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Why did the second year start after beginning of spring?

The reason why the second year started is after beginning of spring: ancient folks celebrated festivals on beginning of spring, which is equivalent to the modern Spring Festival, and the first day of the first lunar month was called New Year's Day, so it was the second year after ancient beginning of spring. Subsequently, in July of the second year of the Republic of China, 19 13, Yuan Shikai proposed the first day of the lunar new year as the "Spring Festival", which was implemented from 19 14 the following year. Since then, the beginning of the summer calendar has been called the Spring Festival, which has continued to this day.

Beginning of spring:

Beginning of spring, the first of the 24 solar terms, is also known as the first month festival, New Year's Day, New Year's Day and New Year's Day. Standing means "start"; Spring represents warmth and growth. Twenty-four solar terms were originally formulated on the basis of "variable stars". When the bucket handle of the Big Dipper points to the shade, it is beginning of spring. At present, solar terms are determined according to the longitude of the sun. When the sun reaches longitude 3 15, it will be the beginning of spring, and the festival will be held from February 3 to 5 of the Gregorian calendar every year. In the era of cadres and branches, silver moon is spring, beginning of spring is the beginning of a year, and beginning of spring is the beginning of everything, which means all self-renewal, which means the beginning of a new cycle. In the traditional concept, beginning of spring has auspicious meaning. People regard the Lunar New Year of "Double beginning of spring" as an auspicious year.