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China Traditional Culture Manuscript Content: Spring Festival

The Spring Festival refers to the traditional Chinese New Year in the cultural circle of Chinese characters.

Traditional names are New Year, New Year and New Year, but they are also verbally called New Year, Celebrating New Year and China New Year. In ancient times, the Spring Festival refers to the beginning of spring in the solar terms and is also regarded as the beginning of a year. Later, it was changed to the first day of the first lunar month as the New Year. Generally, it doesn't end until the 15th day of the first month (Shangyuan Festival), commonly known as the Spring Festival? Festival? It is the biggest traditional festival of the Chinese nation. Before the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the Spring Festival dates of different dynasties were not consistent. Since the first year of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the first month of the summer calendar (lunar calendar) is the beginning of a year, and the festival date is fixed. 19 1 de191/year after the revolution, the Gregorian calendar has been used to calculate the year, hence the name Gregorian calendar 65438. New year's day? , called the first day of the first month? Spring Festival? .

18 year old festival, also known as? Traditional festivals? They have a long history, spread widely and have the characteristics of great popularity, mass and even the whole people. New Year's Day is a time to throw away old clothes and make new ones. Although it is set on the first day of the first lunar month, its activities are not limited to the first day of the first lunar month. People celebrate the Spring Festival from the 23rd (or 24th) of the twelfth lunar month? Busy year? Clean the house, wash your hair and take a bath, and prepare new year's utensils. All these activities have the same theme, namely? Say goodbye to the old and welcome the new? . People greet the new year and spring with grand ceremonies and enthusiasm. New Year's Day is also a day to pray for the new year. The ancients said that millet is cooked into one? Year? How is the grain harvest? How old is it? . In the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty, there was an annual harvest celebration.

Later, New Year greetings became one of the main contents of the annual customs. Besides, the Kitchen God, Door God, God of Wealth, XiShen, Well God and other gods. Everyone enjoys human incense during the festival. People take this opportunity to thank the gods for their care in the past and pray for more blessings in the new year. New Year's Day is also a time for family reunion, family worship and ancestor worship. On new year's eve, the whole family get together for dinner? Reunion dinner? Distribute it to children by elders? Lucky money? , a family group to sit? Shounian? . At the turn of the New Year's Day, firecrackers exploded, and the activities to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new reached a climax. Every family burns incense to worship the heavens and the earth and ancestors, then pays tribute to the elders in turn, and then congratulates relatives and friends. New Year's Day is a festival for people to entertain and revel. After the January Festival, a variety of colorful entertainment activities were launched, such as playing with lions, dragon lanterns, yangko dancing, walking on stilts and juggling, which added a rich festive atmosphere to the Spring Festival. At this point, positive? The beginning of spring? In ancient times, a grand ceremony was held to welcome the spring, whipping livestock to welcome the spring, praying for good weather and abundant crops, and various social fire activities reached their climax again on the fifteenth day of the first month. Therefore, the grand New Year Festival, which integrates blessing, celebration and entertainment, has become the most grand festival of the Chinese nation. Nowadays, in addition to offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors, the main customs of the festival have been well inherited and developed.

Spring Festival is an important carrier of the excellent tradition of Chinese culture, which contains the wisdom and crystallization of Chinese culture, embodies the life pursuit and emotional sustenance of China people, and inherits the social morality of China people. After thousands of years of accumulation, the colorful folk customs of the Spring Festival have formed a profound and unique Spring Festival culture. With the improvement of material living standards, people's demand for spiritual and cultural life has increased rapidly, and their desire for affection, friendship, harmony and happiness has become stronger. Traditional festivals such as the Spring Festival have attracted more and more attention from all walks of life. Therefore, we must vigorously carry forward the excellent traditional culture condensed in the Spring Festival, highlight the themes of saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new, blessing, peaceful reunion and prosperity, strive to create a festive atmosphere of family harmony, stability, unity, joy and peace, and promote the enduring and continuous development of Chinese culture.

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