When is the Spring Festival in 2022? What is the calendar for the Spring Festival in 2022?

Introduction: The Spring Festival is the first day of the first lunar month, the first day of the Lunar New Year, and the biggest traditional festival in China. Whenever the Spring Festival comes, we will go home for reunion and celebrate the New Year with our families. Because it is the lunar calendar time, we should check the time in real time every Spring Festival, so when is the Spring Festival in 2022? What is the calendar for the Spring Festival in 2022? Come and have a look with me.

When is the Spring Festival in 2022?

The Spring Festival in 2022 is on Tuesday, February 0 1 2022.

Spring Festival is the most distinctive traditional festival in China. China people have celebrated the Spring Festival for more than 4,000 years. There are different opinions about the origin of the Spring Festival, but it is generally believed that the Spring Festival began in Yu Shun. The Spring Festival generally refers to the first day of the first month, the first day of the year, also known as the lunar calendar, commonly known as "New Year"; However, among the people, the traditional Spring Festival refers to the sacrificial ceremony from La Worship on the 23rd or 24th of the twelfth lunar month to the 19th of the first lunar month, culminating in New Year's Eve and the first day of the first lunar month. During the Spring Festival, Han people and many ethnic minorities in China will hold various activities to celebrate.

The main contents of these activities are offering sacrifices to ancestors, paying homage to ancestors, saying goodbye to the old year and welcoming the new year, and praying for a bumper harvest. The Spring Festival activities are colorful and full of national characteristics. Influenced by China culture, some countries and nationalities belonging to the Chinese character cultural circle also have the custom of Spring Festival.

The customs of the Spring Festival

sweep the dust

"On the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month, dust sweeps the house". According to Lv Chunqiu, there was a custom of sweeping dust during the Spring Festival in Yao and Shun period. According to the folk saying: Because of the homonym of "dust" and "Chen", sweeping dust in the Spring Festival means "getting rid of the old and not being new", and its original intention is to sweep away all bad luck and bad luck. This custom has placed people's desire to break the old and create new ones and their prayers to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new.

paste up Spring Festival couplets

Spring Festival couplets are also called doorsteps, spring stickers, couplets, couplets and peach symbols. They depict the background of the times and express good wishes with neat, dual, concise and delicate words, which are unique literary forms in China. Every Spring Festival, whether in urban or rural areas, every household should choose a pair of bright red Spring Festival couplets and stick them on the door to add festive atmosphere to the festival. This custom originated in the Song Dynasty and was popular in the Ming Dynasty. By the Qing Dynasty, the ideological and artistic "Fu" of Spring Festival couplets had been greatly improved.

There are many kinds of Spring Festival couplets, which can be divided into door heart, frame pair, horizontal batch, spring strip and bucket square according to the place of use. The "door core" is attached to the center of the upper end of the door panel; The "door frame pair" is attached to the left and right door frames; "Horizontal batch" is attached to the crossbar of the lintel; "Spring strips" are posted in corresponding places according to different contents; "Dou Jin", also known as "door leaf", is a square diamond, often attached to furniture and screen walls.

Ancestor worship and New Year's Eve dinner

On New Year's Eve, Chinese New Year is mainly about ancestor worship and dinner. In ancient times, the ancestor worship banquet was very grand, which was the biggest of all the sacrificial activities in a year. In addition to some dishes, fruits and cakes for the Chinese New Year, the whole fish (the whole big fish) and pig's trotters must be used at the ancestor worship banquet, and the most important thing is to use the pig's head as an offering, which is called the old pig. Year-old pigs marinate their slaughtered pig heads as early as the second day of the twelfth lunar month, so that they can be used to worship gods and ancestors on New Year's Eve. When cooking, this pig is very skilled. It takes several days and nights. Boil it with strong fire first, and then simmer it with slow fire. The cooked pig's head is crisp, rotten and boneless, and it can be put on a big plate and served on the table. It is a complete pig's head, which is rotten and brittle when clamped with chopsticks. Instant in the mouth, fat and delicious, very catchy.

stay up late or all night on New Year's Eve

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. The earliest record can be found in the Local Records of the Western Jin Dynasty: on New Year's Eve, all parties give gifts to each other, which is called "the year of giving back"; Wine and food are invited, which is called "not old"; Young and old get together to drink and wish a complete song called "age division"; Everyone stays up all night, waiting for the dawn. This is the so-called "Shounian".

"One night for two years, five classes are divided into two days." On New Year's Eve, the whole family get together, eat New Year's Eve, light candles or oil lamps, sit around the stove and chat, wait for the time to bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new year, and keep vigil all night, which symbolizes expelling all evil spirits and expecting good luck in the new year.

firecracker

There is a folk saying in our country called "setting off firecrackers". That is, when the new year comes, the first thing for every household to open the door is to set off firecrackers to bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new year. Firecracker is a specialty of China, also known as "Firecracker", "Firecracker" and "Firecracker". Its origin is very early, with a history of more than 2000 years. Setting off firecrackers can create a festive and lively atmosphere, which is a kind of entertainment in festivals and can bring happiness and good luck to people.

Pay new year's call

On the first day of the new year, people get up early, put on the most beautiful clothes, dress neatly, go out to visit relatives and friends, and wish each other good luck in the coming year. There are many ways to pay New Year's greetings, some of which are led by the same patriarch from door to door. When paying New Year greetings during the Spring Festival, the younger generation should first pay New Year greetings to their elders and wish them health and longevity. The elders can distribute the lucky money prepared in advance to the younger generation. It is said that lucky money can kill evil spirits, because "old" and "special" are homophonic, and the younger generation can spend a year safely with lucky money.