A brief introduction to the origin of the Spring Festival

A brief introduction to the origin of the Spring Festival

The origin of the 20th Anniversary of the Spring Festival is introduced. The Spring Festival is the most solemn traditional festival in China, and it is also a day for family reunion. Here, I will introduce the origin of the twentieth anniversary of the Spring Festival. Interested friends come and have a look. Welcome to learn from it.

Introduction to the origin of the Spring Festival: Ershizi 1 1;

1949 On September 27th, New China was founded. The first plenary session of China People's Political Consultative Conference adopted the Gregorian calendar era, and the Gregorian calendar 1 month 1 day was designated as New Year's Day, commonly known as the Gregorian calendar year. The first day of the first lunar month is usually around beginning of spring, so the first lunar month must be called "Spring Festival", commonly known as the Lunar New Year.

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Folk saying: In ancient times, there was a fierce monster called Nian, which went door to door every year130 February, foraging for human flesh and killing creatures. On the night of the thirtieth day of the twelfth lunar month, Nian came to a village. It happened that two cowboys were fighting for a whip. Nian suddenly heard the sound of whipping in mid-air and ran away in fear. It fled to another village and saw a door with a red dress. It didn't know what it was, so it turned around and ran away. Then he came to a village, looked at the door of a family, saw the lights inside, and felt dizzy, so he had to slip away with his tail between his legs. As a result, people realized the weakness of Nian's fear of noise, red and light, and tried many ways to resist it, which gradually evolved into the custom of celebrating the New Year on this day.

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The Spring Festival is the most grand and distinctive traditional festival among the people in China, which marks the end of the Lunar New Year. Spring Festival generally refers to New Year's Eve and the first day of the first month. However, among the people, the traditional welfare of the Spring Festival refers to the sacrificial stoves that culminate in New Year's Eve and the first day of the first month from the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month or the 23rd or 24th of the twelfth lunar month to the 15th day of the first lunar month in La Worship. During the Spring Festival, Han people and many ethnic minorities in our country will hold various activities to celebrate. These activities mainly focus on offering sacrifices to gods and buddhas, ancestors, saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new, and praying for a bumper harvest. The activities are rich and colorful, with strong national characteristics.

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Once upon a time, there was a monster named Nian. Its head was long, sharp and fierce, and it lived in the sea. On New Year's Eve, they will climb ashore and vomit livestock, endangering their lives. Therefore, on New Year's Eve, everyone fled to the deep mountains to avoid the injury of Nian. This year, an old me with an elegant silver beard and Ma Xiuxing came from the village. I broke into the village in the middle of the night and was about to make a big fight when suddenly there was a crackling explosion. The old man put on a red robe and appeared in front of Nian at this time. I fled back to the sea in fear and dared not enter the village again at night. This is the legend of China New Year and the origin of firecrackers. After thousands of years of development, the custom of Chinese New Year has become more and more abundant.

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The Spring Festival is a family reunion festival, which is very similar to Christmas in the West. Children who leave home have to travel thousands of miles back to their parents' home at this time. The night before the real Chinese New Year is called "New Year's Eve", which is also called "reunion night" and "reunion dinner". On the night of reunion, every family gets together to talk about the old and the new, and congratulate and encourage each other. There is a custom of eating jiaozi in northern China at this time. Jiaozi's practice is to mix dough first, and the word "harmony" means "harmony"; Jiaozi's jiaozi is homophonic with Jiao, and "Harmony" and "Jiao" have the meaning of gathering together, which also means "Jiaozi is young". Therefore, jiaozi symbolizes reunion. There is a habit of eating rice cakes in the south, which symbolizes a better life. Putting up Spring Festival couplets, beating gongs and drums, saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new are very lively.

What is the origin of the Spring Festival?

The origin of this festival is to add years to people's lives and celebrate the New Year. The Spring Festival is the most lively and grand traditional festival for Chinese people. There are some interesting legends about the origin of the Spring Festival. One legend is that the Yellow Emperor fought against Chiyou in history, and the Yellow Emperor defeated Chiyou on the first day of the first lunar month, so people set this day as a festival to commemorate the achievements of the Yellow Emperor.

Another legend is that in ancient China, there was a strange beast called Nian, whose nature was extremely cruel. Every year at the turn of winter and spring, people often come out to hurt people and animals, destroy the countryside, make people panic and everyone is afraid. At that time, some clever and brave people came up with a clever plan: set up a woodpile in the yard, put a table outside the gate, and put pig's head, cow's head, sheep's head, dog's head and realgar wine on the table.

When the monster named Nian saw the pig's head and the sheep's head, he came at once and opened his mouth to have a full meal. When people saw the monster coming, they immediately lit woodpiles, beat gongs and drums and set off firecrackers. Suddenly, the flames were blazing, and the sound of gongs and drums was endless, scaring the monsters to flee everywhere. Therefore, people congratulated each other on their peace, and later people designated the first day of the first month as an auspicious day.

