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Soothing music is always played during the Spring Festival.

The soothing tunes that will always be played during the Spring Festival include: Spring Festival Overture, Happy Birthday, treading on thin ice, Dance of the Golden Snake and Good Luck.

1. Spring Festival Overture

Yes, this is the music that often appears in the Spring Festival Evening. At first, beating gongs and drums was lively and jubilant, as if the host of the Spring Festival Evening was smiling and sending blessings; Two minutes later, I entered a beautiful and gentle paragraph, reminiscent of the real-time picture of the Spring Festival in the studio.

2. "Happy"

It is also a classic representative work of folk music and orchestral music, and this song appears in a wider range of occasions. We can hear it not only during the Spring Festival, but also in various festivals. This song is based on Shanxi folk songs and is adapted by musician Liu Mingyuan.

Step by step

The author of this piece of music is Lv Wencheng, 1898, a native of Xiangshan, Guangdong, who later settled in Hong Kong. He devoted his life to the performance and creation of Guangdong music. The tonic part of the tune is played by Gao Hu who is good at Lv Wencheng, and the accompaniment instrument is dulcimer. The two musical instruments are crisp and melodious, intertwined.

4. Golden Snake Dance

I'm afraid Dance of the Golden Snake is well known. It was the background music for the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2008 Olympic Games. This piece is a national orchestra arranged by composer Nie Eryu 1934 according to the folk music "Dao Ba Ban".

It is also a passionate genre, and the gongs and drums used in this music are particularly eye-catching. Their voices are sonorous and powerful. Every time the tonic tone weakens, the gongs and drums ring, and the resulting magical rhythm is simply irresistible.

5. Good luck.

This song was written by the car dealership, composed by Qi Jianbo and sung by Zu Hai, and included in the album Good Luck released by Zu Hai in June 65438+1October 65438+July 2004. The style is cheerful, festive and peaceful, and the lyrics are catchy, cordial and elegant.

The customs of the Spring Festival

The Spring Festival is the biggest traditional folk festival in China, and it is also a folk festival integrating collective blessing, celebration, entertainment and food. The Spring Festival has a long history, which evolved from the sacrificial rites of praying for the New Year at the beginning of ancient times, and bears rich historical and cultural connotations in its inheritance and development.

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, lively 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.

Chinese New Year has a long history. In the process of inheritance and development, some relatively fixed customs have been formed, many of which have been passed down to this day, such as buying new year's goods, sweeping dust, posting couplets, eating New Year's Eve, celebrating New Year's Eve, dancing dragons and lions, worshiping ancestors, praying and worshiping gods, holding dragon boat races, holding temple fairs, beating gongs and drums, setting off lanterns and placing wine, and enjoying lanterns.

Traditional festival ceremonies and related custom activities are important contents of festival elements, bearing rich and colorful festival cultural connotations.