The annual cultural knot

The origin of the Spring Festival was originally called Yuanri, and related celebrations began in the Xia Dynasty. As the first festival of the year, it was established in the Han Dynasty. In the first year of the early Han Dynasty (BC 104), Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty issued taichu calendar, and decided to take the first day of the first month of the first month of the summer calendar as the beginning of the year. The last day of every year is New Year's Eve.

As the first festival of the Chinese nation, the Connotation Spring Festival is the core festival in the festival system, with the longest duration and the richest content. The significance of the Spring Festival in saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new and family reunion has become an important force to unite national feelings, and it has also become a cultural symbol of the Chinese nation's self-identity. On New Year's Eve, it is an annual cultural knot for China people to get together for a family reunion dinner and stay up late to celebrate the New Year's Eve. Wanderers who are away from home have to hurry home in Wan Li.

Qingming Festival

Sacrifice and outing are both suitable.

The origin of Tomb-Sweeping Day is one of the few traditional festivals determined by the solar calendar, which is fixed around April 5 of the Gregorian calendar every year. The customs of sweeping graves and hiking in Tomb-Sweeping Day mainly come from the ancient Cold Food Festival and Shangsi Festival.

Connotation In the past two years, large-scale public sacrifices have been held in Tomb-Sweeping Day's Huangdi Mausoleum, Xuanyuan Temple and Yandi Mausoleum, and Chinese at home and abroad have learned from the sacrificial ceremonies that blood is thicker than water. Sacrificing ancestors has always been a major event in the folk life of the Chinese nation. During the Qingming Festival, paying homage to ancestors showed the tradition of "pursuing the future with caution", and a large number of overseas Chinese, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan compatriots also rushed back to their homeland to pay homage to their ancestors. Spring is the best in Qingming Festival, which is suitable for people to get close to nature in the suburbs and embrace spring. Many places in our country still have the habit of planting trees in Qingming.

Dragon Boat Festival

There are many customs of fragrant zongye.

Origin of the Dragon Boat Festival, also known as Duanyang Festival, Chung Wu Festival, Yulan Festival, Pu Festival and so on. The earliest written records about the Dragon Boat Festival can be found in the Eastern Han Dynasty. On the fifth day of May, people tied colorful ribbons on their arms to prevent military service and ghosts, and prevent diseases and plagues. Eating zongzi and rowing dragon boats are the customs that have been formed since then.

The connotation revolves around the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival and its customs, forming some influential folklore and adding new customs and cultural connotations to the Dragon Boat Festival. Such as eating zongzi and rowing dragon boats, the common explanation is to commemorate the great patriotic poet Qu Yuan, which increases the spiritual core of patriotism, and various sports activities such as dragon boat racing derived from this are also helpful to cultivate the spirit of cooperation.

Mid-Autumn Festival

Spend a good month and get together.

Origin In the folk festival system in China, the Mid-Autumn Festival came into being late. During the Han and Wei Dynasties, there was no trace of the Mid-Autumn Festival. In the Tang and Song Dynasties, the Mid-Autumn Festival centered on enjoying the moon appeared, and in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the Mid-Autumn Festival rose to a folk festival.

Connotation The Mid-Autumn Festival is a traditional festival in autumn in China, and its position is second only to the Spring Festival. When the full moon is spent, people associate it with the reunion of personnel, so the Mid-Autumn Festival was regarded as a "reunion festival" in ancient times. The artistic conception of reunion between people and the moon is an ideal in life for China people. "I wish people a long life, and a thousand miles of * * * is a beautiful wish for life.". The traditional Mid-Autumn Festival custom attaches great importance to the cultivation and expression of family ties, which plays an irreplaceable role in promoting social harmony.