What kind of festival is the Spring Festival, and what kind of festival is the Spring Festival?

The Spring Festival was called "New Year" in ancient times. It is one of the most important traditional festivals of the Chinese nation. It is the dividing line between the front and back of the lunar calendar, and it is a sign of the beginning of unity. So there are all kinds of celebrations, entertainment, life improvements, holidays and other activities.

Among the traditional festivals, why is the "Spring Festival" an important festival?

The Spring Festival is a reunion festival. When Chinese celebrate the Spring Festival, people who go out like to return to their hometowns to be with their relatives and have a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner. Home is the harbor of life, the place where your loved ones are.

It is the spiritual home of the wanderer who works outside. Therefore, every Chinese attaches great importance to returning home for reunion during the Spring Festival.

The Spring Festival is a joyful, peaceful, family reunion festival, 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 hometowns in Beesai return to their homes to reunite with their loved ones as much as possible and share the joy of family. On Chinese New Year's Eve, the whole family gathers together to eat the "reunion dinner", and the elders distribute "New Year money" to the children, and then "keep the year" to welcome the arrival of the new year.

During the New Year's Festival, relatives and friends visit each other to express their feelings for relatives and friends and their best wishes for the new year's life.

Traditional Chinese festivals, with their diverse forms and rich contents, are an important part of the long history and culture of the Chinese nation. The formation of traditional festivals is a process of long-term accumulation and condensation of the history and culture of a nation or country.

Traditional Chinese festivals mainly include Spring Festival (the first day of the first lunar month), Lantern Festival (the fifteenth day of the first lunar month), Dragon Raising the Head (February 2), Sheri Festival (February 2), Flower Dynasty Festival (February 13-February 17), Qingming Festival (around April 5 of the Gregorian calendar), Dragon Boat Festival (the fifth day of the fifth lunar month), Qixi Festival (the seventh day of the seventh lunar month), July and a half (the 14th and 15th of the seventh month of the lunar calendar), Mid-Autumn Festival (the 15th day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar), Chongyang Festival (the ninth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar), the Winter Solstice Festival (December 21 23 of the Gregorian calendar), and Chinese New Year's Eve (the last day of the year) Wait.

In addition, among the 24 solar terms, there are also some natural solar terms and traditional festivals, such as: Qingming, Winter Solstice, etc., these festivals have both natural and humanistic connotations.

In addition, China's ethnic minorities also retain their own traditional festivals, such as the Songkran Festival of the Dai Nationality, the Naadam Assembly of the Mongolian Nationality, the Torch Festival of the Yi Nationality, the Danu Festival of the Yao Nationality, the March Street of the Bai Nationality, the Song Wei of the Zhuang Nationality, the Tibetan New Year and the Wangguo Festival of the Tibetan Nationality, and the Jumping Flower Festival of the Miao Nationality.

The Spring Festival, one of the four traditional festivals in China, is the first of the year and the traditional Lunar New Year. The beginning of the Spring Festival is the traditional Lunar New Year, commonly known as the "New Year", the traditional name is New Year, Big Year, New Year, but verbally also known as the New Year, Celebrate the New Year, New Year, Chinese have a history of more than 4,000 years. In modern times, the Spring Festival is set on the first day of the first lunar month.

In the folk, the traditional Spring Festival in the old days was from the wax sacrifice of the lunar month or the sacrifice stove on the 23rd or 24th of the lunar month, and it ended on the 19th of the first lunar month. In modern times, people set the Spring Festival on the first day of the first lunar month to the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, and the Lantern Festival is considered to end.

The Spring Festival refers to the traditional Lunar New Year in the Chinese character cultural circle, commonly known as the "New Year", the traditional name is the New Year, the Great Year, and the New Year, but it is also known verbally as the New Year, the New Year, and the New Year, which is the most solemn traditional festival of the Chinese nation.

Chinese New Year is a time for family reunions, which is very similar to Christmas in the West. Children who are away from home have to travel thousands of miles back to their parents' homes. The night before the real Chinese New Year is called reunion night, and the family has to sit around to make dumplings.

The way to make dumplings is to mix noodles first, and the word "and" is "together"; The dumplings of dumplings are homophonic with "cross", and "he" and "cross" have the meaning of reunion, so dumplings are used to symbolize reunion. The festive atmosphere lasts for a month. Before the first day of the first lunar month, there are rituals such as sacrificing stoves and worshipping ancestors; There are ceremonies such as New Year's money for children, New Year's greetings from relatives and friends; The second half of the festival is the Lantern Festival again, when the lanterns are full of the city, the tourists are full of streets, the grand occasion is unprecedented, after the Lantern Festival, the Spring Festival is over.

Spring Festival is the largest and most solemn festival of the year for Chinese. In the era of food scarcity, many people worked hard for a year in order to have a big year, so there is a saying that "it is better to be poor for a year than to be poor for a day".

On the day of the Chinese New Year, no matter how far the way home is, you must rush home to reunite with your family; In order to celebrate the New Year, regardless of whether you are rich or poor, you must prepare New Year's goods.

On the day of the Spring Festival, every household sticks up the Spring Festival couplets, builds fires, sets off firecrackers, and sacrifices to ghosts and gods. I still remember when I was a child, I wrote couplets by myself, cut window flowers by myself, and my father bought back pork and mutton, big roosters, big carp of the Yellow River with a large door leaf, as well as all kinds of cannons, firecrackers, candy melon seeds. Grandpa built the fire himself and told us not to poke the fire.

Two big red lanterns will be hung at the gate.

The Spring Festival has been prepared since Laba. Laba eats Laba porridge and drowns Laba garlic. Entering the twentieth month of the lunar month, people began to fold their fingers and count how long it was gone.

Twenty-three is the small year, sacrifice to the god of the stove, eat hemp sugar, twenty-four sweep the house, twenty-five make tofu, twenty-six boil big meat, twenty-seven kill roosters, twenty-eight noodle hair, twenty-nine steamed steamed buns, thirty nights of Ming code on the code to play for a night, after keeping Chinese New Year's Eve is the first day of the new year, go out to welcome the god of wealth and joy, to relatives to pay New Year's greetings. The girl who got married in the second year of junior high school went back to her parents' house until the fifteenth day of the lantern festival and ate the Lantern Festival.

The customs of Datong, from the first day to the fifteenth day of the new year, there are lively programs, stilts, dry boats, small car lights, and flower drum teams all go to the street, and the crowds of people on the street are shopping to see the excitement, and an ancient city is boiling.

This year's Spring Festival coincides with the epidemic, and many people do not prepare New Year's goods, so what do they have to eat. The new clothes in the store can't be sold, the price of pigs, beef and mutton has been reduced, there are not many people who buy it, just a little enough to eat, everything is simple, and the New Year's flavor is gone. Fireworks and firecrackers are forbidden on the top, and the whole city is quiet in the approaching year.

In previous years, the Spring Festival Gala on TV was the most attractive, but this year people don't pay attention to it, and this year is a little sad.