Introduction to the Origin of the Spring Festival

The Spring Festival originated in the Yinshang period at the end of the year to the gods and ancestors.

The Spring Festival has a long history and is also known as the New Year, Nianjie, Nianyue, etc. It originated from the rituals of the Yin and Shang Dynasties for sacrificing to the gods and ancestors at the end of the year. In the ancient times, "Nian" was a harvesting and sacrificial tool, and the character "Nian" denoted the ripening of crops. In ancient times, "year" was a tool for harvesting and rituals, and the character for "year" denoted the ripening of crops (the earliest writing of the character for "year" was the image of a man carrying ripe harvests). People celebrated the harvest, offered sacrifices to their ancestors, and got rid of ghosts and gods in many ways, gradually forming the custom of celebrating the New Year.

The Spring Festival, one of the four traditional Chinese festivals, is the traditional sense of the New Year. The Spring Festival has a long history, evolved from the first of the year to pray for the year of sacrifice, ancient times people in a year (year) after the end of the agricultural work in the beginning of the new year of the first year of the year, held sacrifices to pay tribute to the gods of the heavens and the earth, the ancestors of the benevolence of the gods, and to pray for a good year.

Chinese New Year

Chinese New Year is the Chinese Lunar New Year, commonly known as the New Year, New Year, New Year's Day, etc., orally known as the New Year, the New Year. The Spring Festival has a long history, evolved from the ancient times, the first year of the year prayers and sacrifices. During the Spring Festival, all over the country are held a variety of activities to celebrate the New Year, with a strong local characteristics. These activities to get rid of the old and new, worship the gods and ancestors, the blessing of the New Year as the main content, the form of colorful, cohesion of the essence of traditional Chinese culture.

The Spring Festival is the most important traditional festival of the Chinese nation. Influenced by Chinese culture, some countries and regions in the world also have the custom of celebrating the New Year. According to incomplete statistics, there are nearly 20 countries and regions to the Chinese Spring Festival as a whole or under the jurisdiction of some of the city's legal holidays. The Spring Festival, together with the Qingming Festival, the Dragon Boat Festival and the Mid-Autumn Festival, are known as the four major traditional Chinese festivals.