Do foreigners celebrate the Spring Festival?

Foreigners also celebrate the Spring Festival.

In addition to Chinatown in overseas countries, the Spring Festival is celebrated every year. According to incomplete statistics, about eight countries in Asia have designated the Lunar New Year as a legal holiday. In Korea, North Korea and Vietnam, the Lunar New Year is the most important festival of the year. The lunar new year is called the first day of the lunar new year or an old holiday, and the first to third day of the first month is a national legal holiday. The Vietnamese Lunar New Year holiday lasts from New Year's Eve to the third day of the first month, plus Saturday and Sunday, ***6 days.

Some Southeast Asian countries where Chinese live in concentrated communities also make the Lunar New Year a legal holiday. In Singapore, the first day to the third day of the first month is a public holiday; Chinese in Malaysia account for a quarter of the total population, and the government has designated the first and second days of the first month as legal holidays; Indonesia and the Philippines, which have a large number of Chinese, designated the Lunar New Year as a national public holiday in 2003 and 2004 respectively, but the Philippines did not have a holiday.

Customs of the Spring Festival:

The custom of the Spring Festival is the custom of China people during the Spring Festival. Due to the different regional cultures, the customs in different parts of China are different in content or details and have strong regional characteristics. Common Spring Festival customs include New Year greetings, posting Spring Festival couplets, hanging New Year pictures, stick grilles, setting off firecrackers, giving out red envelopes, wearing new clothes, eating jiaozi, celebrating the New Year, dancing lions and dragons, and hanging lanterns. During the Spring Festival, there are different customs every day.

Worship of gods and ancestors is the oldest traditional custom in China. When we bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, we should show filial piety and nostalgia for our ancestors. The belief in China culture is rooted in respecting heaven and ancestors, and people firmly believe that ancestors can bless future generations and make them prosperous. This traditional custom has been passed down from generation to generation, so people always hold sacrificial ceremonies, begin with gratitude and pray for the blessing of their ancestors.