Do foreigners celebrate the Spring Festival?

Foreigners celebrate the Spring Festival.

The Spring Festival is not unique to China. Among Asian countries, the Lunar New Year holidays in Vietnam, Indonesia, North Korea, South Korea, Singapore and Malaysia are the same as those in China.

In addition, Thailand, the Philippines and Mongolia also have the tradition of Spring Festival. However, Mongolia is celebrating the Spring Festival in Tibet, which is called White Moon Festival locally. The start date of the annual festival can only be determined by the Lama.

In Korea, North Korea and Vietnam, the Lunar New Year is the most important festival of the year. On the Korean peninsula, the Lunar New Year is called "New Year's Day" or "Old Correction", and the first to third day of the first month is a national legal holiday. The Vietnamese Lunar New Year holiday lasts from New Year's Eve to the third day of the first month, plus Saturday and Sunday, ***6 days.

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The customs of the Spring Festival

Spring Festival, also known as China New Year, is the biggest traditional folk festival. 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 the celebration are to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, to welcome the new and to receive the blessings, to worship the gods and ancestors, and to pray for a bumper harvest. Rich and colorful forms, with strong regional characteristics. The Spring Festival is a time to worship ancestors and pray for the New Year. Sacrificial activities follow the rules of ancestors, paying tribute and offering incense, bowing down and saluting, and being solemn and meticulous.

On the first day of New Year's Day, many towns and villages began to celebrate the New Year, such as greeting the new year, worshiping the gods of the old year, setting off firecrackers, saying goodbye to the old year and welcoming the new year. On the second day of the lunar new year, make a fish tank to worship the ancestors, and then have a New Year's Eve dinner. On the second day, it is also the day when a married daughter returns to her mother's house, and she will go with her husband, so it is commonly known as "welcoming her husband".

From the second day of New Year's Day, visiting relatives and friends to pay a New Year's call, of course, is indispensable to represent the gift package. In addition to the red element of prosperity, the gift package also means that oranges and profits are good intentions. The fourth day of the fourth month of the lunar calendar is the day of offering sacrifices to the god of wealth. On the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, shops and restaurants officially opened their doors and set off firecrackers, no less than on New Year's Eve.

The seventh day is People's Day, and people generally don't go out to pay New Year's greetings. The eighth day of the Lunar New Year is the start-up day, which is the first thing for Guangdong bosses to do on their first day of work after the New Year. Profit is profit, which means that it can be profitable all year round.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Spring Festival

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