Changes in Chinese New Year customs? What is the difference between traditional and modern Chinese New Year customs?

China's Spring Festival is the grandest and most lively festival of Chinese folklore, which evolved from the ancient times when people prayed for the New Year at the beginning of the year. In the development of inheritance has formed a number of more fixed customs, many of which are still handed down to the present day, such as doing New Year's shopping, dust sweeping, sticking New Year's red, New Year's dinner, keeping the New Year's eve, New Year's money, paying tribute to the New Year, New Year's Eve, dragon and lion dances, worshipping the gods and sacrificing to the ancestors, burning firecrackers, burning fireworks, guanchunsheng, praying for blessings, going to temples and enjoying lanterns, and other customs.

With the change of time, customs have gradually changed in different places, but some of them are still retained, such as sticking New Year's red, observing the New Year's Eve, eating New Year's dinner and paying New Year's call, etc., which are found in various places, but due to the differences in local customs and people's situation, the nuances have their own characteristics.

For example, in many areas, there is a custom to eat rice cakes. Nian Gao, also known as "Nian Nian Gao", which is the same as "Nian Nian Gao", implies that people's work and life are getting better and better every year.

Meanwhile, in contemporary society, people's recreational revelry is gradually replaced by an atmosphere of leisure. People hide at home to play cards, mahjong and the Internet, and stay up all night. Once the Spring Festival comes, what is heard everywhere in the city is not the rumbling sound of firecrackers, but the sound of propaganda to ban the burning of firecrackers, and temple fairs seeking auspicious entertainment have become places for commercial profit.

Difference: The biggest difference between the traditional Spring Festival and the modern Spring Festival customs is that the traditional Spring Festival is the people's expectations for the new year, and the farewell to the past year, the importance of the spiritual heritage. The modern Spring Festival, in addition to the family reunion, more recreational and leisure-oriented.