May I ask how many years the robbery was?

One robbery is 129,600 years. It is said that Nian is a monster, and the habit of setting off firecrackers on New Year's Eve is to avoid this monster. However, for an ordinary person, I personally think 2008 is more meaningful. The most important significance is that the whole family can get together on this festival, and it is the best interpretation of reunion to have money and no money to go home for the New Year.

Etymological interpretation in 2000

According to legend, Oracle Bone Inscriptions's word "year" is the image of a person carrying mature crops, that is, "year" and "bumper harvest", which was later extended to the time unit of "year".

Some people think that the birth of the New Year is closely related to farming life. It originally refers to a growth cycle of crops. Farmers in the Western Zhou Dynasty celebrated the harvest and the arrival of the New Year in November of the lunar calendar, which is considered to be the origin of the New Year custom. But the year at this time is not fixed on a certain day.

Cooked in Shuo Wen Jie Zi does not represent the concept of "all seasons". The growth cycle of grass is only a few months, less than twelve months. "Wo, Oracle bones, was born in February, to August, and when it is timely, it is called Wo.

In the early calendar of Shuowen, 10 was the first month, while 10 was the symbol of the change of autumn and winter seasons around the solar terms in beginning of winter. It is generally believed that autumn is the harvest season of common crops. However, due to the change of the calendar, the months in Jian Zheng have also changed.