Spring Festival nursery rhymes contain many traditional folk customs in China. What are their origins and symbols?

It symbolizes people's prayers and yearning for a better life in the future.

In the traditional sense, the Spring Festival refers to the La Worship sacrificial ceremony from the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month or the 23rd or 24th of the twelfth lunar month to the 15th of the first lunar month, with New Year's Eve and the first day of the first lunar month as the climax. There is a nursery rhyme in the folk custom of the Spring Festival: "Twenty-three, honeydew melon sticks; Twenty-four, housing Tomb-Sweeping Day; Twenty-five, pushing millet; Twenty-six, hanging meat; Twenty-seven, slaughter a chicken; Twenty-eight, send face; Twenty-nine, steamed bread first; Stay for 30 nights, on the first day of the New Year. "

Different places have different versions.

Since the Han Dynasty, the alternation of the new year and the old year is generally at midnight, and celebrating the New Year's Eve is one of the most important annual customs. The custom of observing the old age has a long history, which was first seen in the local chronicles of the Western Jin Dynasty: on New Year's Eve, all parties give gifts to each other, which is called "giving back the old age"; Wine and food are invited, which is called "not old"; Young and old get together to drink and wish a complete song called "age division"; Everyone stays up all night, waiting for dawn. This is the so-called "shou sui".