Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - Traditional customs - The Spring Festival falls on 1 day of the lunar calendar.

The Spring Festival falls on 1 day of the lunar calendar.

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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 the sacrificial rites of praying for the New Year at the beginning of ancient times, and bears rich historical and cultural connotations in its inheritance and development. New Year's greeting activities are centered on offering wishes and praying for blessings, and are carried out in the form of eliminating the old, worshipping ancestors, exorcising evil spirits and praying for a bumper harvest. The content is rich and colorful, lively and festive, and the annual flavor is rich, which embodies the essence of traditional culture of Chinese civilization.

During the Spring Festival, various New Year celebrations will be held all over the country. Due to different regional cultures, the content or details of customs are also different.

Chinese New Year has a long history. In the process of inheritance and development, some relatively fixed customs have been formed, many of which are handed down from generation to generation, such as buying new year's goods, sweeping dust, pasting couplets, eating New Year's Eve, celebrating New Year's Eve, dancing dragons and lions, worshipping gods and ancestors, praying and worshiping gods, racing dragon boats, holding temple fairs, playing gongs and drums, hanging flags, putting lanterns and enjoying lanterns.

Traditional festival ceremonies and related custom activities are important contents of festival elements, bearing rich and colorful festival cultural connotations.