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The traditional names of the Spring Festival are New Year, New Year, and New Year, but it is also known as celebrating the New Year, celebrating the New Year, and celebrating the New Year. In ancient times, the Spring Festival once specifically referred to the beginning of spring in solar terms, and was also regarded as the beginning of the year. Later, it was changed to the first day of the first lunar month as the New Year.
Word: Spring Festival Pinyin: chūn?jié English: ?
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1.?Spring?Festival; 2.?the?Spring?Festival; 3 .?lunar?New?Year's?Day; 4.?Chinese?New?Year's?Day 5.The?New?Year's?Day?of?China Explanation: 1.?[spring]?refers to spring. "Book of the Later Han Dynasty·Yang Zhen Biography": "There is no snow in winter, no rain in the Spring Festival, and hundreds of officials are heartbroken." The poem "Spring Day" by Emperor Liang Yuan of the Southern Dynasty: "Spring is beautiful again, the Spring Festival is beautiful, and the spring breeze passes by." Liang Jiangyan of the Southern Dynasty, "Miscellaneous Poems· According to Zhang Xie's "Bitter Rain": "The Spring Festival is in full swing, and the sorrowful rain is the prelude to autumn." Wang Anshi of the Song Dynasty's poem "Yuan Ri" said: "The sound of firecrackers is heard, and the spring breeze brings warmth to Tusu. Thousands of households are in the morning, Always replace old charms with new ones." 2. [the Spring Festival] festival name. In ancient times, it meant the beginning of spring. Today refers to the first day of the first lunar month of the lunar calendar, which also refers to the Chinese Year. It is the beginning of a new lunar year and is a grand traditional festival in China (including New Year's Eve and the second and third day of the lunar month). The old title of Song Youmao's "Wang Qi's Poetry in the Tang Dynasty": "It's the Spring Festival, so it's hard to stop a good trip. Three or five people enjoy themselves, and there is no restriction." Song Wen Tianxiang's poem "Prison": "Three days before the Spring Festival Today is the New Year in Jiangxiang. "Wei Wei's "Who is the Loveliest Person·FireWire Spring Festival Night": "During the days and nights on the south bank of the Han River, who would have thought that this day would be the Spring Festival." 3.?[lunar?New? Year's?Day]?is the first day of the first lunar month. The Gregorian calendar date is not fixed, but is usually between January 21 and February 20?
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For more than 2,000 years before the Qing Dynasty, the beginning of spring among the 24 solar terms was designated as the beginning of the year (equivalent to the current Spring Festival), which means that spring begins on this day.
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Festival Introduction The Spring Festival is here, which means that spring is coming, everything is revived, the vegetation is renewed, and a new round of sowing and harvesting seasons is about to begin. People have just passed through the long cold winter of ice and snow, and the vegetation has withered. They have long been looking forward to the days when spring will be warm and flowers will bloom, and they will be full of vitality. When the New Year arrives, they will naturally be full of joy and welcome this festival with 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, Chinese New Year, Chinese 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 new year. This is the most solemn and lively traditional festival in our country. In the traditional sense, the Spring Festival starts from the Lantern Festival on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month or the stove sacrifices on the 23rd and 24th of the twelfth lunar month, and ends with the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first lunar month (sometimes the nineteenth day of the first lunar month). In some places, even the entire first lunar month is celebrated on New Year's Eve. The climax is the first day of the first lunar month. ?
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The Spring Festival is the most important traditional festival of the Han people. During the Spring Festival, a traditional festival, people hold various celebration activities, most of which focus on offering sacrifices to gods and Buddhas, paying homage to ancestors, removing the old and bringing in the new, welcoming good fortune, and praying for a good harvest. More than a dozen ethnic minorities, including the Yao, Zhuang, Bai, Gaoshan, Hezhe, Hani, Daur, Dong, Li, Manchu, and Mongolia, also have the custom of celebrating the Spring Festival, but each has its own national characteristics in the form of the festival. The Spring Festival is a major festival celebrating the New Year in many countries and regions in East Asia. It is called "Tt? Nguyên?án" (New Year's Day) in Vietnamese and "New Year's Day" in Japanese (Note: The Japanese holiday "New Year's Day" is similar to China's New Year's Day, which is January 1.) (It was renamed the old first month after the Meiji Restoration) . 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 word "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. According to "Erya" records, the year was called "Zai" in the Yao and Shun Dynasty, "Sui" in the Xia Dynasty, "Si" in the Shang Dynasty, and it was not called "Nian" until the Zhou Dynasty.
