Spring Festival, the Chinese lunar first day, is known as the lunar calendar, commonly known as "New Year." This is the most solemn of civil, the most crowded one traditional festivals. The Spring Festival is a long history, it originated in the Shang dynasty period of the first winter activities deity worship. According to China's Lunar New Year, the first junior ancient lunar yen, Yuan-chen, the yuan is, Emperor, New Year's Day, commonly known as the Day, the Republic of China, to switch to the Gregorian calendar, the Gregorian calendar on January 1 as New Year's Day, January 1st is the Lunar New Year Spring Festival.
The Spring Festival, means that spring is coming soon, Vientiane vegetation recovery update, a new planting and the harvest season is beginning. People just spend a decline in vegetation long winter, spring has long been looking forward to the day when the Chinese New Year is approaching, naturally greeted with joy by singing and dancing festival.
For thousands of years, people in the custom has become uncommonly rich and colorful celebration activities, from the annual Lunar New Year's Eve on the 23rd play, the period of civil called "Spring Festival Day," also known as "sweeping dust," and before the Spring Festival dust sweeping health practice in China is known as the people's traditions and customs.
Then everyone is prepared foods, pre-about 10 days, people began to busy procurement of goods, including poultry and fish foods, tea oil sauce, pasta South and the North, sugar bait Fruit must buy sufficient, but also to some friends at the New Year, presented the gifts to children acquire new clothes the new cap, worn for the New Year.
The preganglionic in residential red paper pasted on the door of the yellow word New Year message, which is written in red paper with the couplets. House posted colorful implication auspicious New Year pictures, the girl who understands cutting beautiful window guards posted on the windows, red lanterns in front of or linked with the word-and the God of Wealth, doors statues, the word blessing can also lose in bargain, a study passers-down, that is a blessing to all these activities are for the festival add enough mood.
Another name is the Spring Festival holidays. In the legends of the past year is a bad luck for people on the imagination of animals. The one to. Trees been languishing, the Baicao not; In one, the growth of all living things, flowers everywhere. How can we in the past? Required whip shelling, there was the custom of burning firecrackers, which is also another big bustling scene in a different form.
The Spring Festival is a festival of joy and peace, is a family reunion day, the children in the home from the Spring Festival at home have gathered happily. The night before New Year's, is the old fashioned 30 years of the night, also known as New Year's Eve, is known as the reunion night, in this renewal at the time, is the most important religious customs activities in one night on New Year's Eve, the whole family, the youngest are celebrating together boil, gathered happily Hanyin, sharing families, in the northern region on New Year's Eve there the custom of eating dumplings, dumplings and the practice is to face, and that is a word; the meat dumplings and settlement homophonic, and a reference to a gathering of Italy, and obtain cross-year-old son was intended. New Year in the South have the habit of eating cakes, Tiantian of the sticky cakes, symbol of the new year life of sweet honey, in 1981.
That first chicken sounded, or New Year bell safely, the streets firecrackers went off everywhere, the sounds come and go, happy families, the new year begins, the men, women and children were wearing festive costumes that they elders in the family, Betty birthday, there are sections for children age neutralizing money, eat the lunch, the first two days , the three friends began to see many multinational, mutual Betty, congratulated blessing, saying congratulate the new happiness, fortune Congratulations, Congratulations, and good New Year, worship activities.
Festival warm atmosphere permeated not only in individual households, with the streets around some local markets still have the lion dance, playing It has taken, the agency's fire-goers travel, go to the temple and customs. This city during the Lantern Festival, visitors streets, bustling extraordinary, unprecedented grand meeting, to straight until fifteenth day after the Lantern Festival and the Spring Festival to be truly over.
Chinese Spring Festival is the most important festival, Manchu, Mongolian and the Yao, Zhuang, white, high mountain, Hezhe, Hani, Daur, Dong, Li, a dozen ethnic minorities also had the Spring Festival custom, the holiday is more in the form of their national characteristics, taste Yun infinite.
