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Spring Festival is the most important traditional festival in China. People believe that eating some traditional food at this time can bring good luck to their families. The Spring Festival is a special festival for the people of China, so I will explain the origin of the Spring Festival to you next.

The Origin of the Spring Festival

China people have celebrated the Spring Festival for more than 4,000 years. There are many opinions about the origin of the Spring Festival, but it is generally believed that the Spring Festival began in Yu Shun.

One day more than 2000 BC, Shun became emperor and led his men to worship heaven and earth. Since then, people have regarded this day as the beginning of a year. It is said that this is the origin of the Lunar New Year, which was later called the Spring Festival. The Spring Festival generally refers to the first day of the first month, the first day of the year, also known as the lunar calendar, commonly known as "New Year"; However, among the people, the traditional Spring Festival refers to the sacrificial ceremony from La Worship on the 23rd or 24th of the twelfth lunar month to the 19th of the first lunar month, culminating in New Year's Eve and the first day of the first lunar month. During the Spring Festival, people will hold various activities to celebrate.

The customs of the Spring Festival

First, buy new year's goods

For thousands of years, people in China have always regarded the Spring Festival as a major event. Before the Chinese New Year, we have to make a lot of preparations and buy a lot of things, such as food, food, clothes, toys, food, dry, fresh, raw and cooked. The unified name is "New Year's Goods".

Second, clean.

"On the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month, dust sweeps the house". According to Lv Chunqiu, China had the custom of sweeping dust during the Spring Festival in the Yao and Shun era. According to the folk saying: Because of the homonym of "dust" and "Chen", sweeping dust in the Spring Festival means "getting rid of the old and not being new", and its original intention is to sweep away all bad luck and bad luck.

Third, set off firecrackers.

When the Spring Festival comes, the first thing for every household to open the door is to set off firecrackers to bid farewell to the old year and greet the new year with firecrackers to show good luck. Of course, fireworks and firecrackers are forbidden in many places now, but we still have to abide by state regulations and put safety first.

Fourth, welcome the kitchen god

On the fourth day of the lunar new year, the kitchen god descended from the sky. People will light incense and fruit as tributes in the afternoon or evening, and every household will set off firecrackers and burn gold paper to welcome the return of Kitchen God. I hope that Kitchen God can continue to protect the family's safety and food and clothing in the new year.

The Spring Festival is a folk festival that combines the old with the new, offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors, praying for evil spirits, reuniting relatives and friends, celebrating entertainment and eating. The Spring Festival has a long history, which originated from the primitive belief and worship of nature of early human beings, evolved from the ritual of praying for the New Year at the beginning of ancient times, and carried rich historical and cultural connotations in its inheritance and development.