Happy New Year" was to pay New Year greetings to the elderly, including kowtowing to the elderly, congratulating them on a happy New Year and greeting their lives. In case of friends and relatives of the same generation, you should also salute and congratulate. New Year greetings usually begin at home. On the morning of the first day, after getting up, the younger generation should first pay a New Year call to their elders, wishing them a long and healthy life and all the best. After the elders worship, they should distribute the "lucky money" prepared in advance to the younger generation. After greeting the elders at home, people should greet each other with smiles when they go out to meet each other, and exchange auspicious words such as "Congratulations on getting rich", "Happy New Year" and so on. Neighbors, relatives and friends should also visit each other or invite them to drink and entertain.

According to folklore, the fifth day of the first month is the birthday of the god of wealth, so after the first day of the first month, the next most important activity is to meet the god of wealth. On the night before God of Wealth's birthday, every household will hold a banquet to celebrate God of Wealth.

There is a folk proverb in China, "Open the door and set off firecrackers". That is, 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. Firecracker is a specialty of China, also known as "Firecracker", "Firecracker" and "Firecracker". Its origin is very early, and it has a history of more than two thousand years. Now, most of us think that setting off firecrackers can create a festive atmosphere, is a kind of entertainment in festivals, and can bring happiness and good luck to people.

Jiaozi was called "Jiao" in Song Dynasty and "Pingshi" in Yuan Dynasty. In the Qing Dynasty, some new appellations about jiaozi appeared, such as "jiaozi", "water snacks" and "baked wheat cake". The increase of Jiaozi's names shows that its geographical spread is expanding. Generally, jiaozi should wrap it up before New Year's Eve 12, and eat it at midnight. At this time, it is the beginning of the first day of the first lunar month. Eating jiaozi means making friends with young people, while Zi means making friends with young people, which is homophonic with jiaozi, meaning "happy reunion" and "good luck".

During the Spring Festival, people in many areas like to stick various paper-cut window grilles on their windows. Window grilles not only set off the festive atmosphere, but also bring people beautiful enjoyment.

When visiting the New Year during the Spring Festival, the elders should distribute the lucky money prepared in advance to the younger generation. It is said that lucky money can kill evil spirits, because "old" and "expensive" are homophonic, and the younger generation can spend a year safely with lucky money.

During the Spring Festival, many areas in China pay attention to eating rice cakes. The rice cake is also called "rice cake", which is homophonic with "getting higher every year", meaning that people's work and life are getting better every year.