Traditional festivals: what are the aliases of the Spring Festival?

The Spring Festival is a traditional festival in China. People refer to the period of transition between the end of the year and the beginning of the year as the "New Year". The Spring Festival is also a new beginning of the year and the first of the more important traditional festivals.

What kind of aliases does the Spring Festival have? Let's take a look at it!

Spring Festival has different names in different times. In the pre-Qin called "on the day", "yuan day", "change the year", "dedicate the year" and so on; to the two Han period, and was called "three dynasties". was called "three dynasties", "the first day of the year", "the first day", "the first day"; Wei, Jin and North and South Dynasties called the "yuan Chen", "yuan day", "yuan head", "year dynasty", " The first of the year", etc.; to the Tang, Song, Yuan and Ming, it is called "New Year's Day", "yuan", "year day", "new positive

Introduction to the Spring Festival:

The Spring Festival is China's most distinctive traditional festival, the Chinese people have been celebrating the Spring Festival for more than 4,000 years, about the origin of the Spring Festival there are a variety of sayings, but one of the most widely accepted is that the Spring Festival by the Yu Shun period rise. The Spring Festival generally refers to the first day of the first month, the first day of the year, also known as the lunar year, commonly known as the "New Year"; however, in the folklore, the Spring Festival traditionally refers to the Lunar New Year Festival from the Lunar New Year's Wax Rituals, or Lunar New Year's 23rd or 24th Zaosi Festival, all the way up to the 19th day of the first month of the lunar year, with New Year's Eve and the first day of the first month of the first year as the climax. During the Spring Festival, the Han Chinese and some ethnic minorities in China celebrate with various events.

All these activities are centered on worshipping ancestral gods, paying tribute to ancestors, getting rid of the old and bringing in the new, welcoming good fortune, and praying for a good year. The activities of the Spring Festival are rich and colorful, with strong ethnic characteristics. Influenced by Chinese culture, some countries and peoples belonging to the Chinese cultural circle also have the custom of celebrating the Spring Festival.

The Spring Festival is the traditional lunar New Year in the Chinese character culture circle.

It is traditionally called the New Year, the Great Year, and the New Year, but it is also known verbally as the New Year of the Year, the Celebration of the New Year, and the New Year's Day. In ancient times, the Spring Festival used to refer exclusively to the beginning of spring in the solar calendar, which was also considered the beginning of the year, but was later changed to the beginning of the first day of the first month of the Lunar Calendar as the New Year. Generally at least until the fifteenth day of the first month (on the New Year's Day) before the end of the New Year, the Spring Festival is commonly known as the "New Year's Day", is the Chinese nation's most solemn traditional festival, before the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the Spring Festival of the various dynasties is not the same date, since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the first year of the first month of the summer calendar (Lunar Calendar) for the head of the year, the date of the New Year Festival is fixed from this, continue to this day, and the Chinese people have a lot to celebrate, the New Year. After the 1911 Xinhai Revolution, began to use the Gregorian calendar to count the year, so that the Gregorian calendar January 1 for the "New Year's Day", said the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar for the "Spring Festival".

The festivals of the year, also known as "traditional festivals", have a long history, are widely spread, and are characterized by great popularity, mass, and even universal. New Year's Day is to get rid of the old and bring in the new, although the New Year's Day is scheduled for the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar, but the activities of the New Year's Day are not limited to the first day of the first month. From the 23rd (or 24th) of Lunar New Year's Day, people will begin to "busy year": sweeping the house, washing hair and bathing, prepare the New Year's Day equipment, etc., all of these activities, there is a *** with the same theme, that is, "resignation of the old and welcome the new". New Year's Day is also a day of worship and prayers, the ancients said that a cooked grain for a "year", a good harvest for the "great year". In the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty, there has been an annual celebration of the harvest.

Later, sacrificing to heaven and praying for the New Year became one of the main elements of the New Year's Eve; and, such as the God of the stove, the God of the door, the God of wealth, the God of joy, the God of the well and other gods, in the New Year's Eve period, are ready to enjoy the earth's incense. People take this opportunity to thank the gods for their care in the past, and pray for more blessings in the new year. New Year's Day is also a time for family reunions and ancestor worship. New Year's Eve, the whole family gathered together, ate the "New Year's dinner", the elders to the children to distribute "New Year's money", the family sat down "to observe the New Year". The New Year's Day when the time to hand over the New Year, the firecrackers sounded, the activities of the resignation of the old year, welcome the New Year reached a climax.

Each family burns incense to salute, honoring heaven and earth, sacrificing ancestors, and then in turn to the elders to pay tribute to the New Year, followed by friends and relatives of the same family to congratulate each other. The New Year's Day is also a festival of popular entertainment and revelry. After the New Year's Day, a variety of colorful recreational activities are carried out: playing lions, dragon lanterns, twisting rice-planting songs, stilt walkers, juggling plays, etc., for the New Year Festival has added a rich and festive atmosphere. Therefore, a set of prayers, celebrations, entertainment as one of the feast of the New Year Festival has become the most important festival of the Chinese people. To this day, the main customs of the festival have been inherited and developed, except for the activities of worshiping the gods and ancestors, which have been somewhat diluted compared with the past.

The Spring Festival is an important carrier of the excellent traditions of the Chinese culture, contains the wisdom and crystallization of the Chinese culture, cohesion of the Chinese people's pursuit of life and emotional support, inherited the Chinese social and ethical concepts; therefore, we must vigorously carry forward the Spring Festival condensed by the excellent traditional culture, highlighting the old and welcome the New Year, the blessings, reunion, peace and prosperity and so on the theme of the efforts to create Therefore, we must vigorously promote the excellent traditional culture embodied in the Spring Festival, highlighting the theme of the old and the new, blessings, reunion, peace, prosperity and so on, and strive to create a festive atmosphere of family harmony, stability and unity, joy and peace, and promote the Chinese culture to be everlasting and to develop.