When is the Spring Festival and what is the saying?

When is the Spring Festival and what is the saying?
There is a custom of eating dumplings during the Spring Festival. To make dumplings, you need to knead the dough first. “和” means “together”; the “jiao” in “dumplings” is homophonic with “jiao”, which together with “合” means reunion, and also means the change of the year and the handing over of the child. There is also a custom of eating rice cakes during the Chinese New Year. The sweet and sticky rice cakes symbolize a sweet life and prosperity in the new year. If you want to know more about the New Year and Spring Festival, please pay attention to our Fortune Teller website! The first day of the first lunar month of the year 2018 (Lunar calendar)
Aquarius (Friday, February 16, 2018)
【Today’s lunar calendar is suitable】
Breaking ground, drilling, repairing graves, recruiting sons-in-law, taking up posts, building, praying for blessings, fasting and offering sacrifices, receiving wealth and seeking heirs, erecting pillars, planting, building houses, offering sacrifices, traveling, raising livestock, seeking wealth and seeking medical treatment, and lifting and consecrating. [Today's taboos in the old almanac]
Marriage, migration, burial, taking in livestock, separation, and marriage proposal. Auspicious gods to follow: Bu Shou Zhong, Bu Jiang, Daming, Guan Ri, Ji Qi, Tian En, Yu Yu. Evil gods to avoid: Heng Tian, ​​Xian Chi, Yan Bai, Zhu Que. In summary, the 2018 Chinese New Year is on February 16. The Spring Festival is China's most distinctive traditional festival. Chinese people have celebrated the Spring Festival for more than 4,000 years. There are many different theories about the origin of the Spring Festival, but the generally accepted one is that the Spring Festival originated in the Yu Shun period. The Spring Festival generally refers to the first day of the first lunar month, which is the first day of the year, also known as the lunar year, commonly known as "New Year's Day"; but among the people, the traditional Spring Festival refers to the period from the La Festival in the twelfth lunar month or the Kitchen God Festival on the twenty-third or twenty-fourth day of the twelfth lunar month, to the nineteenth day of the first lunar month, with New Year's Eve and the first day of the first lunar month as the climax. During the Spring Festival, China's Han ethnic group and many ethnic minorities hold various activities to celebrate.
The main contents of these activities are to worship ancestral gods, pay tribute to ancestors, get rid of the old and welcome the new, welcome the new year and pray for a good harvest. The activities during the Spring Festival are rich and colorful, with strong ethnic characteristics. Influenced by Chinese culture, some countries and ethnic groups belonging to the Chinese character cultural circle also have the custom of celebrating the Spring Festival.

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