The significance of the Spring Festival and customs on the significance of the Spring Festival and traditional customs

1, meaning: the Spring Festival represents warmth and affection. Rich or poor, home for the New Year, a year does not catch, catch thirty nights ...... These words speak of the heavy historical deposits loaded by the Spring Festival, as well as the Spring Festival's supreme status in the minds of Chinese people. It is not only a gathering of loved ones, but also a baptism of the spirit and a renewal of ethical relations.

2. Customs:

(1) Putting up door gods. Initially, the door god was carved from mahogany in the form of a human figure and hung next to a person, and later it was painted as a portrait of the door god and posted on the door. People believe that the door god can drive away evil spirits. Legend has it that the two brothers, Shentian and Yubi, specialize in controlling ghosts, and with them guarding the gateway, evil spirits of all sizes would not dare to enter the door to do harm. After the Tang Dynasty, there are painted fierce general Qin Qiong, Yuchi Jingde two people like for the door god, there are painted Guan Yu, Zhang Fei like for the door god. Door god image of the left and right households each one. Later generations often paint a pair of door god as a Wen and a Wu, sends the Han working people a kind of good wishes to ward off evils and disasters, and to welcome auspiciousness and good fortune.

(2) Spring Festival couplets. Spring Festival couplets, also known as "door to", "couplets", "peach symbols", etc., is a kind of couplets, because in the Spring Festival when posted, and named. It is a unique form of literature in China, which depicts the background of the times and expresses the good wishes in neat, pairwise, concise and exquisite words. Every Spring Festival, no matter in the city or in the countryside, every family has to choose a big red Spring Festival couplet to paste on the door, to increase the festive atmosphere for the festival. This custom began in the song dynasty, in the ming dynasty began to prevail, to the qing dynasty, the spring couplets of ideology and artistry have been greatly improved, liang zhang toru prepared by the spring couplets of the monograph "sillian series of words" on the origin of the couplets and all kinds of works of the characteristics of the discourse. There are more types of spring couplets, which can be divided into door centers, frame pairs, horizontal pizzas, spring strips, and doufangs according to the places where they are used.

(3) stickers. Spring Festival hanging stickers in urban and rural areas is also very common, thick black colorful New Year's paintings to thousands of families added a lot of prosperity and joy of the festive atmosphere. These have the folkloric function of praying for blessings and decorating one's home. New Year's paintings are an ancient folk art in China, reflecting the customs and beliefs of the people and holding out hope for the future.

(4) Year-keeping. Chinese people have the habit of keeping watch on New Year's Eve, commonly known as "staying awake for the New Year". Year-end vigil from the beginning of the New Year's Eve dinner, this New Year's Eve dinner to eat slowly, from the palm of the lamp into the table, some people have to eat late into the night.