Chinese New Year

Before you know it, the Spring Festival is coming. This year, the Spring Festival falls on January 22, 2023. The 21st falls on the New Year's Eve, also known as the New Year's Eve. The Spring Festival is the most grand traditional festival of the whole Chinese nation. He has a unique place in the hearts of every son and daughter of the Chinese people. Chinese people at home and abroad will celebrate this festival. This year, due to some special reasons, many of their sons and daughters who work outside the home are participating in the Spring Festival back home early.

Spring Festival is one of the four traditional festivals in China, along with Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival. The Spring Festival in a narrow sense refers to the first day of the New Year this day, the Spring Festival in a broad sense is not limited to a day, he generally began from the New Year's Eve, the older generation often said not out of the first month is the year, visible how long the duration of the Spring Festival. New Year's Eve is the first day of the Spring Festival. Every family prepares the New Year's Eve dinner on New Year's Eve. And the New Year's Eve dinner as. Our last meal of the year was a splendid one.

After the New Year's Eve dinner, we still have many customs. For example, Shousui, Shousui is to eat the New Year's Eve dinner, the dinner to eat slowly, from the lamp time into the table, some people have to eat until late at night. About Shousui, also has a traditional saying, the elderly Shousui for "quit the old year", cherish the meaning of time; Young people stay up to extend the life of their parents.

After staying up one night, we usher in the Spring Festival. On the first day of the New Year, we have the custom of paying New Year calls. New Year's greetings across the country, there are many pay attention to. A greeting blessing, a solemn ceremony, contains the Chinese people long kindness, filial piety, the unity of heaven and man culture. There is also a myth about the origin of New Year's greetings. Legend says that in ancient times, there was a kind of monster called "Nian", which would come out to eat people every New Year's Eve. In order to appease "Nian", people would hang meat on the gate and then close the door. On the first day of the Lunar New Year, people would open their doors and ask each other for peace, which later evolved into New Year greetings.

As for the Spring Festival, each place has its own unique customs, and each family has its own customs. The Spring Festival flavor is reflected in these customs, which is not a form, is a connotation, is a kind of culture.

Wish you all a happy New Year in advance!