New Year! The sound of firecrackers to bid farewell to the old year, flowers to greet the spring festival, the Spring Festival has arrived, from the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, until the fifteenth day of the first month, is the Chinese traditional sense of the spring festival.
The Spring Festival has a history of thousands of years. It contains people's blessings for the new year and represents the desire of the Chinese people to return home and reunite. Although the times are advancing at a rapid pace, our hope for the spring festival is endless, because it carries our passion.
Looking at the red“Blessing” word in my heart silently pray, in the sound of firecrackers in addition to the old and new, happy auspicious.
The spring festival is entrusted with our good wishes. During the New Year's Eve dinner, we hope that the next year will bring harmony and happiness to our families and friends. We wish them good health and success in their work, the lucky money represents the expectation of the elders to the younger generation.
The 100-year festival is the most important traditional festival of the Chinese nation. It not only embodies the Chinese nation's ideology, beliefs, ideals, aspirations, life, entertainment and cultural psychology, it is also a carnival-style display of blessings, disasters, food and entertainment. During the spring festival, all parts of the country have held a variety of new year activities, due to regional cultural differences and the existence of customs or details of the differences, with a strong regional characteristics. Under the influence of Chinese culture, some countries and regions in the world also have the custom of celebrating the new year.
Red Lanterns were everywhere in the street.
During the Chinese New Year, eating tends to be the main activity during the holidays for most people. The whole family sits around the steaming table, which is full of festive and lively energy, this can be regarded as one of the biggest characteristics of Chinese folk new year. “Food is the most important thing for the people” seems to make more sense in the traditional Chinese New Year holiday.
Making Dumplings on New Year's Eve is one of the most important contents of the folk new year in the vast areas of the north of our country. Dumplings become the spring festival indispensable holiday food, the reasons are: first, the shape of dumplings such as yuan bao, people eat dumplings in the spring festival to“Attract money into treasure” meaning; second, dumplings have stuffing, it is convenient for people to pack all kinds of auspicious things into the stuffing, so as to repose people's hopes for the New Year. When making dumplings, people often pack candy, peanuts, dates, chestnuts and coins into the filling. Those who eat candy mean sweeter and happier days in the coming year; those who eat peanuts mean they will live a long and healthy life; those who eat dates and chestnuts mean they will bear young children; those who eat coins, bodes well for the coming year.
Chinese New Year fireworks, the origin of firecrackers and peach, spring festival couplets, the first is used to drive away evil spirits. In the northern and Southern dynasties, people set off firecrackers during the Spring Festival has formed a custom. “Jing Chu Sui Shi Ji” on the record of this custom: “The first day of the month, is the day of the three yuan. The so-called end of the month, the cock crows and rises, before the court firecrackers, burning grass to ward off mandrill evil spirits. Thus, “Firecracker” the original meaning of the word is to burn bamboo and explode.
Finally, I wish you all in the new year, happy, happy.