In which dynasty was the Spring Festival abolished?

It was abolished for a while during the Republican period, but was later reinstated when Chiang Kai-shek realized that he couldn't go against thousands of years of old traditions (and that it wasn't doing much harm)

The Spring Festival is the grandest of all traditional Chinese festivals, but between 1929 and 1933 it was "knocked down" along with the lunar calendar. At that time, the public opinion was very aggressive, wanting to politically and economically *** with the strangulation of Chinese traditional festivals, wanting to culturally dwarfed and smeared the Spring Festival. But the Chinese Spring Festival, to this day, still stands.

On February 2, Changsha's famous literature and history enthusiast Ren Dameng held a lecture at the Changsha Municipal Library on "Changsha's New Year in the Republican Newspapers," taking us through stacks of heavy stacks of old papers to assess the unique "Changsha's New Year flavor" together.

Sun Yat-sen announced that the Republic of China (ROC) would adopt the solar calendar for its first year of existence

In Changsha 101 years ago, communications were not yet well developed, and Hunanese people got the information late, too late for a big celebration. But most people in Hunan recognized the overthrow of the Qing Dynasty and the establishment of the Republic of China as a "change in the right direction". Therefore, in early 1912, the Chinese New Year of the year renzi, Changsha city, military, political and academic enlightened people, do not send each other invitations to congratulate. General businessmen and civilians, can also respect the national calendar, in the old calendar New Year, and do not take a vacation. Such as the Commercial Press, the Chinese Bookstore, the Yilongxiang Southern Goods Museum on Fuzheng Street, the Peng Baozhen Optical Shop on Liqian Street, the Tang Zhenghe Watch Shop, opened for business in the New Year of the old lunar calendar in the year up to dozens of storefronts. But in Changsha Nanzheng Street, Hongpailou, Bajiao Ting (these old streets, today are incorporated into the Huangxing South Road) and other prosperous streets of some stores, still closed, and even more posting of spring couplets.

At this time, some radical Changsha young people to these posted spring couplets over the old year of the closed door slanting white paper strips, such as the scene of mourning. So, at that time, an old man named Li An made a group of "nonzi Changsha new bamboo branch lyrics", one of the lines said: "Where suddenly come to promote narrow-minded people? Stealing the white paper and sticking it in the center."

But then Yuan Shikai came to power, who advocated combining the yin and yang calendars and instituted the New Year's Day of the old calendar (known today as the first day of the first month) as the Spring Festival, the Dragon Boat Festival as the Summer Festival, the Mid-Autumn Festival as the Autumn Festival, and the Winter Solstice Festival as the Winter Festival, and issued a decree that each of these four festivals would be granted a holiday in the spring, summer, autumn, and winter. So before 1927, including Changsha, the city, the old calendar New Year, that is, the Spring Festival, had a "great time". Especially in the years of social instability, warlords and warlords, in Changsha city, during the New Year's period, the provincial capital of the Police Department to liberalize gambling, gambling stalls in Changsha's busiest road Octagonal Pavilion, the red tower, and Dingxiangwangmiao (i.e., the county is the main street of the Shanhua County Chenghuangmiao), the Fire Palace (Pozi Street), etc., front of the ping, gambling, superstitious, fishermen play mussels and other vaudeville in Changsha city, caused by the Spring Festival in the city of pandemonium.

The Spring Festival in early 1929 was turned into the Abolitionist New Year: shouting "congratulations and wealth" was considered reactionary.

To abolish the Spring Festival, the police chief sent men with bayonets to drive away gambling stalls.

On Dec. 30, 1928, the Northeast changed its flag, and China achieved a nominal reunification. At that time, society was booming, and the National Government decided to celebrate only the solar New Year from 1929, resolutely abolishing the lunar New Year and abolishing the Spring Festival. They believed that the Lunar New Year was a big saucepan of superstition, and that by implementing the solar calendar, they would be in line with the world and would be stepping into the world's power.

