Just like Christmas, Chinese spring festival is occasion when family meet together. No matter how far away, family member bond to go back to hometown to spend holiday with their parent. This massive population movement is called Chunyun, and it is maybe the most spectacular population transition in the world and about billion people will be on trip to the gathering.
Spring festival is not only occasion for family meeting together, it hold some kind of worship and ritual for ancestors. Different from west, Spring Festival trace back to not religious believe but civilization and enlightenment from both Buddhism and Taoism. During spring festival, performance and ritual to celebrate coming of the spring and pray for peace and prosperity of coming new lunar year.
Instead of its spiritual function, Spring Festival also hold strong material element. Banquets and fine food serve for the occasion, and this part of festival is most liking by children. Fireworks after family banquet is also most fascinated part of festival. It is said that firework can bring good luck and expel evil, and people used to firework in spring festival.
Spring festival is so deep rooted in Chinese that mix with all kind of sentimental and hard to explain. Good luck and fortune is preconditioned by how you spend spring festival and hope of coming year is motivated.
