1. The concepts of Spring Festival and Nian originally came from agriculture. In ancient times, people called the growth cycle of grains "Nian", "Shuowen".

"Hebu": "The year means that the grain is ripe:. In the Xia and Shang dynasties, the lunar calendar was produced, using the moon's waxing and waning cycle as the month, and the year was divided into twelve months. The day when the moon is not visible is the new day of each month, and the first day of the first lunar month is the new day.

Zushi is called the beginning of the year, which is the beginning of the year, also called the year. The name of the year began in the Zhou Dynasty, and was officially fixed in the Western Han Dynasty, and continues to this day. However, in ancient times, the first day of the first lunar month was called.

It was regarded as "New Year's Day" until the victory of the Revolution of 1911 in modern China. In order to adapt to the farming season and facilitate statistics, the Nanjing Provisional Government stipulated the use of the lunar calendar among the people, and implemented the Gregorian calendar in government agencies, factories, mines, schools and groups, with the first day of the first month of the Gregorian calendar as the day.

New Year's Day, the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar is called the Spring Festival. On September 27, 1949, when the People's Republic of China was founded, at the first plenary session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, it was adopted that the first day of the first lunar month of the Gregorian calendar should be used.

The first day of the first month of the lunar calendar is usually around the beginning of spring, so the first day of the first lunar month is definitely the "Spring Festival", commonly known as the lunar year. The Spring Festival in the traditional sense refers to the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month or the twelfth lunar month.

The festival lasts until the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, with New Year's Eve and the first day of the first lunar month being the climax. During the traditional festival of the Spring Festival, China's Han nationality and most ethnic minorities have to hold various celebration activities, most of which are centered on the Spring Festival.

The main activities include worshiping gods and Buddhas, paying homage to ancestors, removing the old and bringing in new blessings, and praying for a good harvest. The activities are rich in variety and have strong national characteristics. One of the legends of the Spring Festival is to stay up late on the last night of the old year.

The custom of not sleeping and staying up late to welcome the new year is also called staying up late on New Year's Eve, commonly known as "staying up late". To explore the origin of this custom, there is an interesting story spread among the people: In ancient times, there was a ferocious monster that lived scattered throughout the world.

In the deep mountains and dense forests, people call them "Nian". It has a ferocious appearance and a ferocious nature. It specializes in eating birds, animals, and scale insects. It changes its taste every day, eating everything from kowtowing insects to living people. It makes people talk about it.

The color of "Nian" changed. Later, people gradually mastered the activity pattern of "Nian". It would rush to crowded places to taste fresh food every 365 days, and the time it appeared was always after dark.

, when the rooster crows and dawn breaks, they return to the mountains and forests. After calculating the date when the "year" will be rampant, the people regard this terrible night as the gateway for evil spirits, calling it "year pass", and come up with a plan.

A complete set of methods for celebrating the New Year: every night on this day, every household prepares dinner in advance, turns off the heat and cleans the stove, fastens all the chicken pens and cattle pens, seals the front and back doors of the house, and hides in the house to eat.

"New Year's Eve dinner", because this dinner has the symbol of bad luck, so it is very sumptuous. In addition to having the whole family eat together to express harmony and reunion, they must also sacrifice to their ancestors before eating and pray for their blessings.

With the blessing of the gods, we spent the night in peace. After dinner, no one dared to sleep, and they sat together chatting to strengthen their courage. The custom of staying up late on New Year's Eve gradually formed in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and many people in the Liang Dynasty.

Literati have poems and essays about staying up late on New Year's Eve.

"People light candles or oil lamps and keep vigil all night, symbolizing driving away all evil plagues and looking forward to good luck in the new year. This custom has been passed down to this day. Spring Festival Legend 2: The Creation of the Calendar for Ten Thousand Years

According to legend, in ancient times, a young man named Wan Nian saw that the seasons were very chaotic, so he decided to fix them. However, he couldn't find a way to calculate the time. One day, he went up the mountain to chop wood and was tired.

, sitting in the shade of a tree to rest, the movement of the tree shadows inspired him, he designed a sundial to measure the time of the day, and later, the dripping spring on the cliff inspired him, and he started to make it again

He built a five-layer clepsydra to calculate time. Over time, he found that the four seasons cycled around every three hundred and sixty days, and the length of the day repeated itself. The king at that time was called Zu Yi, and he was often affected by unpredictable weather conditions.

After Wan Nian found out, he took the sundial and the clepsydra to see the emperor and explained the principles of the movement of the sun and the moon to Zu Yi. After hearing this, Long Yan was very happy and felt that it made sense.

The Sun and Moon Pavilion was built in front of the Temple of Heaven, and a sundial platform and a leaking pot pavilion were built, hoping to accurately measure the laws of the sun and the moon, calculate the accurate morning and evening times, and create a calendar to benefit the people of the world. Once, Zu Yi went to understand.

Ten thousand years to test the progress of the calendar. When he climbed to the Temple of the Sun and Moon, he saw a poem engraved on the stone wall beside the Temple of Heaven: The sun rises and sets three hundred and six times, and the cycle begins again.

Two circles. Knowing that Wannian had established the calendar, he personally went to the Sun and Moon Pavilion to look at Wannian. Wannian pointed at the sky and said to Zu Yi: "Now is the end of the twelve months, the old year is over, and the new year has begun.

, pray to the monarch to set a festival." Zu Yi said: "Spring is the beginning of the year, so let's call it the Spring Festival." It is said that this is the origin of the Spring Festival. Winter goes and spring comes, year after year, ten thousand years after long-term observation and careful calculation

, formulated an accurate solar calendar. When he presented the solar calendar to his successor, his face was covered with silver whiskers.