Do Korea and Japan celebrate the Spring Festival?

Japan celebrates Christmas, but not the Spring Festival. After the Meiji Restoration, the traditional Spring Festival was cancelled. Koreans, like us, celebrate Christmas for young people and Spring Festival for the whole family. It is said that South Korea has been celebrating the Spring Festival since the Silla era, but it was strictly prohibited during Japan's colonial rule on the Korean peninsula. At that time, if a child was found to have sacrificial food in his lunch box, the child would be punished. As a traditional festival, the Spring Festival has gone through a waiting process in Korea, and it didn't reappear as a folk day until 1985. 1999, South Korea officially restored Spring Festival travel rush. In Korea, the Spring Festival is the second largest festival after the Mid-Autumn Festival. During the Spring Festival, the most important activity is offering sacrifices to ancestors. There is a strict saying that people offer sacrifices to their ancestors, such as "fish east and meat west", "head east and tail west", "red east and white west", "jujube, pear and persimmon", "raw east and cooked west" and "left rice and right soup", and the procedure of sacrifice is also very strict. Every year when the Spring Festival comes, Korean women will wear beautiful national costumes and be busy in the kitchen from morning till night. Foreign girls married to Korea are as busy as Korean women from morning till night. Sacrificing ancestors, the younger generation pays New Year greetings to the elders, and the elders give the younger generation lucky money. During the Spring Festival, the greetings from peers are how happy they are during the Spring Festival. During the Spring Festival, there are always people who can't go home for the New Year or homeless people who sleep on the streets. The government and non-governmental organizations organize to celebrate the Spring Festival for them, so that they can feel the warmth of the big family during the Spring Festival. Koreans often give gifts to each other during the Spring Festival. Gifts range from steak, yellow croaker, traditional snacks, healthy food, lunch meat, sesame oil, mushrooms, dried persimmons and daily necessities. Gifts should be packaged, and the color of the packaging is mostly tender pink. The consumption of Koreans in the Spring Festival is much higher than usual, and the prices of some commodities are also rising. People in China like to use big and good fruits when offering sacrifices. An apple or pear costs more than 2,000 won, which is about 15 yuan RMB. Prices of beef, pork, vegetables, eggs, chicken and other non-staple foods. It tends to increase by 10% to 40% on average during festivals. The Korean government often tries to stabilize market prices and ensure supply during the Spring Festival. The most famous food in the Spring Festival is rice cake soup, which is eaten on the first day of the new year, symbolizing the happy reunion of the new year. Because most Koreans spend the Spring Festival at home, almost all hotels are closed during the Spring Festival. In South Korea, many people wear colorful traditional national costumes, and several families drive back to their hometown, which constitutes a typical Korean Spring Festival custom map ~ China has a high penetration rate of private cars, and most people like to drive back to their hometown for the New Year ~ China people call going home to visit relatives during the Spring Festival to return to the province. "In the face of this public movement, transportation and other departments are very busy. What Koreans play most in the Spring Festival is the flower cards imported from Japan. It is said that 90% of adults can play this card. Of course, some people use the Spring Festival holiday to travel. During the Spring Festival in Korea, foreign tourists can experience springboard jumping, throwing pots and flying kites with traditional Korean cultural characteristics, and they can also kill time in ski resorts all over Korea.