What are the customs of the Spring Festival in my hometown?

The Spring Festival is the most solemn and grand traditional festival among Chinese people. It is a folk festival that integrates praying for blessings and warding off disasters, celebrating entertainment and eating.

The Spring Festival has a long history. It evolved from the ancient times to pray for good luck at the beginning of the year and carry a rich historical and cultural heritage in its inheritance and development.

The New Year activities center around offering sacrifices and praying for a good year, and are carried out in the form of removing the old and bringing in the new, worshiping gods and ancestors, exorcising evil spirits and fighting disasters, and praying for a good harvest. The content is rich and colorful, lively and festive, and has a strong flavor of the new year, embodying Chinese civilization. The essence of traditional culture.

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 ethnic characteristics.

Our country has a long history of celebrating the New Year, and some relatively fixed customs have been formed in the inheritance and development. Many of them are still passed down to this day, such as buying New Year's goods, sweeping dust, posting couplets, eating New Year's Eve dinner, watching the New Year's Eve, paying New Year's greetings, Customs include New Year greetings, dragon and lion dances, worshiping gods and ancestors, praying for blessings and warding off disasters, setting off firecrackers, setting off fireworks, visiting gods, escorting boats, temple fairs, traveling with gongs and drums, cursor flags, lighting lanterns and wine, and admiring lanterns.

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