February 10, 1929, for the abolition of the lunar New Year's first day of the new year, but also the first year of the government's sensational implementation of the solar calendar. Although the February 11th Hunan "National Daily" social news described the first day of the first month of the year Changsha market "old habits removed most of the". Especially in the old calendar New Year's Eve, "within five days of the fifth day of the first month of the lunar calendar, gambling along the streets, such as card games and dice stalls and so on, everywhere, which fraud and cajoling, one after another, the official hall will never prohibit". When the newspaper contained the "Changsha New Year Bamboo Branch Lyrics" happy about this: "buy double Pai Gow catch sheep, in the past years to stop the street to set up the field. Today actually no trace, Shaohua hard dry fruit is still strong." Shaohua, referring to the Hunan Provincial People's Congress police chief Chen Shaohua, sent police with bayonets to drive away gambling stalls.

However, the other situation is not optimistic, such as the government regulations Changsha busy market should be open for business, but really open but few, red tower, octagonal Pavilion, Nanyang Street, Fu Zhengjie and other former busy market, the crowd is deserted, the book industry only Business Printing House business as usual, Fu Zhengjie Minzhi bookstore, the bookstore in the store door in large letters, "to comply with the abolition of the old calendar, and thank you for the guests! The bookstore is closed to the public, but the bookstore is boarded up and closed.

From the complete denial and abolition of the Chinese New Year to the improvement of old Chinese New Year customs

In 1933, exactly 80 years ago, Changsha's campaign to promote the national calendar tended to relax, and on Feb. 13, 1934, the government began to make it clear that it would not interfere with people's observance of the lunar New Year. Newspapers of that year recorded that Changsha people "took advantage of the abolition of the lunar New Year to continue their old customs and make a great deal of fuss" and "the flower drums and dragon lanterns were full of colors, and the gods of wealth and gambling were coming out and going in." But in order to change the customs, the police department still stipulated that "strictly prohibit card gambling", "mussels and shells obscene play from strictly prohibited, dragon lanterns and lions to the old lunar new year's night cut off".

February 4, 1935, the abolition of the first day of the Lunar New Year, Hunan Provincial President He Jian published a speech commemorating the week, speaking to the public, said, indicating that "the lunar calendar is the summer calendar, in fact, is really China's real, inherent national calendar." And said, "the lunar calendar is the summer calendar, in fact, China's real, inherent national calendar. He also said, "The bad habits of the lunar calendar should be eliminated, Hunan Province in the past years in the government is certainly to comply with the orders of the central government to promote the solar calendar, and the people are accustomed to the use of the lunar calendar, because the people work hard all day long, you can take advantage of the abolition of the annual holiday to rest a little bit, but in the past during the lunar New Year's Day break, some people do not know to engage in proper recreation, but like to make all kinds of bad play, is really one of the worst phenomena. Phenomenon, this year's lunar New Year's holiday period, all gambling and playing cards, as well as all bad habits, are strictly prohibited. To maintain local law and order."

The old calendar New Year, in 1936 has made the country's **** knowledge, Chinese people began to live their own Spring Festival in a big way. KMT dignitary, "returnees" Chen Lifu, that year, should be inherent in all of China's customs studied in detail, and contains good customs are still retained, such as China's lunar New Year is one of the should be retained.

The Changsha newspaper mentioned in February 1936 about the New Year, in Changsha, now there are two New Years every year: after the solar year, followed by the lunar year, the festivals are repeated, it is not lonely. The solar calendar can be called the imperial calendar, and the lunar calendar can be called the nomadic calendar. The sphere of influence of the solar calendar has unified the desk calendar of each organization (original note: as for the wall calendar, it has long been the yin and yang combined calendar). However, the lunar calendar in the Republic of China, although people do not have a large character book, but firmly remembered, today is the sixth day of the first month. This Yin and Yang families each delineated their own sphere of influence, divided into territories and ruled, this is the yin and yang combined calendar, you live your year, I live my year - who said that the lunar calendar is the abolition of the calendar, in fact, obviously so, but some people want to eat alive, and hard to add a abolition of the calendar of the term.

After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, war became the theme of all social life. But now people are discovering that the traditional Spring Festival, which they once claimed to have abolished, can serve to strengthen the cohesion of the family, society and the country. People believe that this is the role of "culture", and since then, the Spring Festival on the lunar calendar has been much more lively than the Spring Festival on the solar calendar, both in name and in fact.