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The Spring Festival originated in what dynasty

The four traditional festivals of the Chinese nation ~ Spring Festival, the ascending code Qingming Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, the most grand, the most grand Tanxiao Zao is the Spring Festival on the first day of the first month of the Lunar Calendar. Starting from the evening of the 30th day of the Lunar New Year (New Year's Eve), until the end of the 15th day of the first month (Lantern Festival). On the Spring Festival, families "put on lights and colors", and relatives go out of their way to go home for a reunion ("The dog barks at the wood door, and the man returns home at night in the wind and snow."). The whole world is full of festivities. The whole world is filled with a lively and festive atmosphere of joy and harmony.

On the origin of the Spring Festival, there are a variety of claims, several of which are more representative, such as the Spring Festival originated from the Lunar New Year festival, the Spring Festival originated from the witchcraft rituals, the Spring Festival

Originated from the Ghost Festival, etc., but one of the most commonly accepted is that the Spring Festival emerged from the Yu and Shun period.

One day, more than 2,000 years B.C., Shun, the son of heaven, led his men to worship heaven and earth. Since then, people have taken this day as the first day of the year. This is said to be the origin of the Lunar New Year, later called the Spring Festival.

In ancient times, the date of the Spring Festival in China was not consistent throughout the ages: the Xia Dynasty used the first month of Bengchun as the first month, the Shang Dynasty used the month of Lunar New Year (December) as the first month, and after the unification of the six kingdoms by Qin Shihuang, he stipulated that October was the first month, and the early Han Dynasty followed the Qin calendar. In the first year of Emperor Wu's reign, that is, 104 B.C., astronomers Lok Ma-te, Deng Ping and others formulated the "Tai Chou Calendar", which changed the original October as the first month of the year to the first month of Bengchun as the first month of the year, which was basically improved to the Lunar Calendar (i.e., the lunar calendar) that is used by us nowadays, and Lok Ma-te is also known as the "Elder of the Spring Festival". Since then, China has been using the summer calendar (the lunar calendar, also known as the Lunar Calendar) to celebrate the year until the end of the Qing Dynasty, a period of 2080 years.

On September 27, 1949, the first plenary session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) decided to adopt the A.D. calendar, which is the most common calendar in the world. In order to distinguish between the solar calendar and the lunar calendar two "years", but also because of the 24 solar terms of the year "spring" just before and after the lunar year, so the solar calendar January 1 called "New Year's Day", the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar The first day of the first month of the lunar calendar was officially renamed "Spring Festival".

Earth around the sun, the calendar called a year, the cycle, never-ending. However, according to the different seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter, people take the first day of the first month of the summer calendar as the first year of the year. Every year, the lunar calendar December 30 (small month 29) midnight ZiHou (12:00), let dress up the Spring Festival even if the official come.