The origin and customs of the New Year

Origin: The concept of "year" comes from the ancient calendar, "Pangu King Table" and "Three Fates" and so on are contained: "The Emperor's began to formulate the name of the stem and branch, in order to determine the location of the year".

"Years" is the "Regent" (the original stem and branch), also known as the "star of the year", "tai tao". The year is also known as the "star of the year", "tai tao". The age of sixty years (dry branch chronology) for the cycle of operation, cycle after cycle. In the development of inheritance, later generations simplified this multi-syllabic terminology of the Regnal Era (years) into a single word, and its relationship with the simplified Stem and Branch is documented in both the Erya and the Shiji.

Customs:

1, posting the red (waving spring)

Year 28, 29 or 30 households "posting the red" (red is the red color of spring couplets, door god, banner, New Year's paintings, "Fu" characters and other New Year's Eve stickers). (Nianhong is a collective term for the red color of spring couplets, door gods, horizontal scrolls, New Year's paintings, and "lucky" characters that are put up during the New Year). The traditional Chinese New Year's custom of posting the red color of the New Year (waving spring) adds to the festive atmosphere and sends people's hopes for the New Year and a new life.

2, New Year's Eve dinner

New Year's Eve dinner, also known as New Year's Eve dinner, New Year's Eve dinner, reunion dinner, etc., refers to the end of the year New Year's Eve of the family dinner. New Year's Eve dinner originated from the ancient year-end rituals, worship of gods and ancestors after the reunion dinner.