The Spring Festival, is the first day of the lunar year, also called celebrated on the fifteenth day, commonly known as “new”. This is our country folk ceremonious and noisiest a traditional festival. The Spring Festival is very long history, which originated in the period of social SuiWei years worshipping god. According to the Chinese lunar calendar, the first month YuanRi, yuan, or $$, New Year, etc, on New Year’s day, to use the Gregorian calendar, the period of the republic of China, the Gregorian calendar year to January 1, called the Chinese Spring Festival on January 1 call.

The Spring Festival is coming, means, vientiane recovery grass and trees renewal, seed and a harvest season begins. People just through the long grass withering of ice and snow, cold spring day, hope the coming Spring Festival when, dancing with joy to meet this festival.

For thousands of years, people make in celebration abnormal colorful, every year from Chinese on the 23rd this year, folk play period is called “chun”, also called “Saul, dust and dirt before the Spring Festival, Chinese people have health is known as the traditional customs.

Then many households, before ten days or so, people began to busy purchasing items, often including chickens and ducks fish, tea and wine sauce north-south roasted seeds and nuts, sugar, spices, want to buy the bait, prepare to some of the Chinese New Year when visiting the gift giving children to acquire new clothes, hats, preparation of New Year.

In advance of the house to the door in red paper pasting characters of New Year resolutions, yellow is written in red paper. The colourful meaning of auspicious posted pictures, xinlingshouqiao girls cut out beautiful window in the window, red lanterns hanging door or blessing and mammon, cech, everyone can also like a bear, passers-by are fallen, namely, the blessing to all of these activities is to add enough for the festive atmosphere festival.

Spring Festival is another name. In the past, the legend, is a kind of bad luck imaginary animals. As years. DiaoBi trees, 100 grass not born, In all, growth, flowers everywhere. How can last year? Need firecrackers boom, then a burning firecracker custom, it is also a circus foil.

Spring Festival is a happy festival, is also the day reuniting with the child, have left in Spring Festival will come home together. The night before the New Year, is the twelfth night, also called eve thirty, and reunion in the night, when ShouSui peiss, is the most important one in activities, on New Year’s eve, the family together in ShouSui last-borns up together, sharing the happiness, HanYin on New Year’s eve, northern region is the custom, eat dumpling jiaozi is first, and the word is close with, The dumpling jiaozi and harmony, and pay has also taken together more years of jiaozi. In the spring of eat rice cakes, sweet sticky rice habit, symbol of New Year life sweet, step by step.
For the first year, or the crow, the bell struck by noise, firecrackers, beaming every New Year started, men and women wore costumes to the elder, family, section and bainian to ensure a special dinner for children, teenager, money, three began to see friends, relatives, congratulations, said a ha y New Year wishes, congratulation, congratulations and good new words, worshipping activities.

Festival atmosphere not only, also with families in the streets, and full of all the places in the streets and the lion dance and play, play LongDeng poses, swam around the temple, the flower market. During this period, the street lamp soon, special visitors, unprecedented, straight to make to the 15th of the Spring Festival, the Lantern Festival, after a truly ended.

The Spring Festival is the most important festival in han, but full, Mongolia, yao, zhuang, white, mountain, the hezhen, haney, daur, dong, li dozen minority had festival custom, just feast form has its own national features, more accumulate flavour.
Spring Festival custom

The Spring Festival is one of the oldest festivals in China, is the most important festival in a year to celebrate this holiday, in the historical development of thousands of some relatively fixed, formed the habit, many also has passed.

Saul dust,
“December 24, dust and dirt, according to the traditional house” in China, Spring Festival times have many legends and customs of dust. According to the folk statement: “dust” and “Chen,” Saul has “spring ChenBu except dust new meaning, its purpose is to put all the poor luck, misuse and go. All This custom with people made new wishes and special shabby prayer. Every spring comes, every household will clean environment, cleaning utersils, SaSao six curtains, bedding unpick and wash away dirt, dust Lv courtyard, dredging channel AnGou taxis. Everywhere brimmed with rejoicing in health, clean up the atmosphere of happiness.

