What is the Chinese New Year a festival for?

The Spring Festival is a festival of reunion. When Chinese people celebrate the Spring Festival, those who are away from home like to return to their hometown to be with their relatives and have a New Year's Eve dinner together. Home is the harbor of life, is the place where the closest relatives. It is the home of the soul of the traveler who works outside. That's why every Chinese person pays special attention to the Spring Festival reunion.

The Spring Festival is a festival of joy and harmony, family reunion, but also a carnival and eternal spiritual support for people to express their desire for happiness and freedom. Before the festival, people who have left their hometowns return home as much as possible to reunite with their loved ones and ****enjoy the joy of family life. On New Year's Eve, the whole family gathers together, eats the "New Year's dinner", the elders give out "New Year's money" to the children, and then "observe the New Year's Eve" to welcome the arrival of the New Year. During the festival, friends and relatives visit each other to express their affection for each other and their wishes for the new year.

Expanded Information:

Customs:

1, to do the New Year's

Chinese New Year's Eve culture has a long history, and there are a variety of customs and practices across the country. New Year's Eve customs, the north and south are very different, each with its own characteristics. Although customs vary from place to place, but the preparation of New Year's goods, New Year's gift is almost the whole country's "New Year's Eve must". To purchase New Year's goods, including food, wear, wear, use, stickers (New Year's red), send (New Year's) gifts, etc., collectively known as the "New Year's goods", and the process of purchasing New Year's goods called "do New Year's goods". The process of purchasing Lunar New Year goods is an important activity of the Chinese people during the Spring Festival.

2, sacrificial stove

The lunar calendar, December 23rd / 24th sacrificial stove. Folk worship of the stove originated from the ancient custom of worshiping fire. The duty of the god of the stove is to control the stove fire and manage the food and drink, and later expanded to examine the good and evil on earth, in order to bring down the blessings and disasters. The belief in the God of the Stove is a reflection of the Chinese people's dream of having more than enough food and clothing.