1. The Spring Festival was not called "Spring Festival" before.
The first day of the first lunar month was not called the Spring Festival in ancient times, but New Year's Day. After the Xinhai Revolution, the Gregorian calendar was adopted, so january 1 of the Gregorian calendar was called New Year's Day, and the first day of the first lunar month was the Spring Festival.
2. The "Spring Festival" was not a festival before.
The term "Spring Festival" in Chinese history is not a festival, but refers specifically to the "Lichun" in the twenty-four solar terms. The "Book of the Later Han Dynasty, The Biography of Yang Zhen" says: "The Spring Festival did not rain, the hundred officials were anxious, and the repair was not stopped, and the sign of drought was also sincere." By the time of the Southern and Northern Dynasties, "Spring Festival" refers to the entire spring.
3. The Spring Festival has a narrow and broad meaning.
Today's Spring Festival in the narrow sense generally refers to the beginning of the Chinese lunar year, that is, the first day of the first lunar month. The Spring Festival in a broad folk sense refers to the wax festival from the eighth day of the first lunar month or the sacrifice stove of the 23rd and 24th day of the waxing moon, all the way to the fifteenth day of the first month.
4. The time of the Spring Festival (the first day of the first lunar month) swims between January 21 and February 21 in the Gregorian calendar.
The difference between the "earliest Spring Festival" (such as January 21, 1966) and the "latest Spring Festival" (such as February 20, 1985) is a full month.
According to the calendar, if the lunar calendar is not artificially adjusted, February 21, 2319 will usher in the "latest Spring Festival in history", after the Spring Festival appeared at the latest on February 20 of the Gregorian calendar, 1920 and 1985.
5. The Spring Festival may be two.
Leap Spring Festival, also known as "Leap Month", began in 1645 AD using the calendar leap system, and by 2800 AD, the leap month of the lunar calendar occurred only 6 times, and its years were 1651, 2262, 2357, 2520, 2539, and 2634.
In this case, in principle, the Spring Festival has passed the first first month, but there have been two times.
6. Chinese New Year's Eve will also be in "Twenty-Nine".
There are no 30 days in a month, which is a very normal thing in the lunar calendar. Because the current lunar calendar is arranged according to the astronomical data of the earth, the moon, and the sun, it is necessary to see any bright part of the moon on the first day of each month, that is, "Shuo".
In fact, the average period of the moon from round to missing is 29.53 days, and the number of days in the arranged month must be an integer, which leads to the emergence of large and small months, which will occur when a month has 30 days and a certain month has 29 days.
If this month happens to be the Waxing Moon, then there is no Chinese New Year's Eve in this year (lunar calendar), and the Chinese New Year's Eve is also advanced to the twenty-ninth waxing moon.
7. Spring Festival is not only in China.
In addition to China, there are many countries in the world that list the Lunar New Year as a legal holiday: South Korea, North Korea, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Mauritius, Myanmar, Brunei. In addition, in the past, Japan also had a lunar new year, but after the Meiji Restoration, the lunar calendar was abolished, and the festival was moved directly to the solar calendar.
8. Pressing old money is not actually "money".
Pressing money is not actually "money", but an item minted in the shape of a coin. Legend has it that in ancient times, there was a small demon with black hands and white hands, called "Qi", who came out every year Chinese New Year's Eve night to harm people, and the money was specially used to scare it away.
9. The upside-down sticker of the word "Fu" is exquisite.
The word "Fu" on the gate cannot be pasted upside down, and in the folk tradition, water tanks, garbage bins and cabinets must be pasted upside down. In order to avoid taking away the blessings of the family when pouring water and garbage, the word fu is pasted in these two places, and the "blessing to" is cleverly used to offset the "blessing".
10. The earliest firecrackers were really bamboo.
The earliest reliable record of firecrackers can be found in the Southern Dynasty Liang Dynasty Zong Shu's "Jingchu Chronicle": "The first day of the first month is the day of the three yuan, which is called the end of the moon." Chickens chirp and firecrackers are fired before the court to avoid the evil ghosts of the mountains. "At that time, firecrackers were burned in a fire, because bamboo burning made a "crackling" sound, so it was called firecrackers. And the first thing to get up in the new year is also firecrackers.
Later, gunpowder appeared, and people filled saltpeter, sulfur and charcoal with charcoal and burned it in bamboo tubes, resulting in a "burst war". In the Song Dynasty, the Han people began to use paper tubes and hemp stems wrapped in gunpowder in strings to make "weaving cannons" (i.e., firecrackers).
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Source: Qiyi Network, Qiyi Client, People's Network Editor/Yang Qingqing
Editor-in-Charge/Chen Meng Review/Xie Tao