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Zhongshan Spring Festival custom

The Spring Festival customs in Zhongshan include Laba, offering sacrifices to stoves, steaming steamed buns, writing Spring Festival couplets, sweeping dust and pasting Spring Festival couplets.

The Spring Festival is the most distinctive traditional festival in China, which began in Yu Shun period. Spring Festival refers to the first day of the traditional calendar in China (different from the current Gregorian New Year's Day in China), the first day of the first lunar month, also known as the Lunar New Year, New Year's Day, the beginning of a year, and Zheng Dan, the first lunar month, also known as the Lunar New Year, commonly known as the New Year, New Year's Day, to celebrate the New Year.

The Spring Festival refers to the traditional Spring Festival in the cultural circle of Chinese characters. The traditional names are New Year, New Year and New Year, but they are also verbally called New Year, Celebrating New Year and New Year. In ancient times, the Spring Festival refers to the beginning of spring in the solar terms and is also regarded as the beginning of a year. Later, it was changed to the first day of the first lunar month as the New Year. Generally speaking, it doesn't end until the fifteenth day of the first month (Shangyuan Festival). Spring Festival, commonly known as "Chinese New Year", is the most solemn traditional festival of the Chinese nation.