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China's traditional festivals are diverse and rich in content, and are an integral part of the long history and culture of our Chinese nation. The formation process of traditional festivals, is a nation or country's history and culture of the long-term accumulation of cohesion process, the following list of these festivals, none of them are not developed from ancient times, from these festivals handed down to the present day customs, but also can be clearly seen in the ancient people's social life of the wonderful picture. The origin and development of festivals is a process of gradual formation, subtle refinement, and slow penetration into social life. It is a product of the development of human society to a certain stage, as is the development of society. Most of these festivals in ancient times in China were related to astronomy, calendar, mathematics, and the later division of the festival, which can be traced back at least to the Xia Xiaozheng and Shangshu, and the 24 festivals divided into one year in the period of the Warring States, which were basically complete, and the later traditional festivals were all closely related to these festivals. Festivals for the creation of the festival provides the premise conditions, most of the festivals in the pre-Qin period, has been the first appearance, but the richness of the content of the customs and popularity, but also need to have a long process of development. The earliest customary activities were related to primitive worship and superstitious taboos; myths and legends added some romantic colors to the festivals; there was also the impact and influence of religion on the festivals; some historical figures were given eternal remembrance to penetrate into the festivals, all of which fused and coalesced into the content of the festivals, making Chinese festivals have a deep sense of history. By the Han Dynasty, the main traditional festivals in China had been finalized, and it is often said that these festivals originated in the Han Dynasty, which was the first period of great development after the unification of China, with political and economic stability, and great development of science and culture, which provided good social conditions for the final formation of the festivals. Festivals developed to the Tang Dynasty, has been liberated from the primitive worship, taboo and mysterious atmosphere, turned into entertainment ceremonial type, and became a real festival of good times. From then on, the festival became joyful and festive, rich and colorful, many sports, enjoyable activities appeared, and soon became a fashionable and popular, these customs have continued to develop and endure. It is worth mentioning that, in the long history, the generations of literati, poets and artists, for a festival composed many ancient masterpieces, these poems and texts are popular and widely celebrated, so that China's traditional festivals permeated with a deep cultural heritage, wonderful and romantic, the great vulgarity in the great elegance, elegance and vulgarity **** appreciation. China's festivals have a strong cohesion and broad inclusiveness, a festival, the country celebrated together, which is our nation's long history of long-flowing lineage, is a valuable spiritual cultural heritage. Introduced here are only some of the larger traditional festivals of the Han Chinese people, China is a multi-ethnic country, each ethnic group has its own cultural practices, numerous national festivals, is a cultural treasure to be mined. Spring Festival Introduction Spring Festival, is the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar, also known as the lunar year, commonly known as "New Year". It is one of the grandest and most lively traditional festivals in China. The Spring Festival has a long history, which originated in the Yin Shang period at the end of the year to the gods and ancestors activities. The Spring Festival is here, meaning that spring will come, the recovery of grass and trees renewed, a new round of sowing and harvesting season will begin. People have just passed through the long cold winter of ice and snow, grass and trees withered, have long been looking forward to the day of spring flowers, when the new year comes, naturally, full of joy to sing and dance to meet this festival. For thousands of years, people make the New Year's celebrations become very colorful, every year from the 23rd day of Lunar Lunar New Year to the 30th, the folk called this period of time, "Spring Day", also known as the "dust day", before the Spring Festival sweeping dust and sanitation, is the people of our country has always had a traditional custom of our people. Then is the family to prepare for the New Year's goods, about ten days before the festival, people began to busy purchasing items, New Year's goods, including chickens, ducks, fish and meat, tea, wine, oil and soy sauce, North and South fried goods, sugar bait fruit, are to buy enough, but also to prepare some of the New Year's Eve when visiting friends and relatives when the gift, the children to add a new coat and a new hat, ready for the New Year when to wear. Before the festival in the residence of the door to paste red paper and yellow letters of the New Year message, that is, written in red