What are the traditional customs in China?

Spring Festival custom

The Spring Festival is the most grand traditional festival among the people in China, and it is a folk festival that integrates blessing, entertainment and food. The Spring Festival has a long history, which evolved from praying for the New Year at the beginning of the year in ancient times, and bears rich historical and cultural connotations in its inheritance and development. The New Year's greeting activities are centered on offering wishes and praying for the new year, and are carried out in the form of eliminating the old, worshipping the ancestors, exorcising evil spirits and praying for a good harvest. The content is rich and colorful, lively and festive, and the flavor of the year is rich, which embodies the traditional cultural essence of Chinese civilization. During the Spring Festival, various New Year celebrations are held all over the country. Due to different regional cultures, there are differences in customs content or details, which are full of ethnic characteristics. [1][2][3]

Chinese New Year has a long history, and some relatively fixed customs have been formed in the process of inheritance and development, many of which have been passed down to this day, such as buying new year's goods, sweeping dust, posting couplets, eating New Year's Eve, celebrating the New Year, paying New Year's greetings, dancing dragons and lions, worshipping gods and ancestors, praying for disasters, setting off firecrackers, setting off fireworks, wandering around the gods, and betting. Traditional festival ceremonies and related custom activities are important contents of festival elements, bearing rich and colorful festival cultural connotations. Ancestor worship not only covers all the ancient traditional festivals in China, but also is the eternal theme of folk festivals in China. [3][4][5]