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During the Spring Festival, various New Year celebrations are held across the country. Due to different regional cultures, there are differences in customs or details, with strong regional characteristics. The celebration activities during the Spring Festival are extremely rich and diverse, including lion dance, floating colors, dragon dance, wandering gods, temple fairs, flower streets, flower lantern viewing, gong and drum tours, vernier flags, burning fireworks, praying for blessings, and throwing spring flowers, as well as walking on stilts and running. Land boating, Yangko dancing, etc. During the Spring Festival, sticking New Year’s red cards, staying up late on the New Year’s Eve, having a reunion dinner, paying New Year greetings, etc. are common in various places. However, due to different customs and customs, each detail has its own characteristics. The folk customs of the Spring Festival are diverse in form and rich in content, and are a concentrated display of the essence of the life and culture of the Chinese nation. Sacrifice to gods is often seen in various folk rituals during the Spring Festival.

The Spring Festival is a day to get rid of the old and introduce the new. Although the Spring Festival is scheduled on the first day of the first lunar month, the activities of the Spring Festival do not end on the first day of the first lunar month. Starting from the end of the year, people start to be “busy in the New Year”: offering sacrifices to stoves, sweeping dust, buying New Year’s goods, putting up New Year’s red cards, washing their hair and bathing, putting up lanterns and decorations, etc. All these activities have a common theme, which is “revelation” The old welcomes the new.” The Spring Festival is a festival of joy, peace, and family reunion. It is also a carnival and an eternal spiritual pillar for people to express their yearning for happiness and freedom. The Spring Festival is also a day for relatives, ancestors, and blessings to pray for good luck. Sacrifice is a kind of belief activity. It is a belief activity created by human beings in ancient times to hope for harmonious coexistence with the nature of heaven and earth.

Traditions
●Buying New Year’s goods
China’s New Year customs and culture have a long history, and various New Year customs have been derived from various parts of the country, which are very different from the north to the south and each has its own characteristics. Although customs vary from place to place, preparing New Year goods and giving New Year gifts are “necessities for the New Year” almost across the country. Purchasing New Year’s goods, including things to eat, wear, wear, use, stick (New Year’s red), send (New Year’s greetings) gifts, etc., is collectively called “New Year’s goods”, and the process of purchasing New Year’s goods is called “New Year’s goods”. new Year foods”. Selling new year’s goods is an important activity for Chinese people during the Spring Festival.
The folk proverb says, “The twenty-sixth day of the twelfth lunar month is the day to cut meat for the New Year.” It means that on this day, meat is mainly prepared for the New Year. The reason why “cutting new year’s meat” is included in the New Year’s ballad is because the farming and social economy are underdeveloped, and people can only eat meat during the annual New Year’s Day, so it is called “new year’s meat”.

●Sacrifice to the stove
Folk sacrifices to stoves originated from the ancient custom of worshiping fire. For example, it is said in “Shi Ming”: “Stove. Creates and creates food.” The duty of the Kitchen God is to control the stove fire and manage the diet. Later, it was expanded to examine the good and evil in the world to reduce blessings and disasters. Worshiping the stove has a history of thousands of years among Chinese people. The belief in the Kitchen God is a reflection of the Chinese people’s pursuit of the dream of “having enough food and clothing”

●Sweep dust

Among the people, there is a custom of “sweeping the house on the twenty-fourth day of the twelfth lunar month” on New Year’s Eve. Folk proverbs call it “sweeping the house on the twenty-fourth day of the twelfth lunar month.” Folks call it “sweeping the dust day.” Sweeping the dust is the year-end cleaning, and every household It is necessary to clean the environment, wash all kinds of utensils, remove and wash bedding and curtains, sweep the Liulv courtyard, brush away dust and dirt, cobwebs, and dredge open ditches and ditches. There is a joyful atmosphere everywhere that is hygienic and clean to welcome the New Year. According to the folk saying : Because “dust” and “chen” are homophonic, sweeping dust before the year means “removing the old and making new arrangements”. The purpose of sweeping dust is to sweep away all bad luck and bad luck, so as to pray for good luck in the coming year.

