The origin of the Spring Festival (within 60 words)

1949 On September 27th, New China was founded. At the plenary session of the China People's Political Consultative Conference, the international use of the Gregorian calendar era was adopted, and the Gregorian calendar 1 month 1 day was designated as New Year's Day. The first day of the first lunar month is usually at the beginning of spring, so the first day of the first lunar month is designated as "Spring Festival".

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The origin of the Spring Festival:

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.

The early festival culture embodies the ancient people's humanistic spirit of advocating nature, the unity of man and nature, cautiously pursuing the future, and firmly thinking about the source; A series of sacrificial activities contain profound cultural connotations of etiquette, music and civilization. The concept of "Nian" comes from the ancient calendar, and both "Pangu Wang Biao" and "San Tong Ming Hui" have the following words: "The Emperor of Heaven began to assign names to determine the position of the year".

The ancients took heavenly stems and earthly branches as the carrier, and the heavenly stem carried the way of heaven, and the earth supported the way of the earth; In nature, it takes shape underground, in human luck; Therefore, heavenly stems and earthly branches was established to contract the fate of heaven and earth. The orientation of heaven and earth determines time and space, and ten branches and twelve branches are combined into sixty jiazi to explain the personnel of heaven and earth. The chronological method of cadres and branches takes beginning of spring as the beginning of the year and festivals as the beginning of January.