What traditional games to play on Chinese New Year

The traditional games of the Spring Festival are: firecrackers, dragon dance, lion dance, temple fair, playing gyro.

1, firecrackers

Firecrackers, is a traditional Chinese folklore, has a history of more than 2,000 years, according to legend, is to drive away a monster called the year. When the midnight cross positive son, the New Year's bell ringing, the whole of China over the land, firecrackers sound vibration in the sky. In this "year of yuan, the month of yuan, the time of yuan" of the "three yuan" moment, some places in the courtyard base "Wang Huo", in order to show that Wang Qi through the sky.

2, dragon dance

As early as in the Han Dynasty, there are dragon dance activities to pray for rain. At that time, the four seasons to pray for rain, spring dance green dragon, summer dance red dragon or yellow dragon, fall dance white dragon, winter dance black dragon. When the dragon dance was performed, the gongs and drums were noisy, and the firecrackers sounded together, making the scene very enthusiastic. Each movement has a name, such as: "Two Dragons Playing with Pearls," "Two Dragons Out of the Water," "Yellow Dragon Crossing the River," "White Dragon Out of the Cave "Crossing the Dragon Bridge", "Silver Dragon Turning the River", "Golden Dragon Turning the Sea", "Finding the Moon at the Bottom of the Sea ".

3, Lion Dance

Lion Dance mainly has four kinds of Kirin, Lion, Hak Tsai Lion, and Outer River Lion, and the singing area mainly has various kinds of West Qin Qu, Bai Zi Qu, and Chiu Chow Qu. The first and second days of the festival are the most lively. The lion dance team dances from house to house, and when they arrive at the door of a house, they say "congratulations" and then start playing until the owner pulls out a red envelope.

4, temple fair

The temple fair is also known as the "wonderful meeting", "temple market" or "festival field". Early temple fair is only a grand ritual activities, with the development of the economy and the need for people to communicate, the temple fair to maintain the ritual activities at the same time, and gradually integrated into the bazaar trading activities. With the needs of the people, and in the temple fair to add colorful activities. So the New Year temple fair has become an indispensable recreational activities.

5, playing gyro

A kind of ancient traditional folk game activities, with a whip continuously hit a cone object, so that it rotates on the smooth ground. It has a long history, Shanxi Xiaxian Xiyin village Yangshao culture site (about five or six thousand years ago) has unearthed pottery small gyro. The gyro has pottery, wooden, bamboo, stone a variety of, to wooden mostly. Wooden gyro is conical, on the big and small, cone end often add iron nails or steel balls.