The origin of the Spring Festival, briefly.

With regard to the history of the Spring Festival, there is no documentary record in ancient times, and there is no way to directly prove the origin of the ancient Spring Festival, which has led to many legends about the origin of the Spring Festival. There are several representative ones: the Spring Festival originated from La Worship's "nature" theory, the royal family dating theory, the witchcraft ceremony theory, the Ghost Festival theory, the ancient harvest sacrifice theory and the Shun theory.

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".

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In different times, the Spring Festival has different names:

In the pre-Qin period, it was called "going to Japan", "January Day", "changing the year" and "offering the year". In the Han Dynasty, it was also called "Three Dynasties", "Sui Dan", "Zheng Dan" and "Zhengri". Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties were called Chen Yuan, Yuan Ri, Fuehrer and Sui Dynasty. In the Tang, Song, Yuan and Ming dynasties, it was called New Year's Day, Yuan, New Year's Day and Singapore dollar. In the Qing Dynasty, it was always called "New Year's Day" or "Yuan Day".

After the Revolution of 1911, the northern government of the Republic of China adopted the Gregorian calendar 19 12, but it adopted the year of the Republic of China, with 65438+ 10/as the beginning of the Gregorian calendar. From 19 14, the first day of the first month of the summer calendar (that is, the first day of the first lunar month) is regarded as the beginning of the lunar year, that is, the beginning of a year.

1 On September 27th, 949, the first plenary session of China People's Political Consultative Conference decided to adopt the method of "A.D. calendar year", calling the date of Gregorian calendar1as "New Year's Day" and the first day of the first month in the summer calendar as "Spring Festival". After 1970, "Summer Calendar" was renamed as "Lunar Calendar".

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Spring Festival (one of the four traditional festivals in China)-Baidu Encyclopedia