Spring Festival, as the name implies, is a festival in spring
significance:
1. With the arrival of spring, everything is renewed, and a new round of planting and harvesting season will begin again. People have enough reasons to sing and dance to welcome the festival
2. Say goodbye to the old and welcome the new. Before the festival, use red and yellow paper to paste New Year's greetings on the front door
3. Good luck. There are red lanterns hanging with the word "blessing" and the image of the god of wealth. The word "Fu" must also be pasted upside down. Passers-by read "Blessed come", that is, "Blessed come"
4. Family reunification. Spring Festival is a festival for family reunion. At this time, children who leave home must go all the way back to their parents' home. The real New Year's Eve is called reunion night. Families should sit together and make dumplings. The way to make dumplings is to make noodles first. The word "and" means "together"; The dumplings of dumplings are homophonic with "Jiao". "He" and "Jiao" also mean reunion, so they are used to symbolize reunion
5. The Spring Festival is a festival for the people of the whole country. It promotes the great integration of all nationalities and brings the people of the whole country together
The arrival of the Spring Festival means that spring is coming, Vientiane is recovering, vegetation is renewed, and a new round of planting and harvesting season will begin again. People have just passed the long cold winter when the vegetation on the ice and snow withered, and have long been looking forward to the day when the flowers bloom in spring. When the Spring Festival comes, people are naturally happy, singing and dancing to welcome the arrival of the festival
For thousands of years, people have made the custom of celebrating the New Year extremely colorful. Every year, from the 23rd lunar month to the 30th lunar month, people call this period the "Spring Festival", also known as the "dust sweeping day". It is the traditional habit of our people to clean the dust before the Spring Festival
Then every family prepares New Year's goods. About ten days before the festival, people are busy purchasing commodities, including chicken, duck, fish, tea, wine, oil sauce, fried food from north and south, sugar bait and fruit. They need to buy enough things. They also need to prepare some gifts for visiting relatives and friends during the New Year. Children need to buy new clothes and hats to wear during the New Year
Before the festival, the New Year's greetings written on red paper and yellow characters should be pasted on the door, that is, the Spring Festival couplets written on red paper. The room should be pasted with colorful and auspicious New Year pictures. Smart girls cut beautiful window flowers and pasted them on the window. The image of the god of wealth and the door god and the characters of the god of wealth are pasted on the red lanterns. Lucky words can also be pasted upside down. Passers-by will fall when they read the blessing, that is, the blessing comes. All these activities add enough festive atmosphere to the festival
Another name of the Spring Festival is New Year. In the past, New Year was a fictional animal that brought bad luck to people. At the beginning of the new year, the tree withers and the grass does not grow; After a year, everything grows and flowers are everywhere. How does a year pass? We need to set off firecrackers, so we have the custom of setting off firecrackers. This is actually another way to set off the excitement
Spring Festival is a happy and peaceful festival, and also a day for family reunion. Children who are away from home should go home and get together during the Spring Festival. The night before the Spring Festival is the thirtieth night of the twelfth month of the old year, also known as New Year's Eve, also known as the night of reunion. New Year's Eve is one of the most important activities in the new year at the turn of the old and the new. On New Year's Eve, the whole family, old and young, get together to celebrate the New Year's Eve, have a cup of happiness and share the happiness of the family. In northern areas, there is a custom of eating dumplings on New Year's Eve. The way to make dumplings is to mix the noodles first, and then put them together; The dumplings of dumplings are homophonic. They mean meeting each other. They also want to make friends when they are younger. In the south, they have the habit of eating rice cakes. The sweet and sticky rice cake symbolizes the sweetness of life in the new year
