What is the beginning of a year?

The beginning of a year mentioned by ancient folks refers to the "beginning of spring" in the 24 solar terms. In the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the Spring Festival was generally called the whole spring. Also known as "New Year's Day" before the Spring Festival, it is on the first day of the first month.

According to the research results of modern anthropology and archaeology, the two most primitive beliefs of human beings are the belief in heaven and earth and the belief in ancestors. The origin of traditional festivals is related to ancient primitive beliefs, sacrifices, astronomical phenomena, calendars and other humanistic and natural cultural contents. Most of the traditional festivals in ancient times were formed in the activities of the ancients who chose auspicious day sacrifices to thank the gods of heaven and earth and the ancestors for their kindness.

Happy New Year is a festival culture handed down from ancient times. Paying New Year greetings during the Spring Festival is one of the traditional customs of the Spring Festival, and it is a way for people to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new and express their best wishes to each other. On the third day of the second day of junior high school, I began to visit relatives and friends, pay New Year greetings to each other, congratulate each other, bless each other, and say something like congratulations on getting rich and happy New Year.

There is a folk saying in China that "open the door and set off firecrackers". That is, when the new year comes, the first thing for every household to open the door is to set off firecrackers to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new. Firecracker is a specialty of China, also known as "Firecracker", "Firecracker" and "Firecracker".

Its origin is very early. Regarding the evolution of firecrackers, Excellent Popular Arrangement records: "Ancient firecrackers. They are all popular with real bamboo, so Tang poetry is also called explosive pole. Later people roll paper for it. It's called firecrackers.