The Spring Festival is a unique festival in China. Some foreign countries also celebrate the Spring Festival, but most of them are celebrated by overseas Chinese. As time goes by, there are more Chinese people, and some foreigners who love China and respect Chinese folk customs also celebrate the Spring Festival.

Of course it is also on the first day of the first lunar month.

The Spring Festival is the most solemn and distinctive traditional festival in China. It generally refers to New Year's Eve and the first day of the first lunar month. It is also called the lunar year and is commonly known as "New Year".

But among the people, the Spring Festival in the traditional sense refers to the period from the twelfth lunar month on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, or the twelfth lunar month on the 23rd or 24th day of the twelfth lunar month, to the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, with New Year's Eve and the first day of the first lunar month as the climax.

During the Spring Festival, my country's Han and many ethnic minorities hold various activities to celebrate.

These activities mainly focus on offering sacrifices to gods and Buddhas, paying homage to ancestors, eradicating the old and bringing in the new, welcoming the new year and blessings, and praying for a good harvest.

The activities are rich and colorful with strong national characteristics.

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 the most important festival for the Han people, but more than a dozen ethnic minorities such as Manchu, Mongolian, Yao, Zhuang, Bai, Gaoshan, Hezhe, Hani, Daur, Dong and Li also have the custom of celebrating the Spring Festival, but the form of the festival has their own

The national characteristics are even more profound.

The state attaches great importance to the protection of intangible cultural heritage. 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.

"Nian" is written in oracle bone inscriptions with the character "禾" in the upper part and the character "人" in the lower part.

The word "year" in bronze inscriptions is also the same as in oracle bone inscriptions, and it comes from grain and people.

"Nian" in Xiaozhuan is written as "上禾下千", "Shuowen Jiezi·Hebu": "Nian means that the grain is ripe. From the grain, from Qian Sheng." The Xiaozhuan has changed the word "人" into "Qian"

Yes, so Xu Shen used this explanation, and the character "Qian" originally meant a decorated person, so this explanation is not contradictory.

"He" is the general name for grains and cannot be mistakenly interpreted as "wheat".

The quality of the annual harvest is mainly determined by the growth and harvest of "Grain", and the word "Grain" in the oracle bone inscriptions that have been excavated almost always looks like it has been bent down under heavy pressure, which shows that it symbolizes

Get a bumper harvest in grain production.

What is the explanation for the word "人" under the word "年"?

Judging from the oracle bone inscriptions, the character "year" looks like a person carrying a heavy load of millet on his head.

The beginning of the Chinese lunar year is called the Spring Festival.

It is the most solemn traditional festival for the Chinese people. It also symbolizes unity, prosperity and new hope for the future.

According to records, the Chinese people have celebrated the Spring Festival for more than 4,000 years. It was started by Yu and Shun.

One day more than 2,000 BC, Shun ascended the throne as emperor and led his men to worship heaven and earth.

From then on, people regarded this day as the beginning of the year and the first day of the first lunar 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 also called New Year's Day.

The month in which the Spring Festival is located is called January.

On September 27, 1949, the First Plenary Session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference decided to adopt the world's common AD chronology while establishing the People's Republic of China.

In order to distinguish the two "years" of the solar calendar and the lunar calendar, and because the "beginning of spring" with 24 solar terms in a year happens to be before and after the lunar year, the first day of January in the solar calendar is called "New Year's Day", and the first day of the first lunar month is officially renamed "Spring Festival"

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my country's lunar calendar has a long history, and its origins can be traced back to the Xia Dynasty, so it is also known as the "Xia Calendar".

There are 12 months in an ordinary year of the lunar calendar and 13 months in a leap year. This has become common knowledge.

However, do you know how the leap months of the lunar calendar are set? Why are there more leap months set in summer and fewer in winter?

It seems that there has never been a leap month in everyone's memory, so there is no "leap Spring Festival". Why is this?

The topic has to start with the movement of the earth and the moon.

Definition of year, month and day Since ancient times, all human activities are inseparable from time.

To calculate time, the unit of time must be introduced.

All human activities are carried out on the stage of the earth, so the phenomenon of day and night and the changing of seasons is naturally used by people as the most basic unit of time.

The rotation of the earth brought us the first natural unit of time, which is the "day".

The earth rotates around its axis once, which is the cycle of day and night.

The earth's revolution around the sun brings a second unit of time, which is the "year".

One complete revolution of the earth is one "year", which is the cycle of four seasons.

Finally, the movement of the moon around the earth establishes the third time unit "month" for everyone.

Any movement is relative, and the movement of celestial bodies is no exception.

Whether it is the rotation and revolution of the earth, or the movement of the moon, they all need to be observed relative to some reference points.

Therefore, in astronomy, there are different "years", "months" and "days" due to different reference points used.

The "day" used in our daily life is the same length every day, which is called a mean solar day.

The mean solar day is no longer a natural unit of time. It is the time it takes for the earth to rotate once relative to the sun, assuming that the earth's orbit is a perfect circle and the earth's rotation axis is perpendicular to the orbit plane.