The origin of the Spring Festival is about 200 words, including three.

The Spring Festival originated from the ancient wax festival, which has a history of 4,000 to 5,000 years. It is used to worship the Saturnalia, the Hundred Gods and their ancestors. When the wax ends in spring, people will kill livestock, sacrifice ancestors and heaven, and pray for a good weather, no disasters and a good harvest in the new year.

2. Witchcraft ritual theory

This view holds that the Spring Festival originated from the ancient witchcraft ceremony, which is the concrete embodiment of the original witchcraft belief. Primitive people thought that human will and strength could regulate the development of natural things. Diet, sacrifice, decoration, recreation, entertainment, language, behavior, diet and a series of taboos. They are all praying around exorcism. People hope to drive away evil and get happiness through them. Since then, with the evolution of time, the Spring Festival has gradually become a celebration.

3. Halloween theory

According to this statement, due to the lack of scientific knowledge and low productivity, people in the past had poor ability to resist natural disasters, and they were often harassed by cold waves in winter. The lack of food was also their concern.

After the arrival of early spring, life is threatened, and the elderly and children will first die of hunger, cold and other bad factors. This is very frightening, and it is suspected that ghosts and gods are at work. As soon as this terrible season is over, people will congratulate each other. This phenomenon gradually evolved into the Spring Festival.

4. China New Year Legend

According to folklore, during the Spring Festival, a wild animal named Nian, also known as Xi, will appear in winter. Nian beast comes and goes once a year. This day is called "Chinese New Year" (the year has come), and the evening of Chinese New Year is called "New Year's Eve" (except at night).

Nian beast "Xi" is very fierce, walking around in the middle of the night eating people. In order to avoid Nian beast, the ancestors of Yanhuang reunited with their families and sat together to resist Nian beast. Because the Nian beast comes once a year, the ancestors of Yanhuang have explored the tricks of struggle in countless struggles. Although the Nian beast is fierce, it is afraid of red, fire and loud noise.

So every household sticks red couplets at the door, lights bonfires and sets off firecrackers at the door. Nian beast saw the red couplets posted on other people's doors, the doors were booming, firecrackers were ringing, and they would also pay a New Year call to their elders, so they drove Nian beast away.

There is also a saying that the beast is "evening" rather than "year" The Spring Festival is New Year's Eve, and then the Spring Festival. "Xi" is a vague monster, and "nian" has nothing to do with animals and beasts in meaning, but more like harvest and maturity. There is no record of Nian beast in ancient Chinese, which began in the Republic of China.