What is the origin of the Chinese New Year? When did it start!

Shaanxi people are accustomed to call the Spring Festival "New Year", the countryside in the 23rd month of the month of "small year", people "sacrifice stove" to send "stove prince", in order to the coming year rich food and clothing. After the New Year, he began to kill pigs and sheep, mill rice and flour, make tofu, buy vegetables, and prepare all the food needed for the New Year. Due to the custom of "not rolling noodles before the fifteenth day of the first lunar month", from the twenty-seventh to the twenty-ninth day of the lunar month, every household in Guanzhong has to steam several baskets of white flour buns and eat them until after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

In the days before the New Year's Festival, the township market is also particularly lively, people rush there from ten miles and eight villages, buy new clothes, hats, shoes and socks for the family, buy couplets, New Year's paintings, door gods, firecrackers, prepare hemp paper, liquor, lamps and candles for the New Year's ceremony, the lively atmosphere is so thick that it can't be dissolved. Two days before the Lunar New Year, we must "sweep the house", the front and back of the house, inside and outside, we must clean it clean, paste new window paper, paste red window flowers, and paste the word "Fu" on the door, on the wall, and on the cabinets. On the morning of the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, couplets and door gods are pasted on the doors of every house, and on Chinese New Year's Eve, every household is lit up with bright lights, dumplings and firecrackers, and the whole family "vigil (year)" to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new, laughing and jubilant.

During the Chinese New Year, people send each other New Year's greetings to relatives, and children receive New Year's money. According to the custom of Guanzhong, on the first day of the Lunar New Year, the juniors from the second to the fifth day of the new year greet the elders, and before the sixth to the fifteenth day of the new year, the elders give the juniors "back to the festival", and the uncle should send lanterns to the nephew before the fifteenth day of the first month. In addition, in order to celebrate the year's harvest of grains and the circle of cattle and sheep, from the tenth day of the first month, the villages began to organize gongs, drums, Yangge, opera and singing, lion dance, dry boats, stilts and other entertainment activities, and the liveliness continued until the fifteenth day of the first lunar month after the "New Year".

The Spring Festival temple fair that begins on the twelfth day of the first lunar month is also an important place for people to carry out social activities, and everyone who goes to the temple fair has something to see, take, see, play, and have fun, which is also an important festival content. Speaking of the "Eight Monsters of Shaanxi", people are no strangers, the old lady wearing a black or white handkerchief on her head, the man who gathers to eat together with a big old bowl, the Qin fan who roars with a red face and a thick neck, half of the houses built and the people who squat in the warm winter sun to chat, the children of the yellow earth in clothing, food, housing, transportation, music and other aspects of the formation of a unique way, are integrated into this piece of leisurely pastoral beauty. The Spring Festival is also the agricultural season, now in Xi'an, Xianyang, Baoji and other cities, is the rise of the "farmhouse" tourism fever, all the city is difficult to find folk fun in it, the transportation is convenient, the cost is not much, but can make the tourists more interesting.

The Spring Festival originated in the Kai period of the Yin Shang dynasty in China.

According to historical records, there are many theories about the origin of the Spring Festival, and it is said that the "Spring Festival" originated from the ancestor worship activities (wax sacrifice) at the beginning and end of the year during the Yin Shang period in China.

In the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty, there was an annual custom of celebrating the harvest and sacrificing ancestors at the turn of the old and new years, which can be regarded as the prototype of the "year". However, the name "year" appeared later, and the name of the year began in the Zhou Dynasty. In order to show the authority of the "Son of Heaven", ancient emperors often set up their own calendars when they succeeded to the throne.

It was not until the Western Han Dynasty that it was officially fixed, and it has continued to this day.

In the first year of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, that is, in 104 B.C., astronomers Luo Hong and Deng Ping formulated the "Taichu Calendar", which changed the original October Ming Sui as the first year to Meng Chun as the first year, and the descendants gradually perfected the lunar calendar (that is, the lunar calendar) we use today. Since then, China has followed the Xia calendar (lunar calendar, also known as the lunar calendar) year until the end of the Qing Dynasty, which lasted for 2080 years.

