全新正版Spring festival sweet time for family reunion

Preface 02

Chapter I Chinese Spring Festival Fervor

Section 1 Spring Festival, a Traditional Event 002

Section 2 New-Sty Srg Festival 009

Chapter II Spring Festival, both AncienndYung

Section 1 The Origin of Spring Festival 018

Section 2 Legends of the Spring Festival 026

Section 3 A Brief History of the Spring Festival 031

Chapter III Bustling Preparations for Chinese New Year

Section 1 Laba Rice Porridge, Beginning of the New Years Celebration 040

Section 2 Offering Sacrifices to Ancestors, a Top Priority of Chinese Lunar New Year 046

Section 3 Full Preparation Made for a Satisfying Spring Festival 053

Section 4 House Cleaning and Bathing, for a Fresh Start of New Year 070

Section 5 Pasting Spring Festival Couplets, Fu Characters and Auspicious Pat- terns for Good Luck 075

Section 6 New Year Painting—Festival in Folk Arts 092

Chapter IV New Year Celebration

Section 1 Chinese New Years Eve—Family Reunion, Time to Ring out the Old and Ring in the New Year 108

Section 2 Paying a New Year Call 1

Section 3 Dragon and Lion Dances 136

Section 4 The Temple Fair, Chinese New Year Carnival 143

Section 5 Shehuo, a Show Staged in the Field 148

Section 6 Spring Festival, Conventions and Rules 155

Section 7 Spring Festival Travel Season, Going Home for the New Year 168

Section 8 During the Weeklong Holiday for Spring Festival, How to Thoroughly Enjoy Oneself 175

Section 9 Lantern Festival, Climax Ending the Spring Festival 178

Chapter V The Feast of Spring Festival

Section 1 New Years Eve Dinner, Family Reunion 186

Section 2 Different Recipes for the Spring Festival 191

Chapter VI Spring Festival Celebrated Across the World

Section 1 Spring Festival and Christmas 208

Section 2 Chinese Lunar New Year and Japanese Old First Month 212

Section 3 Chinatown, a Thriving Sign of Chinese Culture 215

Section 4 Chinese Lunar Stamps, Popular in the World 219

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春节，是中国人重要节日，

春节，也是中国节俗丰富的、气氛热的节日。

春节，也是中国传统文化标识之一。

源于原始崇拜和祭祀自然神明的春节，

早已世代相承中形成了独具有中国特色的家庭观、亲情观，

成为流淌在华夏子孙血脉里的一种文化基因。

正是这样的传承与延续，

春节才成为人们为看重的传统节日，

成为承载回家团聚这一伟大主题的重要载体。

Although times change, the traditional Chinese Lunar New Year is always the most important festival mirroring the deepest eein and simplest wish- es of all Chinese.

Family reunion is the eternal theme of the Spring Festival. No matter where you are, all have to go back home to reunite with their parents and kith and kin. The unique concept of family and kinship of the Chinese, which has passed down from generation to generation, has become a cultural gene

flowing in the blood of Chinese people for numerous centuries.

On Lunar New Year's Eve, most people choose to sit glued to their mobile phones, sending blessings to relatives and friends, distributing or snapping up “Hongbao” (gift money) through WeChat as a modern form of greeting, and at the same time, they may also wacth the annual CCTV Spring Festival Gala is being broadcast live. The subsequent seven-day holiday will be full of various feasts or dinner parties. Of course, some people may make good use of the time to travel with their families within the country or abroad.

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