What are the festival customs of the Spring Festival? Introduction to the traditional culture of the Spring Festival
The Spring Festival is the most important and grand traditional festival in China.It has an irreplaceable position in the minds of the Chinese people.The folk festival customs include setting off firecrackers, offering sacrifices to ghosts and gods, eating dumplings, paying New Year’s greetings, Keep the year old, paste couplets, paste blessing characters.
Introduction to the Spring Festival
The beginning of the Chinese lunar year is called the Spring Festival.It is the most solemn traditional festival of the Chinese people, and it also symbolizes unity, prosperity and new hope for the future.According to records, the Chinese people have celebrated the Spring Festival for more than 4,000 years, and it was initiated by Yu Shun.One day more than 2000 BC, Shun was the emperor, leading his subordinates to worship heaven and earth.Since then, people have regarded this day as the beginning of the year, which is the first day of the first lunar month.It is said that this is the origin of the Lunar New Year, later called the Spring Festival.Spring Festival is also called New Year’s Day.The month in which the Spring Festival falls is called January.
Folk customs of Spring Festival
my country has a long history of Chinese New Year, and some relatively fixed customs have been formed in the process of inheritance and development.Couplets, New Year’s Eve dinner, New Year’s Eve, New Year’s Eve, New Year’s Eve, Dragon and Lion Dance, Worship to Gods and Ancestors, Blessings and Disasters, Firecrackers, Fireworks, God Tour, Boat Arrival, Temple Fair, Gong and Drum Tour, Vernier Flag, Lighting Wine , lanterns and other customs.The traditional festival ceremonies and related customs activities are the important content of the festival elements and carry the rich and colorful festival cultural connotations.Worshiping ancestors not only covers all the ancient traditional festivals in China, but also the eternal theme of Chinese folk festivals.
A summary of the meaning of the Spring Festival
The meaning of the Spring Festival lies in history, remembering the merits and virtues of ancestors, not forgetting the origin; worshiping ancestors and spirits, not forgetting words and deeds.Therefore, the Spring Festival should be renamed the Ancestor’s Day to express the meaning of welcoming the reunion of the ancestors.The state should hold a ceremony to honor the sages on New Year’s Eve, expressing its willingness to pay attention to history and respect tradition.Where there is past, there is present; where there is tradition, there is future.Paying attention to traditional festivals, the seven-day holiday of the Spring Festival should be determined in the form of decree.
The social significance of the Spring Festival lies in seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages.The Spring Festival coincides with the earthquake season from the beginning of spring to the vernal equinox, which is the natural law revealed in "New Taiji Tushuo":when Yinjin (germs) flourish in Yangmu (the East, the earthquake season), the bacteria are prone to a large number of outbreaks.People choose to set off firecrackers to drive away the demon of germs, in order to pass the dangerous New Year smoothly.People put up Spring Festival couplets, wear red clothes, and fight the fire in hopes of slaying the demons and subduing demons (the yang fire is rich in the yin and the gold, and here the yang fire balances the yin and the gold).Family reunion, coping with natural disasters with family strength, and enhancing social cohesion.All of this has the social significance of racial continuation.Since Yin Jin (germs) flourish in Yang Wood (sound waves), singing and dancing should be strictly prohibited during the earthquake season, and instrumental music and language programs with low degree of harm should be selected for entertainment, so as to achieve the purpose of seeking benefits and avoiding harm.
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