The changing path of Chinese New Year

Abstract

When speaking of the Chinese Spring Festival (also known as the Chinese New Year), peopleare often reminded of their childhoods. Looking back, the middle age and older generations)in the past, many people´s experience of the Chinese Spring Festival was much richer thenthan it is now. Today, most people think of the Spring Festival as free time from work orschool, an opportunity for just eating and drinking. They observe the holiday period becauseit's a tradition they learned from their parents and grandparents. Unfortunately, the SpringFestival has lost some of its cultural base, In any case, the meaning of the Spring Festival isgradually disappearing (Tang, 2017)In this thesis I am addressing myself to the scrutiny of the customs and traditions of theChinese Spring Festival. As a celebration it can be viewed as the nation’s traditional culture inaction. Examining it helps us to understand the ordinary Chinese people who celebrate theNew Year festival with their families, carrying out its customs and activites. Through closestudy it is also possible to discover what part of this heritage is important to them still in themodern world. My study also aims to explain the changees, and different stages ofimprovement, in the living standards of Chinese people as those have formed and developedwith the passing of time. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to focus on what the maincustoms are in the celebration of the Chinese Spring festival, and what has been partly lost inthe carrying out of these traditions in recent times.This paper is arranged as follows. First, the analyzing of the Spring Festival´s meaning. Thereare eight main customs which most Chinese people know and follow. Second, focus on whatcustoms are changing as time goes by. And the third, what are the main causes of Chinesepeople being less and less interested in the own traditional customs like the Chinese NewYear.