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 Spring Festival

One of China's four traditional festivals

    The Spring Festival (other name: Spring Festival, New Year Festival, Tianla, New Year's Eve, English name: Spring Festival) is one of the four traditional Chinese festivals, the Lunar New Year, the traditional "New Year Festival", the date is set on the first day of the first lunar month every year.


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    The term "Spring Festival" came into use after the Revolution of 1911. The Spring Festival has a long history and has evolved from praying for the beginning of the New Year in ancient times. All things are based on the day, the man is the ancestor, pray for the year, worship the day Fazu, report the reverse beginning also. The origin of the Spring Festival contains profound cultural connotations, and carries rich historical and cultural deposits in the inheritance and development. During the Spring Festival, each family will hold a variety of celebration activities, most of which are to offer sacrifices to gods and Buddhas, pay respects to ancestors, remove the old and the new, welcome the jubilee and receive the good fortune, and pray for a good harvest. The forms of activities are rich and colorful, mostly with strong national characteristics, and embody the essence of traditional Chinese culture. According to incomplete statistics, nearly 20 countries and regions have set the Chinese Spring Festival as a legal holiday for the whole or some cities under their jurisdiction. The Spring Festival folk custom was approved by The State Council to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.

Festival custom

    Traditional festival ceremonies and related custom activities are important contents of festival elements, carrying rich and colorful festival culture. The Annual Festival is an ancient festival in China and the most important festival in the whole year. In the development of history, it combines many folk customs and forms some relatively fixed customs and habits, many of which are still passed down to the present. The celebration activities during the Spring Festival are extremely rich and diverse, including lion dance, color floating, dragon dance, wandering gods, temple fair, walking in the flower street, enjoying the lanterns, gongs and drums, vernier-flag, burning fireworks, praying for good luck, guanchu, walking on stilts, running on land boats, doing yangko dance and so on. The custom of offering sacrifices to God prevails in the southern coastal areas, inheriting the ancient customs, during the Spring Festival, many places have held a grand ceremony to worship the God of heaven and earth, to welcome the jubilee prayer and other offerings to pray for the New Year activities, rich and colorful content, lively festival, rich flavor of the New Year. During the Spring Festival, sticking New Year red, staying New Year, eating reunion dinner, New Year greetings and so on are everywhere, but because of different customs and customs, the details have their own characteristics. The folk customs of the Spring Festival are diverse in form and rich in content, which is a concentrated display of the essence of Chinese life and culture. 
    The Spring Festival is a new day, although the Spring Festival is set on the first day of the first lunar month, but the Spring Festival activities are not more than the first day of the first lunar month. From the end of the 24th day of the year, people begin to "busy year" : offering sacrifices to the stove, sweeping dust, buying New Year goods, pasting red, washing hair and bathing, lighting and decorating, etc. All these activities have a common theme, that is, "bidding farewell to the old year and ushering in the New Year." The Spring Festival is a festival of joy and harmony and family reunion, and it is also a carnival and eternal spiritual pillar for people to express their yearning for happiness and freedom. Before the festival, people who have left their homes are trying to return home to reunite with their loved ones and share the joy of family. On New Year's Eve, the whole family gathered together, ate the "Reunion dinner", the elders gave the children "lucky money", and then "Shousui" to greet the New Year. During the festival, relatives and friends visit each other to express their feelings and good wishes for the New Year's life.

                                                  
       

    The Spring Festival is a festival for people to entertain and revel. We sat around watching the Spring Festival Gala.. At the time of the Yuan Day, firecrackers rang out, fireworks filled the sky, and various activities to celebrate the New Year such as the old Year and the New Year reached a climax. On the morning of the first day of the New Year, each family burns incense to salute, worship heaven and earth, offer sacrifices to their ancestors, and then give their elders a New Year, and then congratulate each other. After the Yuan Day, a variety of colorful entertainment activities competed to
develop, adding a strong festive atmosphere for the Spring Festival. The warm atmosphere of the festival is not only permeated in every household, but also filled with streets and alleys. During this period, the city full of lanterns, visitors all over the street, lively, unprecedented, until the fifteenth day of the first month after the Lantern Festival, the Spring Festival is really over. Therefore, the Spring Festival, which integrates praying, celebrating and entertainment, has become the most solemn festival of the Chinese nation.


Folklore

    According to legend, a long time ago, a young man named ten thousand years ago saw that the season was very chaotic, and he wanted to set the season. However, he could not find a way to calculate the time, one day, he was tired of chopping wood, sitting under the shade of the tree to rest, the movement of the tree shadow inspired him, he designed a sundial to measure the time of the day. Later, he was inspired by the dripping spring on the cliff, and he began to make a five-layer colander to calculate the time. Over time, he found that every three hundred and sixty days, the four seasons return once, and the length of the day is repeated.



    At that time, the king was called Zu Yi, and he was often distressed by the unexpected weather. After ten thousand years of knowing, he took the sundial and the colander to the king, and explained the truth of the operation of the sun and the moon to Zu Yi. Zub after listening to great joy, feel reasonable. So he left ten thousand years, built the sun and moon Pavilion in front of the Temple of Heaven, and built the sundial and the colander pavilion. And hope to measure the law of the sun and moon, calculate the accurate time of morning and evening, create a calendar, for the benefit of the people of the world. After the creation of the calendar, ten thousand years pointed to the sky, said to Zuyi: "Now it is twelve months full, the old year has been finished, the New Year begins, please the king set a festival." Zu Yi said: "Spring is the beginning of the year, it is called the Spring Festival." It is said that this is the origin of Spring Festival.   next
                                                                                    

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