What's in the Spring Festival?

The customs of the Spring Festival mainly include buying new year's goods, pasting Spring Festival couplets, cutting window grilles, hanging New Year's pictures, New Year's Eve dinner, lucky money, observing the New Year, eating jiaozi glutinous rice balls, setting off firecrackers, watching the Spring Festival Evening, greeting the New Year, pasting blessings, dancing yangko, visiting temple fairs, walking on stilts, dancing lions and changing peach symbols.

Spring Festival is also called China New Year. In the historical development, it has integrated a variety of folk customs and formed some relatively fixed customs. During the Spring Festival, the main contents of celebrating the New Year are to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, to worship ancestors, to exorcise evil spirits, and to pray for a bumper harvest, with colorful forms and strong regional characteristics.

Spring Festival:

The Spring Festival is the biggest traditional folk festival in China, and it is a folk festival integrating blessing, entertainment and food. The Spring Festival has a long history, which evolved from ancient times praying for the New Year at the beginning of the year, and carries rich historical connotations in its inheritance and development.