What does the Spring Festival mean?

What does the Spring Festival mean? The Spring Festival is the Lunar New Year, the beginning of a year and a traditional festival. It is the most important, grand and distinctive traditional festival in China. China people have celebrated the Spring Festival for more than 4,000 years. Let's see what the Spring Festival means.

What does the Spring Festival mean? 1 Spring Festival is the most solemn and distinctive traditional festival in China, and also the most solemn and lively ancient festival in China. Generally speaking, it refers to New Year's Eve and the first day of the first month, that is, the first day of the year, that is, the lunar calendar, commonly known as "Chinese New Year". But among the people, the traditional Spring Festival refers to the sacrificial ceremony from the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month or the 23rd or 24th of the twelfth lunar month to the 15th of the first lunar month in La Worship, with New Year's Eve and the first day of the first lunar month as the climax. During the Spring Festival, Han people and many ethnic minorities in our country will hold various activities to celebrate. The main contents of these activities are offering sacrifices to gods and buddhas, paying homage to ancestors, saying goodbye to the old year and welcoming the new year, and praying for a bumper harvest. The activities are rich and colorful, with strong national characteristics. Tianjin also has the custom of hanging Chinese knots during the Spring Festival. Before the 30th day of the Lunar New Year, Tianjin people have the custom of inviting Chinese knots to Qiao Gexiang, an ancient cultural street in Tianjin, and taking Xiang Qiao as their blessing.

The Spring Festival is the most important festival of the Han nationality, but more than a dozen ethnic minorities, such as Manchu, Mongolian, Yao, Zhuang, Bai, Gaoshan, Hezhe, Hani, Daur, Dong and Li, have also had the custom of the Spring Festival, but the forms of festivals have their own national characteristics and charm.

Spring Festival has different names in different times. In the pre-Qin period, it was called "going to Japan", "January Day", "changing the year" and "offering the year". In the Han Dynasty, it was also called "Three Dynasties", "Sui Dan", "Zheng Dan" and "Zhengri". Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties were called Chen Yuan, Yuan Ri, Fuehrer and Sui Dynasty. In the Tang, Song, Yuan and Ming dynasties, it was called New Year's Day, Yuan, New Year's Day and Singapore dollar. In the Qing Dynasty, it was always called "New Year's Day" or "Yuan Day".

Since the Western Han Dynasty, the custom of the Spring Festival has continued to this day.

On May 20th, 2006, the folk custom of "Spring Festival" was approved by the State Council to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.