The origin of the custom of Spring Festival in China and how the Spring Festival was celebrated in different dynasties in history.

There are different opinions about the origin of the Spring Festival, among which there are several representative ones, such as the Spring Festival originated in La Worship, the Spring Festival originated in witchcraft ceremony, and the Spring Festival originated in Ghost Festival. However, it is generally believed that the Spring Festival rose during the Yu Shun period. One day more than 2000 BC, Shun became emperor and led his men to worship heaven and earth. Since then, people have regarded this day as the beginning of a year. It is said that this is the origin of the Lunar New Year, which was later called the Spring Festival.

In modern folk customs, celebrating the Spring Festival is also called Chinese New Year. In fact, the origin of Chinese New Year and Spring Festival is very different. So how did the year come from? There are two main folk sayings:

One said: In ancient times, there was a fierce monster named Nian. Every year1February 30th, it goes door to door, foraging for human flesh and killing creatures. On the night of the thirtieth day of the twelfth lunar month, Nian came to a village. It happened that two cowboys were fighting for a whip. Nian suddenly heard the sound of whipping in mid-air and ran away in fear. It fled to another village and saw a bright red dress drying in front of the door. It didn't know what it was, so it turned around and ran away. Later, he came to a village, looked into the door of a family, and saw that the lights were brightly lit and dizzy, so he had to slip away again, with his tail between his legs. From this, people realized that Nian has the weakness of being afraid of noise, red and light, so they thought of many ways to resist it and gradually evolved into the custom of celebrating the New Year today.

Another way of saying it is: In ancient calligraphy books in China, the word "Nian" was placed in the Grain Department, indicating that the weather was favorable and the crops were abundant. Because cereal crops are usually harvested once a year. "Year" is extended to the name of the year. Although there was a custom of Spring Festival in ancient China, it was not called Spring Festival at that time. Because the Spring Festival referred to at that time refers to the "beginning of spring" among the 24 solar terms. The Northern and Southern Dynasties generally referred to the Spring Festival as the whole spring. It is said that the Lunar New Year was officially named Spring Festival after the Revolution of 1911. Because the solar calendar was used at that time, the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar had to be renamed the Spring Festival in order to distinguish between farmers and farmers.