What is the significance of Chinese characters in the past years?

The appearance of 1 and year is closely related to farming life. It originally refers to a growth cycle of crops. Farmers in the Western Zhou Dynasty celebrated the harvest and the arrival of the New Year in November of the lunar calendar, which is regarded as the origin of the New Year custom. But the year at this time is not fixed on a certain day. It was not until the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty that the first day of the first lunar month was officially determined as the beginning of the year, and the Spring Festival began to take shape. According to Terry Evevol _ in his book "A Preliminary Study on the Interpretation of Ancient Books", "There must be five grains planted first, and then there will be the word" year ". Born in the grain, the non-grain was born in. Therefore, Shuowen said: "The year is the valley. "The Book of Justice quoted Sun Yan as saying:" In 2000, five grains are ripe. "

In fact, from the word "year" written by Oracle Bone Inscriptions, we can know that "year" was originally the image of a person carrying mature crops, but it was actually the time unit of "year achievement" and "harvest", and later it was extended to "year".

2. As for the origin of Nian, there is actually a widely circulated legend. In ancient times, there was a monster named Nian who came to the gathering place of human beings every once in a while, devouring livestock and hurting people every year. People always call a year a year. Later, people found that Nian was afraid of red, light and noise, so people put red paper on the door and burned bamboo to drive Nian away. Since then, this custom has spread widely and become the most solemn traditional festival among the people in China.