What festival is the Spring Festival?

Spring Festival is a festival born in farming society. In the post-industrial era, we have gradually drifted away from the farming society. However, the tenacity of tradition is enough to surprise and even awe us. The adoption of the Gregorian calendar did not make the lunar calendar disappear, and the preserved folk customs of the Spring Festival may date back to thousands of years ago.

Mao Cui, a native of the Eastern Han Dynasty, wrote a book "Four-person Monthly Order", which recorded people's life all year round at that time. On the "right day", that is, the first day of the first month, the family should first offer sacrifices to their ancestors, then propose a toast to the head of household in turn to wish him a long and healthy life, and finally go out to pay a New Year call to relatives and neighbors. Some of these Spring Festival folk customs have been formed at least in the Han Dynasty and have been passed down to this day. Therefore, the Spring Festival is not only a festival to welcome the New Year, but also a festival to relive the tradition, which gives our dull modern life a sense of historical depth in an instant.

When Chinese people went to the world, the Spring Festival began to take root in foreign countries. It is reported that more than a dozen countries around the world have designated the Spring Festival in China as their own legal holidays. While overseas Chinese stick to the custom of Spring Festival in their hometown, they also attract more and more foreigners to understand the Spring Festival. In a festive and lively atmosphere, the Spring Festival made foreigners feel the warmth and beauty of China culture, let them know who we are, and let us realize that the Spring Festival was originally deeply rooted in our hearts, which defined our cultural identity and expressed our values.

Reunion is the most important value of the Spring Festival. Gao Shi, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, could not go home for reunion during the Spring Festival. On New Year's Eve, he wrote sadly: "The cold light in the hotel doesn't sleep alone, but the guest's heart turns sad." My hometown is thinking thousands of miles tonight, and it is another year of the Ming Dynasty. "This kind of sadness that can't be reunited is natural in ancient and modern times.

The Spring Festival reunion reflects China people's emphasis on home, which is the cornerstone of China culture. Under the concept of isomorphism between home and country in China, the country is the largest and the home is the smallest. Numerous reunited homes have created a country with strong cohesion and centripetal force. Perhaps this is why many traditional festivals in China emphasize reunion, but only the Spring Festival can mobilize hundreds of millions of China people to travel thousands of miles across mountains and seas and rush to their destination-a warm home at any cost.

What is the Spring Festival? The Spring Festival is a train ticket in the hands of a wanderer in anxious to return. The Spring Festival couplets of "New Year's Qing Yu, Spring Festival Changchun" are posted on the doorstep. jiaozi, who is wrapped in coins in the reunion dinner and indicates good luck in the coming year, sits around the stove waiting for the party when the New Year bell rings, and the children's happy smiling hands are heard in the firecrackers.