Unscramble the Spring Festival

Spring Festival is the China Lunar New Year, commonly known as "Spring Festival", "New Year" and "New Year's Eve". It is also called "New Year" and "New Year's Eve". It is a folk festival integrating the old with the new, offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors, praying for evil spirits, reuniting relatives and friends, celebrating entertainment and eating.

The Spring Festival has a long history, which evolved from praying for the New Year at the beginning of the year in ancient times. Everything is based on heaven, and people are based on ancestors, praying for the elderly, respecting the ancestors of heaven, and returning to the original. The origin of the Spring Festival contains profound cultural connotations, and it carries rich historical and cultural connotations in its inheritance and development. During the Spring Festival, various activities will be held all over the country to celebrate the Spring Festival, which has strong local characteristics.

At present, the first day of the first lunar month is called Yuanshuo, Yuanri, New Coin, New Year's Day, Zhengri, Chenyuan and Xinzheng in history. The name "Spring Festival", which is celebrated on the first day of the first lunar month, did not exist in ancient times (it was generally called China New Year and New Year Festival in ancient times), but was created by the government of the Republic of China.

During the Republic of China, the concept of "Spring Festival" was gradually put forward. The Gregorian calendar was introduced in the Republic of China, and the lunar calendar became the standard of farming. 19 14 the government of the Republic of China mentioned in the submission of the Ministry of the Interior that "it is planned to designate New Year's Day of the Lunar New Year as the Spring Festival". Therefore, the word "Spring Festival" gradually spread.

After the Revolution of 1911, the northern government of the Republic of China adopted the Gregorian calendar 19 12, but it adopted the year of the Republic of China, with 65438+ 10/as the beginning of the Gregorian calendar. From 19 14, the first day of the first month of the summer calendar (that is, the first day of the first lunar month) is regarded as the beginning of the lunar year, that is, the beginning of a year.

1 On September 27th, 949, the first plenary session of China People's Political Consultative Conference decided to adopt the method of "A.D. calendar year", calling the date of Gregorian calendar1as "New Year's Day" and the first day of the first month in the summer calendar as "Spring Festival". In English-speaking countries, it has always been called "China New Year", sometimes called CNY, or Spring Festival.