What is the significance of celebrating Spring Festival

Celebrating the Spring Festival

The Spring Festival refers to the Lunar New Year traditionally celebrated in the Chinese character culture circle, traditionally known as New Year, Dainian, and Xinyue, but also known verbally as Dusu, Qingxin, and Niannian (过年). In ancient times, the Spring Festival used to refer exclusively to the first day of spring in the lunar calendar, which was also regarded as the beginning of the year, but later it was changed to the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar as the beginning of the New Year, and it was generally believed that the New Year would not end until at least the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar (the Shangyuan Festival). The Spring Festival, commonly known as the "New Year Festival", is the grandest traditional festival of the Chinese nation. Before the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the date of the Spring Festival in various dynasties was not consistent, since the first year of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the first month of the summer calendar (lunar calendar) for the first year, the date of the festival was fixed, and continues to this day. 1911 after the Xinhai Revolution, the beginning of the use of the Gregorian calendar to count the year, so that the Gregorian calendar January 1 for the "New Year's Day", the first day of the first month of the Lunar New Year for the "Spring Festival". "Spring Festival". New Year's festivals, also known as "traditional festivals", have a long history, are widely spread, and are characterized by great popularity, mass popularity, and even universal popularity. The New Year's Day is a day to get rid of the old and bring in the new. Although the New Year's Day is set on the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar, the activities of the New Year's Day are not limited to the first day of the first month. From the Lunar New Year's Day on the twenty-third (or twenty-fourth), people will begin to "busy year": sweeping the house, washing hair and bathing, preparation of the New Year's Day apparatus, etc., all these activities, there is a **** the same theme, that is, "resignation of the old and welcome the new". People welcome the New Year and spring with great ceremony and enthusiasm.

Spring Festival wallpaper 2 (34) Festival of the year is also a day of worship and pray for the year, the ancients said that a cooked grain for a "year", the five grains for the "great year". In the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty, there has been an annual celebration of the harvest. Later, praying to heaven became one of the main contents of the New Year's custom. Moreover, gods such as the God of the Stove, the God of the Door, the God of Wealth, the God of Happiness, the God of the Well, etc., all enjoyed the incense on earth during the New Year's festivals. People take this opportunity to thank the gods for their care in the past and pray for more blessings in the new year. New Year's Day is also a time for family reunions and ancestor worship. New Year's Eve, the whole family gathered together, ate the "New Year's dinner", the elders to the children to distribute "New Year's money", the family sat down "to observe the New Year". At the time of the New Year's Eve, firecrackers went off, and the activities of saying goodbye to the old year and welcoming the new year reached a climax. Each family burns incense to pay homage to heaven and earth, sacrifices to the ancestors, and then pays New Year's greetings to their elders, followed by congratulations from relatives and friends of the same clan. After the New Year's Day, they begin to visit friends and relatives and give each other gifts to celebrate the New Year. The New Year's Day is also a festival of popular entertainment and revelry. After the New Year's Day, a variety of colorful recreational activities are carried out: playing lion, dragon dance, twisting rice-planting songs, stilt walkers, juggling plays, etc., for the New Year Festival has added a rich and festive atmosphere. At this time, just before and after the "spring", the ancient times to hold a grand ceremony to welcome the spring, whip the bull to welcome the spring, praying for good weather, a good harvest, a variety of social fire activities to the first month of the fifteenth, once again forming a climax. Therefore, a set of prayers, celebrations, entertainment as one of the feast of the New Year Festival has become the most grand festival of the Chinese people. To this day, the main customs of the New Year's Day have been inherited and developed intact, except for the activities of worshiping the gods and ancestors, which have been somewhat diluted compared with the past. The Spring Festival is an important part of the excellent traditions of Chinese culture, which contains the wisdom and