What is the meaning of the Spring Festival?

The Spring Festival is the most solemn traditional festival of the Chinese nation. It not only embodies the ideological beliefs, ideal wishes, life entertainment and cultural psychology of the Chinese nation, but is also a carnival-style display of blessings, food and entertainment activities. Influenced by Chinese culture, some countries and regions in the world also have the custom of celebrating the New Year.

According to incomplete statistics, nearly 20 countries and regions have designated the Chinese New Year as a legal holiday for all or some cities under their jurisdiction. The Spring Festival, Qingming Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival are also known as the four traditional festivals in China. Spring Festival folk customs were approved by the State Council to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage lists.

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my country has a long history of celebrating the New Year, and some relatively fixed customs have been formed during the inheritance and development. Many of them are still passed down to this day, such as making New Year goods, sweeping dust, and posting New Year stickers. Red, reunion dinner, watching the New Year, New Year's money, New Year greetings, New Year greetings, dragon and lion dances, worshiping gods and ancestors, praying for blessings and warding off disasters, burning firecrackers, burning fireworks, traveling to the gods, boating, temple fairs, traveling with gongs and drums, cursor flags, above Customs such as lamp wine and flower-viewing lanterns.

Worshiping ancestors not only covers all ancient traditional festivals in China, but is also the eternal theme of Chinese folk festivals. Traditional festival rituals and related customary activities are important elements of festivals and carry rich and colorful festival cultural connotations.

Reference source; Baidu Encyclopedia-Spring Festival