Why does the Spring Festival become the biggest traditional festival in China? Is there any historical basis?

Why does the Spring Festival become the biggest traditional festival in China? Is there any historical basis for this?

First of all, the origin of the Spring Festival keeps it going.

There is a saying about the origin of the Spring Festival. In ancient China, there was a monster named Nian, who lived at the bottom of the sea for many years. It had a long head and tentacles and was extremely fierce. Every new year's eve, they will climb ashore, devour livestock and hurt people's lives. Scared the villagers to flee on New Year's Eve.

Then one year on New Year's Eve, an old beggar outside the village told people how to drive away the Nian beast-set off firecrackers and put up red couplets. It turns out that Nian was most afraid of red, fire and explosion.

Since then, every year on New Year's Eve, villagers will put up red couplets and set off firecrackers. Every household has a bright candlelight, so it is better to wait for the New Year. In the early morning of the first day of junior high school, everyone in the village should visit relatives and friends to say hello.

This custom spread more and more widely and became the most solemn traditional festival in China-Spring Festival.

Secondly, the historical roots and inheritance of the Spring Festival.

The historical origin of the Spring Festival begins with offering sacrifices to ancestors and national rulers to gods.

In ancient times, people held sacrificial activities at the beginning of the new year after the end of the year's farming, in order to repay the kindness of the gods and ancestors of heaven and earth and pray for good weather and abundant crops.

This custom has been handed down, and together with the legend of the Spring Festival, it gradually settled down and became the annual Spring Festival.

The origin of the Spring Festival contains profound cultural connotations, and in the process of inheritance and development, it carries rich historical and cultural connotations. The custom of New Year greetings varies from place to place, with rich forms and strong regional characteristics, which is the essence of China traditional culture.

During the Spring Festival in the new period, various activities are held all over the country to celebrate the Spring Festival. In a festive atmosphere, people worship their ancestors, welcome the new year and receive blessings, and taste the fruits of their hard work, which is full of lively and festive holiday atmosphere.

With the approval of the State Council, the folk custom of Spring Festival has already been included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list. Because Spring Festival travel rush also extends to Spring Festival travel rush Peak, Spring Festival Gala and other large-scale activities that can only be held during the Spring Festival.

The Spring Festival in the sense of China began in the early years, and it was not until after the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month that the real Spring Festival was celebrated.

The activities of the Spring Festival mainly include: sweeping dust, buying new year's goods, posting couplets, setting off firecrackers, eating New Year's Eve, watching the Spring Festival Gala, visiting temple fairs and so on.

Because the Spring Festival has such a large array and such a long time, it has become the largest and most solemn traditional festival in China.