But it is also related to individual companies, local language habits and regional customs. And generally refers to a fixed specific time, which may be one month before the Chinese New Year or a few days ago, and there is no fixed date. During this period before the Chinese New Year, people will prepare to buy new year's goods, prepare their bags, clean their houses and go back to their hometown to welcome the New Year.
According to the old custom, from1the end of February 23rd/24th, that is, the day of offering sacrifices to the stove (dust-sweeping day) to the Lantern Festival on the 15th or 19th day of the first month, nearly one month is called "Chinese New Year", and now it is called "Spring Festival". If we start from the preparation of "New Year's Goods", we will enter a busy year from1February 15 at the end of the year.
A few years ago, beginning of spring was a "spring-free year". If there are two beginning of spring in a year, it's called "Double Spring Year". According to folklore, after the Spring Festival, the beginning of spring will be better.
Poems related to this year:
1, Lu You's "Two Poems of Shenyuan": "The dream is broken and fragrant for forty years, and the willow in Shenyuan does not blow cotton."
She has been dead for more than forty years, and the willow trees in Shenyuan are too old to spit cotton.
2. Ouyang Xiu's "Mulberry picking was a distinguished guest ten years ago": "Ten years ago, it was a distinguished guest, and the moon was white and clear, and it was dry."
Ten years ago, I was a guest at a banquet. The spring breeze was bright and the future was bright. Now that my friends have left one after another, my worries and illnesses are rotting.