A clean winter means a dirty year, 199 1 year snows, and livestock don't eat black.

Chinese New Year refers to the "Chinese New Year Festival", that is, the Spring Festival.

During the Spring Festival, various activities to celebrate the Spring Festival are held all over the country, with a lively and festive atmosphere.

These activities are mainly to bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new year, to worship ancestors and to pray for a bumper harvest. They are rich in forms and have strong regional characteristics, which embodies the essence of China traditional culture.

Sacrificing ancestors not only covers all traditional festivals in China, but also is the eternal theme of folk festivals in China.

According to the old custom, from1Feb. 23rd/24th to the end of the day of offering sacrifices to stoves (dust-sweeping day) to the 15th or 19th day of the first month of the Lantern Festival, the nearly one-month period is called "China New Year", and now it is called "Spring Festival period". If we start with the preparation of "New Year's Goods", we will enter a busy year from1February 15 at the end of the year. ?

Headed by Hundred Festivals, the Spring Festival is the most solemn traditional festival of the Chinese nation, which not only embodies the Chinese nation's ideological beliefs, ideals and ambitions, life, entertainment and cultural psychology, but also shows activities such as blessing, eating and entertainment in a carnival way.

Influenced by China culture, some countries and regions in the world also have the custom of celebrating the Spring Festival.

Celebrating the Lunar New Year, centering on wishing and praying for the New Year, is carried out in the form of activities, such as saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new, worshiping gods and ancestors, and praying for a bumper harvest. The festive atmosphere is rich and colorful, which embodies the historical and cultural essence of Chinese civilization.

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The establishment of the chronology of ancient cadres and branches provided a prerequisite for festivals, and primitive beliefs and sacrificial culture were important factors in the formation of festivals.

The original beginning of spring in ancient folk refers to the "beginning of spring" in the twenty-four solar terms of the Ganzhi calendar. When the day is like "bucket handle refers to the Yin", it is the node of beginning of spring, that is, the sun reaches longitude 3 15.

Beginning of spring is a node calculated by the ecliptic, which is the law of astronomical phenomena. "Spring" was highly valued by people in ancient times. If there is a "double spring" year, it is regarded as a bumper year. At the beginning of the new year (beginning of spring), Vientiane is renewed, meaning new.