Essay on Chinese New Year Customs in Chongming 300 words

Chinese New Year is the Lunar New Year, the most important traditional festival of Chinese people.

When the Spring Festival comes, everything is renewed, symbolizing the beginning of the year; marking another starting point in life.

The reason why Chinese New Year is an extremely important festival is because family ties and affection are strengthened through the rituals of celebrating this festival. Customs such as having a reunion dinner, paying tribute to friends and relatives, and so on, are reminders of the centrality of the family in society. Wherever there are Chinese communities around the world, this festival is celebrated with great pomp and circumstance. The Spring Festival is celebrated for 15 days from the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar to the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar.

In ancient times, when emperors succeeded to the throne, in order to show the authority of the "Son of Heaven", they often set up their own calendars, so the day and month of the New Year's Day were not the same in all generations. When Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty succeeded to the throne, he decided to revise the calendar to make it uniform. The calendar we use today was revised after Han Wu Di and through many dynasties.

The celebration of the Spring Festival by the royal family throughout the ages often reflected the strength, stability and prosperity of the dynasty, and the richer and stronger the country, the more elaborate the celebration.

In order to receive relatives and friends to pay homage to the New Year, families cleaned their homes inside and out before the festival. Some families also put spring couplets on their doors and write auspicious couplets to pray for good luck and a good harvest every year.

Chinese couplets have been gradually simplified in Chinese society. Today we can still see people symbolizing good luck, "spring", "Fu" and other single words as decorations hanging on the door or wall, some also deliberately put these single words upside down, that's because "upside down" is the same as "to". "and" to "harmonize," said the "spring to", "Fu to" meaning. Such as: the sound of firecrackers three sheep Kaitai flock to firecrackers burst ten thousand horses horse over.

Sending the god of the stove

The twenty-fourth day of the twelfth month of the lunar calendar is an important festival for Taoists, on which the god of the stove returns to heaven to report to the Jade Emperor about things on earth. People hope that the God of the Vesta will go to heaven to say good things, so Taoists especially prepare sumptuous offerings to worship the God of the Vesta on this day.

Nian gao (rice cake)

On the eve of the Spring Festival, families are busy making cakes and other foodstuffs, which can be used as gifts or as treats for visiting friends and relatives. Nian Gao (also known as sticky rice cake) is a must-have Chinese New Year delicacy that symbolizes good fortune. Made of glutinous rice, this brownish, sticky cake has the meaning of "rising year after year" because its name harmonizes with the word "nian gao".

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