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Origin of the festival
Legend The Spring Festival has a long history. It is said that the custom of "Spring Festival" existed as early as Yao and Shun in the Neolithic period. Regarding the origin of the "Spring Festival", there is a legend that in ancient China there was a beast called "Nian". "Nian", with long tentacles on its head, is extremely ferocious. "Nian" lives deep under the sea all year round, and only climbs ashore on a specific day (now New Year's Eve) to devour livestock and harm people.
Therefore, every New Year's Eve, people in villages and villages help the old and young to flee to the mountains to avoid the harm of the "year". One New Year's Eve, an old man came begging from outside the village. There was a scene of rush and panic in the countryside, and no one paid attention to him. Only an old woman in the east of the village gave the old man some food and advised him to go up the mountain to avoid the "year". The old man lifted up his beard and said with a smile: "Mother-in-law, if you let me stay at home, One night, I will drive away Nian." The old woman continued to persuade, but the beggar man smiled and said nothing. At midnight, "Nian" broke into the village. It found that the atmosphere in the village was different from previous years: at the east end of the village, the old woman lived in her husband's house, with red paper on the door and brightly lit candles inside. "Nian" trembled all over and screamed strangely. As he neared the door, there was a sudden "cracking" sound in the courtyard. "Nian" trembled all over and did not dare to move forward. It turns out that "Nian" is most afraid of the color red, fire and explosions. At this time, the door of my mother-in-law's house opened, and I saw an old man in a red robe laughing in the yard. "Nian" turned pale with fright and ran away in embarrassment. The next day was the first day of the first lunar month. People who had returned from the refuge were surprised to see that the village was safe and sound. At this time, the old woman suddenly realized and hurriedly told the villagers about the beggar's promise to the old man. This incident quickly spread in the surrounding villages, and people all knew how to drive away "Nian". From then on, every New Year's Eve, every family puts up red couplets and sets off firecrackers; every household lights up candles and watches the New Year's Eve. Early in the morning on the first day of the Lunar New Year, we also visit relatives and friends to say hello. This custom spreads widely and has become the most solemn traditional festival among Chinese people. It is said that the "Spring Festival" originated from the activities of worshiping gods and ancestors (December Festival) at the beginning and end of the year during the Yin and Shang Dynasties in China. In the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty, there was an annual custom of celebrating the harvest and worshiping ancestors at the turn of the old and new years, which can be considered the prototype of the "year". But the name "Nian" appeared later, and the name of "Nian" started from the Zhou Dynasty. When ancient emperors succeeded to the throne, in order to show the authority of the "Emperor", they often established their own calendars (in different dynasties in history, the time of the year was different. In the Xia Dynasty, January was the first month of the year; in the Shang Dynasty, December was the first month of the year. In the Zhou Dynasty, November was the beginning of the year, and in the Qin Dynasty, October was the beginning of the year. In the Western Han Dynasty, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty issued an edict to implement the Taichu calendar, and it was clearly stipulated that the first day of January was the beginning of the year, and it was regarded as the Lunar New Year). The time of year was not officially fixed until the Western Han Dynasty and continues to this day. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty (140 BC to 87 BC) succeeded to the throne and decided to restructure the calendar to unify it. Sima Qian suggested the creation of the Taichu calendar and set the Spring Festival in the first month of Mengchun. The calendar we use today was revised by many dynasties after Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. However, the first day of the first lunar month is "New Year's Day", which is the most solemn festival of the Chinese nation and has been inherited on a fixed date.