What period does the Chinese New Year originate from, and when did the Chinese New Year originate?

The Spring Festival is the first day of the first lunar month, also known as the lunar year, commonly known as the "New Year". This is the most solemn and lively festival in our country, commonly known as the "New Year's Festival", the traditional name is the New Year, the New Year, the New Year, but orally it is also called the New Year, the New Year, the New Year. Chinese have celebrated the Spring Festival for more than 4,000 years.

Chinese have celebrated the Spring Festival for more than 4,000 years. In modern times, people set the Spring Festival on the first day of the first lunar month, but it generally does not end until the New Year on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. In the folk, the traditional Spring Festival refers to the wax sacrifice from the wax moon or the 23rd or 24th day of the lunar month to the 19th of the first lunar month.

Spring Festival is a traditional festival of the Chinese nation and the most important festival in the minds of every Chinese. At this time of year, no matter how far away from home, people rush home to reunite with their loved ones, worship their ancestors, eat Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, pay New Year's greetings, visit relatives, set off firecrackers, and so on. Tang Dynasty poet Fan Cheng Dayou:

Chinese New Year's Eve is even more sleepless, tired of pure delay in the New Year. Wang Anshi of the Song Dynasty has: In the sound of firecrackers, one year old, the spring breeze sends warmth into Tusu.

Thousands of households always replace the new peach with the old one. It can be seen that the importance of the Spring Festival. The history of the Spring Festival is relatively old, and it is said to have a history of more than 4,000 years.

According to legend, it was the Yu Shun period, the day when Emperor Shun ascended the throne, Shun led his subordinates to worship heaven and earth, and people regarded this day as the first day of the year. Later, it was called the Spring Festival.

According to research, the origin of the Spring Festival was evolved by the ancients in ancient times according to the four seasons cycle determined by celestial phenomena and phenology. The original meaning of the concept of the year comes from agriculture, and it is said in the "Shuowen Jie Zi": "Year, the grain is ripe."

In ancient times, crops were ripe as the time marker, and later the knowledge of the calendar progressed, and the beginning and end of the four seasons cycle were determined according to the celestial phenomena and phenology, and the year became the general term of the four seasons of the year. The earth revolves around the sun, which is called a year in the calendar, and the cycle is endless; According to the different seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter, people take the first day of the first month of the summer calendar as the beginning of the year.

Since ancient times, people have emphasized the significance of the Spring Festival as the beginning of the year. "Pangu King Table" contains: "The name of the emperor's first system of cadres and branches is based on the place where the age is determined."

Shangshu Dabiography said: "The first day of the first month is the dynasty of the year, the dynasty of the month, and the dynasty of the sun

Three beginnings'. It means that the first day of the first month is the beginning of the year, the beginning of the month, the beginning of the day; The beginning of the year is called the beginning of the year (Lunar New Year, Spring Festival); It is commonly known as "New Year" or "New Year".

The Lunar New Year, now known as the "Spring Festival", has a long history of origin, evolving from the first year of the year in ancient times.

In ancient times, the spatial changes of celestial phenomena were used to mark the time changes of the four seasons of the year, and when the handle of the Beidou pointed to Yin (due east and north), it was the beginning of the Spring Festival. Ancient Ganzhi era, the first month of Jianyin (Setig). In the course of historical development, due to the change of dynasties and the change of calendars, the date of the beginning of the year (New Year) is also different.

It is also said that the Spring Festival originated from the first year of the year in ancient times, which has a history of four or five thousand years, and is used to worship the gods of agriculture and the gods and ancestors. When spring comes, people will kill their livestock, sacrifice to their ancestors and the heavens, and pray for a good new year, no disasters and no disasters, and a prosperous harvest.

In ancient times, people's primitive beliefs were an important factor in the formation of the New Year's Festival. At that time, people believed that the gods were the masters of all things, and believed that the gods of the sun, moon, heaven and earth, the gods of animals and plants, and the gods of ancestors controlled people's lives and destinies.

Therefore, on some important days such as natural solar terms and agricultural activities, people have to hold various sacrificial activities to express their worship, respect and reverence for the gods; Especially at the end of the year, there is also a sacrificial activity to celebrate the harvest, commonly known as the wax sacrifice.

On the day of the wax sacrifice, the ancestors and the gods of all walks of life should be sacrificed, and the gods should be thanked for their blessings and harvest by blowing and playing music, chanting and reciting the words of blessing the void cherry blossoms, and praying for good weather in the coming year.

Traditionally, Chinese New Year celebrations began in 2000 BC and originated during the Han Dynasty when an emperor named Huiwen Emperor Hui Jindan ordered a large-scale Spring Festival celebration. According to the research data, the custom of disturbance began to circulate in the royal family at that time, and Emperor Huiwen meant that he hoped that the people would be able to live a happy and beautiful life at this moment. Subsequently, a new decree was promulgated, declaring the beginning of the year as the first day of the first month of each year, celebrating the arrival of the new year, and stipulating a one-to-three-day holiday to worship the gods and pray for a surplus every year, good luck for everyone, and a good harvest of grains.

In fact, this is China's First National Celebrations.

The Spring Festival has a long history, which evolved from the first prayer sacrifice of the year in ancient times. All things are based on the sky, people are based on the ancestors, pray for the New Year, worship the heavens and the ancestors, and report the beginning of the book. The origin of the Spring Festival contains profound cultural connotations, and carries a rich historical and cultural heritage in the inheritance and development.

During the Spring Festival, various activities are held to celebrate the New Year all over the country, with strong local characteristics.

In the early era of observation and timing, the year was determined according to the shift of the stars, and the "bucket handle Huiyin" was the first of the year. "Bucket handle Huiyin" the earth rejuvenated, and finally took the beginning of Hu, Vientiane was renewed, and a new reincarnation was opened. In the traditional agrarian society, it is of great significance to establish the first year of spring, and a large number of related customs and customs have been derived.

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.

Traditional customs

1. Buy New Year's goods.

China's New Year culture has a long history, and a variety of Chinese New Year customs have been derived from all over the country, which are very different from north to south, and each has its own characteristics. Although the customs are different from place to place, preparing New Year's goods and giving New Year's gifts are almost the "must-haves for the New Year" across the country. Purchasing New Year's goods, including eating, wearing, wearing, using, pasting (New Year's red), giving (New Year's greetings) gifts, etc., are collectively called "New Year's goods", and the process of purchasing New Year's goods is called "New Year's goods".

Running New Year goods is an important activity for Chinese to celebrate the Spring Festival.

2. Sacrificial stove. The folk sacrificial stove originated from the ancient people's custom of worshipping fire. As it says in the "Interpretation of Names":

Kitchen range. Create, create, create, food. "The duty of the god of the stove was to take charge of the fire and manage the diet, which was later expanded to investigate the good and evil in the world in order to bring blessings and misfortunes.

The sacrificial stove has a history of thousands of years in Chinese folk, and the belief in the god of the stove is a reflection of the Chinese people's pursuit of the dream of "having more food and clothing".

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.

The Hail Calendar of the Spring Festival: The Spring Festival, the first year of the lunar calendar, another patting Qingfan of the Spring Festival, called the New Year, is the grandest, most lively and most important ancient traditional festival in China, and it is also a festival unique to the Chinese. It is the worst manifestation of the concentration of jujube in Chinese civilization.

Since the Western Han Dynasty, the custom of the Spring Festival has continued to this day.