Spring Festival couplet
In spring, spring also call, couplet, subsidiary, etc, it is to TaoFu, dual, concise, exquisite depict the text background, expresses, is our desire unique literary form. Every Spring Festival, regardless of urban or rural, every household will select a bright red couplets on the doors in for the festival festival, increase the atmosphere. The custom of song dynasty, in to the qing dynasty, the Spring Festival couplets, thoughts and artistry has improved greatly, and the Spring Festival couplets LiangZhang torque compilation book to trap couplet plexus words and the origin of couplet of characteristics are discussed.

The species, spring, according to its use, can be divided into the door frame of HengPi, ChunTiao, DouFang, etc. “The door plank in the heart center, “The box of” in two doorposts around, “HengPi” stuck on the door on the crossbar mei, “ChunTiao” according to different content, stick to the corresponding place, “Dou jins” is also called “door leaf”, “diamond, as in furniture, YingBi.

Stick grilles and foot “fu” character
In the folk people also like to stick in the window of paper-cut – window. Not only has the festive grilles foil atmosphere, also set decoration, appreciating and practical at an organic whole. Paper-cutting in China is a very popular folk art, for thousands of years, gets of people love, because it is mostly in the window, so also is called it “the window”. With its special window and auspicious auspicious thing will hyperbole, wishes show incisively and vividly, will have a prosperous holiday deck.

In the Spring Festival couplet, some people in the door, wall, signage stick greatly small “fu” character. Spring Festival stick “fu” character, is a Chinese folk customs. “F” refers to the blessing, good fortune for the people, the happy life yearning, for a bright future. In order to fully reflect the yearning and wishes, others simply will “fu” character, says “happy upside down to” blessing has already arrived.” Folk and “fu” character essence made all sorts of design of tracing fine design, peach, carp survivors have jumped longmen, the grain and multiply it, ChengXiang dragon etc.

newyearpicture
Spring Festival pictures hanging stick in urban and rural areas, life is also common for thousands of pictures ach added a lot of joy festival atmosphere prosperity. Newyearpicture is an ancient Chinese folk arts, reflects the customs and beliefs, simple isreposing they hope for the future. Pictures, and couplets, originated from the door. “,” With the rise of board printing, the content of the year has not limited to the theme, such as door drab becomes rich and colorful, in some pictures in the workshop has the fu lu shou three map “, “TianGuan blessing, the grain and multiply it, LiuChu prosperous”, “fu chun after such classical color pictures, in order to meet the people in the wishes of jubilation. Chinese paintings appeared three important origin: suzhou TaoHuaWu, tianjin and shandong weifang green willows, The Chinese paintings of the three schools, each has its own characteristics.

The present China’s earliest collection at the pictures with a song of advance and pour the woodcut pictures, wang zhaojun, zhao fly, class and green beads four’s ancient beauties. The most popular folk is a picture of the mouse wedding pictures. In accordance with the mouse represents human customs bride’s interesting scenes. Republic, Shanghai ZhengManTuo calendar pictures will be combined with them. This is a new form of pictures. This GeErErYi pictures, development, has swept the country into a calendar.

ShouSui
New Year’s eve ShouSui is the most important one in the common ShouSui, has a long history. The earliest recorded in the western zhou place of the customs on New Year’s eve, each: “feed, and presented as age”, Especially to invite, called “” don’t, His praise, complete, drink together; called “points” Everybody all morning, sleepless, called yue “shou sui”.

“Night, he even age 12 points double, New Year’s eve, the family reunion together, eat meal, candles, sitting beside lamp or chat, wait for furnace of special moments, all-night vigil, symbolizing the disease according to run all evil blast away, and looking forward to the New Year auspicious blessings. This custom has prevailed, to the tang dynasty, emperor taizong li shi-mm writing “shou sui” poem: “cold, warm breeze into the strong-minded.it quit.” Until today, people still used in the New Year’s eve ShouSui orientation.
ShouSui in two meanings: ShouSui seniors “, “old hymns of time; have cherished Young man, is to extend their parents ShouSui life. Since the han dynasty, the New Year is the time alternating midnight.