paper Spring Festival couplets. Inside the house posted brightly colored auspicious New Year's paintings, clever girls cut out beautiful window decorations and paste them on the windows, hanging red lanterns in front of the door or sticking the Chinese character for blessings and the God of Fortune, the God of the Door, etc., the character for blessings can also be pasted upside down, passers-by read the blessings upside down, that is, the blessings of luck to the festival, all of these activities are intended to add a festive enough atmosphere. Another name for the Spring Festival is New Year's Eve. In the legends of the past, Nian was an imaginary animal that brought bad luck to people. Once the year came. Trees wither and no grass grows; once the year passes, everything grows and flowers are everywhere. How can the year pass? Need to be blasted with firecrackers, so the custom of burning firecrackers, which is actually another way to set off a lively scene. The Spring Festival is a happy and peaceful holiday, but also the reunion of relatives, children away from home in the Spring Festival to go home to celebrate. The night before the New Year's Eve, is the old year's Lunar New Year's Eve, also known as New Year's Eve, also known as the reunion night, in this time of transition between the old and the new, the New Year's Eve is one of the most important annual activities, New Year's Eve night, the whole family stay up to keep the New Year's Eve, get together to drink soundly, *** enjoy the joy of family, the northern region in the New Year's Eve to eat dumplings, dumplings, dumplings, and the word is the first and the noodles, and is the word; dumplings and dumplings and cross the harmony of the joints and cross the meaning, and also take more years of intercourse The dumplings have the meaning of "getting together" and "turning over the year". In the south, it is customary to eat New Year's cake on New Year's Day. The sweet and sticky cake symbolizes the sweetness of life in the new year. To the first rooster crows, or the New Year's bells ringing over, the street firecrackers, loud and clear, the family is full of joy, the new year began, men and women, young and old are wearing festive dress, the first to the elders in the family New Year's wishes, the festival there are to the children's New Year's Eve money, eat New Year's Eve dinner, the second, the third began to go to the relatives to see their friends, each other New Year's Eve, congratulations on the blessing, say some congratulations on new year's Eve, Congratulations to the rich, congratulations, good, etc., activities such as ancestor worship. Good and other words, ancestor worship and other activities. The warm atmosphere of the festival is not only overflowing in every household, but also filled with the streets and alleys, some places on the market there are lion dance, dragon lanterns, fireworks, swim in the flower market, temple fair and other customs. During this period of lanterns all over the city, the streets are full of tourists, bustling, unprecedented, straight to the first month of the 15th Lantern Festival, the Spring Festival is really the end. The Spring Festival is the most important festival of the Han Chinese, but Manchu, Mongolia, Yao, Zhuang, white, mountain, Hezhe, Hani, Daur, Dong, Li and other dozen of minority groups also have the custom of the Spring Festival, but the form of the festival has more of their own national characteristics, more flavorful. January 1: New Year's Day ("New Year's Day" is the earliest word from Xiao Ziyun's poem "Jieya", which was written by Liang Liang in the Southern Dynasty: "New New Year's Day for the four gases, the first day of the ten thousand lifetimes". Yuan means "beginning" and "first"; Dan is an ideogram, with "日" on top indicating the sun and "一" on the bottom indicating the horizon. The sun rises over the horizon, symbolizing the beginning of the day. New Year's Day is the first day of the year. January 1 of the Gregorian calendar is recognized as New Year's Day in today's world. China's New Year's Day through the ages, the date is not consistent. Such as the Xia Dynasty is the first day of the first month; Shang Dynasty in the first day of December; Zhou Dynasty in the first day of November, etc. On September 27, 1949, the first plenary session of the Chinese People's Political Association through the use of the "A.D. chronology", will be January 1 as New Year's Day on the Gregorian calendar.) The 15th day of the first month of the lunar calendar: Lantern Festival (also known as "on the Yuan Festival", that is, the 15th day of the first month of the lunar calendar. It is an important traditional festival in China. In ancient books, this day is called "Shangyuan", and its night is called "Yuanyuan", "Yuanshi" or "Lantern Festival". The name "Lantern Festival" has been used until now. Since the Lantern Festival has the custom of opening and watching the lanterns, it is also known as the "Festival of Lights" in folklore. In addition, there are also eating Lantern Festival, stilt walking, riddles and other customs. China's ancient calendar and the phase of the moon has a close relationship with the fifteenth day of the month, people ushered in the first full-moon night of the year, this day is rightly regarded as an auspicious