What festivals and customs are described on January 1st?

January Festival describes the festival customs of the Spring Festival. During the Spring Festival, firecrackers are set off to ward off evil spirits and avoid harm. On the first day of the Lunar New Year, the whole family drinks this wine soaked in Tu Su grass to ward off evil spirits and avoid epidemic diseases, so as to live longer. On the first day of the first lunar month, people write the names of Shen Tu and Lei Yu on a mahogany board and hang them by the door to ward off evil spirits.

The Spring Festival has a long history, which evolved from praying for the New Year at the beginning of the year in ancient times. Everything is based on heaven, and people are based on ancestors, praying for the elderly, respecting the ancestors of heaven, and returning to the original. 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 will be held all over the country to celebrate the Spring Festival, which has strong regional characteristics. These activities are rich and colorful, which have condensed the essence of China traditional culture, mainly to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, exorcise evil spirits and disturb disasters, offer sacrifices to gods and ancestors, and pray for the New Year.

Time evolution

China's astrology culture has a long history and is profound. The ancients began to explore the mysteries of the universe very early, and thus deduced a complete and profound star-watching culture. The rotation of the Big Dipper is closely related to the change of seasons. The Big Dipper is an important astrology in the northern hemisphere (China is located in the northern hemisphere);

When the stars move, the natural rhythm of the corresponding areas around the northern hemisphere also changes gradually, which also becomes the basis for people to judge the seasonal changes. Bucket handle Yin Hui returns to the earth in spring, and Vientiane is renewed, and the New Year opens. In the historical development and evolution, due to the changes of dynasties and calendars, the date of the beginning of a year (New Year) is also different.