Spring Festival spiritual custom activities

The customs and activities of the Spring Festival include buying new year's goods, sweeping dust, posting New Year's greetings, eating New Year's Eve, celebrating New Year's Eve, dancing dragons and lions, offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors, praying for disaster relief, worshipping gods, boating, temple fairs, playing gongs and drums, cursor flags and offering lanterns and wine.

The Spring Festival is a folk festival that combines the old with the new, offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors, praying for evil spirits, reuniting relatives and friends, celebrating entertainment and eating. The Spring Festival has a long history, which originated from the primitive belief and worship of nature of early human beings, evolved from the ritual of praying for the New Year at the beginning of ancient times, and carried rich historical and cultural connotations in its inheritance and development.

The Spring Festival is the most solemn traditional festival of the Chinese nation, with a century as the first and four seasons as the first. New Year's greeting activities are centered on offering wishes and praying for blessings, and are carried out in the form of eliminating the old, worshipping ancestors, exorcising evil spirits and praying for a bumper harvest. The content is rich and colorful, vivid and festive, and the annual flavor is rich, which embodies the essence of traditional culture of Chinese civilization. During the Spring Festival, various New Year celebrations will be held all over the country. Due to different regional cultures, the content or details of customs are also different.

ring out the Old Year and ring in the New Year

The last day of "year old" is called "year old" and that night is called "New Year's Eve". It is connected with the beginning and end of the new year, and is called "the end of the year to the poor month". This is New Year's Eve, and it is also an important time node to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new. During this period, the theme of the activity is to get rid of the old cloth and update the new cloth. Since ancient times, there have been customs such as sticking New Year's greetings, offering sacrifices to ancestors, having a family reunion dinner, and observing the old age, which have a long history. New Year's Eve is a time to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, to reunite the whole family and to worship the ancestors. Together with Tomb-Sweeping Day, July 30th and Double Ninth Festival, it is called the four traditional ancestor worship festivals in China.

On New Year's Eve, people pay special attention to taking off old cloth to welcome the New Year. Every household is busy cleaning the courtyard, decorating and welcoming their ancestors home for the New Year. The sacrifices are rice cakes, three sacrificial meals and three teas and five wines. New Year's Eve has a special meaning in the hearts of China people. On the most important day at the end of this year, no matter how far away, the wanderers have to rush home to reunite with their families, say goodbye to the old year with firecrackers and set off fireworks everywhere to welcome the new year.