What is the difference between the Beginning of Spring and the Spring Festival? Why can't the two be combined into one?
Introduction: The Spring Festival is the beginning of the new lunar year, and the Beginning of Spring is the first of the 24 solar terms. Therefore, some people think that since both are the beginning of a new year, why can't the Spring Festival and the Beginning of Spring be combined into one? Is there any difference between the two? Now, let’s follow the editor to take a look. New year, new atmosphere, there are countless topics about the Spring Festival. If you want to know more about the Lunar New Year, please continue to pay attention to Mr. Shui Mo’s exclusive Spring Festival special articles for you!How are the Spring Festival and the Beginning of Spring established?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. On January 21, 1914, Zhu Qiqun, then Minister of the Interior, wrote a petition to Yuan Shikai, then President, titled "A Petition on Holidays for the Four Seasons": "It is proposed that the Lunar New Year's Day be the Spring Festival, the Dragon Boat Festival be the Summer Festival, the Mid-Autumn Festival be the Autumn Festival, the Winter Solstice be the Winter Festival..." This "Petition on Holidays for the Four Seasons" was quickly approved by Yuan Shikai and was implemented the following year (1914). Because the "Spring Festival" was transplanted to the previous New Year's Day, the Spring Festival celebrations that had lasted for more than two thousand years gradually disappeared, and the Spring Festival turned into an ordinary solar term. Some people blame Yuan Shikai and Zhu Qiqin for messing up the important Chinese Spring Festival. In fact, Yuan Shikai's original intention was to preserve traditional festival customs, which was clearly stated in "Presented to the Four Seasons": "When issuing decrees in due time, we should follow the great unity of the world, and be popular and beneficial to the people, and follow the habits of society." 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. Summary: Through the above article content, we know the origin of the establishment of the Beginning of Spring and the Spring Festival. I hope you will like these contents. I wish you all good luck in the new year, set sail, travel light, strive towards your goals in the new year, and reap the rich and nourishing fruits of victory as soon as possible! After reading this article, there are more exciting content in the Spring Festival special topic, let’s take a look! |
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