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20 words about the Spring Festival.

20 words about the Spring Festival.

20 words about the Spring Festival. The Spring Festival is a traditional festival to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new. There are lights everywhere and everyone's face is full of smiles. On such a happy occasion, here are 20 words about the Spring Festival.

20 words 1 1 about the Spring Festival, which is an ancient traditional festival in China. Time refers to New Year's Eve to the first day of the first month. Before New Year's Eve, every household should start cleaning from the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month to welcome the Kitchen God.

2. Spring Festival is a traditional reunion festival in China. Since May 20th, 2006, the folk custom of Spring Festival has been approved by the State Council to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.

3, the custom of the Spring Festival, offering sacrifices to stoves at twenty-three, sweeping dust at twenty-four, picking up the jade emperor at twenty-five, taking a bath at twenty-seven, putting up Spring Festival couplets at eight or thirty, sticking up door gods, firecrackers, New Year's Eve, lucky money and so on.

4, the first Ichiro, the second son-in-law, the fifth day to send the year.

20 words about the Spring Festival 2 1, Spring Festival is the Lunar New Year. This is the first year of the year, and it is also the "Spring Festival" in the traditional sense. Also known as Chinese New Year, Chinese New Year, Chinese New Year, Chinese New Year, Chinese New Year and so on. The Spring Festival is the most solemn traditional festival of the Chinese nation. It not only embodies the Chinese nation's ideological beliefs, ideals, life, entertainment and cultural psychology, but also is a carnival display of blessings, food and entertainment activities.

2. New Year's Day is an ancient festival in China, and it is also the most important festival in a year. In the development of history, many places and various folk customs have merged together, forming some relatively fixed customs and habits, many of which have been passed down to this day. At the same time, the festival of gathering relatives and friends is also a bond for people to deepen their feelings. Holiday greetings convey the family ethics among relatives and friends in the village and are an important element to maintain the sustainable development of the Spring Festival.

3. During the Spring Festival, various activities will be held all over the country to celebrate the New Year, with a lively and festive atmosphere; These activities mainly include tearing down old cloth, welcoming the new and receiving blessings, offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors, and praying for a bumper harvest. It has strong regional characteristics and embodies the essence of China traditional culture.

20 words 3 1 about the Spring Festival, which evolved from year-end sacrifice. In ancient times, people held sacrificial activities at the beginning of the new year after the end of one year's farming to repay the kindness of the ancestors of the gods of heaven and earth and pray for a good year.

2. The first year of ancient folk refers to beginning of spring in the twenty-four solar terms of the Ganzhi calendar. In the development and evolution of history, due to the change of calendar, the date of the New Year, that is, the beginning of a year, has been adjusted.

3. After the Revolution of 1911, the calendar was gradually changed to Gregorian calendar. Later, in order to distinguish the two New Years, and considering that the beginning of spring in 24 solar terms, the official calendar, happened just before and after the Lunar New Year, it was renamed as Lunar 65438+ 10/day as the Spring Festival and Gregorian 65438+1 0/day as the New Year's Day.

4. Spring Festival is no longer a festival for Han people. Many ethnic minorities celebrate the Spring Festival, but they all have their own special laws.

Almost all 56 ethnic groups are celebrating the Spring Festival now, but many of them have integrated their own cultural elements, further enriching the cultural connotation of the Spring Festival.

Little knowledge about the Spring Festival 20 words 4 13 Little knowledge about the Spring Festival

1, it was not called "Spring Festival travel rush" before the Spring Festival.

In ancient times, the first day of the first month was not called Spring Festival, but called New Year's Day. After the Revolution of 1911, the Gregorian calendar was adopted, so it was called 1 Gregorian calendar as New Year's Day and the first day of the first lunar month as Spring Festival.

2. Spring Festival was not a festival before.

The term "Spring Festival" in the history of China is not a festival, but refers to the "beginning of spring" in the 24 solar terms. There is a saying in the Biography of Yang Zhenchuan in the Later Han Dynasty: "It doesn't rain during the Spring Festival, and people are worried, but it is a sign of drought if repairs don't stop." In the Northern and Southern Dynasties, "spring" refers to the whole spring.

3. Spring Festival travel rush is divided into narrow sense and broad sense.

Now, the Spring Festival in a narrow sense generally refers to the beginning of the Lunar New Year in China, that is, the first day of the first lunar month. In a broad sense, the Spring Festival refers to La Worship's sacrificial ceremonies on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month or on the 23rd and 24th of the twelfth lunar month until the 15th of the first lunar month.

