Walk into the Spring Festival culture, what are the Spring Festival cultural activities?

Traditional customs and activities of the Spring Festival:

1. Paste Spring Festival couplets.

Spring Festival couplets, commonly known as"Door pairs", aka"Spring post"It is a kind of couplet, because it is posted during the Spring Festival, so it is called the Spring Festival couplet. Sticking Spring Festival couplets is an important New Year's folk custom. On the eve of the Spring Festival, every household has to paste red Spring Festival couplets, a pair of festive and warm Spring Festival couplets express people's good wishes to welcome the new year and look forward to a new life.

2. New Year's greetings. New Year's greetings are an important event during the Spring Festival, and it is best reflected in the reunion dinner on Chinese New Year's Eve"New Year's flavor"The Spring Festival customs. Generally, on the first day of the Lunar New Year, the younger generations give New Year's greetings to the elders, wishing the elders blessings such as the East China Sea and longevity than Nanshan.

After the New Year, the general rule is to visit the family, the second day of the new year, and the third day of the new year.

3. Visit the temple fair.

Visiting the temple fair is the Spring Festival complex of most Chinese, and it is an indispensable custom. The Spring Festival temple fair was the earliest folk religious ceremony, and the temple fair was usually done by monks and Taoist priests"Rituals"or"Dojo"In order to worship the gods and Buddhas, people also have to go into incense to worship, make wishes, repay wishes, and ask for blessings.

4. Paste the word blessing upside down.

In our country, people often use one"Blessed"Words to express the yearning and pursuit of good fortune, good fortune, and happiness. Whenever it is time to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new, every family must put it"Blessed"The words are pasted on the door of the house, which means that good fortune enters the door. In many places, it is also upside down"Blessed"Word, utilization"pour"with"to"The homonym, the meaning"Blessings have arrived"。

5. Watching the fire.

In addition to the temple fair, the folk self-entertainment of the social fire is also a long-standing New Year's festival entertainment activity. Shehuo originated from the ancient worship of the god of the land and the god of fire. She, i.e., the god of the land; Fire, or Fire Ancestor, is the legendary god of fire.

The ancient worship of the land and fire gave rise to the custom of sacrificial shrines and fire. With the development of society, the ritual of sacrificing the fire has gradually become a large-scale, rich in content, and diverse forms of folk entertainment.

The history of the Spring Festival is long-term, and it has evolved from the first prayer sacrifice in ancient times. All things are based on the sky, people are from the ancestors, pray for the New Year, worship the heavens and the ancestors, and report the beginning of the book. The origin of the Spring Festival contains profound cultural connotations, and carries a rich historical and cultural heritage in the inheritance and development.

During the Spring Festival, all parts of the country take the removal of the old and the new, welcome the jubilee blessings, worship the gods and ancestors, and pray for a good year as the main content.

In the early era of observation and timing, the age was determined according to the change of stars in the bucket song type, and the "bucket handle Huiyin" was the first of the year. The earth of "Bucket Handle Huiyin" is rejuvenated, and it is renewed, and a new cycle is opened.

In the traditional agrarian society, the beginning of spring is of great significance, and a large number of related festivals and customs have been derived. In the historical development, although the calendar is used, the date of the first festival of the year is different.

However, the festival framework and many folklore have been inherited. In modern times, people set the spring jujube festival on the first day of the first lunar month, but it generally does not end until at least the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.