crystallization of Chinese culture, the pursuit of life and the emotional attachment of the Chinese people, and the family and social ethics of the Chinese people. After thousands of years of accumulation, colorful Spring Festival folklore, has formed a deep and unique Spring Festival culture. With the improvement of material living standards, people's demand for spiritual and cultural life is growing rapidly, and the desire for family, friendship, harmony and fulfillment is even stronger, the Spring Festival and other traditional festivals are receiving more and more attention and concern from all walks of life. We should vigorously carry forward the excellent traditional culture condensed in the Spring Festival, highlight the theme of saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new, wishing for reunion, peace and prosperity, and endeavor to create a festive atmosphere of family harmony, stability and unity, joy and peace, and to promote the Chinese culture to be everlasting and ever-growing. [1]2 HistoryThe Chinese Lunar New Year, known as the Spring Festival, is the grandest traditional festival in China and symbolizes unity, prosperity and new hopes for the future. According to records, Chinese people have been celebrating the Spring Festival for more than 4,000 years. There are many theories about the origin of the Spring Festival, but the one that is generally accepted by the public is that on a day during the time of Yu and Shun, i.e., more than 2,000 years B.C., Shun, who was the son of the Emperor, led his subordinates to pay homage to heaven and earth. Since then, this day has been regarded as the first day of the year. This is said to be the origin of the Lunar New Year, which was later called the Spring Festival. The Spring Festival used to be called New Year's Day. The month of January in which the Spring Festival falls is called New Year's Day. The date of the Spring Festival has not been the same throughout the Chinese history: the Xia Dynasty used the first month of Mengchun as the first month, and the Shang Dynasty used the month of Lunar New Year (December) as the first month. After the unification of the six kingdoms by Qin Shi Huang, the first month was October, and the Qin calendar was used in the early Han Dynasty. In 104 B.C. (Yuanfeng six years), Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty ordered a change in the calendar at the suggestion of Sima Qian and others. In 104 B.C., astronomers such as Lok Ma-tek and Deng Ping formulated the "Tai Chou Calendar", changing the original October as the first day of the year to the first day of the first month of Bengchun, which was basically perfected into the Lunar Calendar (i.e., Lunar Calendar) that is in use today, and Lok Ma-tek was also known as the "Spring Festival Elder". Since then, China has been using the Summer Calendar (the lunar calendar, also known as the Lunar Calendar) to celebrate the year until the end of the Qing Dynasty, a period of 2080 years. The Spring Festival had different names in different times. In the pre-Qin Dynasty, it was called the "Day of the First Emperor", "Day of the First Year", "Change of Year", "Dedication of Year", etc.; in the two Han Dynasties, it was called the "Three Dynasties", which was also called the "Three Dynasties". was called "three dynasties", "the first day of the year", "the first day", "the first day"; Wei, Jin and North and South Dynasties called the "yuan Chen", "yuan day", "yuan head", "year dynasty", etc.; to the Tang, Song and Yuanming, it is called "New Year's Day", "Yuan", "Year Day", "Xinzheng", "Xinyuan "and so on; and the Qing Dynasty, has been called" New Year's Day "or" New Year's Day ". 1912 Sun Yat-sen in Nanjing inauguration of the Republic of China Provisional President, announced that the abolition of the old calendar to use the solar calendar (i.e., the Gregorian calendar), the Republic of China with the chronology of the year. And decided Oil Painting Sun Yat-sen inaugurated as temporary president

To January 1, 1912 AD for the Republic of China January 1, the first year. January 1 called New Year, but not New Year's Day. However, the people still follow the old calendar according to tradition, that is, the summer calendar, still in February 18 (the first day of the first month of the year of the polyoxyethylene) to celebrate the traditional New Year's Day, and other traditional festivals are also the same as before. In view of this, in 1913 (Republic of China two years) in July, by the Beijing government at that time, the chief of internal affairs to the president Yuan Shikai submitted a report of the four seasons of the holiday, said: "our old custom, the four seasons of the year, that is, it should be expressly provided for, and to be set on the lunar New Year's Day as the Spring Festival, Dragon Boat Festival for the Summer Festival, Mid-Autumn for the Autumn Festival, the winter