Typical cultural elements of the Spring Festival

The typical cultural elements of the Spring Festival are as follows:

1, ancestor worship: The most important thing in Chinese New Year is ancestor worship, which is also a traditional custom of China people. Due to cultural differences, the forms of ancestor worship vary from place to place. Some go to the wild to sweep graves, and some go to the ancestral temple to worship. No matter what the form, it is to commemorate the ancestors.

2, paste the year red: the year red is the Spring Festival couplets, door gods, horizontal approval, New Year pictures, blessings and so on. Sticking New Year Red can increase the festive atmosphere and place people's good expectations for the new year and new life.

3. Handling New Year's Goods: Before the Chinese New Year, every household will prepare and send New Year's Goods. There are many new year's goods, Spring Festival couplets, blessings and Chinese knots. Sausage, pork, chicken, fish and other foods. There are all kinds of fruits and vegetables, nut snacks, drinks and so on.

4. New Year's Eve: also known as New Year's Eve, reunion dinner, etc. It means that on New Year's Eve, every family gets together and has a family reunion dinner. Reunion dinner is rich in dishes. Eating fish means more than a year, sending laver means getting rich, yuba means being rich, lotus root means being smart, lettuce means making money, and sausage means being long.

5. New Year's greetings: It is one of the traditional customs of Chinese New Year to pay a visit to the home, and it is a way for people to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, and express their best wishes to each other. From the second day to the third day of junior high school, we visited relatives and friends and paid New Year greetings to each other. Usually we say things like congratulations on getting rich and happy New Year. The significance of New Year's greetings lies in visiting relatives and friends, congratulating each other on the New Year, expressing feelings for relatives and friends and good wishes for the new year's life.