Traditional festivals in China are based on the solar calendar and the lunar calendar.

The Spring Festival is calculated according to the lunar calendar.

The Spring Festival, the Lunar New Year, is the beginning of a year and a traditional "festival". The Spring Festival has a long history, which evolved from praying for the New Year at the beginning of the year in ancient times. The origin of the Spring Festival contains profound cultural connotations, and it carries rich historical and cultural connotations in its inheritance and development.

During the Spring Festival, various activities are held all over the country to celebrate the Spring Festival, and there is a lively and festive atmosphere. These activities are mainly to bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new year, worship ancestors and pray for a bumper harvest. They are rich in forms and have strong regional characteristics, which condense the essence of China traditional culture.

In ancient times, people started a "busy year" in La Worship on the 23rd or 24th of the twelfth lunar month or on the sacrificial stove, and the New Year didn't end until January 19. In modern times, people set the Spring Festival on the first day of the first lunar month, but it generally doesn't end until the fifteenth day of the first lunar month (Lantern Festival). The Spring Festival is a joyful and peaceful festival, a day for family and friends to get together, and a bond for people to deepen their feelings.

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Spring festival legend

1, the legend of Fu Tao

Long ago, Dushuo Mountain in the East China Sea had beautiful scenery, and there was a peach forest on the mountain. Among them, there is a huge peach tree, flourishing and winding for three thousand miles. Peaches are big and sweet. If people eat peaches from trees, they can become immortals. One dark night, a ghost with blue face and fangs, red hair and green eyes tried to steal Xiantao.

The owners of Taolin, Shen Tu and Lei Yu, used peach branches to play ghosts, tied ghosts with straw ropes and fed tigers to watch the mountains. From then on, the names of the two brothers scared ghosts and became immortals who specialized in punishing evil and promoting good after death. Later generations painted two immortals, Shen Tu and Lei Yu, on a mahogany board one inch wide and seven or eight inches long to ward off evil spirits. This kind of red board is called "Fu Tao".

With the changes of the times, Fu Tao itself is changing. Later, people wrote the names of two immortals on the Fu Tao instead of portraits. Later, it developed into "Inscription of Fu Tao", that is, short poems with equal words, symmetrical structure and corresponding meanings were inscribed on Fu Tao. It is said that this is the predecessor of Spring Festival couplets. ?

2. Legend of Nian Beast

There is a legend about the origin of the Spring Festival. In ancient China, there was a monster called Nian. Its tentacles were very long and fierce. Nian lived on the seabed for many years, and climbed ashore every New Year's Eve, devouring livestock and killing people. Therefore, every New Year's Eve, people in the village fled to the deep mountains to avoid the harm of the "Nian" beast.

Then one year on New Year's Eve, an old beggar came from outside the village and told people how to drive away Nian beast. It turns out that Nian was most afraid of red, fire and explosion. Since then, every year on New Year's Eve, every family has posted 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, I want to say hello to my relatives and friends. This custom has spread more and more widely, and has become the most solemn traditional festival among the people in China.

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