●Tie New Year’s red (hui spring)
On the 28th, 29th or 30th day of the year, every household “pastes Nianhong” (Nianhong is the collective name for Spring Festival couplets, door gods, New Year pictures, blessing characters, horizontal batches, window grilles, etc., because these are red festive elements posted during the New Year, so they are collectively called “New year red”). Pasting New Year red is a traditional Chinese New Year custom. It reflects the customs and beliefs of the people, adds to the festive atmosphere, and expresses people’s good expectations for the new year and new life.

●New Year’s Eve dinner
New Year’s Eve dinner, also known as New Year’s dinner, reunion dinner, etc., especially refers to the family dinner at the end of the year and New Year’s Eve. The New Year’s Eve dinner originates from the ancient year-end sacrificial ceremony, where people gather together for a meal after paying homage to gods and ancestors. The New Year’s Eve dinner is the highlight of the year. It is not only colorful, but also very special. Before having the family reunion dinner, worship the gods and ancestors first, and then start the meal after the worship ceremony is completed. There are usually chickens (meaning planning), fish (meaning plenty every year), oysters (meaning good market), nostoc (meaning getting rich), yuba (meaning abundance), lotus root (meaning wisdom), and lettuce (meaning making money). ), sausage (meaning long-lasting), etc. for good luck. The Chinese New Year’s Eve dinner is a family reunion dinner. It is the most sumptuous and important dinner at the end of the year.

●Shou Sui
Keeping the year old on New Year’s Eve is one of the annual customs. The custom of keeping the year old has been around for a long time. The folk custom of keeping the New Year’s Eve is mainly manifested in lighting the New Year’s fire in all houses, gathering together as a family, and keeping the “Sui’s Fire” from extinguishing, waiting for the moment to bid farewell to the old and welcome the New Year. On New Year’s Eve, the lights are kept all night long, which is called “burning lanterns to illuminate the New Year” or “lighting the New Year fire”. All houses are lit with candles, and candles are specially lit under the bed. The lights are burned everywhere, which is called “illuminating the waste”. , it is said that after being illuminated in this way, the wealth of the family will be abundant in the coming year.

●New Year’s money
New Year’s money is one of the annual customs. After the New Year’s dinner, the elders will distribute the New Year’s money prepared in advance to the younger ones. It is said that the New Year’s money can suppress evil spirits, and the younger ones can spend their first year in peace by receiving the New Year’s money. In folk culture, New Year’s money means warding off evil spirits and exorcising ghosts, and bless peace. The original purpose of lucky money was to suppress evil and drive away evil spirits. Because people think that children are vulnerable to evil spirits, they use lucky money to ward off evil spirits.
Historically, there are many types of New Year’s money, which are usually distributed by the elders to younger generations during the New Year countdown, expressing support and containing the elder’s concern and sincere blessings for the younger generation. The other type is given by the younger generation to the elderly. This New Year’s money is given to the elderly by the younger generation. The “sui” in “sui” refers to the age, which is intended to wish the elderly a long life. The earliest traceable written record of New Year’s money can be found in the Han Dynasty. It is also called lucky money. It is not circulated in the market, but is cast into coins and has the function of warding off evil spirits.

●New year greetings
Paying New Year greetings is one of the annual activities. On the first morning of the new year, we welcome the new year and worship the “Sui God”. “Sui” is also known as “Sheti” and “Tai Sui”, which are the names of stars in ancient times. Tai Sui is also a god of folk belief. The year is based on the sixty-year cycle of the stems and branches. There are 60 people in total. Every year, there is a year-old god on duty. The Tai Sui who is on duty that year is called the “year-old Tai Sui”. He is the master of the year and is in charge of the human world that year. Good and bad, good and bad. As stated in “San Ming Tong Hui”: “A person who is too old is the master of one year old and the leader of the gods.” Paying New Year greetings is the oldest traditional Chinese New Year custom. This ancient custom is still popular in Guangdong, especially in the Wuchuan area. On the first day of the new year, when we bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, we welcome the new year, worship the god of the new year, and receive blessings.

●Temple fair
Visiting temple fairs is one of the folk activities during the Spring Festival. The Guangfu Temple Fair and the Beijing Ditan Temple Fair are both known as the two major temple fairs in China. It covers theme activities such as puppet gathering, Chinese unique skills, martial arts conference, and Lantern Festival Lantern Festival, and contains rich content such as blessing culture, folk culture, food culture, business and leisure culture.