4. The time of the Spring Festival (the first day of the first lunar month) fluctuates between 65438+1October 2 1 and February 2 1.

The earliest Spring Festival (such as 65438+65438+12 1 in 0966) and the latest Spring Festival (such as February 20th in 1985) are a whole month apart.

According to the calendar, if the lunar calendar is not adjusted artificially, February 2 1 and February 23 19 will usher in the "latest Spring Festival in history". Previously, the Spring Festival appeared on February 20th of Gregorian calendar at the latest, which were 1920 and 1985 respectively.

There may be two Spring Festival holidays.

Leap Spring Festival is also called "the first month of leap". From A.D. 1645 to A.D. 2800, the first month of leap in the lunar calendar only happened six times, and its years were 165 1, 2262, 2357, 2520, 2539 and 2634 respectively.

The last time will wait until 2262.

This situation, in principle, is the first month of the Spring Festival, but it happened twice.

6. New Year's Eve will also be on the 29th.

There are no 30 days in a month, which is normal in the lunar calendar. Because the current lunar calendar is arranged according to the astronomical data of the earth, the moon and the sun, you must not see any bright part of the moon on the first day of each month, that is, the new moon.

In fact, the average period of the moon from the full moon to the full moon is 29.53 days, and the number of days in the arranged month must be an integer, which leads to the appearance of the big moon and the small moon, and there will be 30 days in a month and 29 days in a month.

If this month happens to be the twelfth lunar month, then there will be no New Year's Eve in this year (lunar calendar), and New Year's Eve will be advanced to the 29th of the twelfth lunar month.

7. The content of the Spring Festival celebration is different every day.

Although the Spring Festival is a whole custom, the content celebrated every day is different. From the first day to the seventh day, there are chicken day, dog day, pig day, sheep day, cow day, horse day and human day respectively. Legend has it that Nu Wa first spent six days building chickens, dogs, pigs, sheep, cows and horses, and accumulated experience before making people on the seventh day. So, why do you have to go to work in the seventh day? !

8. The Spring Festival is not only held in China.

Besides China, there are many countries in the world that regard the Lunar New Year as a legal holiday, namely: South Korea, North Korea, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Mauritius, Myanmar and Brunei. In addition, the Japanese used to celebrate the Lunar New Year, but after the Meiji Restoration, the lunar calendar was abolished and festivals were moved directly to the solar calendar.

9. Lucky money is actually not "money".

Lucky money is actually not "money", but a kind of evil spirits cast in the shape of coins. Legend has it that in ancient times, there was a little demon named Chong, who came out every New Year's Eve to harm people, and used money to scare away goods.

10, the word "fu" is pasted backwards!

The word "Fu" on the gate cannot be pasted upside down. In the folk tradition, the word "Fu" should be pasted upside down on water tanks, trash cans and cabinets. In order to avoid dumping the word "Fu" at home when pouring water and taking out garbage, we put the word "Fu" upside down in these two places and skillfully use "Fu Dao" to offset "Fu Dao".

1 1, the earliest firecrackers were really bamboo!

The earliest reliable record of firecrackers can be found in the Chronicle of Jingchu written by Zongba in the Liang Dynasty in the Southern Dynasty: "The first day of the first month, which is also the third day, is called the end of the month. When the cock crows, set off firecrackers in front of the court to avoid evil spirits. " At that time, firecrackers were made of bamboo burning in the fire. Because bamboo will make a "crackling" sound when it burns, it is called firecrackers. The first thing to get up in the New Year is to set off firecrackers.

Later, when gunpowder appeared, people filled bamboo tubes with saltpeter, sulfur and charcoal and burned them, resulting in an "explosion war". In the Song Dynasty, Han people began to make "firecrackers" by wrapping gunpowder in paper tubes and hemp stalks.

12, no haircut for the first month.

There is a scientific basis for not having a haircut for the first month. According to the theory of "Four Qi Regulating Spirit" in Huangdi Neijing, hair should be allowed to grow freely in spring and not cut off. The diagnosis of hairy claws can determine life and death, but the saying of "shaving your head to kill your uncle" is sheer nonsense.

13, New Year greetings are learned.

Men should "hug the left and hug the right" in New Year's greetings, but the traditional habit in China is still to belittle the right, so they should wrap their right hands in fuel with their left hands, which is called "Bai Ji"; If the right hand wraps around the left hand, it is called "mourning boxing", which is a gesture used when mourning or begging for mercy to others. Women's fuels are the opposite. Women don't fuels, just press their hands.