During the Spring Festival, various activities are held to celebrate the New Year all over the country, with strong local characteristics.

These activities are mainly based on removing the old and clothing the new, driving away evil spirits and disasters, worshiping gods and ancestors, and praying for blessings and blessings.

In the early era of observation and timing, the year was determined according to the shift of the stars, and the "bucket handle Huiyin" was the first of the year.

The earth of "Bucket Handle Huiyin" rejuvenates, and finally begins again, Vientiane is renewed, and a new cycle is opened.

In the traditional agrarian society, the beginning of spring is of great significance, and a large number of related festivals and customs have been derived.

In the course of historical development, although the calendar is used differently and the date of the first festival of the year is different, the festival framework and many folk customs have been inherited.

Nowadays, people set the Spring Festival on the first day of the first lunar month, but it usually does not end until at least the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

The Spring Festival is a folk festival that integrates worshipping gods and ancestors, praying for blessings and warding off evil spirits, reunion of relatives and friends, celebration of entertainment and food.

Led by the 100th year, the Spring Festival is the most solemn traditional festival in China.

"Wow, that sounds interesting!"

Li Li's eyes lit up, and she looked so playful, she suddenly began to look forward to the Chinese New Year that Guan He said, it must be very interesting!

Meng Guanhe looked strange, on the day of the New Year, the elders all wanted to give red envelopes to the juniors, and the old ancestor, as the highest elder of the Meng family, was afraid that he was going bankrupt!

"I'm rich!"

Li Li said unconvinced, "Don't worry, no matter who it is, on New Year's Day, I will give you a big red envelope!" ”

She's the richest dragon cub, not the poorest!

"Uh, are you sure?"

Meng Guanhe looked uncertain, there were more than 200 people in their Meng clan from top to bottom!

This is definitely a big family, and with his understanding of the ancestors, the red envelopes of the ancestors must be not small, if this is distributed to each one, are you sure that you will not go bankrupt?

"Are you doubting Princess Ben's words?"

The little guy looked displeased, she was an ancestor, this unscrupulous descendant, dared to doubt her, she should be beaten!

"Disciple doesn't dare!"

Meng Guanhe shook his head bitterly, the coercion of the old ancestor was so terrifying that he almost didn't scare him.

Hey, the old ancestor deserves to be the old ancestor!

"You tell me about this New Year!"

"Yes!"

It seems that the ancestors are very interested in the New Year, and they have to behave well, maybe they can cheat from the ancestors, and the ancestors reward themselves with some resources.

Now who in the Meng clan doesn't know that the ancestor has loose hands and follows the ancestor, it is definitely a blessing from the previous life, but it can't be lost!

"I'll give you New Year's traditions first!"

"Well, you name it!"

The little guy was lying lazily on the sofa, watching cartoons, while listening to Meng Guanhe give her New Year's customs, good guy, that is definitely a model of dual-mindedness!

The first custom of the New Year is to keep the year, also known as the fire of the year, the year of the year, etc., which has a long history, and the Chinese Han people have the habit of keeping the year on Chinese New Year's Eve, commonly known as "staying up for the year".

It is the custom of not sleeping on the last night of the old year and staying up late to welcome the arrival of the new year, also called Chinese New Year's Eve, commonly known as "staying up the year".

Exploring the origin of this custom is an interesting story that circulates among the people.

In the primeval period, there was a fierce monster that lived in the deep mountains and dense forests, and people called them "Nian". Its appearance is hideous, ferocious by nature, specializing in birds and animals, scaly insects, changing a taste every day, from kowtow insects to eating big living people, making people talk about the "year" color change.

Later, people slowly grasped the activity law of "Nian", which is to go to the place where the crowd gathers once every 365 days to taste the freshness, and the time of haunting is after dark, and when the rooster cries and dawn, it returns to the mountains and forests.

After calculating the date of the "New Year", the people regarded this terrible night as a pass, called it "Nian Guan", and came up with a whole set of ways to pass the New Year.

Every night, every family prepares dinner in advance, turns off the fire and cleans the stove, and then ties all the chicken pens and cattle pens, seals the front and back doors of the house, and hides in the house to eat "Chinese New Year's Eve dinner".

In addition to asking the whole family to gather around to express harmony and reunion, it is also necessary to offer sacrifices to the ancestors before eating, pray for the blessings of the ancestors, and spend the night peacefully, after dinner, no one dares to sleep, huddle together and chat and strengthen their courage, and gradually formed the habit of staying up on Chinese New Year's Eve.

The custom of keeping the New Year arose in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and many literati in the Liang Dynasty had poems and essays about keeping the New Year. "One night is two years old, and five watches are divided into two years."

People light candles or oil lamps and keep vigils all night to symbolize the exorcism of all evil plagues and the hope of good luck in the new year, and this custom has been passed down to this day.

In addition to this, there is another theory.

According to legend, in ancient times, there was a young man named Wan Nian, who saw that the seasons were very chaotic at that time, and he had a plan to set the seasons accurately.

But he couldn't find a way to calculate the time, and one day, when he was tired from going up the mountain to chop wood, he sat down in the shade of a tree to rest, and the movement of the shadows of the trees inspired him.

He designed a sundial to measure the time of day, and later, the dripping spring on the cliff inspired him, and he made a five-layer leaky pot to calculate the time.

As the days went by, he found that every 360 days, the four seasons were reincarnated, and the length of the days was repeated.

The monarch at that time was called Zu Yi, and he was often distressed by the unpredictable weather.

After Wannian knew about it, he took the sundial and the leaky pot to see the emperor, and explained to Zu Yi the truth of the operation of the sun and the moon.

After hearing this, Zu Yi felt that it made sense, so he left ten thousand years behind, built the Sun and Moon Pavilion in front of the Temple of Heaven, and built the sundial platform and the leaky pot pavilion.

And hope to measure the law of the sun and the moon, calculate the accurate morning and evening time, create a calendar, and benefit the people of the world.

Once, Zu Yi went to learn about the progress of the 10,000-year test calendar.

When he ascended the Temple of the Sun and the Moon, he saw a poem engraved on the stone wall next to the Temple of Heaven: The sunrise and sunset are three hundred and six, and the cycle starts from the beginning.

The grass and trees are divided into four times, and there are twelve rounds in a year.

Knowing that the calendar for the creation of ten thousand years had been completed, he personally climbed the Sun and Moon Pavilion to visit ten thousand years.

Wan Nian pointed to the celestial phenomena and said to Zu Yi: "It is now the end of the twelfth month, the old year is over, and the new year is resumed, so please ask the monarch to set a festival."

Zu Yi said: "Spring is the first year of the year, so let's call it the Spring Festival."

It is said that this is the origin of the Spring Festival.

Winter went to spring, year after year, after a long period of observation, careful calculation, and developed an accurate solar calendar, when he presented the solar calendar to the successor monarch, he was already full of silver beard.

The monarch was deeply moved, and in order to commemorate the achievements of ten thousand years, he named the solar calendar "perpetual calendar" and named ten thousand years as the sun and moon birthday star. In the future, people hung their birthdays during the New Year to commemorate the 10,000 years of high morality. (The above information comes from Baidu)

Meng Guanhuai couldn't help sweating, "You have a great talent for storytelling!" ”