Happy Chinese Spring Festival
Happy Chinese Spring Festival to all the teachers and students!
The Spring Festival is China 's biggest, most popular, the most important
one of the oldest traditional festivals, is also the Chinese unique festivals. The
Chinese civilization is the most concentrated expression. Since the Western
Han Dynasty, the custom of the Spring Festival has continued to the present
day. The Spring Festival generally refers to new year's Eve and lunar January
first. But in the folk, the Spring Festival is a traditional sense from the twelfth
lunar month offering or twenty-three or twenty-four people, all the way to the
lunar January fifteen, with new year's Eve and lunar January first climax. How
to celebrate this holiday, in a history of thousands of years of development,
formed a few relatively fixed customs, there are many also legend has. In the
traditional Chinese New Year holiday period, and most of China's Han ethnic
minorities have to be held in a variety of celebration activities, these activities
are to worship deities, worshiping ancestors, Chujiubuxin, Ying Fuk Jubilee
then, pray for good harvest as the main content. Rich and colorful activities,
with strong ethnic characteristics. In May 20, 2006, the "Spring Festival"
custom is approved by the State Council included in the first batch of national
intangible cultural heritage.
The Spring Festival is a kind of legend, there is a Chinese ancient times called"
years" of the monster, the first long tentacles, savage. " Year" for many years
hiding the sea, only to climb up the shore every new year's Eve, devouring
livestock harm human life. Therefore, every new year's Eve that day, village
village stockaded village of help the aged and the young people fled to the
mountains, to avoid " ( reprinted from the first of http: / / www.diyifanwen.com,
please keep this marker. ) "Beast. One new year's Eve, from the village
outside a begging for the elderly. The villagers scene of a panic rush, village
head only an old lady to the elderly more food, and urged him to speed up the
mountain to escape the" year" beast, the old man smiled stroking beard:"
mother-in-law if I stay at home one night, I put the ' year ' removed the animal."
The old woman still continue to persuade, begging people smiling without a
word. At midnight," " beast into the village. It is found that the village
atmosphere, unlike previous: village head 's wife, door stickers red paper,
indoor lit candles. " Year" monster tremble, strange called. Almost at the
entrance, to the hospital from a sudden" bang bang bang bang" sound of
bombing," years" shuddered, didn't dare to move forward. Originally," years"
fear, red flames. At that time, the mother-in-law's family is big, wearing only a
hospital Dahongpao elderly laughter. " Year" be frightened and change color,
limped ran. The very next day is lunar January day, people who sought refuge
back safe and sound very surprised to see the village. At this time, old woman
to see light suddenly, hastened to tell the folks begging people promise. It soon
spread around the village, people know." " beast approach. ( Hakka legend)
and the annual New Year's Eve, families paste red poetic couplet, setting off
firecrackers; a brightly lit candles, kept the old. Day early in the morning, even
when all family members get together. This custom spread to more and more
wide, became the most important traditional festival in China.
