The Spring Festival is the first day of the Chinese Lunar New Year”
Spring Festival generally refers to New Year's Eve and the first day of the first lunar month. But in the folk, the Spring Festival in the traditional sense refers to the festival from the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month or the stove on the twenty-third or twenty-fourth day of the twelfth lunar month, until the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, with the climax of the new year's eve and the first day of the first lunar month. During the Spring Festival, the Han and many ethnic minorities in our country will hold various activities to celebrate. These activities are mainly based on offering sacrifices to gods and Buddhas, paying homage to ancestors, removing the old and clothing the new, welcoming the jubilee and receiving blessings, and praying for a good harvest. The activities are rich and colorful, with strong national characteristics.
The beginning of the Chinese Lunar New Year is called the Spring Festival. It is the most solemn traditional festival for the Chinese people, and it also symbolizes unity, prosperity, and a festival that places new hopes for the future. According to records, the Chinese New Year has a history of more than 4,000 years, and it was raised by Yu Shun. One day more than two thousand BC, Shun was the seat of the emperor, leading his subordinates to worship the heaven and the earth. Since then, people have regarded this day as the first day of the year, which is the first day of the first lunar month. It is said that this is the origin of the Lunar New Year, which was later called the Spring Festival. The Spring Festival is also called New Year's Day. The month of the Spring Festival is called January.
However, the dates of New Year's Day in the Chinese dynasties are not consistent: the Xia Dynasty uses the first month of Meng Chun as the first month, the Shang Dynasty uses the twelfth lunar month (December) as the first month, and the first emperor of Qin uses October as the first month after the unified six countries. The Qin calendar was used in the early Han Dynasty. . Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Liu Che, felt that the calendar was too chaotic, and ordered the ministers Gongsunqing and Sima Qian to create a "solar calendar", stipulating that the first month of the lunar calendar is the first year of the year, and the first day of the year is the first day of the year, which is New Year's Day. Since then, China has been using the Xia calendar (lunar calendar, also known as the lunar calendar) to record the year until the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, which lasted as long as 2080.
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