With the remarkable improvement of China's comprehensive national strength, the radiation field of China culture is also expanding. The significance of the Spring Festival has gone beyond the scope of China, but has a worldwide influence.
Neighboring countries have always been influenced by our culture. On the Korean peninsula, the Lunar New Year is called "New Year's Day" or "Old Correction", and the first to third day of the first month is a national legal holiday. The date of Korean Spring Festival is the same as that of China. Koreans call the Spring Festival a "snowy day", which means a pure and simple beginning.
Korean Spring Festival custom activities
Spring Festival couplets come from peach charms to exorcise ghosts, while modern Spring Festival couplets express more good luck and wishes. Spring Festival couplets embody China's unique calligraphy art, which was produced in the Tang Dynasty, popular in the Song Dynasty, popular in the Ming Dynasty, and later spread to South Korea. South Korea still has the custom of posting Spring Festival couplets, but most people choose to post Spring Festival couplets at the beginning of spring.
Korean customs and activities include painting flowers, jumping on the springboard, catching "night ghosts" and watching special programs for the Spring Festival. Legend has it that the luminous ghost will try on everyone's shoes in every household on the first night and take them away when they fit. It will bring bad luck if someone loses their shoes.
In order to prevent shoes from being taken away, most people put them in the house and put a sieve or basket at the same time. Because the luminous ghost has the habit of counting things when he sees them, the mesh on the sieve or basket will light up when he finishes counting them.