Don't be greedy, son. After Laba, it is the New Year, and Laba porridge will be drunk for a few days. 23 honeydew melons were sticky, 24 cleaned the house, 25 ground bean curd, 26 people bought meat, 27 roosters slaughtered, 28 made noodles, 29 steamed buns, 30 people stayed up all night, and walked the streets the first day and the second day.
The Spring Festival is the biggest traditional folk festival in China, and it is a folk festival integrating blessing, entertainment and food. The Spring Festival has a long history, which evolved from ancient times praying for the New Year at the beginning of the year, and carries rich historical and cultural connotations in its inheritance and development. New Year's greeting activities are centered on offering wishes and praying for blessings, and are carried out in the form of eliminating the old, worshipping ancestors, exorcising evil spirits and praying for a bumper harvest. The content is rich and colorful, vivid and festive, and the annual flavor is rich, which embodies the essence of traditional culture of Chinese civilization. During the Spring Festival, various New Year celebrations will be held all over the country. Due to different regional cultures, the contents or details of customs are different and full of national characteristics.
The Chinese New Year has a long history, and some relatively fixed customs have been formed in the process of inheritance and development. Many of them have been passed down to this day, such as buying new year's goods, sweeping dust, posting couplets, eating New Year's Eve, celebrating New Year's Eve, dancing dragons and lions, worshipping gods and ancestors, praying for disaster relief, setting off firecrackers, setting off fireworks, circling gods, racing boats, holding temple fairs, playing gongs and drums, holding cursor flags, lighting lanterns and drinking. Traditional festival ceremonies and related custom activities are important contents of festival elements, bearing rich and colorful festival cultural connotations. Ancestor worship not only covers all the ancient traditional festivals in China, but also is the eternal theme of folk festivals in China.