100 the origin of traditional festivals

The origin of the Spring Festival is to add years to people's lives and celebrate the New Year. The Spring Festival is the most lively and grand traditional festival for Chinese people. There are some interesting legends about its origin. One legend is that the Yellow Emperor fought against Chiyou in history, and the Yellow Emperor defeated Chiyou on the first day of the first lunar month, so people set this day as a festival to commemorate the achievements of the Yellow Emperor.

Fixed customs, such as sweeping the dust, buying new year's goods, posting new year's red, having a family reunion dinner, keeping old, giving lucky money and so on.

Extended Information China New Year Custom:

The main theme before the busy year is to take off the old cloth, and sweeping dust is one of the new customs of taking off the old cloth on New Year's Day. The folk proverb says, "On the 24th of the twelfth lunar month, dust and sweep the house". 23/24 ended, and officially began to prepare for the New Year. Sweeping dust means year-end cleaning, which is called "house sweeping" in the north and "house sweeping" in the south. Whenever the Spring Festival comes, every household should clean the environment, clean all kinds of electrical appliances, remove and wash bedding curtains, sweep six yards, dust cobwebs and dredge culverts in open channels. Everywhere is filled with the joyful atmosphere of cleaning and welcoming the Spring Festival cleanly.

It is a traditional habit of China people to clean the dust before New Year's Day. This custom has placed people's prayers and wishes to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new. 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 clean up the next year. Volume 12 of Jia Qinglu records: "La will be disabled, so it is advisable to choose a constitutional book to sweep away the day and go to the court to collect dirt. Or 23 rd, 24 th and 27 th, commonly known as' dust'. "

Another legend is that in ancient China, there was a strange beast called Nian, whose nature was extremely cruel. Every year at the turn of winter and spring, people often come out to hurt people and animals, destroy the countryside, make people panic and everyone is afraid. At that time, some clever and brave people came up with a clever plan: set up a woodpile in the yard, put a table outside the gate, and put pig's head, cow's head, sheep's head, dog's head and realgar wine on the table.