What are the introductions of the Spring Festival?

Spring Festival is the China Lunar New Year, commonly known as Spring Festival, New Year, New Year's Eve and so on. And it is also called Chinese New Year and New Year's Eve verbally. The Spring Festival has a long history, which evolved from praying for the New Year at the beginning of the year in ancient times. Everything is based on heaven, and people are based on ancestors, praying for the elderly, respecting the ancestors of heaven, and returning to the original.

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.

These activities are rich and colorful, which have condensed the essence of China traditional culture, mainly to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, exorcise evil spirits and disturb disasters, offer sacrifices to gods and ancestors, and pray for the New Year.

Legend:

There is a legend about the origin of the Spring Festival. In ancient China, there was a monster called Nian, who lived under the sea for many years and climbed ashore every New Year's Eve. People fled to the deep mountains to avoid the harm of Nian beast. Then one year on New Year's Eve, an old man outside the village told people how to drive away Nian beast.

It turns out that Nian was most afraid of red, fire and explosion. Since then, every year on New Year's Eve, every family has posted red couplets and set off firecrackers. Every household has a bright candlelight, so it is better to wait for the New Year. In the early morning of the first day, I want to say hello to my relatives and friends. This custom spread more and more widely and became the Spring Festival.