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The Spring Festival is associated with which character?

The Spring Festival is associated with Shun

The Spring Festival, also known as the Lunar New Year, is commonly known as "New Year's Day" and "New Year's Day". The Spring Festival symbolizes unity and prosperity, and is a festival of new hopes for the future. According to records, the Chinese people have been celebrating the Spring Festival for more than 4,000 years, and it was initiated by Yu Shun. On a day more than 2,000 years B.C., Shun became the son of heaven and led his men to worship heaven and earth. Since then, this day has been regarded as the first day of the year and is considered the first day of the first month. This is said to be the origin of the Lunar New Year, which was later called the Spring Festival. The Spring Festival used to be called New Year's Day. The month of January in which the Spring Festival falls is called New Year's Day.

The Spring Festival and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty

The first day of the first month of the ancient name of the first day of the first month of the first day of the first month of the first year of the Han Dynasty, the first day of the first month of the summer year (the lunar calendar) for the "head of the year" (i.e., "year"), the date of the New Year's Day. The date of the New Year's Day was thus fixed and continues to this day. New Year's Day was called "New Year's Day".