day. As early as the Han Dynasty, the fifteenth day of the first month was used as a day to worship the emperor and pray for blessings. Later, the ancients called the 15th day of the first month "Shangyuan", the 15th day of the 7th month "Zhongyuan", and the 15th day of the 10th month "Xiayuan". At the latest, in the early North and South Dynasties, Sanyuan was already a day to hold a grand ceremony. Among the three elements, the first element was the most important. Later on, the celebrations of the Middle and Lower Yuan were gradually abolished, while the Upper Yuan has endured). The day before Qingming Festival: Cold Food (A festival in the old custom, one day before Qingming Festival [one says two days before Qingming]. During the Spring and Autumn Period, Duke Chong Er of Jin, who had been dead for many years, returned to his country and assumed the throne [i.e. Duke Wen of Jin], and rewarded the ministers who had died with him, except for Jie Zhi Tui, who was left out. Jie Zhitui then took his mother to live in seclusion in Mianshan Mountain [now southeast of Jiexiu County, Shanxi Province]. Duke Wen of Jin learned of this and wanted to reward him, so he searched for him in Mianshan Mountain and could not find him, so he tried to burn the mountain to force him to come out. However, Jie Zhi Tui insisted on not coming out, and as a result, both mother and son were burned to death. Duke Wen of Jin then forbade people to burn rice on this day every year to mourn the death of his mother and son. Later, the custom of eating cold food and sweeping graves on this day was formed.) April 5: Qingming Festival (Qingming Festival is a traditional festival in China and the most important festival of worship, a day for ancestor worship and grave sweeping. Tomb-sweeping is commonly known as visiting the graves, an activity to honor the dead. Most Han Chinese and some ethnic minorities sweep their tombs on Qingming Day. According to the old custom, when sweeping tombs, people should bring wine, food, fruits, paper money and other items to the cemetery, offer the food in front of their loved ones' graves, then incinerate the paper money, cultivate new soil for the graves, fold a few tender green new branches and stick them on the graves, then bow down and perform rituals and worship, and then eat the wine and food and go home at last. Du Mu, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, wrote a poem entitled "Qingming": "The rain falls one after another during the Qingming Festival, and the pedestrians on the road want to break their souls. Where can I find a tavern? The shepherd boy points to the apricot blossom village." The poem "Ching Ming Festival" wrote out the special atmosphere of Ching Ming Festival. Qingming Festival, also known as Treading Green Festival, according to the solar calendar, it is between April 4 and 6 every year, it is the time when spring is bright and beautiful grass and trees spit out green, and it is also a good time for people to go on spring excursions [called trekking in ancient times], so the ancients had the custom of trekking in the Qingming Festival and carrying out a series of sports activities.) The fifth day of the fifth lunar month: Dragon Boat Festival (the fifth day of the fifth lunar month for the "Dragon Boat Festival". "Dragon Boat Festival" is called "Duanwu", the end is the beginning of the meaning. "Five" and "Wu" for each other and common. It is an ancient festival in China. China's earliest ancient patriotic poet Qu Yuan was banished by slander, witnessed the growing political corruption in Chu, and could not realize their own political ideals, unable to save the dying motherland, so he threw himself into the Bioluo River to martyrdom. After that, people in order not to make the fish and shrimp eat their bodies, have used glutinous rice and flour into various shapes of cakes into the river, which later became the Dragon Boat Festival to eat zongzi, fried cake source. (This custom has spread abroad.) The seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar: Tanabata Valentine's Day (the evening of the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar is called "Tanabata". China's folklore is that the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden meet at the Magpie Bridge in the Heavenly River on this night, and then there are women who beg for coquettish things by threading needles to the Weaving Maiden star on this night. The so-called begging for coquettish, that is, under the moonlight to the Vega star with colored thread through the needle, such as can pass through seven different sizes of the eye of the needle, even if it is very "coquettish". Farmer's proverbs say "the seventh day of the seventh month is clear and bright, grinding sickle cut good rice." (This is the time to sharpen the sickle and prepare for the early rice harvest.) The 15th day of the 8th lunar month: Mid-Autumn Festival (The 15th day of the 8th lunar month, which is the middle of autumn, is therefore called "Mid-Autumn Festival". In the evening, the moon is full and the fragrance of laurel is fragrant, the old custom people see it as a symbol of reunion, to prepare a variety of fruits and cooked food, is a good festival to enjoy the moon. Mid-Autumn Festival also eat moon cakes. According to