How the Chinese celebrate the Spring Festival
During the Spring Festival, various New Year celebration activities are held all over the country. Due to different regional cultures, there are differences in content , with strong regional characteristics.
The celebration activities during the Spring Festival are extremely diverse, including lion dance, floating colors, dragon dance, wandering gods, temple fairs, flower street shopping, lantern viewing, gong and drum tours, cursor flags, fireworks burning, praying for blessings, spring dancing, walking on stilts, running Dry boat, twisting Yangko and so on.
During the Spring Festival, Post new year's scrolls, stay up late or all night on New Year's Eve, eating family dinners, and New Year's greeting can be found in various places, but due to different customs, the subtleties have their own characteristics. The folk customs of the Spring Festival are diverse, which is a concentrated display of the essence of the life and culture of the Chinese nation.
The Spring Festival is a festival for people to entertain and carnival. At the time of New Year, firecrackers are fired, fireworks are all over the sky, and various celebration activities such as saying goodbye to the old year and welcoming the new year reach their climax. On the morning of the first day of the new year, each family burns incense and salutes, respects the heaven and earth, and sacrifices to the ancestors, and then pays New Year greetings to the elders in turn, and then relatives and friends of the same clan congratulate each other.
After the first day, a variety of colorful entertainment activities are carried out, adding a strong festive atmosphere to the Spring Festival. The warm atmosphere of the festival not only permeates every household, but also fills the streets and alleys everywhere. During this period, the city is full of lanterns, the streets are full of tourists, the bustle is extraordinary, and the grand occasion is unprecedented. The Spring Festival will not really end until after the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. Therefore, the Spring Festival, a grand ceremony integrating prayer, celebration and entertainment, has become the most solemn festival of the Chinese nation.
