The origin of the Spring Festival
The Spring Festival, is the first of the year of the lunar calendar, the Spring Festival is another name called the Chinese New Year, is China's biggest, the most lively, the most important of an ancient traditional festival, is also a Chinese unique festival.It is the most concentrated manifestation of Chinese civilization.Since the Western Han Dynasty, the custom of the Spring Festival has continued to this day.The Spring Festival generally refers to the New Year's eve and the first day of the first month.But in the folk, the traditional meaning of the Spring Festival is from the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month or the twelfth lunar month 23 or 24 of the cooking stove, until the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, which to New Year's eve and the first day of the first lunar month for the climax.Celebrate this festival, in thousands of years of historical development, formed some relatively fixed customs and habits, many are still handed down to today.During the Spring Festival this traditional festival, China's Han and most of the ethnic minorities have to hold a variety of celebration activities, these activities mostly to worship gods and Buddhas, ancestors, Buxin, Yingxi Fu, pray for a good harvest as the main content.The activity forms are rich and colorful, with strong ethnic characteristics.May 20, 2006, "Spring Festival" folk customs approved by the State Council included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.
The origin of the Spring Festival has a legend, in ancient China, there was a monster called "year", head long tentacles, fierce abnormal."Year" long deep seabed, every New Year's eve to climb ashore, devour livestock harm lives.Therefore, every New Year's eve that day, the people of the village village village fled to the mountains, in order to avoid "nian" beast injury.One New Year's Eve, an old beggar came from outside the village.Villagers in a hurry panic scene, only the east head of the village an old woman gave the old man some food, and advised him to go up the mountain to avoid the "year" beast, the old man smiled and said: "mother-in-law if let me stay at home for a night, I put the" year "beast out."The old woman still continued to persuade, begging the old man smiling without a word.In the middle of the night, "year" beast into the village.It found that the atmosphere in the village is different from that in previous years: the village's wife's home in the east, the door is pasted with red paper, and the candles in the house are bright."Nian" beast whole body a tremble, strange cry 1.Nearly the door, hospital suddenly spread "banging spluttered" Fried sound, "nian" shuddered, again dare not go up.Originally, "year" most afraid of red, fire and explosion.At this time, her mother-in-law's door wide open, I saw the hospital in a red robe of the old man in laughter."Year" be frightened and change color, panic fled up.The second day is the first day of the first lunar month, refuge back to the people see the village safe and sound very surprised.At this time, the old woman was suddenly enlightened, and quickly told the villagers the promise of begging the old man.This matter soon spread around the village, people know the way to drive "nian" beast.Since then every New Year's eve, every family paste red couplets, set off firecrackers;Household candle flame, ShouGeng to wait for years.Early in the morning on the first day, but also go kiss string friends say hello.This custom spread more and more wide, became the Chinese folk most ceremonious traditional festival.
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