Chinese New Year handbook

Handbook for Spring Festival (Traditional Customs and Culture)

What is Spring Festival?

The Spring Festival is a traditional Chinese festival. The Spring Festival usually falls on the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar, which is the annual Lunar New Year. The Spring Festival is a day for the Chinese people to celebrate the New Year, and is one of the traditional festivals of the Chinese nation and an important part of Chinese culture.

Traditional Customs of Chinese New Year

1. Putting up Spring Festival Couplets: Spring Festival Couplets are a traditional custom during the Chinese New Year, which usually consists of couplets that are placed on the door or wall. The contents of the Spring Festival couplets are usually to bless the family with peace, happiness, health, wealth and so on.

2. Appreciating lanterns: During the Spring Festival, people celebrate the New Year by placing various kinds of lanterns, such as colored lanterns and lanterns, in front of their homes or public **** places.

3. Making dumplings: Making dumplings is a traditional activity during the Spring Festival, where people make dumplings together at home and enjoy them at dinner.

4. Paying New Year's call: Paying New Year's call is a traditional practice during the Spring Festival, where people visit friends and relatives to wish each other a happy New Year, good health and all the best.

5. Firecrackers: In traditional Chinese culture, firecrackers represent peace and good luck. During the Spring Festival, people will set off firecrackers as a way to drive away evil spirits, ward off evil spirits and celebrate the New Year.

Cultural Connotation of Spring Festival

1. Family Reunion: Spring Festival is one of the favorite festivals of the Chinese people, and it is also a day for family reunion. On this day, no matter where you are, you will miss your family and wish to go home to spend the New Year with them.

2. Traditional culture: Chinese New Year is an important part of traditional Chinese culture, including putting up spring couplets, enjoying lanterns, making dumplings, paying homage to the New Year, setting off firecrackers and so on. These traditional customs represent the cultural traditions and values of the Chinese people.

3. Blessing and hope: Chinese New Year is a festival full of hope and blessing, in which people pray for family peace, health, happiness and career success.

How to make a handbook for Chinese New Year?

Making a handbill for the Spring Festival is very simple, you only need to prepare paper, color pens, scissors, glue and other materials, and then follow the steps below:

1. Prepare a piece of white paper and draw the theme of the Spring Festival with color pens, such as Spring Festival couplets, lanterns, dumplings, firecrackers and so on.

2. Cut out the patterns drawn with color pens and paste them on the white paper, you can layout them according to your own preferences.

3. Add some Spring Festival related content on the handbill, such as the origin of the Spring Festival, traditional customs, cultural connotations and so on.

4. Finally, frame the handbill so that you can display it at home or at school.