Firecrackers,
China folk have opened the door. “” firecrackers, In the New Year is coming, households door first thing with fireworks, the act of riddance went PaPa beep firecracker orientation. Fireworks are Chinese products, also called “BaoZhang”, “the firecracker went off” and “off”. Its origin, since the early history of more than 2,000 years. Put the rockets can create a festive lively atmosphere, the festival is a kind of entertainment, can bring joy and giovanni cobolli gigli. With the passage of time, firecracker extensively, and also became more and more wide variety, every major festivals and happy marriage celebration, and build, and etc, firecrackers, good luck to celebrate. Now, hunan, guangdong foshan and eastern liuyang, jiangxi, zhejiang wenzhou yichun and pingxiang area such as the famous Chinese township of firecrackers, production, high quality and firecrackers, not only sell well in the whole country, but also exported to the world.

best
The first New Year, people are the most beautiful, wear early, the clothes neatly dressed up to go out, relatives and friends, New Year, good for good luck. The best way is varied, has long led some people wayward conducting house-to-house bainian, Some people have to invite colleagues to make, Also have together, called “celebration, its all about each other. Due to ascend, and then some bainian time-consuming character and scholars use upper greet each other every post, cast out later “development of delectable piece”.
Spring Festival, junior to make to elder, wish elder people longevity health, elder will be prepared to money, money is styled XieSui pressure can, because “old” and “theory” homophonic, junior get lucky money can spend one in peace. Money has two kinds, one kind is color cord threading plaiting dragon, at the foot of the bed, the records in the age of yanjing “, Another kind is the most common, namely by the parents with red paper parcel to money. Money can make public places in after on New Year’s eve, also give children fell asleep by parents and child secretly placed under the pillow. Now for the elders several distributed money still popular tradition.

Spring Festival food
In ancient agriculture society, since December 8, about the housewife is busy raise new food. Because the salted lap-mei required for a long time, so that must be prepared in many provinces, as are the customs of their processing.finally taste, and the most famous lap-mei in guangdong province.

Steamed rice cakes, “high”, because the homophonic, plus a variety of flavors, has become almost a must-have foods. The style of the massive square rice yellow, white rice, a symbol of gold, silver, attempt to make New Year.

Rice taste varies from place to place. Beijing like eating traditional or yellow rice cakes, made of red and white rice cakes 100 fruit. Hebei people like to join in rice, red bean and mung bean jujube as steam together. Northern shanxi in Inner Mongolia, new habits eat rice Fried rice yellow, red bean, bag filling, shandong as jujube paste etc with yellow rice, steamed rice dates. North of rice with a sweet, or steam or Fried, also somebody flat with sugar to eat. South of the sweet cakes, such as suzhou and salty concurrently with the rice, ningbo, taste bland japonica. Except steamed, Fried sliced outside, still can make soup or Fried food. Sweet cakes with glutinous rice powder, sugar and lard, rose, osmanthus, mint, such as rong ingredients, fine workmanship, can direct steam or with egg white Fried.

The night before the holiday is real, leave home reunions night representation to a thousand miles away, the family home to sit together, the new pack dumpling jiaozi is first and make JiaoZiPi, reoccupy bag filling, filling the content is multifarious, all kinds of meat, eggs, seafood, seasonal vegetables, etc. Can be into paste, eating dumplings, is the orthodox, clear water drain to attune has vinegar, garlic and soy sauce seasoning for oil clings to eat. Also have Fried dumplings, burger dumpling eating etc.) (potstickers Because the “and” the word is “close”, The “dumpling jiaozi” and “into” homophonic, “close” and “into” together with dumplings, therefore represent togetherness tree, And take more years of jiaozi, very lucky, In addition, because like dumplings, when to eat dumplings silver piece, also contain “a thriving business” auspicious meanings. A size package dumplings together, and enjoy spring.