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The Chinese New Year is January 22, 2023.
The Spring Festival, that is, the Chinese Lunar New Year, is commonly known as the New Year, New Year, New Year, etc., and is also verbally known as the New Year and the New Year. 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. These activities are mainly based on removing the old and clothing the new, driving away evil spirits and disasters, worshiping gods and ancestors, and praying for blessings and blessings.
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. The earth of "Bucket Handle Huiyin" is rejuvenated, and it is renewed, and a new cycle is opened. In the traditional agrarian society, the beginning of spring is of great significance, and a large number of related festivals 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. The Spring Festival is a folk festival that integrates worshipping gods and ancestors, praying for blessings and warding off evil spirits, reunion of relatives and friends, celebration and entertainment, and food.
Folk customs of the Spring Festival:
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.
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Traditional Chinese festivals are calculated according to the lunar calendar.
Lunar calendar, the traditional Chinese calendar. It varies according to the cycle of the phases of the moon, and each phase of the moon changes to one month; And divide a solar return year into 24 segments, forming 24 solar terms. By referring to the solar return year, a leap month is set to adapt its average calendar year to the return year.
The lunar calendar merges the lunar and solar calendars to form a lunisolar calendar.
The lunar calendar is also known as the summer calendar, the lunar calendar, the old calendar, the Chinese calendar, and the Chinese calendar. Due to the use of "Xia Zheng", it was mostly called the summer calendar in the old days, and after 1970, the "summer calendar" was renamed the "lunar calendar". The lunar calendar is a lunisolar calendar, and its years are divided into ordinary years and leap years.
Twelve months in a normal year; Leap years are thirteen months. Months are divided into major months and minor months, with the major month having 30 days and the minor month having 29 days, and its average calendar month is equal to one synodic month.
Basic Calendar:
The calendar is based on the natural law of celestial changes, measuring long time intervals, judging climate changes, and predicting the coming of the seasons. According to the calendar year, calendar year, and calendar month, it is divided into star calendar, solar calendar, solar calendar, lunar calendar, and luni-solar calendar. There are four types of general calendars:
Lunar calendar (lunar calendar), solar calendar (solar calendar), star calendar (Beidou calendar), lunisolar calendar.
The calendar with the synodic month as the base unit is the lunar calendar, the calendar with the solar year as the base unit is the solar calendar, and the calendar with the rotation of the Big Dipper as the base unit is the star calendar.
The basic rules of the lunar calendar have been gradually perfected and formed over many generations, and its form has continued to this day. The lunar calendar is a kind of calendar formed by combining the elements of the solar calendar on the basis of the summer calendar (lunar calendar). The lunar calendar is often erroneously called the lunar calendar in folklore, but it is actually a lunisolar calendar.
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1.The Spring Festival is calculated according to the lunar calendar.
2.Chinese New Year, also known as the Lunar New Year, is the first year of the year and is also known as the "New Year's Festival" in the traditional sense.
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From the first day of the first lunar month to the fifteenth day of the first lunar month
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The first day of the first month of the lunar calendar is the Spring Festival, and the Spring Festival in 2012 is January 23 of the solar calendar.
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The Spring Festival is the first day of the first lunar month.
Expansion: The customs regarding the Spring Festival are summarized below.
1. Paste New Year's pictures.
Spring Festival stickers are also very common in urban and rural areas, and the black and colorful New Year's pictures add a lot of prosperity and joy to thousands of households. New Year paintings are an ancient folk art in China, reflecting the simple customs and beliefs of the people, and pinning their hopes on the future.
2. Keep the year. Chinese New Year's Eve is one of the most important New Year's celebrations, and the custom of keeping the New Year has a long history. The earliest record is found in the "Chronicles of the Customs" of the Western Jin Dynasty and Zhou:
On the night of Chinese New Year's Eve, each phase and gift are called "Gift Year"; Wine and food are invited, called "farewell year"; The young and old gather to drink, and the blessing is complete, which is called "dividing the year"; Everyone stays awake all night long, waiting for the dawn, and is called "keeping the year".
3. Eat dumplings.
The custom of eating dumplings during the Spring Festival was quite popular in the Ming and Qing dynasties. Dumplings are generally wrapped before 12 o'clock in the evening of the Chinese New Year's Eve, and eaten until midnight, which is the beginning of the first day of the first lunar month.
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The Spring Festival is the first day of the Lunar New Year, so there is no need to doubt this. Awkwardness with a capital letter.
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