1, the original meaning of the year is that the grain is ripe, and the New Year is to celebrate the bumper harvest of the grain. 1949 On September 27th, at the first plenary session of China People's Political Consultative Conference, the first day of the first lunar month was officially named Spring Festival;

2. The Spring Festival started in Yu Shun. One day more than two thousand years BC, Shun was the emperor, leading his subordinates to worship heaven and earth. Since then, people have regarded this day as the beginning of the year, which is the first day of the first month. It is said that this is the origin of the Lunar New Year, which was later called the Spring Festival.

traditional custom

1, do new year's goods

China's annual custom culture has a long history, and various Chinese New Year customs are derived from all parts of the country, with different characteristics in the north and south. Although the customs vary from place to place, preparing new year's goods and sending new year's gifts are "necessary for the New Year" almost all over the country. Buying new year's goods, including food, clothes, clothes, use, stickers (New Year's Eve) and gifts (New Year's Eve), are collectively called "new year's goods", and the process of purchasing new year's goods is called "buying new year's goods". It is an important activity for China people to celebrate the Spring Festival.

2. Sacrifice the stove

Folk sacrificial stoves originated from the ancient custom of worshipping fire. For example, "Explanation of Names" said: "Kitchen. Make it, create food. " The kitchen god's duty is to take charge of the kitchen fire and manage the diet. Later, it was expanded to investigate the good and evil in the world, so as to reduce good and evil. Sacrificing kitchen stoves has a history of thousands of years in China, and the belief in kitchen god is a reflection of China people's dream of "having enough food and clothing".