When is the Chinese New Year in 2018? What should we pay attention to during the Spring Festival?
As the end of the year approaches, we are about to usher in China's most important traditional festival, the "Spring Festival". The Spring Festival has various considerations so we need to prepare in advance. So when is the Spring Festival in 2018? If you want to know more about the 2018 Spring Festival, please pay attention to our Fortune Teller website!When is the Chinese New Year in 2018?2018 Spring Festival time:The first day of the first lunar month of the year 2018 (Lunar calendar) Aquarius (Friday, February 16, 2018) The Spring Festival refers to the traditional Lunar New Year in the Chinese character cultural circle, commonly known as the "New Year's Festival". The traditional names are New Year, Big Year, and New Year, but it is also verbally called Du Sui, Celebrating the New Year, and Guo Nian. It is the most solemn traditional festival of the Chinese nation. The Spring Festival originated from the worship of gods and ancestors at the beginning and end of the year in the Shang Dynasty. It is the grandest, most lively and most important ancient traditional festival in China. The New Year’s Day is also a day for offering sacrifices and praying for a good harvest. The ancients called the ripening of millet a "year" and a bumper harvest of grains a "great year". In the early Western Zhou Dynasty, there were already annual activities to celebrate the harvest. Later, offering sacrifices to heaven and praying for a good harvest became one of the main contents of the New Year customs. Moreover, various gods such as the Kitchen God, Door God, God of Wealth, God of Joy, God of Wells, etc., are all worshipped during the New Year holidays. People use this to thank the gods for their care in the past and pray for more blessings in the new year. The New Year's Day is also a time for family reunions, family gatherings and ancestor worship. On New Year's Eve, the whole family gathers together, eats the "family reunion dinner", the elders distribute "lucky money" to the children, and the whole family sits together to "stay up all night". Each family burns incense to pay respect to heaven and earth and to their ancestors, then pays New Year's greetings to their elders in turn, and then congratulates each other with relatives and friends. What should we pay attention to during the Spring Festival?1. It is said that a child's crying will bring bad luck to the family. No matter what happens, parents should try not to let their children cry.2. The damage of tools or other equipment means the disappearance of wealth in the coming year, so businessmen should try their best to prevent this from happening. 3. If it is not urgent, try not to go to the hospital. It is said that this will cause you to get sick in the coming year. 4. Damaged clothes: New clothes cannot be damaged. Especially children should not wear such clothes in the first month of the New Year, otherwise it will bring bad luck. 5. Do not kill any living creatures during the Spring Festival, as the sight of blood is a bad omen that will lead to financial loss, knife wounds, or serious illness. 6. Also, don’t wear white or black clothes because these two colors are often closely associated with death. 7. Welcoming the New Year: According to superstitious customs, people usually stay up all night on New Year's Eve and set off firecrackers in the early hours of the morning to drive away the Nian God. |
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