Why firecrackers on New Year's Eve

Launching firecrackers on New Year's Day is a kind of cultural inheritance.

In rural areas during the Spring Festival to kill the New Year's pig, catch the New Year's fair, firecrackers, etc., is not only a legacy of traditional culture, but also with a strong regional characteristics. Every year on New Year's Eve, families set off fireworks, which are said to drive away the "New Year's beasts," and have gradually become a way of celebrating the festive atmosphere and the desire for a better life in the new year.

Chinese New Year

Chinese New Year, that is, the Lunar New Year, is the first year of the year, but also for the traditional "New Year's Day". Commonly known as the new spring, the new year, the new year, the new jubilee, the jubilee, the big year, etc., and verbally known as the degree of the year, the celebration of the year, the New Year, the New Year. The Spring Festival has a long history, evolved from the ancient times of the first year of prayer and sacrifice. Everything is based on the sky, people are based on the ancestors, praying for the New Year's Eve sacrifice, honoring the sky and the ancestors, to report the beginning of the beginning of the opposite.

The origin of the Spring Festival contains profound cultural connotations and carries a rich historical and cultural heritage in its development. During the Spring Festival, all over the country are held a variety of activities to celebrate the Spring Festival, lively and festive atmosphere; these activities to get rid of the old and new, to welcome the Jubilee and receive blessings, to worship the gods and ancestors, pray for a good year as the main content, the form of colorful and rich with the characteristics of each region, the cohesion of the essence of the traditional Chinese culture.

In ancient times, people from the end of the 23rd or 24th of the sacrificial stove will begin to "busy year", the New Year to the first month of the 19th before the end. In modern times, people set the Spring Festival on the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar, but generally at least until the first month of the first lunar month of the fifteenth (Lantern Festival) New Year's Day is considered to be the end.