legend, at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, in order to overthrow the brutal Yuan Dynasty, the people wrote the date of the riot on a note and put it in the mooncake filling so as to pass it secretly to each other, calling for an uprising on August 15th. Finally, on this day, a nationwide peasant uprising was baked, overthrowing the corrupt Yuan Dynasty. Since then, the custom of eating mooncakes in the Mid-Autumn Festival has been more widely spread.) The ninth day of the ninth lunar month: Chongyang Festival (The ninth day of the ninth lunar month. In ancient China, nine is Yang, September 9 is the yin and yang day, so the name "Chongyang". Legend has it that in the Eastern Han Dynasty, Ru Nan Huan Ying, heard Fei Changfang said to him, September 9 Ru Nan will have a catastrophe, and quickly asked the family to sew a small generation, filled with cornelian cherry, tied to the arm, climbed the mountains, drink chrysanthemum wine, to take refuge. Huanjing this day the whole family mountaineering, home at night, really home chickens, dogs, sheep all dead. Since then, the folk have been in the Chongyang Festival do Cornus generation, drink chrysanthemum wine, hold a temple fair, climb high and other customs. Because "high" and "cake" sound the same, so the Chongyang Festival and eat "Chongyang cake" custom. Wang Wei, a poet of Tang Dynasty, wrote a poem "Remembering the Brothers of Shandong on September 9", which reads: "Being a stranger in a foreign land, I think of my relatives twice as much at festivals. I know from afar where my brothers are climbing up, and I have less Cornus officinalis to plant." The poem records the customs of the time. Because of its sincere feelings, the poem is still popular today.) The winter solstice is a very important festival in China's lunar calendar and a traditional festival, and there are still a lot of places that have the custom of the winter solstice festival. The winter solstice is commonly known as the "Winter Festival", "long solstice festival", "YaYu", etc. As early as two and a half thousand years ago, the winter solstice was celebrated as the "Winter Festival". As early as two thousand five hundred years ago in the Spring and Autumn Period, our country has used the earth to observe the sun to determine the winter solstice, it is the twenty-four solar terms in the earliest development of a. The time in December of each year, the solar calendar. The time is between December 22nd or 23rd on the solar calendar every year. The winter solstice is the day with the shortest day and the longest night in the northern hemisphere throughout the year, and after the winter solstice, the day will become longer day by day. Ancient people on the winter solstice is: the Yin pole of the arrival, Yang Qi began to grow, the day south to the shortest day to the longest shadow of the sun, so it is called "winter solstice". After the winter solstice, the climate around the world have entered one of the coldest stage, which is often referred to as "into the nine", China's folk "cold in the three nine, hot in three volts," the saying. Modern astronomical science determined that the winter solstice sun shoots directly at the Tropic of Capricorn, sunlight on the northern hemisphere is the most tilted, the northern hemisphere day is the shortest, the longest night, after this day, the sun and gradually move north. In our country in ancient times on the winter solstice is very important, the winter solstice is treated as a large festival, there was "winter solstice is as big as the year", and there are customs to celebrate the winter solstice. The book of han said: "winter solstice yang qi up, jun dao long, so congratulations." People think: after the winter solstice, the day is longer than one day, Yang Qi rise, is the beginning of a cycle of festivals, is also an auspicious day, should be celebrated. The Book of Jin" on the record "Wei Jin winter solstice day by all the countries and bureaucrats to congratulate ...... its instrument subdivided into the first day." The importance of the winter solstice in ancient times. Now, some places still take the winter solstice as a festival to pass. Northern regions have the custom of slaughtering sheep, eating dumplings and eating wontons on the winter solstice, while southern regions have the habit of eating winter solstice rice balls and winter solstice long thread noodles on this day. In the south, there is the custom of eating winter solstice rice balls and winter solstice long noodles. The eighth day of the eighth month of the Lunar Calendar: Lapa Festival (Ancient December sacrifice "gods" called Lapa, so the Lunar Calendar December called Lapa month. On the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, it is customary to drink Laha congee. Legend has it that Siddhartha Gautama attained Buddhahood on this day, so monasteries cooked congee for the Buddha on this day, and the folk custom has been followed until today.) Spring Festival, the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar, also known as the lunar year, commonly known as "New Year". It is one of the grandest and most lively traditional festivals in China. The Spring Festival has a long history, which originated in the Yin Shang period at the end of the year, the gods and ancestors activities. The Spring Festival is here, meaning