The first day of the first lunar month is the Spring Festival, also known as the lunar year, commonly known as "Chinese New Year". This is the biggest and most lively ancient traditional festival among the people of China. The Spring Festival is the most important festival of the Han nationality. However, China is a multi-ethnic country. Besides the Han nationality, there are more than a dozen ethnic minorities such as Manchu, Mongolian, Yao, Zhuang, Bai, Gaoshan, Hezhe, Hani, Daur, Dong and Li who also celebrate the Spring Festival. The Spring Festival has a long history, which originated from the activities of offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors in the beginning and end of the Shang Dynasty. There are also many legends about this year. The ancient Spring Festival was called "January Festival", "New Year's Day" and "New Year's Day". After the Revolution of 1911, the first day of the first lunar month was officially named Spring Festival.
The Spring Festival, as its name implies, is the Spring Festival. Spring has come, Vientiane is renewed, and a new round of sowing and harvesting season is about to begin again. People have enough reasons to welcome this festival by singing and dancing. So, before the festival, a New Year message with red paper and yellow characters was posted on the frontispiece. When Miss Chun comes to the door, she will read a sentence to express her best wishes for the New Year. With this idea, good luck really came. The same moral things are hanging red lanterns, sticking the word "Fu" and sticking the statue of the God of Wealth. The word "Fu" must be posted backwards, and passers-by will say "Fu has fallen", which means "Fu has arrived". The Spring Festival is a festival for family reunion. Children who leave home will have to travel thousands of miles back to their parents' home at this time. The night before the real Chinese New Year is called Reunion Night, and the whole family will sit around and wrap up jiaozi. Jiaozi's practice is to mix dough first, and the word "harmony" means "combination"; Jiaozi in jiaozi is homophonic with "dumpling", and "harmony" and "dumpling" have the meaning of reunion, so jiaozi is used to symbolize reunion. The festive atmosphere will last for a month. There are ceremonies such as offering sacrifices to stoves and ancestors before the first day of the first month; In festivals, there are ceremonies to give lucky money to children and to pay New Year greetings to relatives and friends. Half a month after the festival is the Lantern Festival. At that time, lanterns were all over the city and tourists were all over the streets. After the Lantern Festival, the Spring Festival is over.
Another name for the Spring Festival is China New Year. What is "year"? It is a fictional animal, which will bring bad luck to people. "Year" came, the trees withered and the grass stopped growing; After the New Year, everything grows and flowers are everywhere. How to spend the year? Firecrackers are needed, so there is a custom of setting off firecrackers. The Spring Festival is the symbol of China.
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You can also write that the taste of the Spring Festival has changed, and the traditional Spring Festival has gradually faded. See the following materials:
During the Spring Festival, people are busy cleaning the house dust, hanging New Year pictures, writing Spring Festival couplets and steaming rice cakes, commonly known as "busy years". New Year's Eve is the climax of the New Year festival. The whole family, old and young, sat around to celebrate the New Year. After a hearty dinner, people sit around the fire and chat until the New Year comes. It will still be like this this year. However, I don't know when to start. In the life of ordinary people in China, the traditional symbol "Nian" has become more and more lonely, and the flavor of Nian is becoming more and more difficult to pursue. Today, after thousands of years of persistence, the custom of the Spring Festival is gradually moving away from the people of China. Many people began to feel. The "year" that they are most looking forward to in memory, which made China people's material and spiritual satisfaction, became busy, tired, crowded and expensive. Where are those rich, interesting and warm customs? Time can't keep up with the pace of "Year", and it seems to fade away in this long time tunnel. I didn't find it when I was a child. At that time, every New Year, people were particularly excited to post couplets and celebrate the New Year happily. But they can feel deep warmth. When they grow up, they won't find it ... weaker and weaker. It is also idle for them to go home and talk together.
More and more symbols representing traditional folk customs are disappearing. For ordinary people, the best place to find folk customs is probably a folk street, an ancient cultural street or a folk tourism village in the suburbs of Tianjin. Due to the steady improvement and development of social economy, high-rise buildings have been built in rural areas.
At noon, the custom of Chinese New Year has also become monotonous, with red couplets, glamorous door gods, hot family reunion dinners and happy family photos. Some places are already such a Spring Festival and annual custom without any flavor of the year.