What are the activities for the New Year?

New Year's Eve activities include New Year's Eve dinner and New Year's Eve prayers.

On New Year's Eve, family dinner is a traditional way. Many families will prepare a sumptuous New Year's Eve dinner to get the whole family together to welcome the New Year. In China, jiaozi is an indispensable dish for the New Year, because it is shaped like an ingot, symbolizing wealth and good luck. In addition, there are fish, glutinous rice balls, sweets, cakes and other delicacies, which are all in line with the wishes and expectations of the New Year.

Every family's New Year's Eve has its own uniqueness, but in any case, it conveys the values of family harmony and happiness.

On New Year's Eve, many people will write down their wishes and expect them to come true in the new year. Some of these wishes are personal, while others are about family, friends and society. No matter what the specific content of the wish is, it symbolizes people's yearning for a better life in the future. In some places, there are some traditional prayer ceremonies. For example, in Japan, people will go to temples or shrines and make wishes silently. In Thailand, people will release a group of peacocks or fly lanterns of Kongming to pray for happiness and peace.

The customs of the Spring Festival

The Spring Festival is the biggest traditional folk festival in China, and it is a folk festival integrating blessing, excitement, entertainment and food. The Spring Festival has a long history, which evolved from the ancient New Year greeting ceremony 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 the New Year, and are carried out in the form of eliminating old things, offering sacrifices to ancestors, exorcising evil spirits and eliminating disasters, and praying for a bumper harvest. The content is rich and colorful, vivid and festive, which embodies the essence of traditional culture of Chinese civilization. During the Spring Festival, all kinds of New Year greeting activities will be held all over the country. Due to different regional cultures, the content or details of customs are also different.