Essay:Chinese New Year worship is a traditional Chinese custom

It is the most characteristic traditional festival in China. In primitive society, there is the ritual of "La Sacrifice": after the fall harvest, people have to pay tribute to their ancestors, thank the gods for their blessings, the shade of their ancestors, and pray for a good harvest in the coming year. Over time, it has become a custom. The Spring Festival has been celebrated since the time of Yao and Shun.

The Spring Festival is celebrated on the first day of the year. In ancient times, the time of the first day of the year was different. Xia Dynasty is the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar, the Shang Dynasty is the first day of the twelfth month of the lunar calendar, the Zhou Dynasty is the first day of the first month of the eleventh month of the lunar calendar, Qin is the first day of the tenth month of the lunar calendar, the Han Emperor Wu Di to re-establish the head of the year in the lunar calendar on the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar, at the same time, the use of "Taichu Calendar", which stipulates that the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar for the first day of the New Year's Day, commonly referred to as "New Year "

Spring Festival The original meaning of "Yuan" is "head", which is later extended to "beginning", because it is the first day of the year, the first day of spring, the first day of the first month, so it is called "Sanyuan"; because it is the first day of the year, the first day of the month, and the first day of the first month. Because it is the first day of the year, the first day of spring, the first day of the first month, so it is called "Sanyuan"; because this day is also the age of the morning, the month of the morning, the day of the morning, so it is also known as "three dynasties"; and because it is the first day of the first solstice, so it is also known as "Yuanshuo". Song Wu Zimu in the "Meng Liang Lu" explains: "the first month of the first day, called the new year's day". The Shuowen Jiezi (Explanation of Characters) explains the word "dan" as "from the sun to see a top, one, the ground." It means that the sun has just risen from the horizon, which means morning. Because it represents the first morning of the year, the first morning of the first month, so called "New Year's Day" and "New Year's Day".

In addition to the above title, the Spring Festival is also known as "the beginning of the year", "the beginning of the year", "Fang year", "Hua year" and so on. " and so on, in a number of titles to say "New Year's Day" is the most common, the longest period of time.

After the victory of the 1911 Revolution, the Nanjing Provisional Government provided for the adoption of the solar calendar, and the first day of the first month of the Gregorian calendar as New Year's Day. Thus the Spring Festival became known as the first day of the first month. In fact, the name of the Spring Festival has been ancient, is specifically referring to the spring. Since the folk to the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar called the Spring Festival, it is no longer the spring called the Spring Festival.