Why is the Spring Festival called Valentine's Day in China?

According to textual research, the origin of the Spring Festival is the evolution of the four seasons determined by the ancient ancients according to the astronomical phenomena and phenology. The original meaning of the concept of "year" comes from agriculture. "Shuo Wen Jie Zi" says: "The year is ripe." In ancient times, the maturity of crops was a symbol of time. Later, with the progress of calendar knowledge, the starting point and ending point of the four-season cycle were determined according to the astronomical phenomena and phenology, and the year became the floorboard of the four-season time. The earth revolves around the sun once, which is called a year in the calendar, and it goes on and on, never ending; According to the different seasons, people take the first day of the first month of the summer calendar as the beginning of the year.

Since ancient times, people have emphasized the importance of the Spring Festival as the beginning of a year. "Pangu Wang Biao" contains: "The Emperor of Heaven began to order the name to be fixed." The Great Biography of Shangshu said: "The first day of the first month is the year, the month and the day of the year, so it is called the Three Dynasties, also known as the Three Beginnings." It means that the first day of the first month is the beginning of a year, the beginning of January and the beginning of a day; The beginning of a year is called the beginning of the year (Lunar New Year, Spring Festival); Folk commonly known as "Chinese New Year" or "Chinese New Year".

Spring Festival is a folk custom in China.

Spring Festival, one of the four traditional festivals in China, is the traditional Lunar New Year. The Spring Festival is usually called "the festival of the year". Its traditional names are New Year, New Year, God, New Year, and it is also called "New Year" and "Happy New Year" verbally. People in China have celebrated the Spring Festival for at least 4000 years. In the folk, the Spring Festival in the old traditional sense refers to the sacrificial furnace from the 23rd or 23rd or 24th of the twelfth lunar month in La Worship to the 19th of the first month. In modern times, people set the Spring Festival on the first day of the first lunar month, but it generally doesn't end until the fifteenth day of the first lunar month (Shangyuan Festival).

The Spring Festival was approved by the State Council on May 20, 2006 and included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Spring Festival