solstice for the Winter Festival, where I have to rest for all the nationals, in the public service, but also permitted to holiday One day." But Yuan Shikai only approved the first day of the first month for the Spring Festival, agreed to the Spring Festival routine vacation, the following year (1914) began to implement. Since then, the first year of the summer calendar is called "Spring Festival". September 27, 1949, the first plenary session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference decided to establish the Chinese People's Republic of China at the same time, to adopt the world's common epoch of the AD. In order to distinguish between the solar calendar and the lunar calendar two "years", but also because of the 24 solar terms of the year "spring" just before and after the lunar year, so the solar January 1 called "New Year's Day", the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar Officially renamed "Spring Festival". The earth around the sun a week, the calendar called a year, the cycle, never-ending. However, according to the different seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter, people take the first day of the first month of the summer calendar, the First Plenary Session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC)

as the beginning of the year. The Spring Festival officially comes after midnight on December 30 (the 29th day of the second month) of the lunar calendar. As the Spring Festival approaches, people pick up new year's goods, and on New Year's Eve, the whole family gathers together for New Year's Eve dinner. New Year's paintings and Spring Festival couplets are put up. With the establishment of the new China, the Spring Festival celebrations have become more colorful. Not only retained the folk customs of the past, eliminated some activities with feudal superstitions, and added a lot of new content. So that the Spring Festival has a new flavor of the times. December 23, 1949, the People's Republic of China and the People's Government of the People's Republic of China provided for the annual Spring Festival holiday for three days. China is a multi-ethnic country, each ethnic group to celebrate the New Year in different forms. The Han Chinese, Manchu and Koreans celebrate the Spring Festival in much the same way, with family reunions, eating rice cakes, dumplings and a variety of hearty meals, displaying lanterns and colorful decorations, setting off firecrackers, and wishing each other well. The celebrations during the Spring Festival are extremely rich and varied, including lion dances, dragon juggling, stilt walking, and running on dry boats. In some areas people follow the past ancestor worship God activities, praying for a new year of wind and rain, peace, harvest. Ancient Mongolia, the Spring Festival called "white festival", the first month called white month, is the meaning of good luck. The Tibetans celebrate the Tibetan New Year. The Hui, Uyghur and Kazakhs celebrate the Gulbang Festival. The Spring Festival is also a grand festival for the Miao, Boys, and Yao ethnic groups.[2] 3 The Spring Festival is also celebrated by the Hmong, Boys, and Yao ethnic groups. [2]3 Legends of the New Year's Eve Vigilance Vigilance

Vigilance is the custom of staying awake on the last night of the old year and staying up all night to welcome the arrival of the new year, which is also called New Year's Eve Vigilance and is commonly known as the "New Year's Eve Vigilance". Explore the origins of this custom, in folklore is an interesting story: the ancient times, there is a ferocious beast, scattered in the mountains and dense forests, people call them "year". It is hideous, vicious, specializing in eating birds and beasts, scales and insects, a day to change a taste, from knocking insects have been eaten to the big living people, let people talk about "year" color change. Later, people slowly mastered the "year" of the law of activities, it is every three hundred and sixty-five days scurrying to the crowd of places to taste a mouthful of food, and the time of infestation are in the dark, until the cock crows at dawn, they will return to the mountains and forests. Calculated the date of the "year" rampage, the people will be this terrible night as a gate to brake, called "New Year's Eve", and came up with a set of New Year's Eve approach: every night, every family is done in advance of the evening meal, put out the fire and clean the stove, and then put the chicken coop Cattle fences all tied up, the front and back doors of the house are sealed, hiding in the house to eat "New Year's Eve dinner", because this dinner has the meaning of bad luck and uncertainty, so it is very rich, in addition to the whole family to dine together to express the harmony and reunion, but also have to be in the meal before the sacrifice to the ancestors, praying for the blessing of the gods of the ancestors, and