Introduction: I believe that everyone is very familiar with the Spring Festival, which is a very important festival for any Chinese, but the current Spring Festival is very short, and there are many twists and turns. Most people return to their hometowns to reunite with their relatives during the Spring Festival, but in China's history, there was a time when the Spring Festival was forbidden, and everyone was not allowed to take a holiday, and if they celebrated the Spring Festival, they would be directly arrested. Because of this, it has aroused the curiosity of countless people, so what kind of Spring Festival is this?
For the first time, Sun Yat-sen banned the Spring Festival
If the word Spring Festival appears in everyone's life, it is actually only more than a hundred years of history, and in the late Qing Dynasty, if you talk about the Spring Festival with others, I am afraid that few people can know. Because at that time, the Spring Festival was still called New Year's Day by the people, but after the Xinhai Revolution, there was a conflict between the traditional Chinese lunar calendar and the solar calendar in the first year of the Republic of China, so when faced with this situation, many revolutionaries felt that it should be New Year's Day and not the Spring Festival.
It was also in this situation that in 1912 the top echelons of the government hoped to abolish all old ideas, and even the Spring Festival was banned. On January 1, 1912, Sun Yat-sen read the oath and announced that the traditional Spring Festival would no longer be officially recognized by the yin and yang, and that the New Year's Day of the solar calendar would be used as the first day of the new year.
Although the government announced such an order, it was not approved by the people, because everyone had long been in the habit of respecting traditional customs, and because of this, the People still celebrate the Spring Festival according to tradition. However, this situation caused dissatisfaction among the authorities, especially in 1913, when the police chief interfered with the Old Calendar New Year and forbade the people to celebrate the Old Calendar New Year, but this practice also caused dissatisfaction among many people.
Yuan Shikai allowed the Spring Festival
Soon after Yuan Shikai became the president, the Spring Festival was approved, and on the day of the Spring Festival of the old calendar, the whole country could rest for a day, and it was implemented from 1914, which is why China had the first legal Spring Festival in 1914. In order to celebrate the new Spring Festival, the people who were originally very dissatisfied with the government's oppression and did not let the Spring Festival pass the Spring Festival were extremely happy, almost every household bought fireworks to celebrate, and large and small shopping malls also began to rest.
In 1914, the year was the collision between new and old ideas and an important period of change in New China, and many people in the folk had a very profound understanding of this, but many new changes also made everyone feel very troubled, but fortunately the traditional Spring Festival is still preserved and has been used to this day.
The Kuomintang tried to ban the Spring Festival altogether
Although the people were able to celebrate the Spring Festival every year, the development of the Spring Festival was still a twist and turn, and in 1924 the Kuomintang authorities again proposed to abolish the Spring Festival. Lao She once recorded in his works that he still needed to go to school on the day of the Chinese New Year's Eve. By 1928, China had achieved nominal reunification, and the Kuomintang's desire to withdraw from the Spring Festival had reached its peak, deciding to abolish the lunar New Year beginning in 1929.
This time, the Kuomintang government was very resolute and also took into account that many ordinary people may not obey this order, so it was directly ordered that anyone who sold items related to the Spring Festival would be arrested, and if they secretly hid at home for the festival, they would also be arrested. Some places even go to the homes of ordinary people to investigate, and if they find that someone eats dumplings or celebrates the Spring Festival, they will be directly arrested. It is precisely because of this that 1929 has become the only year in China that the Spring Festival has been completely banned. However, this practice caused dissatisfaction among hundreds of people, so in the second year, after the authorities were relatively lax in control, many people began to secretly celebrate the Spring Festival, and even became more lively than before.
Conclusion: Although Sun Yat-sen and the Kuomintang government wanted to abolish the Spring Festival more than once, this traditional Chinese festival has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people and cannot be abolished at all. Because of this, the Spring Festival in Chinese history has only been abolished for one year