The origin and place of the Spring Festival
The Spring Festival originated in ancient times, and the specific year can no longer be traced back.About There are many speculations about the origin of the Spring Festival.There is a kind of speculation about the origin of the Spring Festival among the people, that Langzhong City, Nanchong City, Sichuan Province, is the birthplace of the Spring Festival, and Langzhong City also has the custom of celebrating the Spring Festival every year.
The history of the Spring Festival
The Spring Festival has a history of about three or four thousand years.It was originally New Year’s Day in the lunar calendar, which is commonly known as the New Year.It originated from the activities of worshiping gods and ancestors at the beginning and end of the year in the Yin and Shang Dynasties.There are many legends about the New Year.The ancient Spring Festival is called "Yuan Ri", "New Year", "Zhengdan", "Sui Shou", "San Yuan", etc.After the 1911 Revolution of 1911, the Nanjing Provisional Government, in order to adapt to the agricultural season and facilitate statistics, stipulated that the summer calendar should be used by the people, and the Gregorian calendar should be implemented in government agencies, factories, mines, schools and organizations.The first day is called "Spring Festival".According to research, the Spring Festival became the official title after the Revolution of 1911.
In the Wuchang Uprising in October 1911, on December 31, the Hubei military government of the revolutionaries issued the "Encyclical of the Ministry of Internal Affairs on Switching the Republic of China to the Gregorian Calendar", which clearly stated that the (lunar calendar) The festival is called "Spring Festival".On September 27, 1949, New China was officially established.At the first plenary session of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, the use of the Gregorian calendar, which is commonly used in the world, was adopted, and the first day of the first month of the Gregorian calendar was designated as New Year’s Day, commonly known as the Gregorian calendar year; The first day of the first month of the lunar calendar is usually around the beginning of spring, so the first month of the lunar calendar must be called the "Spring Festival", commonly known as the lunar year.It is widely popular so far.
The birthplace of the Spring Festival
In legend, Langzhong City, Nanchong City, Sichuan Province is the birthplace of the Spring Festival, because in the Western Han Dynasty, the world-renowned astronomer from Langzhong fell to Hong and created the "Tai Beginning".Calendar", set the first month as the beginning of the year, and set the first day of the first month as the first day of the year.Since then, there is the current "Spring Festival", and Luoxiahong is also honored as "the old man of the Chinese Spring Festival".In Langzhong Ancient City, people celebrate the Spring Festival in various forms from the "eighth day of the twelfth lunar month" in the previous year to "the second day of the second lunar month" in the next year.
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