Festival introduction

The first day of the first month is called Yuanri, Chen Yuan, Jacky, Yuanshuo, New Year's Day, Niandan, Suishou, Suichao, Xinzheng, Shouzuo, Sanyuan or Nian and New Year. Since the first year of Emperor Taizu of the Han Dynasty, the first day of the first month of the annual summer (lunar calendar) has been regarded as the "year of the year", and the date of the annual festival has been fixed. New Year's Day was called "New Year's Day" in ancient times.

After the Revolution of 1911, 19 1 1 adopted the Gregorian calendar to calculate the year, so it was called "New Year's Day" on the Gregorian calendar 1 and "Spring Festival" on the first day of the first lunar month. The state attaches great importance to the protection of intangible cultural heritage. On May 20th, 2006, the folk custom of "Spring Festival" was approved by the State Council to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.

Spring Festival is also called Lunar New Year, commonly known as "Chinese New Year" and "Chinese New Year". The Spring Festival symbolizes unity and prosperity, and it is a festival that places new hopes on the future.

According to records, the people of China have celebrated the Spring Festival for more than 4,000 years, which was initiated by Yu Shun. One day more than two thousand years BC, Shun became emperor and led his men to worship heaven and earth. Since then, people have regarded this day as the beginning of a year, that is, the first day of the first month. 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.

The first day of the first month is the first day of the Lunar New Year. The Spring Festival is the most solemn and distinctive traditional festival of the Han people in China, which marks the end of the old year and the beginning of the new year. Spring Festival generally refers to New Year's Eve and the first day of the first month.

However, among the Han people, the traditional Spring Festival refers to the sacrificial ceremony from the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month or the 23rd or 24th of the twelfth lunar month to the 15th of the first lunar month in La Worship, culminating in New Year's Eve and the first day of the first lunar month. During the Spring Festival, Han people and many ethnic minorities in our country will hold various activities to celebrate.

The main contents of these activities are offering sacrifices to gods and buddhas, paying homage to ancestors, saying goodbye to the old year and welcoming the new year, and praying for a bumper harvest. The activities are rich and colorful, with strong national characteristics.

The origin of festivals

"Shuo Wen He Bu": "Years are ripe in the valley. During the Xia and Shang Dynasties, the Xia calendar came into being, with the full and short moon as the month, and a year was divided into twelve months. Every month, the day when the moon can't be seen is the new moon, and the first day of the first month is called the beginning of a year, also known as the year. The title of the year began in the Zhou Dynasty and was officially set in the Western Han Dynasty, which continues to this day.

However, in ancient times, the first day of the first month was called "New Year's Day". Until the victory of the Revolution of 1911 in modern China, in order to conform to the agricultural season and facilitate statistics, the Nanjing Provisional Government stipulated that the summer calendar should be used among the Han people, and that institutions, factories, mines, schools and organizations should adopt the solar calendar, with the Gregorian calendar 1 month 1 day as New Year's Day and the first lunar month 1 day as the Spring Festival.

1949 On September 27th, New China was founded. At the first plenary session of the China People's Political Consultative Conference, the international use of the Gregorian calendar era was adopted, and the Gregorian calendar 1 month 1 day was designated as New Year's Day, commonly known as the Gregorian calendar year. The first day of the first lunar month is usually around beginning of spring, so the first day of the first lunar month is designated as the Spring Festival, commonly known as the Lunar New Year.