What is the Spring Festival of China traditional culture?

Spring Festival is the China Lunar New Year, commonly known as Spring Festival, New Year, New Year's Eve and so on. And it is also called Chinese New Year and New Year's Eve verbally.

The Spring Festival has a long history, which evolved from praying for the New Year at the beginning of the year in ancient times. Everything is based on heaven, and people are based on ancestors, praying for the elderly, respecting the ancestors of heaven, and returning to the original. The origin of the Spring Festival contains profound cultural connotations, and it carries rich historical and cultural connotations in its inheritance and development.

During the Spring Festival, various activities will be held all over the country to celebrate the Spring Festival, which has strong local characteristics. These activities are rich and colorful, which have condensed the essence of China traditional culture, mainly to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, exorcise evil spirits and disturb disasters, offer sacrifices to gods and ancestors, and pray for the New Year.

The origin of festivals

The origin of ancient traditional festivals is related to ancient primitive beliefs, sacrificial culture, astrology, calendar and other humanistic and natural cultural contents. According to the research results of modern anthropology and archaeology, the two most primitive beliefs of human beings are the belief in heaven and earth and the belief in ancestors. Most of the traditional festivals in ancient times were formed in the activities of the ancients choosing a day to offer sacrifices to thank the gods of heaven and earth, the grace of their ancestors and pray for evil spirits.

The early festival culture embodies the ancient people's humanistic spirit of advocating nature, the unity of man and nature, cautiously pursuing the future, and firmly thinking about the source; A series of sacrificial activities contain profound cultural connotations, such as respecting morality, ritual and music civilization, etc. The origin and development of New Year's Day covers humanistic philosophy and natural laws.