What is the difference between the Beginning of Spring and the Spring Festival? Why are they not on the same day?
I believe that many friends who are not familiar with Chinese culture will think that China’s Spring Festival is on the "Lichun" solar term. So what is the difference between Lichun and the Spring Festival? Why are they not on the same day? Most traditional festivals are concentrated in the twelfth lunar month, when people celebrate the harvest of the past year in the cold winter and look forward to good luck in the coming year. What festivals are there in the twelfth month of the lunar calendar? The Fortune Teller website’s special feature on the twelfth month of the lunar calendar will help you learn more.What is the difference between the Beginning of Spring and the Spring Festival? Why are they not on the same day?The Beginning of Spring is the first of the traditional 24 solar terms. In ancient times, people celebrated the festival on the day of the Beginning of Spring, which is equivalent to the modern "Spring Festival", and the first day of the first lunar month was called "New Year's Day". Before 1912, China's Spring Festival was counted from the day of the Beginning of Spring.In 1911, the Xinhai Revolution led by Sun Yat-sen established the Republic of China. After he moved "New Year's Day" to January 1 of the Gregorian calendar, he did not change the "Spring Festival" because the existence of the Spring Festival is very important for agricultural production and has symbolic significance. But two years later, the "Spring Festival" was also moved to the first day of the first lunar month. After the new Spring Festival arrangement was promulgated, "celebrating the Spring Festival" quickly became popular among the people. The previous "New Year's Festival" completely became the "Annual Festival". Since then, the practice of calling the beginning of the Xia calendar year the Spring Festival has continued to this day. From then on, my country decided to use the Gregorian calendar's algorithm, and officially designated the first day of the first lunar month as "Spring Festival" and January 1 of the Gregorian calendar as "New Year's Day", which is the "Gregorian New Year". Under such circumstances, there is no dispute that the lunar new year starts on the first day of the first lunar month, but there has been controversy about when the lunar zodiac year that people use starts. Currently, most people believe that the "Lichun" solar term is the beginning of the lunar zodiac year, because in the ancient Chinese calendar, the calculation of the twelve zodiac signs has a lot to do with the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches. Therefore, under the condition of "discussing the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches and calculating the twenty-four solar terms", the "Lichun" solar term should be the beginning of the new zodiac sign. In fact, there is a big difference between the Gregorian calendar and the lunar calendar, usually about one month or more. my country's current calendar is usually a dual-track system, that is, it adopts both the Gregorian calendar and the lunar calendar. From the perspective of production, life, and folk culture, the lunar calendar can better reflect astronomical phenomena and farming time, is more conducive to sowing and harvesting, and is more in line with Chinese people's habits. In the popular folk theory of numerology and feng shui, the lunar calendar is an important basis for judging one's fortune in life. For example, people's birth dates are all based on the lunar calendar's stems and branches. It is based on the relationship between these stems and branches that one can judge a person's fortune. From the above, we can see that January 1st of the Gregorian calendar every year is just a handover of the Gregorian calendar, indicating the beginning of the Gregorian New Year, but it is not a handover of the lunar calendar. The Lunar New Year is not a sign of the beginning of a new year. The handover of the lunar calendar is calculated according to the Beginning of Spring. Only the Beginning of Spring solar term that arrives around February 4th of the Gregorian calendar every year is the boundary between the old and new lunar years, and the lunar year is only then handed over. |
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