"yuan"; "Yuanri" means "the initial day". Now generally refers to the first day of the first lunar month. "
Refers to the initial day or auspicious day. Yuan means "beginning", and the beginning of every number is called "yuan"; "Yuanri" means "the initial day". The biography of Wang Mang in the Han Dynasty: "It's the first day of the reign of Wu Zi, and the tenth day of the reign of Wu Yin is the death day of the faint (marriage), so many people don't follow it." ; Yan Shigu's Note: "Yuan is good."
Refers to the first day of the first month. "Book Shun Dian": "The moon is on the right day, and Shun Ge is in the ancestor of Wen Xiang." Kong Chuan: "The moon is positive, the first month; January day, last day.
January Day refers to the Spring Festival. During the Spring Festival, there are many kinds of celebration activities, such as lion dancing, floating colors, dragon dancing, visiting gods, temple fairs, visiting flower streets, enjoying lanterns, playing gongs and drums, cursor flags, burning fireworks, praying for blessings, dancing in spring, walking on stilts, running dry boats, dancing yangko and so on.
There are different customs in different regions, which are mixed with many kinds of folk customs, forming some relatively fixed customs and habits, many of which are still passed down to this day.
There are many aliases for Yuanri, such as Yuanshuo, Yuanzheng, Zhengdan, Duanri, New Year, Yuanchun and so on. Yuan is called "beginning", and the beginning of every number is called.
The Spring Festival is the most important festival of the Han nationality. More than a dozen ethnic minorities, such as Manchu, Mongolian, Yao, Zhuang, Bai, Gaoshan, Hezhe, Hani, Daur, Dong and Li, have also had the custom of the Spring Festival, but the form of the festival has its own national characteristics and is more meaningful.
The Spring Festival is a new day to get rid of the old cloth. Although it is scheduled on the first day of the first lunar month, the activities of the Spring Festival are not limited to the first day of the first lunar month. From the end of the 23 rd year, people began to "be busy with the year": offering sacrifices to stoves, sweeping dust, buying new year's goods, putting up new year's red, washing their hair and bathing, decorating with lanterns and so on; All these activities have a common theme, that is, "saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new". The Spring Festival is a joyful, peaceful and family reunion festival, and it is also a carnival and an eternal spiritual pillar for people to express their yearning for happiness and freedom. During the Chinese New Year Festival, friends and relatives visit each other to pay New Year greetings, expressing their feelings for friends and relatives and their best wishes for life in the new year.