The Origin of the Spring Festival

The Spring Festival in China is the first of the four traditional festivals in China. The beginning of a year is also called New Year and New Year's Day. Verbally, we also call it China New Year, New Year celebrations and so on. It originated in ancient times and has a history of 4500 years. The Spring Festival has many origins, such as La Worship, witchcraft rituals and so on. What is widely circulated now is the folklore about "Nian Beast".

The concepts of Spring Festival and New Year originally came from agriculture. In ancient times, people called the growth cycle of the valley "year" and said "year, the book industry of the valley:" During the Xia and Shang Dynasties, the Xia calendar began to appear. The period of the moon is one month. A year is divided into twelve months. The day when the moon is not seen every month is the new moon. The midnight of the first day of the first month is called the beginning of a year, also known as a year. Y's "Er" name began in the Zhou Dynasty, and was formalized in the Western Han Dynasty, and it continues to this day. However, in ancient times, the first day of the first month was called the beginning of a year, and it was called "New Year's Day". Before the victory of the Revolution of 1911 in modern China, in order to abide by the lunar calendar and facilitate statistics, the Nanjing Provisional Government stipulated that people should use the summer calendar, and organs, factories, mines, schools and institutions should implement the Gregorian calendar. The first day of the first lunar month in the solar calendar is New Year's Day, and the first day of the first lunar month is the Spring Festival.

1949 On September 27th, New China was founded. The first plenary session of China People's Political Consultative Conference adopted the international Gregorian calendar, and designated Gregorian calendar 1 day as the New Year, commonly known as Gregorian year; The first day of the first lunar month is usually around the Spring Festival, so the first day of the first lunar month must be the "Spring Festival", commonly known as the Lunar New Year.

Traditionally, the Spring Festival refers to the festival from the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month to the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, and the climax is New Year's Eve and the first day of the first lunar month. During the traditional Spring Festival in China, the Han nationality and most ethnic minorities hold various celebrations. Most of these activities are mainly about offering sacrifices to gods, worshipping Buddha, offering sacrifices to ancestors, saying goodbye to the old, welcoming the new, praying for blessings and praying for a bumper harvest. The activities are rich and colorful, with strong national characteristics.