Spring Festival, commonly known as "Chinese New Year", is the most grand celebration of the Chinese nation.
Celebrate the festival. Since the first year of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the first day of the first month of the summer year (lunar calendar) has been regarded as "Year", and the date of the festival has been fixed and continues to this day. This festival was called "New Year's Day" in ancient times. 1911+091/after the revolution, the Gregorian calendar was adopted. Also known as "traditional festivals", it has a long history, spread widely, and has the characteristics of great popularity, mass and even the whole people. The New Year is a time to throw away old clothes and make new ones. Although it is set on the first day of the first lunar month, the activities of the New Year are not limited to the first day of the first lunar month. From the 23rd (or 24th) of the twelfth lunar month, people began to have a "busy year": cleaning the house and celebrating. There is a common theme, that is, "saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new". People greet the new year and spring with grand ceremonies and enthusiasm. The New Year is also a time for offering sacrifices and praying for the New Year. The ancients said that the harvest of millet was "year" and the harvest of grain was "big year". In the early Western Zhou Dynasty, there was an annual harvest celebration. Later, praying for the New Year became a custom. Everyone likes human fragrance. People take this opportunity to thank the gods for their care in the past and pray for more blessings in the new year. New Year's Day is also a day for family reunion and mourning for ancestors. On New Year's Eve, the whole family get together to have a "reunion dinner", the elders give their children "lucky money" and the whole family sit together for a "birthday". At the turn of the year, firecrackers sounded and said goodbye. Then, they pay New Year greetings to their elders in turn, and then exchange congratulations with their relatives and friends. After the Yuan Dynasty, they began to visit relatives and friends and give gifts to each other to celebrate the New Year. The New Year is a festival for people to entertain and revel. After the Yuan Dynasty, various colorful entertainment activities were carried out, such as playing lions, dancing dragon lanterns, dancing yangko, walking on stilts and juggling, which added a rich festive atmosphere to the Spring Festival.
Festive atmosphere. At this time, around the "beginning of spring", a grand welcoming ceremony was held in ancient times to whip the cattle to welcome the spring and pray for good weather and abundant crops. On the fifteenth day of the first month, various social fire activities were formed again. Therefore, the grand New Year Festival, which integrates blessing, celebration and entertainment, has become the most grand festival of the Chinese nation. Today, there are more sacrifices to gods and ancestors than ever before. The Spring Festival is an important carrier of the excellent tradition of Chinese culture, which contains the wisdom and crystallization of Chinese culture, embodies the life pursuit and emotional sustenance of China people, and inherits the family ethics and social ethics of China people. After thousands of years of accumulation, the colorful folk customs of the Spring Festival have formed a profound and unique Spring Festival culture. In recent years, with the improvement of material living standards, people's demand for spiritual and cultural life has increased rapidly, and their desire for affection, friendship, harmony and happiness has become stronger. Traditional festivals such as the Spring Festival have attracted more and more attention from all walks of life. We should vigorously carry forward the excellent traditional culture condensed in the Spring Festival, highlight the themes of saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new, wishing for reunion, peace and prosperity, and strive to create a festive atmosphere of family harmony, stability, unity, joy and peace. Promote the endless development of Chinese culture. The beginning of the Lunar New Year in China is called the Spring Festival. It is the most solemn traditional festival of China people, and it also symbolizes unity, prosperity and new hope for the future. According to records, the people of China have celebrated the Spring Festival for more than 4,000 years. There are different opinions about the origin of the Spring Festival, but it is generally believed that the Spring Festival began in Yu Shun. It was a day more than 2000 years BC. He led his men to worship heaven and earth. Since then, people have regarded this day as the beginning of a year. It is said that this is the origin of the Lunar New Year, which was later called the Spring Festival. The Spring Festival used to be called New Year's Day. The month in which the Spring Festival is held is called January.