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The Spring Festival is the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar, also known as the lunar year, commonly known as “Chinese New Year”. This is the most solemn and lively traditional festival in our country. The Spring Festival has a long history. It originated from the activities of worshiping gods and ancestors at the beginning and end of the year during the Yin and Shang Dynasties. According to the Chinese lunar calendar, the first day of the first lunar month was called Yuanri, Yuanchen, Yuanzheng, Yuanshuo, and New Year’s Day in ancient times, commonly known as the first day of the new year. The first day of the month is called the Spring Festival.
The Spring Festival is here, which means that spring will come, Vientiane will recover and the vegetation will be renewed, and a new round of sowing and harvesting seasons will begin again. People have just passed the long and cold winter when the icy and snowy vegetation has withered away, and they have long been looking forward to the day when the spring flowers bloom.
For thousands of years, people have made New Year celebrations very colorful. Every year from the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month to the 30th day of the new year, the folks call this period “Spring Day”, also known as “Dust Sweeping Day”. It is a traditional habit of the Chinese people to clean up before the Spring Festival.
Then, every household prepares the New Year’s goods. About ten days before the festival, people start busy shopping for items. The New Year’s goods include chicken, duck, fish, tea, wine, oil, sauce, fried seeds and nuts, sugar bait and fruit. They must buy enough, and also prepare some for the New Year’s visit. Gifts given when visiting friends, children should buy new clothes and new hats, ready to wear during the New Year.
Before the festival, the New Year’s message with yellow characters on red paper should be pasted on the door of the house, that is, the Spring Festival couplets written on red paper. New Year pictures with bright colors and auspicious meanings are posted in the house. The ingenious girls cut out beautiful window grilles and paste them on the windows. In front of the door hang red lanterns or paste the characters of blessing and the statues of the god of wealth and the god of wealth. The characters of blessing can also be posted upside down. Fall, that is, good fortune, all these activities are to add enough festive atmosphere to the festival.
Another name for the Spring Festival is the New Year. In old legends, Nian was an imaginary animal that brought bad luck to people. Year one. Trees wither, no grass grows; when the year is over, everything grows and flowers are everywhere. How can the New Year pass? It is necessary to use firecrackers, so there is the custom of burning firecrackers, which is actually another way to set off the lively scene.
The Spring Festival is a happy and peaceful festival, and it is also a day for family reunion. Children who are away from home should go home and reunite during the Spring Festival. The night before the Chinese New Year is the 30th night of the twelfth lunar month of the old year, also known as New Year’s Eve, also known as Reunion Night. At this time when the old and the new alternate, keeping the new year is one of the most important New Year’s activities. It is a custom to eat dumplings on New Year’s Eve in the northern region. The way to make dumplings is to mix noodles first, and the word harmony means harmony. Take the meaning of making a child at a younger age. In the south, there is a habit of eating rice cakes during the New Year. The sweet and sticky rice cakes symbolize the sweetness of life in the new year and the backgammon.
When the first rooster crowing or the New Year’s bell rang, firecrackers rang out in unison on the street, and the sound came one after another, and the family was full of joy. The new year began. Men, women and children all wore festive costumes. New Year’s greetings and birthdays, there are also New Year’s money for children during the festival, group New Year’s dinner, the second and third day of the first day of the new year, began to visit relatives and friends, greet each other, congratulate each other, say congratulations on the new year, congratulations on getting rich, congratulations, happy new year, etc. Ancestor and other activities.
The warm atmosphere of the festival not only permeates every household, but also fills the streets and alleys of various places. In some places, there are lion dances, dragon lanterns, club fire performances, flower market tours, temple fairs and other customs in the street markets. During this period, the city is full of lanterns, and the streets are full of tourists. It is very lively and unprecedented. The Spring Festival is not really over until after the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.
The Spring Festival is the most important festival for the Han nationality, but more than a dozen ethnic minorities such as Manchu, Mongolia, Yao, Zhuang, Bai, Gaoshan, Hezhe, Hani, Daur, Dong, and Li also have the custom of the Spring Festival, but the form of the festival has its own National characteristics, more immortal.
Post time: Jan-27-2022