The origin of the Spring Festival
Spring Festival, is the beginning of the lunar calendar, another name is called New Year's day, Spring Festival is China's biggest, the most lively, one of the most important traditional festivals, ancient and peculiar to the Chinese festival.Is the most concentrated expression of Chinese civilization.Since the western han dynasty, the custom of Spring Festival continues today.The Spring Festival, generally refers to New Year's eve and the first day. How to celebrate this holiday, in one thousand years of history development, formed some relatively fixed customs and habits, there are a lot of handed down also.During the traditional festival, the Spring Festival of the han nationality in our country and most of ethnic minorities have to hold various celebration activities, these activities are to worship deities, worshiping ancestors, blow away the cobwebs, meet jubilee blessing, pray for good harvest as the main content.Form rich and colorful, activities with strong ethnic characteristics.