Why is the Spring Festival in 2022 advanced? When will the Spring Festival be celebrated in 2022?

Introduction: Spring Festival is an important traditional festival in China. Every household is very busy during the Spring Festival every year, because it is a day of reunion. Even if you are far away, the heart of returning home is the same. The Spring Festival is when a family and Meimei have dinner together and watch the Spring Festival Gala together. So, when will the Spring Festival be celebrated in 2022? Is the Spring Festival in 2022 ahead of schedule? If so, why is the Spring Festival in 2022 advanced? Come and have a look with me.

Why is the Spring Festival in 2022 advanced?

The Spring Festival in 2022 is not advanced, which is the same as the number of days in previous years. And unless there is a leap month in a certain year, the Spring Festival will be postponed. As in previous years, the latest leap year is 2020, which is leap April, and the next leap month year is 2023, leap February. Because there is no leap month, the leap month is one month longer than the lunar calendar, so the Spring Festival on 202 1 will be a little later than usual, but it will not be a month later, and it will be ten days at most.

Why is there the illusion that the Spring Festival in 2022 is ahead of schedule? The reason for this is the following：

Reason 1: The solar calendar and the lunar calendar have different chronologies.

Gregorian calendar (Gregorian calendar) is calculated according to the earth's annual movement around the sun, and each Gregorian calendar year is close to the tropic year, which is also 365 days long. The lunar calendar is a calendar based on the cycle of the moon. Because the length of the lunar month is 29.5306 days, the lunar calendar month is 30 days for the big month and 29 days for the small month, alternating with each other, so that the average length of the calendar month is close to that of the lunar month. Therefore, the dates of the solar calendar and the lunar calendar do not match, which leads some people to misunderstand the advance of the Spring Festival.

Reason 2: 202 1 Spring Festival is in the middle of February.

Because of the leap in April 2020, the Spring Festival in 2002 1 year was postponed to February 12 in the solar calendar, but there was no leap month in 20021year, so the Spring Festival in 2022 was advanced by several days, that is, February1. This makes some people think that Spring Festival travel rush is ten days ahead of schedule. Here is to tell our friends that Spring Festival travel rush in 2023 is 65438+1October 22nd, which is better than Spring Festival travel rush in 2022. Will it be said that it is ahead of schedule? In fact, they are all calculated according to the lunar calendar. There is a leap month in 2023, so the Spring Festival in 2024 may be ten days later than in 2023. But generally speaking, the Spring Festival is around February in the solar calendar every year.

When will the Spring Festival be celebrated 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.

Legend of Chinese New Year: Keep up with Chinese New Year.

Keeping the old year is the custom of staying up late to welcome the new year on the last night of the old year. Also known as New Year's Eve, the common name is "Enduring the Year". Exploring the origin of this custom, there is an interesting story among the people:

In ancient times, there was a fierce monster scattered in the mountains. People call them nian. Its appearance is ferocious, its nature is ferocious, and it specializes in eating birds, animals and insects. It changes its taste every day, from kowtowing insects to living people, which makes people talk about "Nian". Later, people gradually mastered the activity law of "Nian", that is, every 365 days, people go to places where people live in concentrated communities to taste fresh food. The haunting time is after dark, and when the rooster crows at dawn, they return to the mountains.

After determining the date of the ravages of 2008, people regarded this terrible night as a gateway, and came up with a set of methods to close the New Year's Day: every family prepared dinner in advance, turned off the fire, cleaned the stove, then tied all the cowpeas, sealed the front and back doors of the house, and hid in the house to eat the "New Year's Eve" because this dinner was uncertain. In addition to inviting the whole family to have dinner together to show harmonious reunion, we should also worship our ancestors before eating and pray for their blessing to spend the night safely. After dinner, no one dared to sleep, so they sat together and chatted with courage. Gradually formed the habit of not sleeping on New Year's Eve.

The trend of observing the age rose in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, and many scholars in the Liang Dynasty had poems about observing the age. "One night for two years, five hours for two years." People light candles or oil lamps and keep vigil all night, which symbolizes driving away all evil diseases and looking forward to good luck in the new year. This custom has been handed down from generation to generation.