Traditional folk customs of the Spring Festival
Spring Festival is an ancient festival in China, and it is also the most important festival in a year. In the historical development, it has integrated a variety of folk customs and formed some relatively fixed customs and habits, many of which are still handed down today. China is a multi-ethnic country, and each ethnic group has different ways to celebrate the New Year.
The Spring Festival is the most important festival of the Han nationality. More than a dozen ethnic minorities, such as Manchu, Mongolian, Yao, Zhuang, Bai, Gaoshan, Hezhe, Hani, Daur, Dong and Li, have also celebrated the Spring Festival, but the form of the festival has its own national characteristics and is more meaningful.
During the Spring Festival, there are many kinds of celebrations, such as lion dancing, floating colors, dragon dancing, worshipping gods, temple fairs, visiting flower streets, enjoying lanterns, beating gongs and drums, flying flags, lighting fireworks, praying for blessings, dancing spring dance, walking on stilts, running dry boats, dancing yangko and so on.
The custom of offering sacrifices to ancestors is popular in the southern coastal areas, and it inherits the ancient customs. During the Spring Festival, there are many grand activities, such as offering sacrifices to heaven and earth and praying for the New Year. , rich in content, lively and festive, full of flavor.
During the Spring Festival, you can find it everywhere, such as posting New Year's greetings, observing New Year's Eve, having a reunion dinner and paying New Year's greetings. However, due to different local customs, the nuances have their own characteristics. The folk customs of the Spring Festival are diverse and rich in content, which is a concentrated display of the essence of China people's life and culture.