peacefully through the night, after eating dinner, no one will have a good time, and then the fire is shut off. After dinner, no one dares to sleep, sitting together in a crowded chat. Gradually formed the habit of New Year's Eve to stay up to keep the New Year's Eve. The custom of keeping the New Year's Eve rose in the North and South Dynasties, and many literati in the Liang Dynasty had poems about keeping the New Year's Eve. "One night is even a double year, and the fifth night is divided into two years." People light candles or oil lamps, and this custom has been passed down by people to this day. [3] Wannian created the calendar said Legend has it that, in ancient times, there was a young man named Wannian, saw that the festival was very chaotic at that time, and had the intention of trying to set the festival correctly Shouxingtu

, but suffered from not being able to find a way to calculate the time. One day, he went up the mountain to cut firewood tired, sitting under the shade of a tree to rest, the movement of the shadow of the tree inspired him, he designed a sundial measuring the sun and shadow counting the time of day, to determine the time of day, and later, the dripping springs on the cliffs inspired him, and he had his hands on a five-tiered funnel pot to calculate the time. Over time, he realized that every 360 days or so, the four seasons would rotate and the length of the day would repeat itself. The king of the country at that time was called Zuyi, who was also often distressed by the unpredictability of the weather winds and clouds. Wannian knew, took the sundial and funnel pot to see the emperor, to Zuyi clear reasoning for the operation of the sun and the moon. Zu Yi listened to the dragon's face, feel reasonable. So left Wannian, in front of the Temple of Heaven to build the Sun and Moon Pavilion, built the sundial and funnel kiosk. And hope to be able to measure the sun and moon law, project the accurate morning and evening time, create the calendar, for the benefit of the people of the world. Once, Zu Yi went to find out the progress of the Ten Thousand Years Test Calendar. When he ascended to the Altar of the Sun and the Moon, he saw a poem engraved on the stone wall beside the Temple of Heaven: The sun rises and sets three hundred and six times, and the cycle begins again and again from the beginning. Grass and trees wither and prosper in four seasons, and there are twelve rounds in a year. Knowing that Wannian's creation of the calendar had come to fruition, he personally climbed up to the Sun and Moon Pavilion to visit Wannian. Wannian pointed to the sky and said to Zuyi: "It is the twelve full months, the old year is over, the new spring begins again, I pray that the king of the country to set a festival". Zu Yi said, "Spring is the first day of the year, let's call it Spring Festival". This is said to be the origin of the Spring Festival. As winter turned to spring, year after year, Wannian, after a long period of observation and careful projection, formulated an accurate solar calendar, which was full of silver whiskers when he presented it to the succeeding ruler of the country. The king of the country was y touched, in order to commemorate the achievements of Wan Nian, the solar calendar named "Wan Nian Calendar", Wan Nian as the sun and moon life star. Later on, people put up a picture of the Longevity Star at New Year's Eve, which is said to be in honor of the highly respected Wannian. [4] The custom of putting up spring couplets and door gods is said to have begun about a thousand years ago in the period of Hou Shu, which is supported by history. In addition, according to the Jade Candle Canon and the Yenching Years and Seasons Record, the original form of spring couplets was what people called "peach symbols". Qin Shubao and Yuchigong

In ancient Chinese mythology, there is a world of ghosts, and in the middle of it there is a mountain with a big peach tree that covers 3,000 miles, and on the top of the tree there is a golden chicken. Whenever the golden rooster crowed in the morning, the ghosts that had gone out to roam at night would be rushed back to the ghost world. The gate of the Ghost Realm was situated in the northeast of the peach tree, and by the gate stood two godmen named Shentan and Yubi. If a ghost did something harmful at night, the gods would immediately find it, catch it, tie it up with a rope made of mango reeds, and feed it to the tiger. Therefore, all the ghosts in the world were afraid of Shentian and Yubi. So the folk used peach wood to carve into their likeness and put it in front of their house to avoid evil and prevent harm. Later, people simply carve the name of God Tantui and Yubi on the mahogany board, thinking that this can also suppress the evil to go to the evil. This kind of mahogany board was later called "peach talisman". To the Song Dynasty, people began to write couplets on