Why are there so many customs in the Spring Festival?

Dragon Dance: Dragon Dance, commonly known as playing with dragon lanterns, is one of the traditional folk cultural activities in China.

Lion Dance: Lion Dance is an excellent folk art in China. Whenever festivals or gatherings are held to celebrate, people always entertain themselves by dancing lions. Lion dance is divided into north and south, and the lion dance in Guangdong is the most famous in the south.

Lantern: Lantern is an important entertainment culture of the Chinese nation for thousands of years and a treasure of China folk culture.

Setting off firecrackers: Setting off firecrackers is a traditional folk custom in China with a history of more than 2,000 years.

Visiting Temple Fair: Temple Fair is a unique Han folk cultural activity in China, which integrates eating, drinking and having fun.

Walking on stilts is one of the traditional folk activities in China. It is a popular folk mass performance. In some folk festivals, dancers perform with long wooden stilts tied to their feet.

The origin of the Spring Festival:

The origin of ancient traditional festivals is related to ancient primitive beliefs, sacrificial culture, astronomical phenomena, calendars and other humanistic and natural cultural contents. According to the research results of modern anthropology and archaeology, the two most primitive beliefs of human beings are the belief in heaven and earth and the belief in ancestors. Most of the traditional festivals in ancient times were formed in the activities of the ancients choosing a day to offer sacrifices to thank the gods of heaven and earth and their ancestors for their kindness.

The early festival culture embodies the ancient people's humanistic spirit of advocating nature, the unity of man and nature, cautiously pursuing the future, and firmly thinking about the source; A series of sacrificial activities contain profound cultural connotations, such as respecting morality, ritual and music civilization, etc. The formation of New Year's Day covers humanistic philosophy and natural laws.