that spring will come, the recovery of grass and trees renewed, a new round of sowing and harvesting season will begin. People have just passed through the long cold winter of ice and snow, grass and trees withered, have long been looking forward to the day of spring flowers, when the new year comes, naturally, full of joy to sing and dance to meet this festival. For thousands of years, people make the New Year's celebrations become very colorful, every year from the 23rd day of Lunar Lunar New Year to the 30th, the folk called this period of time, "Spring Day", also known as the "dust day", before the Spring Festival sweeping dust and sanitation, is the people of our country has always had a traditional custom of our people. Then is the family to prepare for the New Year's goods, about ten days before the festival, people began to busy purchasing goods, New Year's goods, including chickens, ducks, fish and meat, tea, wine, oil and soy sauce, North and South fried goods, sugar bait fruit, are to buy enough, but also to prepare some of the New Year's Eve when visiting friends and relatives when the gift, the children to add a new coat and a new hat, ready for the New Year when to wear. Before the festival in the residence of the door to paste red paper and yellow letters of the New Year message, that is, written in red paper Spring Festival couplets. Inside the house posted brightly colored auspicious New Year's paintings, clever girls cut out beautiful window decorations and paste them on the windows, hanging red lanterns in front of the door or sticking the Chinese character for blessings and the God of Fortune, the God of the Door, etc., the character for blessings can also be pasted upside down, passers-by read the blessings upside down, that is, the blessings of luck to the festival, all of these activities are to add enough to the festivities of the atmosphere of joy and celebration. Another name for the Spring Festival is New Year's Eve. In the legends of the past, Nian was an imaginary animal that brought bad luck to people. Once the year came. Trees wither and no grass grows; once the year passes, everything grows and flowers are everywhere. How can the year pass? Need to be blasted with firecrackers, so the custom of burning firecrackers, which is actually another way to set off a lively scene. The Spring Festival is a happy and peaceful holiday, but also the reunion of relatives, children away from home in the Spring Festival to go home to celebrate. The night before the New Year's Eve, is the old year's Lunar New Year's Eve, also known as New Year's Eve, also known as the reunion night, in this time of transition between the old and the new, the New Year's Eve is one of the most important annual activities, New Year's Eve night, the whole family stay up to keep the New Year's Eve, get together to drink soundly, *** enjoy the joy of family, the northern region in the New Year's Eve to eat dumplings, dumplings, dumplings, and the word is the first and the noodles, and is the word; dumplings and dumplings and cross the harmony of the joints and cross the meaning, and also take more years of intercourse The dumplings have the meaning of "getting together" and "turning over the year". In the south, it is customary to eat New Year's cake on New Year's Day. The sweet and sticky cake symbolizes the sweetness of life in the new year. To the first rooster crows, or the New Year's bells ringing over, the street firecrackers, loud and clear, the family is full of joy, the new year began, men and women, young and old are wearing festive dress, the first to the elders in the family New Year's wishes, the festival there are to the children's New Year's Eve money, eat New Year's Eve dinner, the second, the third began to go to the relatives to see their friends, each other New Year's Eve, congratulations on the blessing, say some congratulations on new year's Eve, Congratulations to the rich, congratulations, good, etc., activities such as ancestor worship. Good and other words, ancestor worship and other activities. The warm atmosphere of the festival is not only overflowing in every household, but also filled with the streets and alleys, some places on the market there are lion dance, dragon lanterns, fireworks, swim in the flower market, temple fair and other customs. During this period of lanterns all over the city, the streets are full of tourists, bustling, unprecedented, straight to the first month of the 15th Lantern Festival, the Spring Festival is really the end. The Spring Festival is the most important festival of the Han Chinese, but Manchu, Mongolia, Yao, Zhuang, white, high mountain, Herzhe, Hani, Daur, Dong, Li and other dozens of ethnic minorities also have the custom of the Spring Festival, but the form of the festival is more of their own national characteristics, more flavorful. Spring Festival and the concept of the year, the original meaning from the agricultural, the ancient people of the grain growth cycle called "year", "said the text. Wo Department": "year, the grain is also ripe:. In the Xia and Shang dynasties produced the summer calendar, the cycle of the moon for the month, a year divided into twelve months, each month to not see the moon for the day for the first day of the first month of the first day of the month of the son