the mahogany board, one does not lose the significance of mahogany to suppress evil, the second is to express their good wishes, the third is to decorate the portal, in order to beautiful. And write couplets on red paper to symbolize the joy and auspiciousness of the New Year, posted on both sides of the doors and windows, to express people's prayers for good luck in the coming year. In order to pray for a family's well-being, people in some places still retain the habit of sticking door gods. It is said that if two door gods are posted on the front door, all demons and ghosts will be afraid. In folklore, the door god is a symbol of righteousness and force, the ancients believe that people with strange looks often have magical endowments and extraordinary skills. They are upright and kind-hearted, to catch ghosts and demons is their nature and responsibility, people look up to the ghost hunter Zhong Kui, that is, this kind of strange looks. So the folk god of the door is always angry eyes, grim-looking, holding a variety of traditional weapons, ready to fight with the ghosts and demons that dare to come to the door. Since the doors of residential houses in China usually open in pairs, the door gods are always in pairs. After the Tang Dynasty, in addition to the previous two generals Shentian and Yubi, people also took Qin Shubao and Yuchigong, two Tang Dynasty military generals, as door deities. Legend has it that when Emperor Taizong of Tang Dynasty was sick, he heard the ghosts and demons outside his door and could not have peace all night long. So he asked these two generals to stand beside the door with weapons to guard it, and the next night there were no more ghosts to disturb him. Later, Emperor Tang Taizong had the two generals' images drawn and pasted on the door, and this custom began to spread among the people. [5]Legend of the Peach Symbol Peach Symbol

Wang Anshi of the Song Dynasty wrote in his poem "Yuan Day", "Thousands of doors and tens of thousands of tels, always replacing the new peach with the old one." [6], describing the light of the first day. The words "桃" and "符" in the poem are intertextual, meaning that new peach symbols are always exchanged for old ones - getting rid of the old and bringing in the new. There is a beautiful legend about the Peach Symbol. A long time ago, Dushuo Mountain in the East China Sea had a beautiful scenery, and there was a peach forest on the mountain, in which there was a huge peach tree with thick branches and leaves, which was curved and coiled for 3,000 miles, and the peaches were so big and sweet that a person who ate the peaches from this tree could be turned into a god. One dark night, some ghosts with green faces and fangs, red hair and green eyes tried to steal the peaches. The master of the peach forest, two brothers, Shentan and Yushi, defeated the ghost with a peach branch and fed it to a tiger watching the mountain with a straw rope. From then on, the two brothers were so famous that the ghosts and monsters were afraid of them, and after their death, they became immortals specializing in punishing evil spirits. In later times, people used one-inch wide and seven to eight-inch long peach wood boards to paint the images of the two immortals, Shentan and Yubi, and hung them on both sides of their doors to drive away ghosts and evil spirits, and these boards were called "peach amulets". With the changes of the times, the peach symbol itself is also changing, and later people will write the names of the two gods in the peach symbol, instead of the picture, and then later, and developed to the "title of the peach symbol", that is, the number of words is equal, the structure of symmetry, the meaning of the corresponding short poems written in the peach symbols, which is the predecessor of the Spring Festival Couplets. [7] Ancient New Year's Cards The New Year's Cards, which are common in modern society, were already practiced in ancient China. As early as in the Song Dynasty, the families of the royal aristocrats and scholars used special New Year's greeting cards between their clansmen, which were called "name stickers" or "name stickers". It is the plum blossom paper paper cut into about two inches wide, three inches long card, written on their names, addresses. A red paper bag is glued to the door of each house, called the "door book", on which is written the name of the owner to receive the name sticker (name sticker). The worshipper casts the name sticker in the door book, which means to pay tribute to the New Year, and the meaning is the same as that of modern New Year's greeting cards. [8]4 Folk Ballad Spring Festival Chinese Knot

