Characteristics of Spring Festival

1. From the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, the "busy year" began: cleaning the house, washing your hair and taking a bath, preparing new year's utensils and so on. All these activities have a common theme, that is, "saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new".

2. On New Year's Eve, we get together for a reunion dinner, and the elders give the children lucky money. The whole family is sitting on the "birthday". As soon as the New Year is over, firecrackers are ringing and the activities to bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new year reach a climax.

After Yuan Dynasty, we began to visit relatives and friends and exchange gifts to celebrate the New Year. A variety of colorful entertainment activities are carried out in the competition: playing lions, dragon lanterns, yangko, walking on stilts, performing various plays and so on. , adding a rich festive atmosphere to the Spring Festival.

4. Before and after the beginning of spring, a grand welcoming ceremony was held in ancient times to whip cattle to welcome the spring and pray for good weather and abundant crops. All kinds of social fire activities reached their climax again on the fifteenth day of the first month.

In a word, the Spring Festival is a grand traditional festival integrating blessing, celebration and entertainment.