What was the Chinese New Year called in ancient times

It was called differently in different times.

In the pre-Qin Dynasty, it was called "on the day", "the first day", "change the year", "dedicate the year" and so on; in the two Han Dynasty, it was also called "three dynasties", "the first day", "the first day", "the first day" and so on. In the two Han Dynasty, also known as "three dynasties", "year", "first day", "first day", "first day".

Wei-Jin and North-South Dynasties, called "yuan Chen", "yuan day", "yuan head", "year", "year", "year", "year", "year", "year", "year", "year", "year", "year", "year", "year". The "first of the year", etc.; to the Tang, Song, Yuan and Ming, it is called "New Year's Day", "Yuan", "year day", "Xinzheng", "Xinyuan", etc.; and the Qing Dynasty, has been called "New Year's Day" or "New Year's Day".

Anciently, the Spring Festival used to refer exclusively to the first day of spring, which was also regarded as the beginning of the year, but later it was changed to the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar as the New Year. Before the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the date of the Spring Festival was not the same in all dynasties, and since the first year of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty's Taichu year, the first month of the summer (lunar) calendar was taken as the first day of the year, and the date of the New Year's festival was thus fixed and continues to this day.

After the 1911 Xinhai Revolution, the Chinese calendar was used to count the years, so it was called January 1 on the Gregorian calendar as "New Year's Day" and the first day of the first month on the lunar calendar as "Spring Festival".

During the Spring Festival, people return home as much as possible to reunite with their loved ones and express their eagerness for the year ahead and their best wishes for the new year. The Spring Festival is not only a festival, but also an important carrier for Chinese people to release their emotions and satisfy their psychological demands, as well as an annual carnival and an eternal spiritual pillar of the Chinese nation.

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Customs of the Spring Festival

1, dust sweeping

Sweeping dust, also known as sweeping the house, sweeping the room, dusting, dusting, dusting, dusting, and so on, is one of the traditional Chinese folk Spring Festival customs. Before the busy year is mainly to get rid of the old cloth as the theme of the activities of the new, dust sweeping is the end of the year sweeping, the south said "sweeping house", the north said "sweeping room".

2, paste the red

Paste the red, that is, is to paste the Spring Festival couplets, door god, banner, New Year's paintings, fortune, window, etc. collectively, because these are the New Year's Eve paste the red celebratory elements, so it is known as paste the red. Stickers red is the traditional Chinese New Year customs, add festive atmosphere, and sent people to the new year, the new spring and the new life of the beautiful expectations.

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