The Spring Festival, which originated in the Yinshang period, is one of the grandest, liveliest and most important ancient traditional festivals in China, with sacrifices to gods and ancestors at the end of the year. In Chinese folklore, the Spring Festival is traditionally celebrated from the Lunar New Year's Day festival on the eighth day of the first month of the lunar calendar or the Zao festival on the twenty-third or twenty-fourth day of the lunar calendar until the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar, with New Year's Eve and the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar as the climax.
The origin of the Spring Festival:?
Legend has it that there is a beast called "Nian", which comes out to eat people when winter is approaching, making people feel uneasy. People in the fight with the "year", this vicious beast is afraid of fire and noise, so people thought of a way, in the "year" appears, it will light a fire, put into the bamboo, burning fire, "year" heard the sound of firecrackers, they fled. Later, people began to celebrate the New Year with "hanging red lanterns, setting off firecrackers and eating New Year's dinner".
Preparations before the Spring Festival (after the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, all kinds of New Year's activities will gradually unfold)
Sacrificing the God of Zao: Zao Shen, also known as "Zaoshen", is commonly known as "Zaowangshi". Every year on the twenty-third or twenty-fourth day of the Lunar New Year, he returns to the Grand Palace to report to the Jade Emperor. He returns to earth on New Year's Eve. People are worried about spreading slander to the Jade Emperor, so they perform rituals for him when he goes to the Heavenly Palace, hoping that he will "speak good words in heaven and keep peace on earth".
Other preparatory activities: writing spring couplets, preparing meat, preparing noodles, getting a haircut, bathing and cleaning.
Knowing that Wannian's creation of the calendar had come to fruition, he personally climbed up to the Sun and Moon Pavilion to visit Wannian. Wannian pointed to the sky and said to Zuyi: "It is now the fullness of twelve months, the old year is over and the new spring is beginning again, so I pray that the king of the country will set a festival". Zu Yi said, "Spring is the first day of the year, let's call it Spring Festival". This is said to be the origin of the Spring Festival. The Spring Festival is the traditional Lunar New Year in the Chinese cultural circle, commonly known as the "New Year Festival", traditionally known as the New Year, the New Year, the New Year, but also known as the verbal year, the celebration of the New Year, the New Year, is the most important traditional festivals of the Chinese people.
The Spring Festival, which originated in the Yinshang period, is one of the grandest, liveliest and most important ancient traditional festivals in China, with sacrifices to gods and ancestors at the end of the year. In Chinese folklore, the Spring Festival is traditionally celebrated from the Lunar New Year's Day festival on the eighth day of the first month of the lunar calendar or the Zao Festival on the 23rd or 24th day of the lunar month until the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar, with New Year's Eve and the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar as the climax.
The origin of the Spring Festival:?
Legend has it that there is a beast called "Nian", which comes out to eat people when winter is approaching, making people feel uneasy. People in the fight with the "year", this vicious beast is afraid of fire and noise, so people thought of a way, in the "year" appears, it will light a fire, put into the bamboo, burning fire, "year" heard the sound of firecrackers, they fled. Later, people began to celebrate the New Year with "hanging red lanterns, setting off firecrackers and eating New Year's dinner".
Preparations before the Spring Festival (after the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, all kinds of New Year's activities will gradually unfold)
Sacrificing the God of Zao: Zao Shen, also known as "Zaoshen", is commonly known as "Zaowangshi". Every year on the twenty-third or twenty-fourth day of the Lunar New Year, he returns to the Grand Palace to report to the Jade Emperor. He returns to earth on New Year's Eve. People are worried about spreading slander to the Jade Emperor, so they perform rituals for him when he goes to the Heavenly Palace, hoping that he will "speak good words in heaven and keep peace on earth".
Other preparatory activities: writing spring couplets, preparing meat, preparing noodles, getting a haircut, bathing and cleaning.
Knowing that Wannian's creation of the calendar had come to fruition, he personally climbed up to the Sun and Moon Pavilion to visit Wannian. Wannian pointed to the sky and said to Zuyi: "It is now the fullness of twelve months, the old year is over and the new spring is beginning again, so I pray that the king of the country will set a festival". Zu Yi said, "Spring is the first day of the year, let's call it Spring Festival". This is said to be the origin of the Spring Festival.