There is a folk ballad that says: "Twenty-three, sacrificing the stove officer; twenty-four, sweeping the house; twenty-five, grinding tofu; twenty-six, to cut meat; twenty-seven, kill a chicken; twenty-eight, steam jujube flower; twenty-nine, go to beat the wine; New Year's Eve, pinch Zaozou Nu'er (dumplings); first day of the year, pouting messy bow to the child." This ballad is a chronicle of the activities of the Spring Festival, and the activities of the people of the Central Plains of China in purchasing New Year's goods are also carried out in accordance with this customary habit. " Taiyuan's "Ballad of Debt Avoidance": "Twenty-three, promise to pay; twenty-four, I swear; twenty-five, find the old aunt; twenty-six, find the old uncle; twenty-seven, don't be in a hurry; twenty-eight, and then think; twenty-nine, tomorrow, there is; thirty, don't see each other, the first day of the year, I meet the arch." In the east of Henan, there is a ballad: "twenty-six, steamed buns; twenty-seven, wash a wash; twenty-eight, paste the New Year's paintings, twenty-nine, the door on the look; year thirty, eat dumplings".5 Customs dust sweeping "waxing twenty-fourth, dusting sweeping the house", according to the "Lv's Spring and Autumn Annals", China in the Yao and Shun era, the Spring Festival sweeping. Yao and Shun era, there is a Spring Festival custom of dust sweeping. According to folklore: because of "dust" and "Chen" harmonized, dust sweeping in the New Year has the meaning of "get rid of Chen Bu Xin", and its intention is to sweep out all the poor luck and bad luck. This custom is a symbol of people's desire to break away from the old and bring in the new and their prayers for the old and the new. Whenever the Spring Festival comes, every household has to clean up the environment, wash all kinds of appliances, dismantle the bedding curtains, sprinkle clean the courtyard, dust dust cobwebs, dredge the nullahs and ditches. Everywhere overflowing with joy to engage in health, clean and welcome the New Year's happy atmosphere. New Year's Eve is one of the most important New Year's Eve activities, the custom of keeping the New Year's Eve has a long history. The earliest records are found in the Western Jin Dynasty Zhou Zhi's "Land and Customs": the night of New Year's Eve, each with the gift, known as "feed the year"; wine and food invited, known as the "other year"; young and old get together to drink, wishing to complete, known as the "sub year"; everyone stayed up all night to keep the New Year's Eve. "; we stay up all night, waiting for the dawn, called "keep the year". Since the Han Dynasty, the moment of alternation between the old and the new year is generally the middle of the night. Worship the first day of the New Year, people are up early, and then some of the upper echelon of the characters and the scholars will use the stickers to throw congratulations to each other, which developed later "New Year's Day". Posting Spring Festival couplets Spring Festival couplets, also known as door to door, spring stickers, couplets, couplets, pairs, peach runes, etc., it is neat, couplets, simple, sophisticated text

Spring Festival couplets collection (20) depicting the background of the times, expressing the best wishes, is a unique form of literature in China. Every Spring Festival, no matter in the city or in the countryside, every family has to select a big red Spring Festival couplet and paste it on the door to add a festive atmosphere to the festival. This custom began in the song dynasty, in the ming dynasty began to prevail, to the qing dynasty, the spring couplets of ideology and artistry have been greatly improved, liang zhang torque prepared by the spring couplets of monograph "sillian series of words" on the origin of the couplets and all kinds of works of the characteristics of the discourse. There are many kinds of spring couplets, according to its use place, can be divided into door heart, frame pair, horizontal phi, spring strip, bucket square and so on. The "door heart" is pasted in the center of the upper part of the door panel; the "frame pair" is pasted on the left and right door frames; the "horizontal phi" is pasted on the horizontal wood of the door winks; the "spring strip" is pasted on the horizontal wood of the door winks; the "spring strip" is pasted on the horizontal wood of the door winks according to different contents. "according to different contents, pasted in the corresponding place;" bucket catty "also known as" door leaf ", for the square diamond-shaped, more pasted in the furniture, shadow wall. [9] window and "Fu" in the folk people also like to stick a variety of paper cuttings on the window - window. Window flowers not only set a festive atmosphere, but also decorative, appreciative and practical in one. Paper cutting in China is a very popular folk art, for thousands of years by the people's favorite, because it is mostly affixed to the window, so it is also known as "window flowers". Window decoration with its unique generalization and exaggeration will be auspicious events, good wishes expressed to the fullest, will be decorated with festivals red hot and rich.

