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What animals often appear in the Spring Festival?

Animals that often appear during the Spring Festival are as follows:

Bat. The homonym of "Bat" means "Happiness cannot be double", which symbolizes endless happiness. Animal bats often appear in folk New Year pictures in China, and most of them are dolls flying to the sky on bats. The objects held by the dolls are all favorite mascots, such as Ruyi Jade Qing, Shuangqian and Yuanbao.

Spring Festival is the Chinese New Year in China, commonly known as Spring Festival, Chinese New Year and New Year's Eve, also known as Chinese New Year and New Year's Eve. It is a folk festival that integrates the old and the new, worships ancestors, prays for evil spirits, reunites relatives and friends, and entertains food.

The Spring Festival has a long history, which originated from the primitive belief and worship of nature of early human beings, and evolved from praying for the New Year at the beginning of the year in ancient times. Everything is based on the sky, and people are based on their ancestors. Pray for the ancestors who respect the sky and return to the truth. 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.

In the early days of observing images and time, "Yin Hui with a barrel handle" is the beginning of a year. "bucket handle Yin Hui" returns to the earth in spring, and everything is renewed, thus opening a new cycle. In the traditional farming society, it is of great significance to return to the earth in spring at the beginning of the year, which has spawned a large number of related festivals and customs.

In the historical development, although the calendar is different and the date of the first festival is different, its festival framework and many folk customs have been passed down. In modern times, people set the Spring Festival on the first day of the first lunar month, but generally it doesn't end until at least the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

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. Influenced by China culture, some countries and regions in the world also have the custom of celebrating the Spring Festival. According to incomplete statistics, nearly 20 countries and regions have designated the Spring Festival in China as a legal holiday in all or part of the cities under their jurisdiction. Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival are also called the four traditional festivals in China. The folk custom of Spring Festival was approved by the State Council to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.