Spring Festival holiday notice | in advance, I wish you all the best in the Year of the Dragon!

The 2024 Spring Festival holiday arrangement is as follows:

Holiday time

February 7 (28th of the twelfth lunar month) to February 14 (fifth day of the first lunar month), a total of 8 days

February 15th (sixth day of the first month) Thursday officially started work.

At the beginning of the New Year, everything changes

The Spring Festival is the first day of the first lunar month, also known as the lunar year, commonly known as "Chinese New Year". This is the most solemn and lively festival of Chinese folk, commonly known as the "New Year Festival", the traditional name for the New Year, New Year, but verbally also called the year, celebrate the New Year, the New Year. Chinese people have celebrated the Spring Festival for more than 4,000 years.

Nian

Once upon a time, there was a beast called "Nian", the last day of each year, Nian will come to a village to eat people, one time, happened to an old man came to this village, the old man said, he is in, do not worry about being eaten by Nian, so the old man let people paste the door couplets, light candles in the house, over the years, they set off firecrackers, frighten Nian away, The old man was gone, too. This is the origin of Spring Festival.

Ancestor worship

The Spring Festival has a long history and originated from the activities of offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors at the end of the year in the Yin and Shang Dynasties. During the Spring Festival, the Han people and many ethnic minorities in China hold various activities to celebrate. The main contents of these activities are offering sacrifices to gods and Buddhas, offering sacrifices to ancestors, eliminating the old and the new, welcoming jubilees and receiving blessings, and praying for a good harvest. The activities are rich and colorful, with strong national characteristics.

Have the New Year

In ancient times, there was a monster that came down from the mountain to eat people at 30. Later, people found that Nian was afraid of fire, noise and red, so they set off firecrackers and pasted red couplets on that day. On the morning of the first day, people say congratulations to relatives and friends: Happy New Year.