of the time is called the head of the year, that is, the beginning of the year, also known as the year, the year's name is from the Zhou Dynasty, to the Western Han Dynasty to formally fixed, and has been continued to the present day. But the first day of the first month in ancient times was known as "New Year's Day", until after the victory of the Xinhai Revolution in modern China, the Nanjing Provisional Government in order to comply with the agricultural season and facilitate statistics, the provisions of the summer calendar in the civilian population, in the government agencies, factories, mines, schools and organizations in the implementation of the Gregorian calendar to the Gregorian calendar for the first day of the new year for the New Year's Day, the first day of the first month of the Lunar New Year known as the Chinese New Year. 1949 September 27, 1949, the founding of New China, in the first plenary session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, adopted the use of the world's common calendar, the first day of the first month of the Gregorian calendar as New Year's Day, commonly known as the solar year; the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar is usually around the time of spring, and therefore the first day of the first month of the Lunar Calendar is designated as the "Spring Festival," commonly referred to as the lunar calendar year. Traditionally, the Spring Festival is celebrated from the Lunar New Year's Eve or the Lunar New Year's 23rd day of the Lunar New Year to the 15th day of the first month of the lunar year, with New Year's Eve and the first day of the first month of the lunar year as the climax. During the Spring Festival, the Han Chinese and most of the ethnic minorities in China have to hold a variety of celebratory activities, most of these activities to the gods and Buddha, pay tribute to ancestors, get rid of the old and bring in the new, welcome the Jubilee to receive the blessing, and pray for a good year as the main content. Activities in a colorful form, with a strong ethnic characteristics. One of the legends of the Spring Festival: the New Year's Eve, the New Year's Eve, is the last night of the old year, do not sleep, stay up all night to meet the arrival of the new year's custom, also known as New Year's Eve, the New Year's Eve, commonly known as the "New Year's Eve". Explore the origins of this custom, in folklore is an interesting story: the ancient times, there is a ferocious beast, scattered in the mountains and dense forests, people call them "year". It is hideous, vicious, specializing in eating birds and beasts, scales and insects, a day to change a flavor, from knocking insects have been eaten to the living, so that people talk about the "year" color change. Later, people slowly mastered the "year" of the law of activities, it is every three hundred and sixty-five days scurrying to the crowd of places to taste a mouthful of food, and the time of the infestation are in the dark, and so on, until the rooster breaks the dawn, they will return to the mountains and forests to go. Calculated the date of the "year" rampage, the people will be this terrible night as a gate to brake, called "New Year's Eve", and came up with a set of New Year's Eve law: every night, every family is done in advance of the dinner, the fire net stove, and then put the chicken pen cattle pen All tethered, the front and back doors of the mansion are sealed, hiding in the house to eat "New Year's Eve dinner", because this dinner has the meaning of bad luck and uncertainty, so set up a very sumptuous, in addition to the whole family to dine together to express the harmony and reunion, but also have to be in the meal before the sacrifice to the ancestors, praying for the blessing of the ancestors of the gods and God, peacefully through the night, eaten! After dinner, no one dares to sleep, sitting together in a crowded chat. Gradually formed the habit of New Year's Eve to stay up to keep the New Year's Eve. The custom of keeping the New Year's Eve rose in the North and South Dynasties, and many literati in the Liang Dynasty had poems about keeping the New Year's Eve. "One night is even a double year, and the fifth night is divided into two years." People light candles or oil lamps and keep vigil all night long, symbolizing to drive away all evil plagues and diseases and looking forward to an auspicious new year. This custom has been passed down to this day. Chinese New Year Legend No. 2: Wannian created the calendar said that according to legend, in ancient times, a young man named Wannian, saw the festival was very chaotic, and had the intention to set the festival accurate. But the bitter can not find a way to calculate the time, one day, he went up to the mountains to cut firewood tired, sitting in the shade of a tree to rest, the movement of the tree inspired him, he designed a measurement of the sun and shadow counting the time of day sundial, the determination of the time of day, and later, the cliffs on the drip of the fountain inspired him to inspiration, and his hands to do a five-tiered funnel pot, to calculate the time. Over time, he realized that every 360 days or so, the four seasons would rotate and the length of the day would repeat itself. The king of the country at that time was called Zuyi, who