Pictures of the character "福字"(4张) At the same time of putting up the Spring Festival couplets, some people have to put large and small "福" characters on the doors, walls and lintels of their houses. It is a long-standing custom of Chinese folklore to post the word "Fu" on the Spring Festival. The character "福" refers to good fortune and good luck, and it expresses people's desire for a happy life and their wish for a better future. In order to more fully reflect this yearning and wishes, some people simply stick the word "Fu" upside down, indicating that "happiness has arrived" and "good fortune has arrived". Folk there will be "Fu" word fine as a variety of patterns, patterns of longevity, longevity peach, carp jump Dragon Gate, the five valleys, the dragon and phoenix, and so on. [10] New Year's paintings Spring Festival hanging stickers New Year's paintings in urban and rural areas is also very common, thick black colorful New Year's paintings to thousands of families added a lot of prosperity and joy of the festive atmosphere. New Year paintings are an ancient folk art in China, reflecting the people's simple customs and beliefs, and holding their hopes for the future. New Year's paintings, like spring scrolls, originated as "door gods". With the rise of woodblock printing, the content of the New Year's paintings has not only limited to monotonous themes such as the God of the Door, become colorful, in some of the New Year's paintings in the workshop produced the "Three Stars of Fortune and Longevity," "Heavenly Officials Provide Blessings," "Five Grains and a Plentiful Harvest," "Six Animals Prosperity," "Welcoming the Spring to receive the blessings of" and other classic colorful New Year's paintings, in order to satisfy people's joyful prayers for the New Year's good wishes. There are three important production areas of Chinese New Year paintings in China: Taohuayu in Suzhou, Yangliuqing in Tianjin and Weifang in Shandong; forming three major schools of Chinese New Year paintings, each with its own characteristics. The earliest collection of Chinese New Year paintings in China is the woodcut New Year paintings of the Southern Song Dynasty, "With the fairness of the country's face", which depicts four ancient beauties, namely, Wang Zhaojun, Zhao Feiyan, Banji and Lvzhu. The most widely circulated folk painting is the one of "The Mouse Marrying Her Marriage". It depicts an interesting scene of a mouse marrying a bride in accordance with the customs of the earth. In the early years of the Republic of China, Zheng Mantuo of Shanghai combined the lunar calendar and New Year's paintings. This is a new form of New Year's paintings. This combination of two and one of the New Year's paintings, later developed into a calendar, and is still popular throughout the country. [11] firecrackers Chinese folk "open door firecrackers". That is, the arrival of the new year, the first thing that families open the door is to set off firecrackers, to beeping firecrackers to get rid of the old and welcome the new. Firecrackers is a Chinese specialty, also known as "firecrackers", "cannonballs", "firecrackers". Its origin is very early, so far has a history of more than two thousand years. Firecrackers can create a festive and lively atmosphere, is a kind of festival entertainment, can bring people joy and good luck. With the passage of time, the application of firecrackers is more and more widely used, varieties and colors are also increasingly numerous, whenever a major festival and festivities, and marriage, building, opening, etc., are to set off firecrackers in order to show the celebration, Figure a good luck. Hunan Liuyang, Guangdong Foshan and Dongyao, Jiangxi Yichun and Pingxiang, Wenzhou, Zhejiang and other areas is China's famous hometown of firecrackers, the production of firecrackers colorful, high-quality, not only sells well across the country, but also exported to the world. [12] Watching the Spring Festival Gala [13] The Spring Festival Gala, often referred to as the "Spring Festival Gala", is a variety show organized by China Central Television (CCTV) on the night of the Lunar New Year's Eve each year to celebrate the Lunar New Year. 1983, CCTV held the Spring Festival Gala should be considered a fortuitous event. However, the gala has become a "new folklore, new culture" for Chinese people, and a must-see TV dinner on New Year's Eve every year. From the perspective of cultural development, CCTV's Spring Festival Gala has created a precedent for TV variety shows and triggered a major change in the content and mode of expression of Chinese TV media. Its success not only firmly established its own position, but also spawned a series of similar programs on CCTV, such as Variety Show, Zhengda Variety Show, Qu Yuan Miscellany, Chinese New Year Opera Gala, Chinese New Year Song and Dance Gala, Spring Festival Gala for various ministries and commissions (e.g., Spring Festival Gala for the Ministry of Public Security), and various festive variety shows for the National Day, May Day, Mid-Autumn Festival, and New Year's Day, etc. Subsequently, local variety shows of all sizes across the country were held in the same place. Subsequently, local TV stations of all sizes frequently follow suit and strive for innovation. Variety shows have become a large-scale form of media culture. The Spring Festival Gala provides the most basic model and blueprint for the development of Chinese TV variety culture.