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Survey report on the Spring Festival customs

I. Survey background:

The Spring Festival, is a traditional festival in China. Traditionally, the Spring Festival refers to the Lunar New Year's Eve from the Lunar New Year's Day sacrifice or Lunar New Year's Day 23 or 24 sacrificial stove, until the first month of the fifteenth, of which New Year's Eve and the first day of the first month of the culmination. During the Spring Festival, the Han Chinese and many ethnic minorities in China hold various activities to celebrate. These activities all focus on worshipping gods and buddhas, honoring ancestors, getting rid of the old and bringing in the new, welcoming good fortune, and praying for a good year.

II. Purpose of the investigation: to explore the customs of the Spring Festival and to understand how people spend the Spring Festival.

Three, the investigation content:

1. Posting Spring Festival couplets

Spring Festival couplets evolved from the "peach stalk" in the Warring States period more than two thousand years ago. According to the Huainanzi, the peach symbol (i.e., the peach stalk) was carved from peach wood. It was engraved with the incantation of "Sending Blessings" and was changed once a year. When Emperor Meng Chang of Shu had a whim during the Spring Festival in the Five Dynasties, he had a peach tree sliced and he wrote a couplet on it: "New Year's Day is a blessing for all, and the festive season is an everlasting one". This is the earliest Spring Festival couplet in China. As for the official birth of the name of Spring Festival couplets, it was in the Ming Dynasty. Ming Dynasty founding emperor Zhu Yuanzhang built the capital of Jinling, had in the new year's eve when the decree: "public officials and the common people's families, must write a pair of spring couplets to decorate the new year". Later, the Spring Festival couplets were popularized and have been inherited to this day, when the New Year, all households have to stick the Spring Festival couplets.　

2. New Year's Eve Dinner

On the night of the 30th day of the Lunar New Year, every family will get together to have a New Year's Eve dinner. Of course, this is the first meal of the New Year, and it can be eaten either at your own home or at the home of your elders. There are strict rules about the number of dishes to be served. In our family. Every year, there are eight dishes at the New Year's Eve dinner, and fish and chicken are essential. Fish symbolizes a good year's harvest, and chicken is a Cantonese favorite. They are both good omens of good luck!

3. Firecrackers:

Every Chinese New Year, the lanterns shine brightly and the gongs and drums sound. The sound of firecrackers

Rising and falling, for the boiling earth played the song of the New Year. The air is full of colorful lights and flowers, making a happy chapter for the festival.

Firecrackers to celebrate the New Year, in our country has more than two thousand years of history. The earliest firecrackers, refers to the burning of bamboo and burst, because the bamboo burning crackling sound, so called firecrackers. Speaking of the origin of firecrackers, there is an interesting legend. The "Divine Scriptures" said: "Western mountains, there is a long foot, a foot, the nature of the people do not fear. Offenders are cold and hot, called the mandrill scare, and then people like its shape, with gunpowder for it." This is the earliest record of the origin of firecrackers, indicating that when people burned bamboo and burst, in order to drive away the mandrill to scare people. It is said that the mandrill is most afraid of fire and noise, so every New Year's Eve, people will be "burning firecrackers and popping", the mandrill scared away. In this way, year after year, the formation of the New Year's firecrackers, red candles, gongs and drums to celebrate the New Year's custom.

Chinese New Year firecrackers, as our people celebrate the Spring Festival customs, a long history, this activity, although it can add to the festive atmosphere of joy, but firecrackers release of smoke, spattered sparks, easy to cause environmental pollution, causing fires, some of the strong firecrackers every year will cause some casualties. With the progress of society and people's civilization, the Spring Festival firecrackers this custom of the drawbacks, has attracted the attention of all walks of life. Previously, many cities in China have formulated regulations prohibiting the discharge of fireworks. Now not lifted. In the evening of the New Year's Eve at 0:00 whole firecrackers is also a special custom, it means "resignation of the old year, welcome the new spring". To welcome the new year there is also a saying called "keep the New Year's Eve" so to speak, "keep the New Year's Eve" actually means from the New Year's Eve 30 to the first day of the period does not sleep. For most young people, this is the best time to have fun. Of course, this is not always the case, some of the old and strong old people will also be with the young people with the New Year! Spring Festival firecrackers, as our people celebrate the Spring Festival custom, a long history, this activity, although it can add to the festive atmosphere of joy, but firecrackers release of smoke, splash sparks, easy to cause environmental pollution, causing fires, and some of the potent firecrackers every year will cause some casualties. With the progress of society and people's civilization, the Spring Festival firecrackers this custom of the drawbacks, has attracted the attention of all walks of life. Previously, many cities in China have formulated regulations prohibiting the discharge of fireworks. Now not lifted.

4. Activities

On the first morning, many lion dance class and Yingge team gongs and drums to the villages and households to pay homage to the New Year, the owner of the firecrackers to welcome. The second and third day of the township will be organized to celebrate the Lunar New Year cultural and recreational activities. Such as showing movies, ball games, calligraphy and painting exhibitions, riddles and so on. During the day and night people in groups to enjoy the tour to watch, a lively atmosphere to welcome the spring.

5. Give red envelopes

Giving red envelopes in the Spring Festival customs in an important one, the elders have to share the money to the younger generation, can earn money to the younger generation should also send money to the elders. The money can not be sent straight, but to be very carefully packed in a Li Shi bag. This is commonly known as "pressure belly waist", meaning that the year from beginning to end, the waist bag will be full of solid, rich and wealthy.

6. New Year's Day

The first day of the New Year, people get up early, put on the most beautiful clothes, dressed neatly, go out to visit friends and relatives, pay respect to each other, wishing good luck in the coming year. Worship a variety of ways, there are a number of people led by the patriarch to go door to door to pay tribute to the New Year; there are colleagues invited to pay tribute to the New Year; there are also get together to congratulate each other, known as the "reunion worship". To the Song Dynasty, friends and relatives will send each other stickers to congratulate, which is the early New Year's card. In the Ming Dynasty, the design of the New Year's card is more perfect, exquisite, the post is not only printed with the name and address of the sender, but also written on the "Happy New Year", "good luck" wishes.

New Year's greetings, the younger generation should first pay tribute to the elders, wishing the elders a long life and well-being, the elders can be prepared in advance to distribute the New Year's money to the younger generation, it is said that the New Year's money can be pressed to stop the evil spirits, because the "year" and the "Soun" harmonic, the elders to get the New Year's money will be able to The new year's money is said to keep evil spirits at bay, because "year" and "sneak" sound alike.　

7, dumplings:

Dumplings are a traditional specialty food loved by the Chinese people, also known as dumplings, is the staple food and local

snacks of the folk in northern China, is also the northern New Year's food. Dumplings on the 30th day of the Lunar New Year. It is one of the most important elements of the New Year's Eve for the folk in the vast areas of northern China. Dumplings on the New Year's Eve, because it is an important element of the festival, so there are also many rules and conventions stipulated in the content of the custom. These customs are all needed to match the atmosphere of the New Year. There is a folk song called "Big Cold, Little Cold, Eat Dumplings for the New Year". Dumplings are a time-honored folk food, popular among the people, and there is a popular saying that "it's not as good as dumplings".

Four, conclusion: the Spring Festival is China's most traditional and grandest festival, symbolizing the good, happy. It is the beginning of a new year. As a result of the development of the times, many traditional old customs have been changed. But no matter how modernized life has become, the Spring Festival is still the most important festival of the Chinese people, and I hope that the traditional bright culture of the Chinese nation can be passed on from generation to generation.