When is the New Year in China?

In ancient times, the Spring Festival refers to the beginning of spring in the solar terms and is also regarded as the beginning of a year. Later, it was changed to the first day of the first lunar month as the New Year. Then, let's see when the Chinese New Year is 20 18.

20 18 when is the Chinese new year?

The Spring Festival on 20 18 is on February 16, the first day of the first lunar month, Friday.

On the origin of the Spring Festival

China Lunar New Year, known as the Spring Festival, is the most solemn traditional festival in China, and it is also a festival that symbolizes unity and prosperity and places new hopes on the future.

According to records, people in China have celebrated the Spring Festival for more than 4,000 years. Spring Festival has different names in different times.

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".

One theory is that ancient calligraphy books in China put the word "Nian" in the Ministry of Grain, indicating that the weather is favorable and the crops are bumper. Because cereal crops are usually harvested once a year. "Year" is extended to the name of the year.

There are different opinions about the origin of the Spring Festival, but it is generally believed that during the period of Yu Shun, Shun was the emperor, who led his subordinates to worship heaven and earth. Since then, people have regarded this day as the beginning of a year. This is the origin of the Lunar New Year, which was later called the Spring Festival. The Spring Festival used to be called New Year's Day, and the month in which it was held was called January.

The dates of the Spring Festival in China are different: in the Xia Dynasty, January in Meng Chun was the first month, in the Shang Dynasty, the twelfth month (December) was the first month, after Qin Shihuang unified the six countries, October was the first month, and the Qin calendar was adopted in the early Han Dynasty. In BC 104, astronomer Luo et al. made a calendar and changed the beginning of October to the beginning of the first month. Later generations basically improved the lunar calendar we use today, and Luo is also known as the "Spring Festival old man". Since then, China has been using the Gregorian calendar (also known as the lunar calendar) until the end of the Qing Dynasty, which lasted for 2080.

Although there was a custom of Spring Festival in ancient China, it was not called Spring Festival at that time. Because when I said Spring Festival, I meant 24th? "beginning of spring" in solar terms. The Northern and Southern Dynasties generally referred to the Spring Festival as the whole spring. It is said that the Lunar New Year was officially named Spring Festival after the Revolution of 1911. Because the solar calendar was used at that time, the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar had to be renamed the Spring Festival in order to distinguish between farmers and farmers.

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