Traditional survey of Spring Festival

The Spring Festival is the beginning of the lunar calendar and an ancient traditional festival in China. In ancient times, Nian was not celebrated on the 29th or 30th day of the twelfth lunar month, but on wax day, which later became Laba. After the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the "wax festival" was moved to the end of the year. In the Republic of China, the Lunar New Year was called "Spring Festival" only when the solar calendar was changed, because the Spring Festival was usually around beginning of spring.

The Spring Festival is the largest and most lively ancient traditional festival in China. Commonly known as "Chinese New Year". According to the China lunar calendar, the first day of the first month is called Yuanri, Chen Yuan, Jacky, Yuanshuo and New Year's Day. Commonly known as the first day of the first month, there are other nicknames such as Shangri-La, Zheng Chao, Sanshuo, Shisan and Sanyuan, which means that the first day of the first month is the beginning of the year, month and day.

The Spring Festival, as its name implies, is the Spring Festival. Spring has come, Vientiane is renewed, and a new round of sowing and harvesting season is about to begin again. People have enough reasons to welcome this festival by singing and dancing. So, before the festival, a New Year message with red paper and yellow characters was posted on the frontispiece.

Another name for the Spring Festival is China New Year. What is "year"? It is a fictional animal, which will bring bad luck to people. The year is coming. When the tree is dead, the grass will not grow; A year later, everything grew and flowers were everywhere. How to spend the year? Firecrackers are needed, so there is a custom of setting off firecrackers. 1993, the Beijing Municipal People's Government promulgated a law prohibiting the setting off of fireworks and firecrackers, making this centuries-old custom a thing of the past.

The Spring Festival is a family reunion festival, which is very similar to Christmas in the West. Children who leave home will have to travel thousands of miles back to their parents' home at this time. The night before the real Chinese New Year is called "New Year's Eve", which is also called "reunion night" and "reunion dinner". Traditional celebrations last from New Year's Eve to the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first month. The festive atmosphere will last for a month. Before the first day of the first month, there were sacrifices to stoves, ancestors and filth. On the 30th, we will put up a door-keeper, put up couplets, hang flags, eat jiaozi, set off firecrackers and "keep watch" on New Year's Eve. On the first day of the first month, the younger generation pays New Year greetings to their elders, and then visits relatives and friends. When relatives and friends meet for the first time, they say "Congratulations on getting rich", "Congratulations on getting rich" and "Happy New Year" to each other to express their congratulations.