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New Year Wishes Four Character Words

New Year Wishes Four Character Words: step by step, surplus money, yearly fish, business is prosperous, wishing for success, all the best, etc.

The Spring Festival (also known as: Xinchun, Nianjie, Tianlaxi, Nianshou, New Year, Daxian, English name: Spring Festival) is one of the four major traditional Chinese festivals, the Lunar New Year, the traditional "New Year's Day", the date is set on the first day of the first month of the Lunar New Year every year. The Spring Festival has a long history, evolved from the ancient times, the first year of the year prayers and sacrifices. All things are based on the sky, people are based on ancestors, praying for the yearly sacrifice, honoring the sky and the ancestors, to report the origin and reverse the beginning. The origin of the Spring Festival contains profound cultural connotations and carries a rich historical and cultural heritage in its development.

During the Spring Festival, families hold various celebrations, most of which are mainly devoted to the worship of gods and Buddhas, paying tribute to ancestors, getting rid of the old and bringing in the new, welcoming good fortune, and praying for a good year. Activities in a colorful form, mostly with strong ethnic characteristics, cohesion of the essence of traditional Chinese culture. According to incomplete statistics, nearly 20 countries and regions have designated Chinese New Year as a legal holiday for the whole or some cities under their jurisdiction. The Spring Festival folklore was approved by the State Council to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.

Origin of Spring Festival:

The origin of ancient traditional festivals is related to ancient primitive beliefs, sacrificial culture, as well as celestial phenomena, calendars, and other humanistic and natural cultural contents. According to the research results of modern anthropology and archaeology, the two most primitive beliefs of human beings: one is the belief in heaven and earth, and the other is the belief in ancestors. Most of the ancient traditional festivals were formed in the ancient people's activities of choosing a day to offer sacrifices to thank the gods of heaven and earth and ancestors for their kindness.

The early festival culture reflects the humanistic spirit of ancient people's nature worship, the unity of man and nature, the prudence of the end of the day, and the solid foundation of the origin; a series of sacrificial activities contain the profound cultural connotation of respecting the virtue and civilization of rites and music. The formation of the New Year's Day (Nianjie) covers the humanistic philosophy and the laws of nature.