When did the Spring Festival in China begin? Who created it?

The New Year, now called "Spring Festival", has a long history of origin, which evolved from the time when ancient people prayed for the New Year. According to records, people in China have celebrated the Spring Festival for more than 4,000 years. It was created by the working people.

According to the old custom, from1the end of February 23rd/24th, that is, the day of offering sacrifices to the stove (dust-sweeping day) to the Lantern Festival on the 15th or 19th day of the first month, nearly one month is called "Chinese New Year", and now it is called "Spring Festival". If we start from the preparation of "New Year's Goods", we will enter a busy year from1February 15 at the end of the year.

The Spring Festival is the most solemn traditional festival of the Chinese nation, which not only embodies the Chinese nation's ideological beliefs, ideals and ambitions, life, entertainment, cultural psychology, but also shows activities such as blessing, eating and entertainment in a carnival way. Influenced by China culture, some countries and regions in the world also have the custom of celebrating the Spring Festival.

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China is an ancient multi-ethnic country. According to their own cultural traditions and customs, different ethnic groups in different historical periods have determined their own New Year's Day, that is, changed it to "Zhengshuo" and changed the time of the first year of the year. In the era of the emperor, silver moon was the first month and beginning of spring was the first year. In Xia Dynasty, Meng Chun's 1 month 1 day was regarded as yuan, that is, the summer calendar was used.

The Shang Dynasty used the lunar calendar, starting from 1 February1day. The Zhou Dynasty used a weekly calendar, with 1 1 month 1 day as the beginning of the year; The Qin dynasty used the Qin calendar, with October 1 as the beginning of the year; In the early Western Han Dynasty, the Qin calendar was still in use. In the first year of Taichu in Liang Wudi (A.D. 104), the calendars created by Sima Qian, Luo, and others were used again, and the first day of January in the summer calendar was the beginning of the year.

In the future, except for Wang Mang, who changed to the lunar calendar with December 1st as the first year and the weekly calendar with November 1st as the first year when he was in Emperor Wu of the Tang Dynasty and Tang Suzong, all previous dynasties took January 1st of the summer calendar as the first year until the end of the Qing Dynasty.

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