was also often distressed by the unpredictability of the weather winds and clouds. Wannian knew, took the sundial and funnel pot to see the emperor, to Zuyi clear reasoning for the operation of the sun and the moon. Zu Yi listened to the dragon's face, felt reasonable. So left Wannian, in front of the Temple of Heaven to build the Sun and Moon Pavilion, built the sundial and funnel kiosk. And hope to be able to measure the sun and moon law, project the accurate morning and evening time, create the calendar, for the benefit of the people of the world. Once, Zu Yi went to find out the progress of the Ten Thousand Years Test Calendar. When he ascended to the Altar of the Sun and the Moon, he saw a poem engraved on the stone wall beside the Temple of Heaven: The sun rises, the sun sets, and the three hundred and six weeks begin at the beginning. Grass and trees wither and prosper in four seasons, and there are twelve rounds in a year. Knowing that Wannian's creation of the calendar had come to fruition, he personally climbed up to the Sun and Moon Pavilion to visit Wannian. Wannian pointed to the sky and said to Zuyi: "It is now the fullness of twelve months, the old year is over, the new spring begins again, I pray that the king of the country to set a festival". Zu Yi said, "Spring is the first day of the year, let's call it Spring Festival". This is said to be the origin of the Spring Festival. As winter turned to spring, year after year, Wannian, after a long period of observation and careful projection, formulated an accurate solar calendar, which was full of silver whiskers when he presented it to the succeeding ruler of the country. The king of the country was y touched, in order to commemorate the achievements of Wan Nian, the solar calendar named "Wan Nian Calendar", Wan Nian as the sun and moon life star. Later on, people put up a picture of the star of longevity on New Year's Day, which is said to be in honor of the highly respected Wannian. Chinese New Year Legend No. 3: Posting Spring Festival Couplets and Door Gods It is said that the custom of posting Spring Festival Couplets began about a thousand years ago in the period of Hou Shu, which is supported by history. In addition, according to the Jade Candle Canon and the Yanjing Shishiji (Records of the Years and Seasons of Yanjing), the original form of the Spring Festival couplets was the so-called "Peach Symbols". In ancient Chinese mythology, there is a world of ghosts, in which there is a mountain with a big peach tree covering 3,000 miles and a golden rooster at the top of the tree. Whenever the golden rooster crowed in the morning, the ghosts that had gone out to roam at night would be rushed back to the ghost world. The gate of the Ghost Realm was situated in the northeast of the peach tree, and by the gate stood two godmen named Shentan and Yubi. If a ghost did something harmful at night, the gods would immediately find it, catch it, tie it up with a rope made of mango reeds, and feed it to the tiger. Therefore, all the ghosts in the world were afraid of Shentian and Yubi. So the folk used peach wood to carve into their likeness and put it in front of their house to avoid evil and prevent harm. Later, people simply carve the name of God Tantui and Yubi on the mahogany board, thinking that this can also suppress the evil to go to the evil. This kind of mahogany board was later called "peach talisman". To the Song Dynasty, people began to write couplets on the mahogany board, one does not lose the significance of mahogany to suppress evil, the second is to express their good wishes, the third is to decorate the portal, in order to beautiful. And write couplets on red paper to symbolize the joy and auspiciousness of the New Year, posted on both sides of the doors and windows, to express people's prayers for good luck in the coming year. In order to pray for a family's well-being, people in some places still retain the habit of sticking door gods. It is said that if two door gods are posted on the front door, all demons and ghosts will be afraid. In folklore, the door god is a symbol of righteousness and force, the ancients believed that the strange-looking people often have magical endowments and extraordinary skills. They are upright and kind-hearted, to catch ghosts and demons is their nature and responsibility, people look up to the ghost hunter Zhong Kui, that is, this kind of strange looks. So the folk god of the door is always angry eyes, grim-looking, holding a variety of traditional weapons, ready to fight with the ghosts and demons that dare to come to the door. Since the doors of residential houses in China usually open in pairs, the door gods are always in pairs. After the Tang Dynasty, in addition to the previous two generals Shentian and Yubi, people also took Qin Shubao and Yuchigong, two Tang Dynasty military generals, as door deities. According to legend, Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty was sick and heard the ghosts and demons outside his door, which made him feel uneasy all night long. So he asked these two generals to stand beside the door with weapons to guard it, and the next night there were no more ghosts to disturb him. Later, Tang Taizong let the two generals image painted down on the door, this custom began to be widely spread in the folklore.