Chad, Février 14 -- The Spring Festival is the grandest traditional festival of the Chinese nation.

In the long agrarian civilization, the ancient Chinese people marked a year from the sowing of seeds to the harvest of grains, and this agricultural cycle has set the rhythm of people's lives - growing crops in spring, seeing them mature in summer, harvesting them in fall and storing them in winter.

As winter faded into spring at year's end, people celebrated the good harvest of the year and welcomed a new cycle. They worshiped the heaven and ancestors, prayed for blessings, hosted feasts, bid farewell to the old year and ushered in the new, which helped form a series of solemn yet joyful folk customs. These customs provided people with a...