The significance of the Spring Festival activities organized by college students

The exchange of greetings during the festival conveys the friendship between students, which is an important element to sustain the development of the Spring Festival. The Spring Festival is a festival of joy and harmony, family and friends get together, and is a bond that deepens people's feelings.

Introduction of the Spring Festival: The Spring Festival refers to the traditional Chinese New Year in the Chinese cultural circle, commonly known as the "Festival of the Year", traditionally known as the New Year, the New Year, the New Year, but also known as the verbal year of the year, the celebration of the New Year, the New Year. Chinese people have been celebrating the Spring Festival for more than 4,000 years. In modern times, people set the Spring Festival on the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar, but generally at least until the first month of the fifteenth (Shangyuan Festival) New Year's Day is not considered to be the end of the folk, in the traditional sense of the Spring Festival refers to the Lunar New Year from the Lunar New Year's wax festival or Lunar New Year's twenty-third or twenty-fourth sacrificial stove, and continue until the first month of the nineteenth.

During the Spring Festival, the Han Chinese and some ethnic minorities in China hold various celebrations. These activities are mainly devoted to the worship of ancestral gods, ancestors, getting rid of the old and bringing in the new, welcoming good fortune and praying for a good year, in colorful forms and with strong characteristics of each ethnic group. Influenced by the Chinese culture, some countries and nationalities belonging to the Chinese cultural circle also have the custom of celebrating the Spring Festival.

People return to their homes and relatives as much as possible on the day of the Spring Festival to express their ardent hope for the coming year and their good wishes for the new year. The Spring Festival is the grandest traditional festival of the Chinese nation, and it is also an important carrier for Chinese people to release their emotions and satisfy their psychological demands, and it is the annual carnival and the eternal spiritual pillar of the Chinese nation. The Spring Festival, together with the Qingming Festival, the Dragon Boat Festival and the Mid-Autumn Festival, are known as the four major traditional festivals in China.

Origin

There are various accounts of the origin of the Spring Festival, several of which are more representative, such as the Spring Festival originated from the Lunar New Year Festival, the Spring Festival originated from the witchcraft rituals said that the Spring Festival originated from the Ghost Festival said that the Spring Festival, etc., but one of the commonly accepted accounts is that the Spring Festival rose from the period of Yu and Shun. One day in 2000 BC, Shun, the son of heaven, led his men 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 the Lunar New Year, later called the Spring Festival.

Modern folk customarily call the Spring Festival also called the New Year. In fact, the origins of Chinese New Year and Spring Festival are very different. So how did the "New Year" actually come about? There are two main folk theory:

One is that: in ancient times, there is a kind of fierce beast called "year", every Lunar New Year's Eve, will be scurrying from village to village, foraging for human flesh, cruelty to living beings. One night on the 30th day of the Lunar New Year, Nian arrived at a village where two shepherd boys were competing with a cow whip. Nian suddenly heard the sound of whips snapping in the air and fled in fear. It scurried to another village and saw a big red dress in front of a house, which it didn't know what it was, so it turned back and fled. Later it came to another village, towards a door of a family look, only to see the lights inside, stabbing it dizziness, and had to tuck his tail and slipped away. People have thus recognized the weaknesses of "Nian", which is afraid of noise, red, and light, and have come up with many ways to defend themselves against it, which has gradually evolved into today's New Year's Eve customs.

Another theory is that: China's ancient character book put the word "year" in the Wo Department, to show that the wind and rain, a good harvest. Because the grain is generally a year. The word "year" has been extended to the name of the year. China's ancient folk although there has long been the custom of the New Year, but then it is not called the Spring Festival. Because then the Spring Festival, refers to the twenty-four seasons in the "spring". During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the Spring Festival was generalized to mean the entire spring season. It is said that it was after the Xinhai Revolution that the Chinese New Year was officially named Spring Festival. Because of the change to the solar calendar at that time, in order to distinguish between the lunar and solar seasons, so the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar had to be renamed "Spring Festival"