The origin of the Spring Festival:

A long time ago, at the foot of a mountain, there was a village, and in the cave at the top of the mountain, there lived a monster called "Nian" that specialized in eating people. Every night of the Spring Festival, this terrible monster will come to the village to eat people, and the gods made of tomato in the sky know about it, so they come down to help the villagers solve their problems. He told the villagers that the monsters were afraid of red things and loud noises.

The next year's Spring Festival is fast approaching, and the villagers are worried that this method will not work, but they still try to do it. When the sedan monster came, the villagers pasted red paper on the house according to this method, put on red clothes, took out all kinds of red things, and made all kinds of noises. Unexpectedly, the monster was really scared away.

Since then, the villagers have lived happily ever after. And this method has been passed down slowly, and the word "New Year" has also been born.

Chinese New Year, also known as Spring Festival, New Year, New Year's Festival, New Year's Festival, New Year's Day, New Year's Day, New Year's Day, is the evolution of the first year prayer sacrifice in ancient times. "Chinese New Year" is the most solemn and lively traditional festival in China, which carries the warmest emotions and beautiful hopes of the Chinese. The concept of "year" comes from the ancient calendar, which is contained in the "Pangu King Table" and the "Three Lives Meeting".

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How did the Chinese New Year come about.

The origin of ancient traditional festivals is related to ancient primitive beliefs, sacrificial culture, celestial phenomena, calendars and other humanistic and natural cultural contents. According to the research results of modern anthropology and archaeology, there are two most primitive beliefs of human beings: one is the belief in heaven and earth, and the other is the belief in ancestors.

Most of the ancient traditional festivals were formed by the ancients to choose a day to sacrifice to thank the gods of heaven and earth, the kindness of ancestors, and pray for blessings and ward off evil spirits.

In the traditional agrarian society, the beginning of spring is of great significance. Since then, due to the promotion of the lunisolar calendar system in the historical development, festivals and festivals have been separated, but many festivals and folk customs have been preserved. The Spring Festival is the evolution of the first year of the year, in ancient times, people held sacrificial activities at the beginning of the new year after the end of the year-old farming, and held sacrificial activities to repay the gods of heaven and earth, the kindness of the ancestors, to drive away evil spirits and disasters, and to pray for the New Year.

In the historical development, although the calendar is used differently and the date of the first festival of the year is different, the festival framework and many folk customs have been inherited. In modern times, people set the Spring Festival on the first day of the first lunar month, but it generally does not end until at least the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. The Spring Festival is a folk festival that integrates ancestor worship, prayer for blessings and evil spirits, reunion of relatives and friends, celebration of entertainment and food.

Legends and stories from ancient China.

The legendary "Nian" is a fierce beast that is imprisoned in the heavenly court, and every night when it is released on the 30th night of the lunar calendar, it will run to the world to kill the people.

Many people died at his hands, and the next morning, the so-called first day of the new year, people would rush to tell each other, meet relatives and friends, and congratulate each other on their lives. Surviving this calamity is called the New Year.

Later, it was discovered that the ** sound made by lighting the dried bamboo knots would scare away the New Year beasts, so people would light the bamboo knots on this night (which later became firecrackers). The Nian Beast no longer does bad things in the world, and this custom has been passed down.

This is where the Chinese New Year comes in.

Origin of the New Year: two.

The Spring Festival is also called the lunar (lunary) year, commonly known as"Chinese New Year"。Originated from the beginning and end of the Yin Shang period, the ancestor worship activities are the most solemn and lively ancient traditional festivals in China. The festive atmosphere lasts for a month.

Before the first day of the first lunar month, there are rituals such as sacrificing stoves and worshipping ancestors; There are ceremonies such as New Year's money for children, New Year's greetings from relatives and friends; The second half of the festival is the Lantern Festival again, when the lanterns are full of the city, the tourists are full of streets, the grand occasion is unprecedented, after the Lantern Festival, the Spring Festival is over.