Slogan of social fire in the year of rabbit

Spring Festival, that is, Lunar New Year, commonly known as Chinese New Year, generally refers to New Year's Eve and the first day of the first month. However, among the people, the traditional Spring Festival refers to the sacrificial ceremony from La Worship on the 8th or 23rd or 24th of the twelfth lunar month to the 15th of the first lunar month, with New Year's Eve and the first day of the first lunar month as the climax. The Spring Festival has a long history, which originated from the activities of offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors in the beginning and end of the Shang Dynasty. During the Spring Festival, Han people and many ethnic minorities in China will hold various activities to celebrate. The main contents of these activities are offering sacrifices to gods and buddhas, offering sacrifices to ancestors, saying goodbye to the old year and welcoming the new year, and praying for a bumper harvest. The activities are rich and colorful, with strong national characteristics.

Spring Festival, commonly known as "Chinese New Year Festival", is the most solemn festival of the Chinese nation.

Unification day. Since the first year of Emperor Taizu of the Han Dynasty, the first day of the first month in the summer (lunar calendar) has been regarded as "the year of the year", and the date of the annual festival has been fixed and continues to this day. New Year's Day was called "New Year's Day" in ancient times. After the Revolution of 1911, 19 1 1 adopted the Gregorian calendar to calculate the year, so it was called "New Year's Day" on the Gregorian calendar 1 and "Spring Festival" on the first day of the first lunar month. The 20-year-old festival is also called "traditional festival". They have a long history, spread widely and have the characteristics of great popularity, mass and even the whole people. New Year's Day is a new day to get rid of old cloth. Although the festival is scheduled for the first day of the first lunar month, its activities are not limited to the first day of the first lunar month. From the 23rd (or 24th) day of the twelfth lunar month, people began to "busy year": cleaning the house, washing their hair and taking a bath, preparing new year's utensils and so on. All these activities have a common theme, that is, "saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new". People greet the new year and spring with grand ceremonies and enthusiasm. New Year's Day is also a time to pray for the New Year. The ancients said that a mature millet is a "year" and a bumper harvest of grains is a "bumper year". In the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty, there was an annual harvest celebration. Later, praying to heaven for the New Year became one of the main contents of the annual custom. Furthermore, the Kitchen God, Door God, God of Wealth, XiShen, Well God and other gods. Everyone enjoys human incense during the festival. People take this opportunity to thank the gods for their care in the past and pray for more blessings in the new year. New Year's Day is also a time for family reunion, family worship and ancestor worship. On New Year's Eve, the whole family get together to have a "reunion dinner". The elders distributed "lucky money" to the children, and the whole family sat together for a "vigil". At the turn of New Year's Day, firecrackers exploded, and activities to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new came to a climax. Every household burns incense to worship the heavens and the earth and ancestors, then pays tribute to the elders in turn, and then congratulates relatives and friends. After the Yuan Dynasty, we began to visit relatives and friends and exchange gifts to celebrate the New Year. New Year's Day is a festival for people to entertain and revel. After January, a variety of colorful entertainment activities were launched, such as playing with lions, dragon lanterns, yangko dancing, walking on stilts, juggling and so on, which added a rich celebration atmosphere to the Spring Festival.

Festive atmosphere. At this time, just before and after the "beginning of spring", a grand welcoming ceremony was held in ancient times to whip cattle to welcome spring and pray for good weather and good harvest. On the fifteenth day of the first month, all kinds of social fire activities reached a climax again. Therefore, the grand New Year Festival, which integrates praying for the New Year, celebrating and entertaining, has become the most grand festival of the Chinese nation. Nowadays, in addition to offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors, the main customs of the festival have been well inherited and developed. The Spring Festival is an important carrier of the excellent tradition of Chinese culture, which contains the wisdom and crystallization of Chinese culture, embodies the life pursuit and emotional sustenance of China people, and inherits the family ethics and social ethics of China people. After thousands of years of accumulation, the colorful folk customs of the Spring Festival have formed a profound and unique Spring Festival culture. In recent years, with the improvement of material living standards, people's demand for spiritual and cultural life has increased rapidly, and their desire for family, friendship, harmony and happiness has become stronger. Traditional festivals such as the Spring Festival have attracted more and more attention from all walks of life. It is necessary to vigorously carry forward the excellent traditional culture condensed in the Spring Festival, highlight the themes of saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new, praying for reunion and being safe and smooth, and strive to create a festive atmosphere of family harmony, stability and unity, joy and peace, so as to promote the enduring and continuous development and growth of Chinese culture. [ 1]