The Chinese New Year is coming soon, why is it called the New Year?

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The gods call the year. New Year's Eve is called for people to use the above method for Chinese New Year's Eve.

In ancient times, the Chinese New Year was the time to drive away monsters, and "Nian" was a kind of monster

Chinese New Year refers to the Spring Festival.

Led by the 100th year, the Spring Festival is the most solemn traditional festival of the Chinese nation. Influenced by Chinese culture, some countries and regions around the world also have the custom of celebrating the New Year. According to incomplete statistics, nearly 20 countries and regions have designated the Chinese New Year as a legal holiday in whole or some cities under their jurisdiction.

The Spring Festival, along with the Qingming Festival, the Dragon Boat Festival and the Mid-Autumn Festival, is known as the four traditional festivals in China. The Spring Festival folk customs were approved to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.

During the Spring Festival, various New Year's celebrations are held all over the country, and there are differences in the content or details of customs due to different regional cultures, with strong regional characteristics.

The celebrations during the Spring Festival are extremely rich and diverse, including lion dance, floating colors, dragon dance, wandering gods, temple fairs, visiting flower streets, enjoying flower lanterns, traveling gongs and drums, vernier flags, burning fireworks, praying for blessings, making spring, as well as stepping on stilts, running dry boats, twisting Yangge and so on. During the Spring Festival, there are all over the place, such as sticking New Year's red, keeping the New Year, eating group dinners, and greeting the New Year, but due to the different customs and customs, the subtleties have their own characteristics. The Spring Festival folk customs are diverse in form and rich in content, which is a concentrated display of the essence of the life culture of the Chinese nation.

The Spring Festival is the traditional Lunar New Year in the Chinese character culture, commonly known as the "New Year's Festival", and other traditional names include the New Year, the Great Year, the New Year, etc., among all the traditional festivals of the Chinese nation, the Spring Festival is the most important and the most grand.

In a broad sense, the Spring Festival has more than 20 days. In some places, the starting time is the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month or the 24th day of the lunar month, and the customs are different from place to place, but my hometown of Hunan starts on the 24th. This day is commonly known as "celebrating the New Year", and there are activities such as sacrificing to the god of the stove.

According to the practice of the hometown, from the day of returning to Tantan, everyone's food will be improved and eaten well. So, when we were children, we especially looked forward to this day.

The concept of Spring Festival and Year originally came from agriculture, and in ancient times, people called the growth cycle of grain "Nian", "Shuowen Hebu": "Year, grain ripeness". In the Xia Shang era, the summer calendar was produced, with the cycle of the moon being full and missing as the month, the year is divided into twelve months, the day when the moon is not seen as the new moon, the first day of the new moon is called the first year, that is, the beginning of the year, also called the year, the name of the year is from the Zhou Dynasty, until the Western Han Dynasty was officially fixed, and has continued to this day.

The Spring Festival, one of the four traditional Chinese festivals, is traditionally known as the Lunar New Year. The Spring Festival Qin is not commonly known as the "New Year's Festival", the traditional name is the New Year, the old Zen, the Tianla, the New Year, and the oral also known as the New Year, the New Year, and the New Year.

Chinese have celebrated the Spring Festival for at least 4,000 years. In the folk, the traditional Spring Festival in the old sense refers to the wax sacrifice from the wax sacrifice of the lunar month or the sacrificial stove on the 23rd or 24th of the lunar month to the 19th day of the first lunar month. 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 (Shangyuan Festival).

The first day of the first lunar month is the Spring Festival, also known as the lunar year, commonly known as the New Year. So why do we call the Chinese New Year commonly known as the "New Year"?

According to a folk saying, the Chinese New Year turned out to be a beast in ancient times. This beast named "Nian" has sharp horns on its head, and it is extremely ferocious, this beast lives deep at the bottom of the sea all the year round, but every time it thinks about the Spring Festival, it climbs ashore from the bottom of the sea to devour livestock and harm human life. Therefore, every Chinese New Year's Eve, men, women and children from all villages flee to the mountains to avoid the harm of the "year".

On the thirtieth day of the lunar month of one year, when the villagers were busy packing up their things and fleeing to take refuge in the mountains, a white-haired old man came to the village and told an old woman that as long as he let him stay here for one night, he would drive the beast away for the village. When everyone heard this, they didn't believe it, and the old woman also persuaded the old man to go up the mountain with everyone to take refuge, but the white-haired old man insisted on staying, and everyone saw that he was unwilling to go up the mountain, so they went up the mountain to hide.

On the night of Chinese New Year's Eve, "Nian" climbed ashore from the bottom of the sea as if it had been in previous years, and rushed to the village. At this time, the white-haired old man lit the firecrackers, the crackling sound of the firecrackers came, "Nian" trembled, the firelight of the firecrackers made "Nian" dare not open his eyes, "Nian" did not dare to continue to approach the village. Suddenly, an old man in a red robe appeared in the courtyard, and "Nian" was shocked when he saw the old man, and fled in a hurry, it turned out that "Nian" was still afraid of red.

There are many other names for the Spring Festival, including but not limited to the following: New Year's Festival, New Year's Festival, New Year's Festival, New Year's Day, New Year's Day, New Year's Day, etc. In the pre-Qin period, the Spring Festival was called "changing the year", "offering the year", "going to the day", and "the first day".

During the Han Dynasty, the Spring Festival was known as "Zhengri", "New Year's Day", and "Zhengdan". During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, the Spring Festival was known as the "Sui Dynasty", "the head of the year", "the head of the year", "the head of the year", "the head of the Yuan", "the head of the Yuan". During the Tang, Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties, the Spring Festival was called "Xinzheng", "Xinyuan", "New Year's Day", "Yuan", and "Year's Day".

During the Qing Dynasty, the Spring Festival was always referred to as "New Year's Day" or "Yuan Day".