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What about the Spring Festival in 2019? It's more like Spring Festival

the arrival of the Spring Festival also indicates that spring is coming quietly, the climate is warming, everything recovers, and everything exudes new strength. The Spring Festival in 2019 is February 5. The Spring Festival is the most important and grand festival in China. The tradition of celebrating the Spring Festival has been handed down since ancient times, and there are many traditional customs. Although people often complain that the new year is becoming less and less like the new year, many people are still looking forward to the new year to be reunited with their families. This article will review the traditional customs and traditional ways of the Spring Festival for you. I hope you can find the taste of the new year that you haven't seen for a long time.

New year's Eve dinner, sitting around the stove, lively and talkative

The most expected thing for the Spring Festival is to prepare the new year's Eve dinner with the whole family. For the Chinese people, the new year's Eve dinner is the most important meal of the year. After a long and long preparation process, a table full of good wishes for the family is finally presented. Everyone sits around and eats and smiles happily, watching the children making noise, The happiness in my heart is unspeakable.

The Spring Festival Gala is accompanied by the whole family

The Spring Festival Gala was first held in 1983 and later became a variety show held by CCTV to celebrate the lunar new year every year on the evening of the lunar new year. The new year's Eve is the time to watch the new year. The whole family sits in front of the TV, knocking melon seeds and chatting. Watching the Spring Festival Gala, the joys and sorrows of the year are relieved at this moment. We are watching the new year and guarding a warm feeling.

Set off firecrackers and divide the year with the sound of firecrackers

In traditional customs, there is a saying among Chinese people that "open the door to firecrackers", that is, on the arrival of the new year, every household should set off firecrackers. After a burst of crackling firecrackers, the ground will be broken red, except for the old and welcome the new, indicating good luck and joy in the new year.

When visiting the temple fair, the festive atmosphere came

The temple fair is also called "Temple market" or "festival field". Visiting the temple fair is a unique traditional folk cultural activity in China. There are song and dance performances, folk activities and flavor snacks in the temple fair. It is the most lively place during the Chinese New Year. In particular, a family wearing new clothes to go to the temple fair once became the most solemn and expected thing during the Spring Festival.

Lucky money is the most honest blessing for the younger generation

New year's money is a gift given by the elders to the younger generation during the Spring Festival. In some families, after dinner, the younger generation pays new year's greetings to the elders, wishes them longevity and health, and encourages them to succeed in their studies in the new year; Some people wait for the younger generation to fall asleep, and the elders secretly put the lucky money on their pillow to express their blessing and love. It is said that lucky money can suppress evil spirits, because 'Sui' is homonymous with 'Sui'. Elders hope that by issuing lucky money, the younger generation can spend a year in peace.

New Year greetings, mutual auspicious words to start a new year

The custom of paying a new year's call was first popular in Kyoto of the Ming Dynasty. Officials of the DPRK should pay homage to each other whether they know each other or not, and the people pay homage to their relatives and friends. Later, it gradually evolved into a way for people to wish each other well at the advent of the new year. When it comes to new year's greetings, we can't help but say 'New Year's greetings'. Xunzi said,' people don't live without etiquette, things don't work if they are rude, and countries are restless if they are rude. China is a land of etiquette. Our country has always paid attention to reciprocity, and there is no disrespect. " Therefore, we always pay attention to bringing some gifts to our elders and friends during the new year.

New era, the way of keeping pace with the times

However, with the enrichment of material life, people began to choose more diverse ways to celebrate the new year than pursuing these rituals. The scene of family members getting together to prepare new year's Eve dinner may become a dinner in a restaurant with exquisite costumes; Door to door new year's greetings may have been replaced by telephone New Year's greetings and Internet new year's greetings; Even giving lucky money is no longer limited to cash red envelopes, but more use of Internet red envelopes.

The traditional Chinese New Year and the new Chinese New Year are both inclusive

Since the original sense of ceremony has gradually faded out of today's life, we might as well create some new sense of ceremony to experience the Spring Festival keeping pace with the times in the way of the new year instead of lamenting that the taste of the new year has faded. We know that only China has twelve zodiac signs, which is also one of the most distinctive places in our culture. As a long-standing folk cultural symbol, many people will take it as the mascot of the Spring Festival to express their expectations and hopes for the new year. The year of the pig is coming soon. The 2019 gold and silver commemorative coins of the year of the pig issued by the people's Bank of China and distributed by the China Gold Coin Corporation also came into being. This set of commemorative coins not only has China's traditional cultural heritage, but also the best choice for the new year.