Research purpose: by observing the family, friends, the way, experience the meaning of traditional festivals

The investigation:

Resources:The Spring FestivalLegend - year shou sui

Shou sui, it is the last day of the old don't sleep at night, staying up late to welcome the arrival of the New Year, also known as the New Year's eve shou sui, the common name "year".To explore the origin of the custom, an interesting story circulated among people:

Swire period, there is a fierce monster, scattered in the mountain forests, people call them "year".Its morphology ferocious, a brutal, feed animals and birds, scales refer insects, one day in a different taste, from snapping beetle has always eat to live, let people talk about "year".Later, people gradually mastered the law of the activities of "year", it is every three hundred and sixty-five days up to the home of people taste a fresh mouth, and infested time is after dark, until dawn crowing, they went back to trees.

Have been "years" of the date, people put this terrible night as the pass to evil spirit, called "year", and come up with a set of the solution: a year on this day in the evening, every household has prepare the dinner early and flameout net, then all the chicken circle stall belay, put the house in front and back the door be sealed, hiding in the house to eat "family reunion dinner", because the dinner has XiongJi uncertainty, so with very abundant, in addition to her family around said peace reunion dinner together, also must be inHave a mealPray for ancestor worship before you, first ancestor god bless, safely through the night, after dinner, who can't sleep, sit together, chatting courage.Gradually formed the habit of New Year's eve to endure years shou sui.

Shou sui, arose in the southern and northern dynasties, many scholars have shou sui liang poetry."Night with double, even points for two years."People lit candles or oil lamps, all-night vigil, symbol with all evil blast epidemic ran out, looking forward to the New Year auspicious sign.This custom has been spread so far.

Second, family members, the preparation of the Spring Festival

To prepare for the Spring Festival, mom and dad from the Spring Festival a few days ago began to clean the Windows, wash the sheets, until to sweep the house clean.Not only my family, neighbors, too, always not enough clean home under this clean up brightly, like another world.Streets under the broom of the cleaner seems to become wide, let oneself have a good mood because of the spotless, so the people around you is busy but it is jubilant.

The Spring Festival shopping is also a great scenery.No mom and dad into the store, to lament the overflowing, subtotal long lines in transmission of the message: shopping, Spring Festival is a big project, and everyone will be involved in the project.Have money to buy expensive, less money to buy cheap, to sum up, don't spend money seems to be not called the Spring Festival.

Prepare them is to let people into the leisure.Grandma Fried things, all kinds of Fried slowly filled with a basket of goods.Every kinds of feeding incomparably rich reserves in the freezer, freezer also become heavy.Fireworks firecracker needless to say, since the childhood years since, until 15 or, the atmosphere of peace.

The Spring Festival this day is a day of people's appearance.Everyone look glamorous, along with the best wishes and joyful smile to everyone, people call this activity "happy New Year".Even the Spring Festival evening party of the first program is "happy New Year", to the national people's New Year, wish all the best people, best wishes for every happiness, because everyone is looking forward to bless let the New Year more smoothly, more perfect.

The Spring Festival is a traditional festival, one thousand years of deep-seated condensate in the feelings of people, even if there are so many western festival, but to succumb to the charms of the Spring Festival, there is no holiday like the Spring Festival grand, it is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.Even wandering to the ocean in the Spring Festival the day of relatives, old thoughts, more affectionate greeting greeting.

In fact, I think, so to get everyone's attention, the Spring Festival because it represents the people's wishes, everyone want to live happy, happy, hope the work is smooth, the sky's the limit, busy for a year, all bitterness and anger will be in each other of the lift, gathers strength in each other's wishes, the Spring Festival, gave everyone chang shu directly.The Spring Festival also means reunion, under the present situation of the family love wearing thin, remind children to "go home often" the Spring Festival, the old man look forward to experience the warmth of home.Spring Festival also means that the spring, spring is coming, vientiane update, sorrow, bitterness, kind of, have hate all precipitation of ice and snow in the winter, when the spring breeze willow river song, everyone can realize the time flow speed and add tolerance and generosity.

Spring Festival is a special holiday.