Information about the Spring Festival

1, the Spring Festival is also known as the lunar year, the lunar new year, the lunar year, the old calendar year, commonly known as "New Year, big year, big year". Spring Festival has a long history, it originated in the Yin Shang period at the end of the first year of sacrifice to the gods and ancestors. In ancient times, the Spring Festival used to refer exclusively to the Lichun of the twenty-four solar terms, but later it was changed to the first day of the first month of the summer calendar (i.e., the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar), which was regarded as the beginning of the lunar year, i.e., the first day of the year. This is one of the grandest and most lively traditional festivals in China. And the traditional sense of the Spring Festival, from the wax festival on the eighth day of the wax month or wax month 23, 24 of the sacrificial stove, until the end of the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first month, and in some places even to the entire first month, are New Year's Eve and the first day of the first month as the climax.

2, the Spring Festival is the most important traditional Han Chinese festival. During the Spring Festival, a traditional festival, people hold a variety of celebratory activities, most of which are mainly devoted to the worship of gods and Buddhas, paying tribute to ancestors, getting rid of the old and bringing in the new, welcoming good fortune, and praying for a good year. Yao, Zhuang, Bai, Gaoshan, Hezhe, Hani, Daur, Dong, Li, Manchu, Mongolia, more than a dozen ethnic minorities also have the custom of the Spring Festival, just the festival. The form of each with their own national characteristics.

3, origin: the origin of the Spring Festival has a variety of claims, several of which are more representative of the claims, such as the Spring Festival from the wax festival, the Spring Festival from witchcraft rituals, the Spring Festival from the Ghost Festival, etc., but one of the generally accepted that the Spring Festival by the period of the rise. On a day more than 2000 BC, Shun, the son of heaven, led his subordinates to worship heaven and earth. Since then, people have taken this day as the first day of the year. This is said to be the origin of what came to be called the Spring Festival.

4, Lunar New Year's twenty-third stove: China's Spring Festival, generally from the opening of the stove. Zaosi, is a folk in our country has a great influence, widely spread custom. In the old days, almost every family has a "Zao Wang" god.

5, Lunar New Year's Eve dust sweeping: "Lunar New Year's Eve, dust sweeping the house", according to the "Lv's Spring and Autumn Annals" records, our country in the Yao and Shun era on the Spring Festival dust sweeping custom. According to folklore: because of "dust" and "Chen" consonant, dust sweeping in the New Year has the meaning of "in addition to Chen Bu Xin", the intention is to all poor luck, bad luck all sweep out the door. This custom is the wish of the people to break the old and establish the new.