What is the origin of the Spring Festival?

There is an old legend about the origin of the Spring Festival.

In ancient China, there was a beast called Nian. Nian has horns on his head, which is very fierce and terrible. Nian lived in the mountains for many years, only climbed ashore on a specific day (today's New Year's Eve), devouring livestock and harming people's lives. Therefore, every New Year's Eve, people in every village fled to the deep mountains to avoid the injury of Nian.

This custom is widely circulated and has become the most solemn traditional festival among the people in China, namely the Spring Festival.

2. It is generally believed that it originated from the activities of offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors at the end of the Yin and Shang Dynasties (La Worship) in China; According to legend, there was a custom of Spring Festival as early as Yao and Shun times. The first month of the lunar calendar is the beginning of a year. In most cases, beginning of spring is in the first month or the middle of the first month (in a few cases, beginning of spring is in the late twelfth month).

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About the custom of the Spring Festival:

1, paste New Year pictures

Hanging New Year pictures during the Spring Festival is also very common in urban and rural areas. Thick black and colorful New Year pictures add a lot of prosperity and festive atmosphere to thousands of families. New Year pictures are an ancient folk art in China, which reflects people's simple customs and beliefs and places their hopes on the future.

Step 2: keep your age

Keeping the Lunar New Year's Eve is one of the most important activities, and the custom of keeping the Lunar New Year's Eve has a long history. Everyone stays up all night, waiting for dawn. This is the so-called "shou sui".

Step 3 Eat jiaozi

The folk custom of eating jiaozi during the Spring Festival has been quite popular in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Generally, jiaozi should wrap it up before New Year's Eve 12, and eat it at midnight. At this time, it is the beginning of the first day of the first lunar month. Eating jiaozi means "making friends when you are young", and "Zi" is homophonic with "jiaozi", which means "reunion" and "good luck".