Dragon Spring Festival handbook content (not more than 100 words)

I. Introduction to the Spring Festival:

The Spring Festival, that is, the Lunar New Year, commonly known as the New Year, generally refers to New Year's Eve and the first day of the first month. However, in folklore, the traditional meaning of the Spring Festival refers to the Lunar New Year's Day festival on the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, or Lunar New Year's Day festival on the twenty-third or twenty-fourth day of the Lunar New Year, until the fifteenth day of the first month of the first month of the lunar calendar, of which New Year's Eve and the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar are the climax. The Spring Festival has a long history, originating from the sacrifices to the gods and ancestors at the end of the year during the Yin and Shang dynasties. During the Spring Festival, the Han Chinese and many of China's ethnic minorities hold a variety of activities to celebrate the event. These activities all focus on worshipping the gods and Buddhas, honoring ancestors, getting rid of the old and bringing in the new, welcoming good fortune, and praying for a good year. The activities are colorful, with strong ethnic characteristics.

Two, the Spring Festival eating rice cakes

The Spring Festival eating rice cakes, "the right to take the year to win the year, the place to pray for the year ripe." It symbolizes that everything is going well year after year. There are different kinds of rice cakes: white cake (白糕饦) and yellow rice cake (黄米糕) in the north; water-ground rice cake (水磨年糕) in the south; glutinous rice cake (糯粑粑) in the southwest; and red turtle cake (紅龟糕) in Taiwan. Han Dynasty Yang Xiong's "dialect" book has been "cake" in the title, Wei Jin and North and South Dynasties has been popular. JiaSiFu "QiMinYaoJu" recorded the production method. Ming and Qing Dynasties, is the cake has developed into a year-round supply of snacks on the market, and there is a difference between the North and South flavor. Northern rice cakes have steamed, fried two kinds of southern rice cakes in addition to steaming, fried, there are still pieces of fried, boiled soup method.

Three, the northern Spring Festival to eat dumplings

The night meal has a tradition of eating dumplings, but the custom of eating dumplings around the world is not the same, some places eat dumplings on New Year's Eve, some places to eat dumplings on the first day of the year, and some mountainous areas in the north, there is the first day of the year to the first five every morning to eat dumplings of the custom. Eating dumplings is a unique way to express people's desire to pray for good luck and good fortune at the time of saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new. According to China's ancient timekeeping system, the period from 11:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m. the next day is called "Zi Zi" (子时). "This is the time when the New Year meets the Old Year. Dumplings mean that the new year is intersecting with the old one, and eating dumplings for the Chinese New Year is considered to be a great luck. In addition, dumplings are shaped like Yuanbao, which means that they are wrapped with good luck and eaten to symbolize a rich life. Unlike in the north, New Year's Eve dinners in the south usually include hot pots and fish. Hot pot boiling, steaming, warm and exciting, red-hot; "fish" and "Yu" resonate, symbolizing "auspicious celebration of surplus", but also a metaphor for a happy life. "Year after year". There are still some places in the South over the Spring Festival to eat rice cakes, high year (cake), symbolizing the harvest a year higher than a year, the realm of a year higher than a year.