Traditional Cultural Practices Around Us I I I (Spring Festival)

The Spring Festival is the traditional Chinese New Year in the Chinese cultural circle, commonly known as the "New Year Festival", traditionally known as the New Year, the New Year, the New Year, but also known verbally as the New Year, celebrate the New Year, the New Year, is the most important traditional festivals of the Chinese nation.

The Spring Festival, which originated in the Yinshang period, is one of the grandest, liveliest and most important ancient traditional festivals in China, with sacrifices to gods and ancestors at the end of the year. In Chinese folklore, the Spring Festival traditionally refers to the period from the Lunar New Year festival on the eighth day of the Lunar New Year or the Zao festival on the 23rd or 24th day of the Lunar New Year until the 15th day of the first month of the Lunar New Year, with New Year's Eve and the first day of the first month of the Lunar New Year as the climax.

During the Spring Festival, the Han Chinese and some ethnic minorities in China celebrate with various activities. These activities all focus on worshipping ancestral gods, honoring ancestors, getting rid of the old and bringing in the new, welcoming good fortune, and praying for a good year. The activities of the Spring Festival are rich and colorful, with strong characteristics of each ethnic group. Influenced by the Chinese culture, some countries and nationalities belonging to the Chinese character cultural circle also have the custom of celebrating the Spring Festival.