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Chinese New Year customs handbook content

Chinese New Year customs of the handbook content: the traditional folklore of the Spring Festival, Chinese New Year poems, Chinese New Year activities and so on.

Traditional folklore of the Spring Festival:

The Spring Festival is the day to get rid of the old and bring in the new, although the Spring Festival is set on the first day of the first month of the Lunar New Year in this Sakura calendar, the Spring Festival's activities are not limited to the first day of the first month. From the twenty-third (or twenty-fourth) of Lunar New Year's Day, people will begin to "busy year": sweeping the house, washing hair and bathing, preparing the New Year's Day utensils, etc., all of these activities, there is a *** with the same theme, that is, "out with the old and in with the new".

The Spring Festival is also a day of family reunion, dun pro ancestor worship. New Year's Eve, the whole family gathered together to eat the "New Year's dinner", the elders to the children to distribute "New Year's money", the family sat down "to observe the year". At the time of the New Year's Eve, whips, bridges, and cannons are fired to bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new year. Each family burns incense to pay homage to heaven and earth, sacrifices to the ancestors, and then pay tribute to the elders in turn, and then congratulate each other's relatives and friends of the same clan.

The Spring Festival is also a festival of popular entertainment and revelry. A variety of colorful recreational activities: lion juggling, dragon dance, rice-planting songs, stilt walkers, juggling plays, etc., for the Spring Festival has added a rich and festive atmosphere.

Chinese New Year's poem:

1.With all the songs and dances to welcome the festive season, I wish Yan'an scenic splendor. Half a cup of tusu has not yet been lifted, and the grass in front of the lamp is written with peach symbols. --Lu You, "Snow on the Night of the New Year"

3. The dew was first welcomed by the Spring Festival, and the clouds were suddenly trampled on the sky. Since then, the scissors have been idle for a month, and there are many needles and threads in the boudoir before the end of the year. --Cha Shenxing, "The New Year's Resolutions of Fengcheng City"

5. The fire in the birth pot is roaring with bamboo, and the tortoise in the year-end observance listens to the praise of peppers. --Dai Fugu, "New Year's Eve"

6. We were invited to the house of Ah Xian to observe the New Year's Eve, and the wax torch was passed on to reflect the red color of the blue veil. We are invited to celebrate the New Year's Eve at the house of Ah Xian, where the wax torch is passed on to reflect the red color of the blue veil.

An important activity in the Spring Festival is to go to the new friends and neighbors to congratulate the New Year, the old name of New Year's Eve. On the first day of the New Year, people are up early, put on the most beautiful clothes, dressed neatly, go out to visit friends and relatives, pay respect to each other, wishing good luck in the coming year.

2, temple fair.

The temple fair is most Chinese people's Spring Festival complex, but also an indispensable New Year's custom. The temple fair has a long history of popular traditional projects, such as lion dance, dragon dance source socks, twisting rice-planting songs, stilt walkers, running dry boat and so on.

3, dragon dance.

The Dragon Dance, also known as "playing dragon lanterns" and "dragon lantern dance", is one of the traditional dance forms of the Han Chinese people. Whenever a festival is celebrated, there is the custom of Kai Crack Rolling Dragon Dance all over the world.

5, Lion Dance

Lion Dance, also known as "playing the lion", "Lion Dance", it and the Dragon Dance a quiet like, is China's traditional dance form, but also a popular folk sports activities. It is a traditional dance form in China and a popular folk sport. The lion dance is also performed at Chinese New Year or celebrations.