When is the New Year in China?

The Spring Festival on 20 19 is February 5th. Spring Festival travel rush in 2020 will be 065438+1October 25th. There will be 5 1 day for the Spring Festival in 2020.

Spring Festival is the most traditional festival in China, which symbolizes reunion and can also be called Lunar New Year. As early as ancient times, large-scale sacrificial activities have been formed, and then with the customs and habits of past dynasties, it has evolved into the present Spring Festival.

The ancients regarded the solstice of winter as the Spring Festival, and the concept of this Spring Festival should have been formed earlier. The trouble is that it is a little long before spring ploughing. With the development of the calendar, under the influence of the culture of cadres and branches and the observation of the moon, the ancients had the concept of the moon. And can accurately express the date of February 2. Based on the dragon totem, this has also produced the festival of "the dragon looks up".

With the appearance of the 24 solar terms, the calendar concepts of beginning of spring and vernal equinox appeared. Farming indicates that the festival time is set in Tomb-Sweeping Day, beginning of spring or the vernal equinox. The final date is the vernal equinox.

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The development history of the Spring Festival

1, "Spring Festival" originated in Xia Dynasty and has a history of nearly 4000 years. Of course, it was not invented by one person, but by working people in their long-term production and life.

2. In China, the traditional Spring Festival refers to the sacrificial ceremony from the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month or the 23rd or 24th of the twelfth lunar month to the 15th of the first lunar month in La Worship, with New Year's Eve and the first day of the first lunar month as the climax.

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