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What is the beautiful moral and significance of the Spring Festival?

The beautiful moral and significance of the Spring Festival are: to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, to ward off evil spirits, to offer sacrifices to the gods and ancestors, and to receive blessings. Spring Festival, that is, China Lunar New Year, is commonly known as Spring Festival, New Year's Eve and so on. Verbally, it is also called Chinese New Year and New Year's Eve. The Spring Festival has a long history, which evolved from praying for the New Year at the beginning of the year in 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. The origin of the Spring Festival contains profound cultural connotations, and it carries rich historical and cultural connotations in its inheritance and development. During the Spring Festival, various activities will be held all over the country to celebrate the Spring Festival, which has strong local characteristics. These activities are rich and colorful, which have condensed the essence of China traditional culture, mainly to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, exorcise evil spirits and disturb disasters, offer sacrifices to gods and ancestors, and pray for the New Year.

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Traditional festival ceremonies and custom activities are important contents of festival elements, bearing rich and colorful festival cultural connotations. Lunar New Year is an ancient festival in China, and it is also the most important festival in a year. In the historical development, it has integrated a variety of folk customs and formed some relatively fixed customs and habits, many of which are still handed down today.

These activities can be summarized as follows: (1) offering sacrifices to the gods to welcome the weather; Worship ancestors and maintain family ties; Drive away evil spirits and seek peace; Have fun and relax. Headed by Hundred Festivals, the Spring Festival is the most solemn traditional festival of the Chinese nation. It not only embodies the Chinese nation's ideological beliefs, ideals and ambitions, life, entertainment and cultural psychology, but also shows the carnival of blessing, eating and entertainment activities.

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