Why is beginning of spring before the Spring Festival?

Beginning of spring folk custom, also known as Da Chun, originated from the ancient "spring bull"! Now many ethnic minority areas still keep their shapes intact! As the saying goes, spring beats six or nine heads. As long as the Spring Festival is before June 9th, beginning of spring is after it. The Spring Festival is after June 9, of course, the Spring Festival is after it. There are two Mays this year, which means that the lunar calendar is 13 months, which is caused by the postponement of the Spring Festival. The Spring Festival of 20 10 is after beginning of spring, but the Spring Festival of 20 1 1 is before beginning of spring, so it is called a year without spring! It has nothing to do with the solar calendar, but with the lunar calendar, mainly because beginning of spring is calculated according to the lunar calendar.

In ancient China, the word "Spring Festival" was originally a "New Year's Festival" celebrated at the beginning of spring, not a "New Year's Festival" celebrated on the first day of the first month. In the early years of the Republic of China, the Spring Festival was changed to the first day of the first month and became the "New Year Festival". Originally "New Year's Day", "New Year's Day" was moved to Gregorian calendar 1+0.

Beginning of spring, one of the 24 solar terms, is also called the Spring Festival, the First Month Festival, the New Year Festival and the New Year Festival. Standing means "start"; Spring represents warmth and growth. In ancient times, the method of "bucket handle Acupoint" used bucket handle and the Big Dipper in beginning of spring to point to Yin. The current method of "fixing qi" divides solar terms, and beginning of spring is when the sun reaches longitude 3 15. In the era of cadres and branches, taking beginning of spring as the beginning of a year, beginning of spring means the beginning of a new cycle, the beginning of everything, and the meaning of all self-renewal. Before Qin and Han Dynasties, the importance of etiquette and customs was not the beginning of January in the lunar calendar, but beginning of spring Day.

Major festivals, such as offering sacrifices to ancestors, accepting blessings and praying for the New Year, exorcising evil spirits and avoiding disasters, welcoming the old and welcoming the new, welcoming the spring and celebrating agriculture, are held around the beginning of spring. This series of festivals not only constitutes the framework of the New Year's Eve Festival in later generations, but also retains its folk function to this day.