The Japanese have many interesting customs during the festival. These customs have been spread in Japan for thousands of years. Japan has been deeply influenced by Chinese culture. These folk customs also have the privacy of our Han culture. In the early days, the Japanese celebrated two Spring Festivals like the Chinese.

and the Old Calendar New Year and the New Calendar New Year, and later only changed to celebrate the New Calendar New Year and Chinese New Year's Day.

So why did the Japanese give up celebrating the Spring Festival in the later period?

And for them, how do they welcome the new year?

1: From the "ban order" on Chinese New Year to today's Yamato national Spring Festival 1: The abandoned old calendar Before the Meiji Restoration, Japan still celebrated the Lunar New Year just like China. However, after the Meiji Restoration, due to various reasons, Japan

After changing the old calendar to the Western calendar, there is actually no real Spring Festival in Japan as we call it.

Perhaps to put it another way, the Spring Festival they understand is different from the Spring Festival we understand. The Spring Festival they celebrate falls on the first lunar month.

It is essentially the same as the first month in our country, but because Japan abolished the old calendar in the popular period, what we call the lunar calendar, the direct name of the first month is called the Spring Festival.

As we all know, Japan is a country that values ??the strong.

Historically, Japan was also a relatively well-known country, but it was later taught a lesson by China's Tang Dynasty. From then on, it began to learn from China and imitate China. Many festivals are the same as China's Daqing, so in ancient Japan, the Spring Festival was celebrated.

Like China, we use the lunar calendar.

Japan has not celebrated the Spring Festival since the Meiji Restoration. At that time, Japan was controlled by the Americans and was forced to open up Japan. From that time on, Japan began to fully accept Western culture and abolished China after comprehensively learning Western culture.

The lunar calendar is called the old calendar in Japan.

In some remote areas today, such customs and habits still exist, and it will be reported as domestic news on that day, but it is no longer a statutory holiday.

The lunar calendar still exists, and the vernal equinox and the autumnal equinox are still legal holidays in Japan.

Originally, the first month of the lunar calendar was celebrated in Japan, and new changes began with the Meiji Restoration. The Meiji Restoration in 1872 was aimed at Westernization, so the rulers at the time chose to adopt Western methods.

According to the Western calendar, it was ordered to prohibit resting on the festivals of the lunar calendar. Instead, New Year's Day of the Western calendar was the famous festival.

In order to quickly transform the national concept of time into the Westernized time at that time, it was stipulated to celebrate the beginning of the year according to the Western calendar.

It only took a few decades for the Western calendar to take root on New Year's Day, and then the government of the people continued to use the Western calendar.

Compared with other cultural circles with Chinese characters, Japan broke away from the agricultural economy and society earlier. In the process of modernization, the concept of the lunar calendar has almost disappeared.

So after that, Japan's Spring Festival was no longer the same as our country's Spring Festival, but was changed to New Year's Day, which is January 1 of the new calendar, in sync with Western countries.

2: Unable to advance the 13th month's salary. For the Japanese at that time, Emperor Meiji suddenly issued an edict to abolish it and legislate the full adoption of the Western Gregorian calendar. This announcement was very sudden and unacceptable to people.

So why did the Japanese government suddenly abolish the old calendar?

In addition to the cultural invasion of the West, there are other reasons.

The traditional calendar is a combination of lunar and yang, which means that China’s lunar and yang calendar is the only one in the world that simultaneously refers to the movement of the sun and the moon.

Because in this calendar that combines yin and yang, there will be leap months.

In other words, there will be a 13th month in a year. If the Western solar calendar is used, this problem will not occur.

This was an answer given by Japanese officials at the time, but on a deeper level, we have to look at it from a national economic perspective.

If there are 13 months in a year, wouldn’t office workers get one more month’s salary?

But from the government's perspective, the government needed to pay 13 months' salary to the staff at the time. At that time, it was the early days of the Meiji Restoration, and the government paid a large amount of economic expenses for infrastructure construction.

There was no extra financial resources to pay salaries, so they took advantage of the invasion of Western culture to get rid of the old Chinese calendar.

But no matter what, the Japanese nowadays usually refer to New Year's Eve as New Year's Eve or Great Dark Day. During these days, they not only retain the traditional Chinese folk customs, but also add their local characteristics and humanistic customs.

However, the Chinese New Year in Japan is not too grand. The most solemn one is the Western holiday Christmas, which may have been influenced by Western legislation at the time.