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Content of handwritten newspaper about the New Year

First, the meaning and origin of the Spring Festival:

1, Spring Festival, that is, China Lunar New Year, commonly known as "Spring Festival", "New Year" and "New Year's Eve", is a folk festival integrating the old with the new, offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors, praying for evil spirits, reuniting with relatives and friends, celebrating entertainment and food.

2. The Spring Festival has a long history, which originated from the primitive belief and worship of nature of early human beings, and evolved from the sacrifice of praying for the New Year at the beginning of ancient times. Everything is based on heaven, and people are based on ancestors, praying for the elderly, respecting the ancestors of heaven, and returning to the original.

3. The origin of the Spring Festival contains profound cultural connotations, and it carries rich historical and cultural connotations in its inheritance and development. The Spring Festival is the most solemn traditional festival of the Chinese nation, with a century as the first and four seasons as the first. Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival are also called the four traditional festivals in China.

Second, the traditional folk customs of the Spring Festival.

1. Sweep the dust-"On the 24th of the twelfth lunar month, dust sweeps the house". According to the folk saying, because "dust" and "Chen" are homophonic, so sweeping dust in the Spring Festival means "getting rid of the old and not getting new", and its original intention is to sweep away all bad luck.

2, shou sui-everyone stays up all night, waiting for dawn, called "shou sui".

3. Happy New Year-Happy New Year is a traditional folk custom in China. This is a way for people to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new and express their best wishes to each other.

4. Sticking Spring Festival couplets-Every Spring Festival, no matter in urban or rural areas, every household should choose a pair of red Spring Festival couplets and stick them on the door to add festive atmosphere to the festival.

5. set off firecrackers-that is, when the new year comes, the first thing for every household to open the door is to set off firecrackers and say goodbye to the old and welcome the new with firecrackers.

Third, the ancient poetry of the Spring Festival

1, firecrackers are one year old, and the spring breeze enters Tu Su from send warm. -Wang Anshi's January Day

2 ... Night gives way to the ocean of the sun, and the old year melts in freshness. -Wang Wan's berth at the foot of Beibao Mountain.

3, thousands of families, always change peaches for Japanese characters. -Wang Anshi's January Day

4. My hometown will think a thousand miles tonight, and it will be another year tomorrow. -Gao Shi "Night Shift"