From the origin of Chinese New Year and New Year's Eve, what are the characteristics of the ancient working people in China?

It can be seen that the Spring Festival is a traditional cultural festival of the Chinese nation, a custom passed down from generation to generation, and a yearning for life of ancient working people. The origin of the Spring Festival contains profound cultural connotations, and it carries rich historical and cultural connotations in its inheritance and development. During the Spring Festival, various activities will be held all over the country to celebrate the Spring Festival, which has strong regional characteristics.

These activities are rich and colorful, which have condensed the essence of China traditional culture, mainly to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, exorcise evil spirits and disturb disasters, offer sacrifices to gods and ancestors, and pray for the New Year. In the historical development, although the calendar is different and the date of the first festival is different, its festival framework and many folk customs have been passed down.

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Traditional festival ceremonies and custom activities are important contents of festival elements, bearing rich and colorful festival cultural connotations. Lunar New Year is an ancient festival in China, and it is also the most important festival in a year. In the historical development, it has integrated a variety of folk customs and formed some relatively fixed customs and habits, many of which are still handed down today.

These activities can be summarized as follows: offering sacrifices to the gods to welcome the weather; Worship ancestors and maintain family ties; Drive away evil spirits and seek peace; Entertainment and relaxation. Headed by the centennial festival, the Spring Festival is the most solemn traditional festival of the Chinese nation, which not only embodies the Chinese nation's ideological beliefs, ideals and aspirations, life, entertainment and cultural psychology, but also shows the carnival of blessing, eating and entertainment activities.