"Cultural Connotation" of Spring Festival

1, the Spring Festival is a time to bid farewell to the old and bring forth the new. From the 23rd (or 24th) of a year, people begin to be "busy with the New Year": offering sacrifices to stoves, sweeping dust, buying new year's goods, putting up new year's red stickers, washing their hair and taking a bath, decorating with lanterns and so on. All these activities have the same theme, that is, "saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new".

The Spring Festival is a time to worship ancestors and pray for the New Year. Sacrifice is a kind of belief activity, created by ancient human survival activities, hoping to live in harmony with nature.

3. Spring Festival is a festival for people's entertainment and revelry. At the turn of the New Year's Day, various activities to celebrate the New Year, such as firecrackers, fireworks, saying goodbye to the old year and welcoming the new year, reached a climax.

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There is a legend about the origin of the Spring Festival. In ancient China, there was a monster called Nian. Its tentacles were very long and fierce. Nian lived on the seabed for many years, and climbed ashore every New Year's Eve, devouring livestock and killing people. Therefore, every New Year's Eve, people flee to the deep mountains to avoid the harm of the "Nian" beast.

Then one year on New Year's Eve, an old beggar came from outside the village and 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 has spread more and more widely, and has become the most solemn traditional festival among the people in China.