The Spring Festival originated in which dynasty

The Spring Festival originated in China during the Yin Shang period.

According to historical records, the origin of the Spring Festival has been described in a number of ways, with some saying that the Spring Festival originated at the end of the year during the Yin and Shang Dynasties in China, when the gods were sacrificed to their ancestors (the La Sacrifice).

In the early Western Zhou Dynasty, there was already an annual celebration of the harvest and ancestor worship at the time of the transition between the old and new years, which can be regarded as the prototype of the "year". But the name "year" appeared later, the name of the year from the Zhou Dynasty. Ancient emperors succeeded to the throne, in order to show the authority of the "Son of Heaven", often set up their own calendar. The year was not formalized until the Western Han Dynasty, and continues to this day.

In the first year of Emperor Wu's reign, 104 B.C., astronomers Lok Ma-te, Deng Ping and others formulated the "Tai Chou Calendar", which changed the original October as the first day of the year to Beng Chun as the first day of the year, and was gradually perfected into the lunisolar calendar (i.e., the lunar calendar) that is used today, and Lok Ma-te was also known as the "Spring Festival Elder" for this reason. Since then, China has been using the summer calendar (the lunar calendar, also known as the lunar calendar) chronology, until the end of the Qing Dynasty, up to 2080 years.