About the traditional festival of Spring Festival

The Spring Festival evolved from the ritual activities of praying for the New Year at the beginning of ancient times. In ancient times, after a year of farming, people would hold sacrificial activities at the beginning of the new year to repay the kindness of the gods and ancestors of heaven and earth and pray for a bumper harvest. Later it gradually developed into the Spring Festival.

In different dynasties, the date and name of the Spring Festival are different. After the Revolution of 1911 in China, the first day of the first lunar month was fixed as the Spring Festival every year, officially called "Spring Festival", which has been in use ever since.

In fact, among the people, there has been a "taste of the year" since the 23 rd day of the twelfth lunar month, until the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month (people call the fifteenth day of the first full moon of the year the Lantern Festival, which is a festival to eat Lantern Festival and solve riddles on lanterns). New Year's Eve and the first day of the first month are the climax of the festival. For thousands of years, the Spring Festival has been a traditional festival for people of all ethnic groups in China. The story of "nian" beast

Legend has it that in ancient times, there was a monster called Nian, which was very fierce. Every New Year's Eve, it will wreak havoc on human beings, devour livestock and endanger people's lives. Later, an old fairy came to the village to teach people to drive away the "Year" that is most afraid of red, fire and explosion. Therefore, every household will put on new red clothes, put on red New Year pictures, put on red paper and set off firecrackers every Spring Festival, which later became the custom of Chinese New Year.