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Spring Festival, Chinese the most grand and grand festival. For Chinese, the importance of the Spring Festival is self-evident, it has become not only a simple festival, but also a symbol of Chinese spiritual culture.
Every year near the Spring Festival, whether it is a wanderer who is wandering and working overseas, or a foreigner who works in a distant place, he always has to go back to work in a different place, crossing the mountains and rivers and the sea, turning over thousands of mountains and rivers, returning to his hometown, returning to the embrace of his home, and returning to the place of his original roots.
01 Why should Chinese celebrate the New Year?
Chinese attaches more importance to the Spring Festival than any other country. In the world, the countries that celebrate the Old Calendar New Year are not limited to China, but to say that like Chinese, the Spring Festival will be so vigorous, it can be said that only Chinese.
Chinese have passed the Spring Festival to the extreme, and before the Spring Festival, people have begun to count the days and count the days of home. For Chinese, it seems that the whole year is busy, and it seems that it is ultimately for the reunion and reunion of the next year.
In China, when it comes to "New Year", everyone invariably thinks of the lively and celebratory days of the Spring Festival. However, if you ask Chinese why you want to "celebrate the New Year", many people may not be able to answer.
New Year, in fact, refers to the "New Year's Festival", today people call it "Spring Festival".
Chinese has a long history of celebrating the Spring Festival, which has been for nearly 4,000 years, and it is regarded as a major festival that begins the Spring Festival of the year.
The new spring, the new spring, the new year is the beginning of spring, the time for the revival of all things. Just by listening to the name, you can probably think of it as having a certain relationship with primitive beliefs and farming activities.
As early as ancient times, people set the age according to the shift of the bucket star, with the "bucket handle returning to Yin" as the first year. The earth returns to spring, and finally begins, everything is renewed, and a new cycle of reincarnation begins.
In the traditional farming society of the past, the importance of the first spring age is self-evident. The new year, the new beginning, the early spring, is a good period for the germination and growth of agricultural crops, and the impact of this period on agricultural production is self-evident.
It was also in this way that people at that time would hold various sacrifices on this festival to pray for ancestral protection, kindness, and blessings.
Of course, in fact, not only the Spring Festival, but also the traditional chinese festival folklore and other activities, many solar terms are related to farming activities. After all, from ancient times to the present, China has always been a big farming country.
Spring Festival, also known as Yuan Day, ZhengDan, Xinyuan, etc., is the annual festival of the old Chinese calendar. It is said that the emergence of the Spring Festival stems from people's celebrations of the New Year, according to relevant research, as early as the Summer Period, the ancients had the concept of "year" time.
In the oracle bones of the Shang Dynasty, there is a record of "year", and the word "year" in the oracle bone is "one person and one grass", and the original meaning of "year" is to be familiar with each other.
The word "year" is written in the Spring and Autumn Classics and the Sixteenth Year of Xuangong: "There is a great year." "The Sixth Year of Gu Liang Chuan Xuan Gong" contains: Five grains are ripe for a big year.
Earliest, the word "nian" meant harvest of grains, which was its original origin and original meaning.
The Spring Festival was called "Zai" during the Yu Shun, "Year" during the Xia Dynasty, "Qi" during the Shang Dynasty, and "Nian" during the Zhou Dynasty. Because the original meaning of "year" refers to the grain growth cycle. The millet is hot once a year, so the Spring Festival is also once a year, so the Spring Festival initially contains the meaning of celebrating a bumper harvest.
In ancient times, the Spring Festival was a day of "one-dimensional restoration, the renewal of everything in Vientiane", which heralded the arrival of spring, the beginning of beauty and hope.
02 The transformation of New Year's customs
Spring Festival is the most grand festival in Chinese, and it has a history of more than 4,000 years Chinese the Spring Festival. There are many theories about the origin of the Spring Festival, but the most widely accepted version of this is that the Spring Festival was arose by Yu Shun.
One day more than 2,000 years AGO, Shun, the Son of Heaven, led his subordinates to worship heaven and earth. Since then, people have taken this day as the beginning of the year, later called "Spring Festival", on this day to carry out spring festival, door gods, firecrackers and other celebrations.
As early as ancient times, people attached great importance to the Spring Festival festival. Every year, when the New Year is approaching, the emperor will hold a pilgrimage meeting, and all the civil and military officials will come to participate in the imperial meeting, singing and dancing, celebrating the arrival of the new year. The sheer number and scale of it is shocking.
During the Tang Dynasty, the people's New Year, the liveliness is no less than today's ordinary people, it is said that on the fifteenth day of the first month, the government will make an exception to cancel the night ban in the capital for three days, the palace will sing and dance, the city of Chang'an Street will be on the fire trees and honeysuckle, the crowds are crowded, a song and dance, a prosperous situation.
Nowadays, after thousands of years of evolution, Chinese the Spring Festival, specific customs have long been formed.
Nowadays, most people's impression of the Spring Festival customs mostly stays in childhood, especially after the "80s" and "90s", at the junction of the old and new eras, poverty subsides, and material resources are gradually abundant, and the customs and activities of the New Year are more impressive.
In that relatively simple era, children spent the Spring Festival, and they liked to follow their fathers, mothers, grandfathers, and grandmothers to catch up with the market, buy New Year goods, buy new clothes, and small snacks. Chinese New Year's Eve night, children set off small firecrackers and set off fireworks around a group. In the evening, I had a reunion dinner with my family, dressed in new clothes, and went to the homes of neighbors and relatives to visit the New Year.
Nowadays, with the development of society, people's living standards have improved, materials have become more abundant, and people can buy more and more things at will. And the more easily accessible things are, the less likely they are to be cherished and valued.
In the past, half a month before the Spring Festival approached, people had already begun to prepare for the New Year. On the 20th of the 20th month, we have already begun to prepare for the New Year, clean the house, and busy with various preparations before the New Year.
Nowadays, material resources are abundant, online shopping and other methods have increased, and people's sense of demand for New Year goods has decreased.
In the past, New Year's greetings were also an important New Year's ceremonial activity, when people put on new clothes early, dressed up carefully, and brought New Year gifts to relatives and friends' homes to visit the New Year, and to contact the feelings between relatives and friends.
Nowadays, the popularity of mobile phones and other means of communication, the number of people who visit the New Year is gradually becoming less and less, especially young people, everyone has a mobile phone, and they have gradually become a "low-headed family". Today's friendship between relatives and friends is mostly maintained by the older generation.
03 The taste of the year is getting weaker and weaker, is there still a need for the New Year?
Spring Festival, Chinese traditional festival, is also an important cultural custom for the spiritual inheritance of the Chinese nation. In the historical development and evolution of thousands of years, Chinese has always adhered to this traditional custom, and the Spring Festival has become a cultural symbol of the Chinese nation, which carries too many cultural connotations.
Throughout the ages, a "year" word has carried Chinese many sweet feelings. The word "nian" has been deeply imprinted in the skeletal blood veins of Chinese.
For this reason, no matter how the times change and how the taste of the year fades, the belief in home in our hearts should not change. In the winter of the cold winter moon, a good New Year is the longest confession to the family.
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