When is the Spring Festival in 2022?

For social animals, the Spring Festival is really a very happy festival, because young people can temporarily get rid of busy work, buy new clothes, eat delicious food and enjoy holidays with friends. The Spring Festival time is different every year, so when is the Spring Festival in 2022? When is the Spring Festival in 2022? If you want to know, let's take a look at Bian Xiao's introduction.

When is the Spring Festival in 2022?

Lunar New Year in 2022 is February 1 day in 2022, that is, the first day of the Lunar New Year in 2022, that is, the first day of New Year's Day, that is, Tuesday. New Year's Eve is on the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month, June 365438+Monday of 2022 10.

Spring Festival is the biggest and most meaningful traditional festival in China, with a long history. It evolved from ancient times, when people prayed for a new year at the beginning of the new year.

The Origin of the Spring Festival

Spring Festival is one of the top ten traditional festivals in China with a long history. The origin and development of the Spring Festival is a process of gradual formation, subtle improvement and popularization. It evolved from the time when ancient people prayed for the New Year, and it is related to ancient primitive beliefs, auspicious day sacrifices, astronomical phenomena, calendars and other humanities and natural cultural contents. In ancient times, people held sacrificial activities at the beginning of the new year after a year of farming to thank the gods of heaven and earth, repay the kindness of their ancestors and pray for a bumper harvest in the coming year.

The Origin of the Spring Festival

There are different opinions about the origin of the Spring Festival, among which there are several representative ones, such as the Spring Festival originated in La Worship, the Spring Festival originated in witchcraft ceremony, and the Spring Festival originated in Ghost Festival. But it is generally believed that the Spring Festival rose during the Yu Shun period.

One day more than 2000 BC, Shun became emperor and led his men to worship heaven and earth. Since then, people have regarded this day as the beginning of a year. It is said that this is the origin of the Lunar New Year, which was later called the Spring Festival.

The dates of the Spring Festival in China are different: in the Xia Dynasty, January in Meng Chun was the first month, in the Shang Dynasty, the twelfth month (December) was the first month, after Qin Shihuang unified the six countries, October was the first month, and the Qin calendar was adopted in the early Han Dynasty. In the first year of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, that is, BC 104, astronomers Luo and others formulated a calendar, which changed the beginning of October to the beginning of the first month, and later generations basically improved it to the lunar calendar that we use today. Luo is also known as the "Spring Festival Old Man". Since then, China has been using the Gregorian calendar (also known as the lunar calendar) until the end of the Qing Dynasty, which lasted for 2080.

New Year's Day is a time to throw away old clothes and make new ones. Although it is set on the first day of the first lunar month, its activities are not limited to the first day of the first lunar month. From the beginning of the 23rd (or 24th) day of the twelfth lunar month, people began to "be busy": sweeping the floor, washing their hair and taking a bath, and preparing instruments for the New Year. All these activities have a common theme, that is, "saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new".

The new year is also a day to pray for the new year. The ancients said that when millet is ripe, it is "year", and when the grain is abundant, it is "big year". In the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty, there was an annual harvest celebration. Later, New Year greetings became one of the main contents of the annual customs. Besides, the Kitchen God, Door God, God of Wealth, XiShen, Well God and other gods. Everyone enjoys human incense during the festival. People take this opportunity to thank the gods for their care in the past and pray for more blessings in the new year.

New Year's Day is also a time for family reunion, family worship and ancestor worship. On New Year's Eve, the whole family get together to have a "reunion dinner". The elders give "lucky money" to the children, and the family sit around and "watch". At the turn of the New Year's Day, firecrackers exploded, and the activities to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new reached a climax. Every family burns incense to worship the heavens and the earth and ancestors, then pays tribute to the elders in turn, and then congratulates relatives and friends.

What are the customs of the Spring Festival?

(1) Dust removal: Every household should clean the environment, clean all kinds of electrical appliances, remove and wash bedding curtains, clean the courtyard of Liu Lu, dust off cobwebs, and dredge culverts in open channels. Everywhere is filled with the joyful atmosphere of cleaning and welcoming the Spring Festival cleanly.

(2) Buying New Year's Goods: Buying New Year's Goods is an important activity for China people to celebrate the Spring Festival. Compared with the past, the way of handling New Year's goods in China has become more modern, not limited to tradition.

(3) Sticking Spring Festival couplets: Couplets are also called antithesis, antithesis, Spring Festival couplets, Spring Festival couplets, couplets, peach symbols and couplets. Couplets are the treasures of China traditional culture, and the earliest recorded couplets appeared in the Three Kingdoms period. It is a tradition to put up couplets every Spring Festival.