Besides China, which countries celebrate the Spring Festival?

? Besides China, some countries around China also celebrate the Spring Festival. It can be said that the Spring Festival is also one of the most important festivals in Korean Peninsula, Vietnam, Japan, Mongolia, Laos, Myanmar, Cambodia, Thailand, Singapore and Malaysia.

? Spring Festival is a traditional festival with the most China characteristics, and it is an important link for the Chinese nation to maintain family ethics.

? The most important custom of the Spring Festival is to eat "New Year's Eve". "Go home for the New Year if you have money" in order to have a reunion dinner. There is a custom of eating jiaozi on New Year's Eve in the north. Jiaozi's practice is to mix dough first, and "harmony" means "harmony", and "jiaozi" and "intercourse" are homophonic, both of which mean reunion. There is a custom of eating rice cakes in the south, which is homophonic with "Gao", symbolizing that life is getting better and taller every year.

The traditional celebration of the Spring Festival starts from the sacrificial stove on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month and lasts until the Lantern Festival on the 15th of the first month.

? Before New Year's Eve, we should worship our ancestors, sweep the dust and go on a diet. On New Year's Eve, we should stick door gods, couplets, New Year pictures, window grilles, bless, eat jiaozi, set off firecrackers and watch New Year's Eve. On the first day of the first month, the younger generation pays New Year greetings to their elders, and then relatives and friends visit each other. In the first month, there are festivals such as lion dance, dragon lantern, social fire, flower market and Lantern Festival.

? These customs also exist in the New Year customs of neighboring countries. Here are several other countries celebrating the Spring Festival-

? Singapore: During the Spring Festival, Chinese Singaporeans exchange "red envelopes", hang red flags and eat fish to show their faith. Chinese in Singapore believe in luck, wealth, peace and longevity. Every Spring Festival, every household should stick a golden "blessing" on a red background, and bats are often printed on New Year cards, because pictures and blessings are homophonic. Eat oranges during the Spring Festival. Oranges are homophonic, indicating auspiciousness and luck. Eating fish means getting rich and lucky, because fish and abundance are homophonic.

? Second, South Korea: As the biggest festival in South Korea, the Spring Festival has the custom of offering sacrifices, visiting neighbors' elders' homes to celebrate the New Year and wishing each other well. Sacrifice in the ancestral temple during the Spring Festival is called tea ceremony, and visiting elders is called New Year greetings. The new clothes worn by children are called New Year's Eve, and the games played during the Spring Festival mainly include throwing boards, jumping on the springboard and flying kites. Adults will buy a small hedge to hang on the wall on the morning of the Spring Festival, which means wishing the hedge prosperity. Koreans also celebrate traditional festivals such as Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival.

? 3. Vietnam: For Vietnamese, the Spring Festival is very important, and it comes very early, and preparations for the festival began several months before the Spring Festival. Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Double Ninth Festival, etc.

? In recent years, China Spring Festival has gradually merged into the mainstream culture of western society, which has become an important example for China culture to go global. In 2003 and 2004, new york and New York successively designated the Spring Festival as a legal holiday. In new york, London, Paris and other international metropolises, there are huge celebrations during the Spring Festival every year.