What is the origin of the Spring Festival?

1. In ancient times, there was a fierce monster called Nian. Every year1February 30th, it goes door to door, foraging for human flesh and killing creatures. One night on the thirtieth day of the twelfth lunar month, I went to a village. It happened that two shepherds were fighting for a bullwhip. In 2008, I suddenly heard the sound of a whip in mid-air, and I was scared to run away. 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 recognized the weakness of being afraid of making trouble, being afraid of red and being afraid of light, and thought of many ways to resist it, which gradually evolved into the custom of celebrating the New Year today.

2. Another way of saying it is that China ancient calligraphy books 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. This year was expanded to a year number.

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

The Spring Festival is generally called the whole spring in the Northern and Southern Dynasties. 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 was renamed the Spring Festival in order to distinguish between farmers and farmers.