Chinese New Year handbook information (origin, customs, stories) about 50 words. Urgent ~~~~~

The Spring Festival (one of China's four traditional festivals), or the Lunar New Year, is the first of the year, traditionally known as the "New Year's Festival". It is commonly known as New Year, New Year, New Year, New Jubilee, New Year's Jubilee, New Year's Eve, and so on, and verbally known as the year of the year, the celebration of the year, the year of the year, the year of the year, the year of the year.

The Spring Festival has a long history, evolved from the ancient times, the first year of prayer and sacrifice. All things are based on the sky, people are based on the ancestors, praying for the New Year's Eve, honoring the sky and the ancestors, and reporting back to 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, all over the country are held a variety of activities to celebrate the Spring Festival, lively and festive atmosphere; these activities to get rid of the old and new, welcome the Jubilee to receive the blessing, worship the gods and ancestors, praying for a good year as the main content, the form of colorful and rich with the characteristics of each region, the cohesion of Chinese civilization of the essence of the culture.

The Spring Festival is a customary festival for people of various ethnic minorities. People of all ethnic groups, according to their own customs, held a variety of celebrations, with their own strong national unique style.

Customs of the Spring Festival?

China has a long history of New Year's Eve, in the development of inheritance has formed a number of more fixed customs, many of which are still handed down to the present day, such as doing the New Year's goods, sweeping the dust, sticking the New Year's red, New Year's dinner, the New Year's watch, the pressure of the New Year's money, the New Year's Eve, New Year's greetings, the dance of the dragons and the lion dance, the worship of the gods and ancestors, the burnt cannon firecracker, the burnt fireworks, the guanchuanchunsheng, New Year's Regulations, praying for blessings, the temple fair, the lamps on the wine, the lanterns and other customs. Traditional festival ceremonies and related customary activities are important elements of festivals, carrying colorful festival cultural connotations.

The Chinese New Year Story

Legend has it that in the ancient times long ago, there was a kind of ferocious monster called "Nian", which was very ferocious in nature, usually in the mountains and dense forests, because it also likes to eat people, so people are very afraid of it; but fortunately, "Nian" is usually only on the evening of the 30th of the end of the year, and it comes out to hurt people and destroy the fields. It comes out to hurt people and destroy their fields, so people usually close the door of their house when it's still dark and stay awake until dawn, and then open the door the next day to congratulate each other on a safe neighborhood.

After a fortuitous event, people found the original "year" on the firecrackers and red things are very afraid, so from then on every New Year's Eve then people will wear red hanging red to show that festive, and in addition to the old to welcome the new when the firecrackers, and then the "year" no longer dare to come. This is the legend of New Year's Eve. The day after the 30th is regarded as the first day of the first month of the Lunar New Year, also known as the "New Year".