The history of the spring festival

Spring Festival is the beginning of a year, Lunar New Year, a traditional "festival". Traditional names include Spring Festival, New Year's Eve, New Year's Day and New Year's Eve. Verbally, it is also called "New Year's Eve" and "New Year's Eve".

The Spring Festival has a long history, which evolved from the sacrificial activities at the beginning of ancient times, and its origin contains rich and profound humanistic and natural cultural connotations. According to the China lunar calendar, the first day of the first month is called Yuanri, Chen Yuan, Jacky, Yuanshuo and New Year's Day. Commonly known as the first day of the first month. It was changed to Gregorian calendar in the Republic of China. The first day of the Gregorian calendar is called New Year's Day, and the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar is called Spring Festival.

Spring Festival is a new day to take off old cloth. Although it is arranged on the first day of the first lunar month, the activities of the Spring Festival are not limited to the first day of the first lunar month. From the beginning of the Lunar New Year's Day on the 23rd (or 24th) of the twelfth lunar month, people have been "busy": cleaning the house, buying new year's goods, putting up Spring Festival couplets, washing their hair and taking a bath, etc. All these activities have the same theme, that is, "saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new". The main customs are:

First of all, New Year's Eve.

New Year's Eve, also known as the reunion dinner, is very important to China people. The whole family respected and loved each other, and sat around the dining table happily.

Second, post Spring Festival couplets.

Sticking Spring Festival couplets is also called sticking couplets, Spring Festival couplets, couplets and peach symbols. It depicts the background of the times and expresses good wishes with neat, dual, concise and exquisite words, which is a unique literary form in China.

Third, lucky money.

Every New Year's Eve, elders can distribute the lucky money prepared in advance to the younger generation. It is said that lucky money can kill evil spirits, and the younger generation can spend a year safely with it.

Fourth, set off firecrackers.

There is a folk saying in China that "open the door and set 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 and welcome the new. Firecracker is a specialty of China, also known as "Firecracker", "Firecracker" and "Firecracker".

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Spring Festival and New Year

In ancient China, there was a monster named Nian, which had long tentacles on its head and was very fierce. I have been living in the depths of the sea for years. Whenever they climb ashore on New Year's Eve, they devour livestock and endanger people's lives. Therefore, every New Year's Eve, people in the village, old and young, have to flee to the mountains to avoid the harm of the "Nian" beast.

One year on New Year's Eve, news of begging for the elderly came from outside the village. When the villagers were in a hurry, only one old woman in the village gave the old man some food and advised him to go up the mountain to avoid Nian beast. The old man smiled and said, "If my mother-in-law lets me stay at home for one night, I will definitely send Nian beast away." The old woman continued to persuade and begged the old man to smile without saying a word.

In the middle of the night, Nian beast broke into the village. It found that the atmosphere in the village was different from previous years: the old woman's house at the east end of the village had red paper on the door and candlelight in the room. "Nian" beast trembled and cried strangely. Almost to the door, there was a sudden bang in the yard. Nian trembled and dared not move forward. It turns out that Nian was most afraid of red, fire and explosion.

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