Handbook on traditional festivals How to write a handbook on traditional festivals

1, the main traditional festivals - the Spring Festival Introduction

2, the Spring Festival, is the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar, also known as the year of the lunar calendar, commonly known as "New Year". This is one of the grandest and most lively traditional festivals in China. Spring Festival has a long history, it originated in the Yin Shang period at the end of the year the gods and ancestors activities.

3, the origin of the Spring Festival refers to the Chinese cultural circle traditionally on the lunar New Year, the traditional name for the new year, the new year, the new year, but also known verbally as the age of the year, celebrate the new year, the New Year. In ancient times, the Spring Festival used to refer exclusively to the first day of spring in the solar calendar, which was also regarded as the beginning of the year, but later it was changed to the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar as the beginning of the New Year, and it is generally believed that the New Year does not end until at least the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar (Shangyuan Festival). The concept of Spring Festival and New Year's Day originally came from agriculture. In ancient times, people called the growth cycle of grains "Nian" (年), which means "year" in Shuowen (说文). The "Shuowen" (说文), "禾部" (禾部), "年" (年) means "year".

4, the Spring Festival (Summer New Year) originated from when it is difficult to study, but it is generally believed to have originated in China during the Yin and Shang dynasties at the end of the year to sacrifice to the gods, ancestor worship activities (Waxing Sacrifice). The Xia calendar produced in the Xia and Shang dynasties to the cycle of the moon (now known as the lunar cycle, that is, later described as "yin month") for the month, the year is divided into twelve months, to not see the moon on that day (solstice) for the first of the month, and at the same time to the winter solstice to return to the movement of the cycle (now known as the return of the year or the year of the sun, that is, after the described as "yang year At the same time, the cycle of the return movement of the winter solstice (now called the return year or solar year, which is later referred to as the "yang year") was taken as the year, and a leap month was set to adjust the yin and yang years. The first day of the first month of the first hour (midnight) for the first year, that is, the beginning of the year, the end of the year to carry out the celebration of the old year's harvest and the new year's prayers for a good harvest, so a series of sacrifices to the gods, ancestor worship, celebrations, prayers and other activities. The name "year" began in the Zhou Dynasty. As for the head of the year (the beginning of the year) to determine the time (in other words, the arrangement of the month) is also related to the astronomical calendar (as mentioned above), legend has it that the summer in the month of Yin (now the first month of the lunar calendar), Shang in the month of ugly (now the twelfth month of the lunar calendar), Zhou in the month of Zi (now the eleventh month of the lunar calendar, that is, the winter solstice is located in the month), the Qin in the month of Ohi (now the tenth month of the lunar calendar), to the Western Han Dynasty to restore the summer is set in the month of Yin (now the first month of the lunar calendar) for the head of the year has been in use to the present day!