This myth and legend reflects people's strong will to fight evil and their good wishes to live and work in peace and contentment. There is another legend: The word "nian" in China New Year means a good year and a good harvest.

For thousands of years, people have always called the harvest of the Lunar New Year a "good year" and the first day of the first month a "year". On this day, gongs and drums were loud and people were beaming. Since then, people regard this day as the first day of the year, and it has become the biggest traditional festival for the Chinese nation and even the Chinese people in the world.

Briefly introduce the origin of the Spring Festival;

There are different opinions about the origin of the Spring Festival, among which there are several representative ones, such as the Spring Festival originated in La Worship, the Spring Festival originated in witchcraft ceremony, and the Spring Festival originated in Ghost Festival. But it is generally believed that the Spring Festival rose during the Yu Shun period.

One day more than 2000 BC, Shun became emperor and led his men to worship heaven and earth. Since then, people have regarded this day as the beginning of a year. It is said that this is the origin of the Lunar New Year, which was later called the Spring Festival.

Legend of the Spring Festival:

According to legend, there was a monster named Nian in ancient China, with long tentacles and a ferocious face. Nian lived on the seabed for many years, and climbed ashore every New Year's Eve, eating livestock and hurting people's lives. Therefore, every New Year's Eve, people in the village fled to the deep mountains to avoid the harm of the "Nian" beast.

On New Year's Eve this year, people in Taohua Village were taking refuge in the mountains when an old beggar came from outside the village. He was leaning on crutches, carrying a bag on his arm, with elegant silver whiskers and staring at Matthew. Some villagers sealed windows and locked doors, some packed their bags, some herded cattle and drove sheep, and people shouted hisses everywhere, which was a scene of panic. At this time, who still has the mind to take care of this begging old man?

Only an old woman in the village east gave the old man some food and suggested that he go up the mountain quickly to avoid the "Nian" beast. The old man smiled and said, "If my mother-in-law lets me stay at home for one night, I will definitely drive the Nian beast away.

The old woman looked at him carefully in surprise and found that he was handsome, energetic and different. But she continued to persuade and begged the old man to laugh without saying a word. My mother-in-law had no choice but to leave home and take refuge in the mountains.

At midnight, Nian beast broke into the village. It found that the atmosphere in the village was different from previous years: the old woman at the east end of the village had red paper on her door and the room was brightly lit. The beast Nian trembled and let out a long whistle. Nian stared at her mother-in-law's house for a while, then screamed and rushed over. As we approached the door, there was a sudden explosion in the yard. Nian trembled and dared not go any further.

It turns out that Nian was most afraid of red, fire and explosion. At this time, my mother-in-law's door was wide open, and I saw an old man in a red robe laughing in the hospital. "Nian" was frightened to disgrace and fled in confusion.

The next day was the first day of the first month, and the people who came back from refuge were very surprised to see that the village was safe and sound. At this time, the old woman suddenly realized and quickly told the villagers the promise of begging for the elderly. Villagers flocked to the old woman's house, only to find red paper on her mother-in-law's door, a pile of unburned bamboo still exploding in the yard, and several red candles still glowing in the house. ...

In order to celebrate the auspicious arrival, ecstatic villagers put on new clothes and hats one after another and went to their relatives and friends' homes to congratulate and say hello. The story soon spread in the surrounding villages, and people knew the way to drive away the "Nian" beast.

Since then, every year on New Year's Eve, every family has posted red couplets and set off firecrackers. Every household has a bright candlelight, so it is better to wait for the New Year. In the early morning of the first day, I want to say hello to my relatives and friends. This custom has spread more and more widely, and has become the most solemn traditional festival among the people in China.

In modern folk customs, celebrating the Spring Festival is also called Chinese New Year. In fact, the origin of Chinese New Year and Spring Festival is very different.

So how did the year come from? There are mainly two kinds of folk sayings: one is that there was a fierce monster called Nian in ancient times, which went door to door on the thirtieth day of the twelfth lunar month, foraging for human flesh and killing creatures. On the night of the thirtieth day of the twelfth lunar month, Nian came to a village. It happened that two cowboys were fighting for a whip. Nian suddenly heard the sound of whipping in mid-air and ran away in fear. It fled to another village and saw a bright red dress drying in front of the door. It didn't know what it was, so it turned around and ran away. Later, he came to a village, looked into the door of a family, and saw that the lights were brightly lit and dizzy, so he had to slip away again, with his tail between his legs. From this, people realized that Nian has the weakness of being afraid of noise, red and light, so they thought of many ways to resist it and gradually evolved into the custom of celebrating the New Year today.

Another way of saying this is that ancient calligraphy books in China put the word "Nian" in the Ministry of Grain, which means good weather and good harvest. Because cereal crops are usually harvested once a year. "Year" is extended to the name of the year.

Although there was a custom of Spring Festival in ancient China, it was not called Spring Festival at that time. Because the Spring Festival referred to at that time refers to the "beginning of spring" among the 24 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.