Traditional folk culture in Spring Festival

Spring Festival is an ancient festival in China, and it is also the most important festival in a year. Belief, sacrifice and family ethics are the eternal spiritual core of the Spring Festival. 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.

During the Spring Festival, there are many celebrations, such as lion dancing, floating colors, playing with dragons, worshipping gods, boating, Chinese New Year, visiting temple fairs, visiting flower streets, burning fireworks, walking on stilts, running roller boats and dancing yangko. The custom of offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors prevails in the southern coastal areas, inheriting the ancient customs, and many places hold grand wishing and praying activities during the Spring Festival, which is full of flavor.

Post Spring Festival couplets, pay New Year greetings, have a family reunion dinner and pay New Year greetings everywhere. However, due to different local customs and nuances, the folk customs of the Spring Festival are diverse and rich in content, which is a concentrated display of the essence of Chinese life and culture and embodies the ideological essence of Chinese culture.