The Spring Festival is here, which means that spring is coming, everything is revived, vegetation is renewed, and a new round of sowing and harvesting seasons is about to begin. People have just passed through the long winter of ice and snow, and the vegetation has withered, and they have long been looking forward to the days of warm spring and blooming flowers. When the New Year arrives, they will naturally welcome this festival with joy, singing and dancing.
The Spring Festival is also called the lunar year, the lunar new year, the lunar year, and the old calendar year. It is commonly known as "Chinese New Year, New Year, and New Year." The Spring Festival has a long history. It originated from the activities of worshiping gods and ancestors at the beginning and end of the year during the Yin and Shang Dynasties. In ancient times, the Spring Festival once specifically referred to the beginning of spring among the 24 solar terms. Later, it was changed to the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar (i.e. the first day of the first lunar month), which was regarded as the beginning of the lunar year, that is, the beginning of the year. According to the Chinese lunar calendar, the first day of the first lunar month was anciently called Yuanri, Yuanchen, Yuanzheng, Yuanshuo, New Year's Day, etc., and was commonly known as the first day of the lunar month. This is the most solemn and lively traditional festival in our country. In the traditional sense, the Spring Festival starts from the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month or the stove sacrifices on the 23rd and 24th day of the twelfth lunar month, until the end of the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first lunar month. In some places, it even extends to the entire first month of the first lunar month, with New Year's Eve and the first day of the first lunar month as the climax.
The Spring Festival is the most important festival for the Han people. More than a dozen ethnic minorities, including Manchu, Mongolian, Yao, Zhuang, Bai, Gaoshan, Hezhe, Hani, Daur, Dong and Li, also have the custom of celebrating the Spring Festival, but each has its own ethnic characteristics in the form of the festival. During the Spring Festival, a traditional festival, my country's Han people and most ethnic minorities hold various celebration activities. Most of these activities focus on worshiping gods and Buddhas, paying homage to ancestors, removing the old and bringing in the new, welcoming the new year, welcoming good fortune, and praying for a good harvest.
The Spring Festival is a major festival celebrated in many countries and regions in East Asia. It is called "T?t Nguyên ?án" (New Year's Day) in Vietnamese, "New Year's Day" in Japanese (renamed the old first month after the Meiji Restoration), and "" in Korean (this is an inherent word, meaning New Year). Now, in addition to China, the Korean Peninsula, Vietnam, Japan and other places, the Spring Festival is also one of the most important festivals in Mongolia, Laos, Myanmar, Cambodia, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and other places.
The Spring Festival, Qingming Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival are also known as the four traditional festivals of the Chinese Han people. The term "Spring Festival" has been selected as the largest festival in China by the China World Records Association, ranking first among the four major traditional festivals in China. On May 20, 2006, the "Spring Festival" folk customs were approved by the State Council and included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage lists.