The contents of the handwritten newspaper on the customs and culture of the Spring Festival

The Spring Festival is a folk festival that combines the old with the new, offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors, praying for evil spirits, reuniting relatives and friends, celebrating entertainment and eating. The Spring Festival has a long history, which originated from the primitive belief and worship of nature of early human beings, evolved from the ritual of praying for the New Year at the beginning of ancient times, and carried rich historical and cultural connotations in its inheritance and development.

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. New Year's greeting activities are centered on offering wishes and praying for blessings, and are carried out in the form of eliminating the old, worshipping ancestors, exorcising evil spirits and praying for a bumper harvest. The content is rich and colorful, vivid and festive, and the annual flavor is rich, which embodies the essence of traditional culture of Chinese civilization. During the Spring Festival, various New Year celebrations will be held all over the country. Due to different regional cultures, the content or details of customs are also different.

Chinese New Year has a long history. In the process of inheritance and development, some relatively fixed customs have been formed, many of which have been passed down to this day, such as buying new year's goods, sweeping dust, pasting new year's red, eating New Year's Eve, celebrating New Year's Eve, dancing dragons and lions, worshipping gods and ancestors, praying for disaster relief, worshiping gods, racing boats, temple fairs, playing gongs and drums, cursor flags, lighting lamps and pouring wine and so on. Traditional festival ceremonies and related custom activities are important contents of festival elements, bearing rich and colorful festival cultural connotations.